12 Problems With Every Marvel Netflix Show

5. They're Not REALLY Part Of The MCU

Technically speaking these shows do indeed take place within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but beyond a few tenuous verbal references and some cute visual Easter eggs, you'd barely know it.

Fans have been quite understandably hoping that the shows would eventually dovetail into the wider MCU with The Defenders appearing in, say, an Avengers movie, but it's obviously something that never panned out prior to their en masse cancellation.

There's no denying that it would've been an extremely delicate line to walk, to ensure that the TV shows didn't disrupt the already labyrinthine continuity of the movies, but would it have killed them to make just a little more effort?

Going the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. route and including one-off cameos from smaller supporting characters would've been an easy way to intersect the MCU branches meaningfully without needing to tinker too aggressively with the canon.

But instead, all fans got was lip-service that mostly sounded like it was rustled up on the spot on the day of shooting.

Had these shows been more intimately linked to the larger MCU, it's likely the viewership and general audience investment would've been so much stronger.