#the mcu

[swan2swan]

Partner and I are spitballing on the Blipped TV show plotlines the MCU never invested in.

Thusfar, we have:

I blipped out of my hospital bed, the bed was never filled for five years, now the hospital wants to bill me for the whole stay.

i blipped out of my apartment, now someone else is living here, who has the apartment?

Dying family member blips right in front of family, returns five years later to die alone.

Dying family member watches whole family blip away and dies alone, then family returns without being able to say goodbye.

It's my big day, I'm stepping on stage for my audition, I'm going to Get That Part....what do you mean "that show isn't even running anymore"???

Home Alone, but his family actually did disappear.

Bride disappears at the wedding, maid of honor takes her place, then the comeback.

One whole side of the family disappears at the wedding.

Four astronauts are on the space station, two of them vanish, now they have to figure things out.

The bar you were drinking at is now a yoga studio.

High schoolers have to adjust to the new slang.

Your car wrecked and you didn't have insurance and now you need insurance.

Airplane passengers whose flight log got logged incorrectly (the guy was just about to fix it when he got blipped) and so Bruce put them at the wrong airport on their return.

Rookie player's contract expired.

You had two dogs in 2018. Now you have FOUR dogs.

Gardener has worked for years to perfect a strain of plants...now his work is gone.

Wholesome animal shelter episode where they're suddenly overloaded

Aquarium and/or zoo loses its star attraction.

Zoo gets a new animal where it shouldn't.

Man jumps off a bridge, gets blipped, and Bruce puts them right back on the ledge.

Did Thanos snap bacteria? Did Bruce bring back the bacteria? Is there a disease upswing?

Let's learn about what happens to beef prices when millions of cows suddenly appear.

Author gets blipped, their roommate finds the manuscript and publishes it under their own name (partner says it should be Rogers: the Musical, and you know what? YES]).

Odd-couple romcom where someone gets blipped into a stranger's apartment and they fall in love.

Assassin is about to merc a target, target blips, assassin gets credit, guy comes back.

Prodigal son gets blipped en-route to his mom's funeral, comes back and his family doesn't believe him about the blip.

Fake commercials need to be in this show. "Did you know there's twice as much bacteria? USE OUR SPECIAL WIPES!"

Half a band gets blipped. The remaining members find they work better alone.

Half a band gets blipped. The band falls apart.

Half a band gets blipped. They replace the blipped members, and the old guys come back and now they have to do a reunion tour.

An influencer gets blipped. Comes back. Her career is over.

An influencer gets blipped. Comes back. Except they didn't, they never blipped it's a fraud taking advantage of that.

Wakanda blip. Whole season finale right there.

BLIP THE LEADERS OF ROMANIA, ALBANIA, AND TURKEY AT THE SAME TIME, ALONG WITH MOST OF THE GOVERNING BODIES OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE, and guess what happens to all those countries? Guess who steps up? Like, hey. Hey. What if someone stepped up. What if someone just...made their own country. What if a new country happened in Eastern Europe. What if that happened. WHAT IF YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THAT?

A whole surgical team and a patient all get blipped and reappear in an unprepared room. WHAT HAPPENS?

A newborn disappears at birth, now there's a baby crying on the floor of what used to be a midwife center, WHOSE BABY IS THIS?

Hi you were enrolled in this college five years ago...but--

[hiddlesdweeb]

MARVEL PLS DON'T PUT PROFESSOR HULK IN THE SPIDERMAN MOVIE FIX YOUR MISTAKE RIGHT YOUR WRONG PLEASE

[coquette-corpsie]

dude I'm so cool

i love marvel, star wars, theater. i read for fun. i collect "childish" things.

i wear glasses and do fun makeup. I'm a teenager with one in person friend. my only socials are Tumblr and Pinterest.

I read 2012 fanfiction and have posters and drawings hung up in my room.

anyway, I'm probably gonna go search my basement for my iron man doll.

[whispering-about-loki]

Wait! Do you know what this means?

It means that in some branch of the MCU multiverse, we really do have the Avengers all living together in Avengers Tower, with Hawkeye hiding in the vents, and a reformed Loki playing practical jokes on everyone!

[omercifulheaves]

Oh joy, another live action Punisher thing where he spends most of his screen time looking like a hobo and has to be "motivated" to do any Punisher stuff. The MCU Punisher is so frustrating because they made a great choice casting Bernthal and then they insist on writing the character basically as an alcoholic that keeps having relapses but instead of booze, it's gun murder. "But his motivation!!" His motivation is that he's a mentally damaged war vet that got chewed up and spit out by a dirty war and then sent home with a head full of broken glass and was probably on his way to eating his gun until his family getting killed in a mob shooting gave him something to point all that crazy at. He doesn't want to retire or have peace because that leaves him alone with all the fucked up shit in his head. But writing *that* character requires asking some pretty ugly questions about some pretty ugly things and Disney ain't about to touch any of that shit with a 10-foot pole, so he's just going to be "Shane But Really Angry." Waste of a good actor.

[pastafossa]

Pasta, I’m just gonna ask you, if you don’t mind, because i trust you implicitly (since 2021 and more than anyone else) when it comes to matt and consuming any daredevil content. I’ve watched DD since it first released on Netflix, plus defenders and punisher. since it’s moved to Disney, I haven’t seen… anything. not one thing of marvel since spider-man: no way home. Googling ‘what to watch before beginning dba’ gives me this massive list of Hawkeye, Echo, Ms. marvel, and she hulk. and that’s just. kind of mildly insane to have to watch almost ten hours of content just to watch Matt on screen again so pls help 🥲

FIRST OF ALL I LOVE THAT YOU CAME TO ME, AND I AM HONORED YOU TRUST ME WITH THIS. 😭 And as someone who has watched all of the above, I can absolutely tell you what's required watch and what's not. And the good news is, if you're in it for Matt?

Well, not much of that is required at all.

Obviously there are minor spoilers ahead, so if that's important to anyone reading, feel free to skip this post. I'll put more details below the cut for each about why I rated it that way, the couple relevant details to DDBA, etc, but I'll also put a quick bit here for anyone just scrolling by fast. In short:

Ms. Marvel: Not Required Viewing For DDBA

She Hulk: Not Required Viewing For DDBA

Hawkeye: Not Required But Moderately Relevant Due To Fisk Backstory For DDBA

Echo: Not Required But Moderately Relevant Due To Fisk Backstory For DDBA

More below the cut with minor spoilers for how each plays into Daredevil: Born Again.

While I enjoyed Ms. Marvel, it's really only connected to Daredevil in that Kamala Khan's dad, Yusuf, makes an appearance in the filler episode of Born Again halfway through Season 1. All you need to know there is the wholesome banker's daughter is the superhero Ms. Marvel (which he tells Matt). Is it fun to see him again and know the backstory for those of us who liked Ms. Marvel? Yes. But Ms. Marvel's not required viewing to understand that episode or DDBA. It's a very brief role in one episode. So I rate this as Not Required Viewing For DDBA.

Ah, my girl She Hulk. For all that Matt makes an appearance in two episodes as a romantic interest for Jen (he shows up for most of one episode, and then briefly in a cameo in the finale) it doesn't really have any connection to Born Again. It is very much a standalone series, and the only real connection to it we see in DDBA is the mask that goes with the red and yellow suit at one point (not even remarked upon, it's sorta just there). So I rate this as Not Required Viewing For DDBA.

Now we get to Echo and Hawkeye, which is where it gets tricky, because while Matt isn't really a player here, Fisk is. In the timeline, Hawkeye comes first and leads to Echo, so we'll start there. Hawkeye shows us some of what Fisk has been up to (criminal-ish things obviously), develops his backstory a bit, and there's a character here that makes an appearance in DDBA later, though it's a small appearance. Still, the appearance will seem a little odd without context. However, I don't feel that detracts all that much from DDBA's plotline. Matt also doesn't make an appearance in Hawkeye. So unless you're interested in Fisk's backstory, I rate this as only Moderately Relevant Viewing For DDBA. You can skip it if you don't care much about Fisk's backstory, watch it, or just catch one of the 10 minute Hawkeye summaries on youtube. All you need to know is this where Fisk got his new scar around his eye.

Echo comes last Maya my darling. Matt does make a Devilish appearance here for a brief fight scene! But other than that, Fisk is our relevant player again. This one further fleshes out some of his backstory and his connection to Maya, who was in Hawkeye. For all that this adds further depth to Fisk's character, the only real relevant detail for Born Again here is Fisk decides to run for mayor at the end of Echo. That will become an immediate plot point in DDBA. There are vague rumors Maya Lopez/Echo might show up in Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again, which I'd love and would very much fit with her story, but as of yet there's no confirmation, and so I'd argue that unless you're interested in more of Fisk's backstory (or the brief fight scene Matt is in, which you can honestly just watch on youtube or tumblr), this also is only Moderately Relevant Viewing For DDBA unless Maya pops up in Season 2. In which case you can just go back and watch Echo then, or like Hawkeye, watch one of the 10 minute summary videos on youtube if you want to know more about her character and her connection to Fisk and Matt.

I hope this helps! Because like, look, I love Marvel. I watch a fuck-ton of it and there's very little of the MCU I haven't watched, shows included. But I also don't think any of it is necessary for DDBA, certainly not in the way Jessica Jones or Luke Cage played into Defenders for example. Stuff like Echo or Ms Marvel will add flavor to certain details in DDBA but for the most part, you can get by absolutely fine without having to watch 4 (!) different shows just to be prepared for DDBA.

[pinkofheart]

[spoilers for everything tagged]

Hey why did Teresa Agnes have to die. Why did El Hopper have to die. Why did Natasha Romanoff have to die. Why did Tris Prior have to die. Why did Gamora have to die. Why did Lavender Brown have to die. Why did Leia Organa have to die. Why did Wanda Maximoff have to die. Why did Daenarys Targaryen have to die. Why did Jean Grey have to die. Why did Jenna Sommers have to die. Why did Allison Argent have to die. Why did Sybil Crawley have to die. Why did Lavinia Swire have to die. Why did Elizabeth Warleggan have to die. Why did Marie Kreutz have to die. Why did Grace Shelby have to die. Why did Gwen Stacy have to die. Why did Elena Neves have to die. Why did Ilsa Faust have to die. Why did the dead wife in the flashback have to die. Why did the new girlfriend in the first five minutes of the sequel have to die. Why did the mom have to die. Why did the hookup have to die. Why does the woman the girl the female the sorry excuse for representation always die?

I know the answer but y'all aren't gonna like it.