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

4. We Dont Want Another Agents Of SHIELD

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The other Marvel television venture outside of Netflix is ABC's Agents Of SHIELD. Much more akin to the MCU in its more breezy storytelling, Agents Of SHIELD may have gotten stronger lately but is still a very middle-of-the-road outing for Marvel.

One of the narrative problems Agents of SHIELD has faced has arisen from being so tightly woven into the wider MCU. The emergence of HYDRA and the organisation's over-whelming power was left out of the Netflix shows but has become an ongoing theme with the SHIELD agents.

The problem, since you asked, comes from watching Coulson & Friends battle HYDRA for lengthy periods of time when it could all be handled by Iron Man or Captain America before the SHIELD agents have even had time to tool up.

Being so heavily influenced by the MCU limits the stories that Agents of SHIELD can tell and this is definitely something that Netflix should avoid, which would become increasingly more difficult once a mixture takes place.

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