10 Reasons Marvel Shouldn't Mix The MCU And Netflix Characters

Now that we have been treated to the entirety of Luke Cage's 13 episode run on Netflix we are three quarters of the way there to seeing The Defenders stand together next year. With Iron Fist coming in the Spring of 2017 and The Punisher eventually set to follow as well, the Marvel/Netflix collaboration is going pretty damn well for them.

Of course, we are also going to be bombarded with Marvel movies at the same time, with them all presumably coming together in April 2018 for The Avengers: Infinity War. From the movies alone the amount of characters potentially showing up is insane, but we are still none the wiser as to whether the movie universe and TV universe will blend in this potentially comic book movie imploding, bubble-bursting event.

Marvel movie overlord Kevin Feige has said recently that "It all depends on timing", which is wonderfully vague and fairly uninformative. Not to have a go at the guy, but he could at least give us something more than vague buzzwords like 'timing' and 'depends'. To be fair alongside this he has previously said that it is 'inevitable' so who knows what to think

Anyway, here are 10 reasons why this vague inevitability should not happen...

Unlike their cinematic counterparts, the Marvel Netflix shows are not for kids. Bones crunch, limbs snap and eyes are impaled as the likes of Daredevil and the rest of The Defenders show the consequences of what happens when you throw a punch.

The films in the MCU (so far at least) are for a very broad audience, and so when Thor throws his hammer it's usually at robots or camera trickery hiding the consequences of being struck by a hefty piece of metal. We don't want to neuter The Defenders just as much as we don't want to see an R-rated Captain America.

The first series of Daredevil catapulted viewers into a more adult Marvel world, with our hero not just handing out savage beatings, but receiving them as well. It would be difficult to find an example of a superhero more bloodied and beaten than Matt Murdock, not to mention the brutality of Frank Castle's prison punch-up in season 2...

It's this huge difference in the depiction of violence that largely separates Netflix from the movies and it is an issue that would be exceedingly difficult to ignore. Daredevil's onslaughts suddenly not causing sprays of claret will no doubt be incredibly jarring now that we've seen the blood-soaked streets of Hell's Kitchen.