laporcupina:

Disney is in the formative stages of setting up their streaming service, start date to be determined. They’re waiting for their contract with Netflix to end on both the TV and movie sides, but they are already announcing new shows for their streaming service. Which is hilarious because (a) the current TV and film sides notoriously don’t communicate and live largely irreconcilable lives and (b) they are pitching three shows featuring four currently dead characters: Loki, Scarlet Witch, and a Winter Soldier-and-Falcon show.

It’s completely possible that the TV side could remain ignorant and separate from the film side and these characters could be on their own adventures without matching up with the film MCU; it happens all of the time in the comics with characters who appear in more than one book. DC does this with their Arrowverse and the DCEU, but….. but.  

The Arrowverse and the DCEU operate on an Earth I and Earth II kind of principle with different actors in the same roles, so the guy playing the Flash on TV isn’t the guy in the movie and they are separate and distinct Barry Allens. 

Marvel has never operated that way. The Phil Coulson on Agents of SHIELD is the same one who carked it in The Avengers, the mentioned-only-once incident that took out Hell’s Kitchen in Daredevil is the Battle of New York. 

And toward that end, the generally accepted assumption is that the MCU actors will be the stars of the new series – Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen are allegedly reprising their roles and now Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan are assumed to also be doing the same. 

Which leads, finally, to a question: if there is going to be a Winter Soldier-and-Falcon show, which btw would be awesomesauce, does that mean neither of them pick up the shield from Steve’s presumably dead hands? Do we go into Phase 4 without any Captain America? Or just not a BuckyCap or a FalconCap? And if the answer is ‘just not them,’ then who?