Uhh… they’ve always been canon to the movies. Remember when Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was cleaning up the mess left behind from Thor 2? Or the constant references to the Battle of New York? The Netflix Marvel shows made references to the MCU films all the time.
It’s the reason I preferred the MCU over the DCEU. DC’s TV shows had absolutely nothing to do with their new movies, so they didn’t contribute to the world building. It felt pointless to watch stand-alone series that went nowhere, so I skipped them all. But the Marvel series were all set in the MCU, so it was developing more heroes who could potentially make cameos on the big screen. Or further developing heroes who were previously on the big screen, like Wanda, Loki, Phil Coulson, Hawkeye, etc.
DC’s TV shows had absolutely nothing to do with their new movies, so they didn’t contribute to the world building.
It may not have been related to the movies, but the Arrowverse was a shared universe of its own. In fact, the DCEU and the Arrowverse crossed over once (very briefly).
Uhh… they’ve always been canon to the movies. Remember when Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was cleaning up the mess left behind from Thor 2? Or the constant references to the Battle of New York? The Netflix Marvel shows made references to the MCU films all the time.
It’s the reason I preferred the MCU over the DCEU. DC’s TV shows had absolutely nothing to do with their new movies, so they didn’t contribute to the world building. It felt pointless to watch stand-alone series that went nowhere, so I skipped them all. But the Marvel series were all set in the MCU, so it was developing more heroes who could potentially make cameos on the big screen. Or further developing heroes who were previously on the big screen, like Wanda, Loki, Phil Coulson, Hawkeye, etc.
It may not have been related to the movies, but the Arrowverse was a shared universe of its own. In fact, the DCEU and the Arrowverse crossed over once (very briefly).
The first big crossover with those shows was so fun, I wish they had kebt the quality up.
Importing events FROM the movies is a very different thing to exporting events TO the movies.
IIRC, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was said to have branched not long after whichever one of those came later.