The McU began life in Iron Man as a mirror of our own world. And, despite featuring world-ending alien armies, the existence of the Norse gods, actual magic and half of all living things being obliterated, in practice, day-to-day life in the McU still resembles our own.
This mirroring of reality has brought with it a strange paradox, though. If these movies can show us, say, Star Wars within the McU, what does it mean that Nick Fury’s played by Samuel L Jackson, who plays Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequels?
The McU spiraled even further down the rabbit hole with a reference to the Kevin Smith film Mallrats in Captain Marvel. If Mallrats is a movie within the McU, then Stan Lee exists as a comic book creator in-universe, which has big cosmological implications. Is your head hurting yet?
Thankfully, Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo,...
This mirroring of reality has brought with it a strange paradox, though. If these movies can show us, say, Star Wars within the McU, what does it mean that Nick Fury’s played by Samuel L Jackson, who plays Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequels?
The McU spiraled even further down the rabbit hole with a reference to the Kevin Smith film Mallrats in Captain Marvel. If Mallrats is a movie within the McU, then Stan Lee exists as a comic book creator in-universe, which has big cosmological implications. Is your head hurting yet?
Thankfully, Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo,...
- 8/15/2019
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
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