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Netflix’s Marvel shows are part of the MCU canon, and they always have been
For years, people have insisted Netflix’s Marvel shows weren’t part of the MCU, but they were wrong.
It’s hard to pinpoint when, exactly, the idea that Netflix’s Marvel shows were not canonical with the MCU proper began to gain traction, but it was the sort of factoid that sounded at least somewhat plausible in 2019 when the two studios announced that their yearslong collaborative process was coming to an end. To be fair, considering how much of a hit Daredevil was, it was rather interesting to see Marvel Studios — which didn’t begin producing its own episodic series in-house until 2018 — pass up on opportunities to parlay the show’s success into hype elsewhere by letting him hang out with the Avengers. But with the studio now making things crystal clear (at a time when it seems like all of the old Marvel-owned characters are back in play), the biggest takeaway here is that fans might want to chill out a bit and actually engage with the text instead of rushing headlong into feverish frenzies.
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