Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20151029033607/@comment-1894786-20170227021316

WarBlade wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Shocking as hell how integral FitzSimmons and Coulson are to the MCU canon (FitzSimmons being more surprising than Coulson, obviously).

Well Coulson was at least. The trouble is there are now roughly three version of supposedly-Earth-199999, and while Coulson has been in two of them the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast have only been in one.


 * MCU Film (features, some tie-ins, one-shots)
 * MCU ABC television (Agents SHIELD and Carter)
 * MCU Netflix (Defenders characters)

Both of the small screen offshoots acknowledge the film continuity, but neither one acknowledges the other, and neither is acknowledged by the film continuity. It doesn't matter what the Agents of SHIELD writers come up with - it has zero impact on the 'real' MCU. Actually, Fitz's Mouse Hole is what was used by Fury in his van to escape HYDRA in The Winter Soldier, and Coulson's Helicarrier was the one that was used in Age of Ultron. So the movies have acknowledged (albeit inconsequentially) Agents of SHIELD.

Then we have the Judas Bullets from Luke Cage, developed with Hammer Tech (a shout-out to the movies), appearing on Agents of SHIELD, as well as references to DD Season 2 by mentioning the New York gang wars.

The only connections we haven't seen referenced are Netflix referencing ABC and the movies referencing Netflix. 'Cause ABC has referenced Netflix and the movies, and the movies have referenced ABC.