Once again, it’s learned the Marvel universe is not all connected.
While fans have literally been begging for a mammoth Marvel crossover involving all the characters from the MCU and Marvel TV, it’s still not going to happen.
The Avengers: Infinity War and the untitled Avengers 4 movie will be the culmination of the MCU to date, which sees the Earth under attack from Thanos and his henchman as they seek the Infinity Stones.
With such a cataclysmic event impacting the Marvel universe, the showrunner of Jessica Jones Season 2, Melissa Rosenberg, was asked by EW.com if the Marvel Netflix series will have anything to do with The Avengers: Infinity War:
None whatsoever. Our partners are Marvel, and if we’re doing something that’s counter to [their continuity], they would pull us back or orient us on the right path, so clearly we’re [okay]. But we’re very much in our own world.
The same also goes for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, with its Season 5 conveniently located off of Earth and in outer space, as the ABC series will also have nothing to do with Avengers: Infinity War.
Long story short why Marvel Studios and Marvel TV do not interact is because the movies fall under Kevin Feige, while the rest of Marvel is under CEO/Chairman Ike Perlmutter. Reportedly Perlmutter and his former Marvel Comics Creative Committee interfered and caused all kinds of problems with the movies, so Kevin Feige had them removed from being involved with the MCU. The good news is that Perlmutter looks to be taking less of a role in Marvel, and also the MCCC looks to have been disbanded and even Marvel Comics is now repairing itself.
An argument could actually be made that Marvel TV isn’t even a part of the MCU and exists in its own separate universe as part of an overall multi-verse (or at least until Perlmutter is no longer involved with Marvel).
