Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20151029033607/@comment-1618941-20170226220812

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.