See I wasn't necessarily planning on drawing a line under the MCU. I wasn't gonna suddenly just stop watching the films and as long as I'm coming to this forum I'll wanna talk about films. So, though not tremendously excited about it, I was open to Phase Four despite the fact that the most well known heroes are now dead, retired or no longer in their iconic prime.
This throws a spanner in the works though. It creates a very sudden and unexpected void, a void which they possibly aren't even allowed to acknowledge let alone provide an acceptable explanation for in-universe. It'll be jarring. I will notice.
I dunno. Seems unlikely but maybe Sony will yet make some sort of concession to allow closure within the MCU and/or maybe the studios will make films such that the 2 Universes could be reconciled in the heads of fans if we want them to be - i.e nothing will explicitly contradict what the other has done, timeframes of events could theoretically fit etc etc
We can only wait and see.
I'm off to sleep.
You're still going to watch TROS right? Even though it isn't "canon?" And talk and laugh about it and all that. Future Marvel movies won't necessarily have to be any different. Like SW, Terminator, ALIEN, and many other franchises before it the MCU will just have a hard stop as to what's canon and what's not, despite what the studio keeps pumping out.
I'm actually very curious as to how some of these new announcements turn out but yeah, when those signatures flash across the screen at the end of EG, that's it.