SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW Head Writer Says MCU Has Now "Moved On" From Dealing With The Blip Fallout

SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW Head Writer Says MCU Has Now "Moved On" From Dealing With The Blip Fallout

Marvel Studios has only occasionally touched on the fallout from The Blip since Avengers: Endgame was released, and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law's Head Writer has explained why it won't factor into this show.

By JoshWilding - Aug 22, 2022 07:08 AM EST
Filed Under: She-Hulk
Source: Lifehacker

Avengers: Endgame shocked fans with a five-year time-jump that made it clear Thanos' attack had long-lasting ramifications for Earth and its Mightiest Heroes. 

While The Hulk was ultimately able to bring everyone back, only Spider-Man: Far From Home has directly delved into the fallout from The Blip. Even then, that was mostly focused on Iron Man's death, devoting just minutes to those who had to find their place in the world after returning from the dead. 

Since then, the likes of WandaVisionThe Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and Hawkeye have also referenced The Blip in various ways, but fans anxious for an in-depth exploration of that time or even details on who were and weren't among those Blipped have been disappointed. 

Moving forward, don't expect that to change. 

Talking to Lifehacker, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Head Writer Jessica Gao explained why the Disney+ series isn't making a big deal out of The Blip (likely explaining how and why The Hulk healed his arm so quickly). 

"So many shows and movies in the MCU have already kind of covered that and, you know, it’s been talked about a lot that it just felt like, ok so many people have already covered that territory that we’ve accepted it," she says. "We live in a world where that’s already happened and people have already moved on."

Again, some fans are disappointed that The Blip hasn't been a bigger deal in the MCU, but it's not like Marvel Studios has totally ignored it. Addressing where every character was during that time could overcomplicate things and become tedious, and while the world did move on quite quickly from the aftermath, it can't exactly be the main focus of the Multiverse Saga!

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KWilly
KWilly - 8/22/2022, 7:43 AM
"some fans are disappointed that The Blip hasn't been a bigger deal in the MCU"

Who? I'd like to talk to them, and tell them the MCU has covered it more than enough lol.
Mrtoke
Mrtoke - 8/22/2022, 8:14 AM
@KWilly - seriously though cause I’m the mcu, the people that survived the snap lived through hell for five years and now that they’re loved ones are back, they dgaf about anything else anymore. They just wanna move on
Mrtoke
Mrtoke - 8/22/2022, 8:15 AM
@Mrtoke - damn. *their loved one
Cap1
Cap1 - 8/22/2022, 7:43 AM
Hilarious how little mind they’ve paid this worldwide catastrophic event
KWilly
KWilly - 8/22/2022, 7:45 AM
@Cap1 - Oh, you're one lol
Radders
Radders - 8/22/2022, 7:52 AM
@Cap1 - In fairness they aren't mentioning the giant hand and head sticking out of the ocean so it's not a shock lol
Cap1
Cap1 - 8/22/2022, 7:54 AM
@Radders - yeah Marvel doesn’t have the cojones nor the ability to delve into something properly like the blip
Twenty23Three
Twenty23Three - 8/22/2022, 7:51 AM
Paying lip service to it happening isn’t the same as address it’s impact on the world. The only thing that’s really tried to address that was
Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Origame
Origame - 8/22/2022, 7:53 AM
Yes, because they covered it so thoroughly. Clearly the biggest impact would be Peter's teacher having a wife pretend to be snapped to get out of being with him.

But come on. That's really all they wanted to do with it? I really don't get the logic. If they weren't gonna do anything outside of a few references and karli, why not have the plan in endgame be to make the snap never happen instead of just bringing everyone back? The snap was officially just shock value signifying nothing.
Drace24
Drace24 - 8/22/2022, 7:54 AM
Realistically speaking the world should have crumbled immediately after the blip. It would be nothing short of the biggest catastrophe in human history. And not just because of the people who dusted - those are the lucky ones! Everyone else had to live through a collapsing hellhole. Im talking riots in the streets, airplanes falling from the sky like thousends of 9/11's everywhere in the world, starvation due to a complete breakdown of supply chains, the global economy getting utterly pulverized, all your favorite shows getting canceled, cats and dogs living together, MASS HYSTERIA! If we would somehow manage to not all kill each other, humanity would likely be thrown back into the stone ages within weeks.

All these "Thanos was right" people must be as psychotic as he was thinking this would do anything to help the planet and civilization prosper. In reality, if 50% of all humanity would suddenly disappear like this, the other half wouldn't be far behind. I can see why Marvel would not want to go too deep into this.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 8/22/2022, 8:08 AM
@Drace24 - ''All these "Thanos was right" people must be as psychotic as he was''

Yet it doesn't surprise me they would exist. There are for real people thinking Putin is right as well, and that's not even to mention all the conspiracy theorists walking around. People can be quite radical
Drace24
Drace24 - 8/22/2022, 8:17 AM
@bkmeijer1 - Those atleast have the excuse of being the victims of an overwhelming misinformation-campaign. Can't say that about Thanos-fans. Why Hawkeye of all people would nod in agreement to "Thanos was right" scribbled on a bathroom wall is absolutely beyond me. Didn't it kind of DESTROY him when Thanos killed his family?
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 8/22/2022, 9:10 AM
@Drace24 - I chuckle sometimes too and give a nod to (how ridicilous) some comments about certain global events are.

That said, we know Scott talked about it on a podcast, but other than that I'm not sure everybody even knows what Thanos' intentions were. No one even knew what happened in space (Yelena being a prime example).
Razorface1
Razorface1 - 8/22/2022, 9:21 AM
@Drace24 - What? He didn't nod in agreement, he was clearly pissed about it.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 8/22/2022, 9:54 AM
@Drace24 - The thing is we saw a glimpse of that in Endgame. If you saw the aerial views of New York you saw boats completely crashed against one another. In Infinity War you saw a Helicopter crash into a building. The chaos did happen. We just saw the aftermath.
Drace24
Drace24 - 8/22/2022, 12:11 PM
@SonOfAGif - Yes and one movie after Endgame we saw Spider-Man swing through a beautiful, clean and bustling New York. How did that happe so fast? It's certainly not because all the dusted returned because by all means that would have only been the next catastrophe.

My point is that Marvel is probably wise to not go too much into the effects of the blip, because they couldn't do that AND continue on with their superhero storylines after that. By all accounts society should have entirely collapsed within days and whatever comes after would certainly not look anything like it does in the post-blip MCU movies.
Drace24
Drace24 - 8/22/2022, 12:13 PM
@Razorface1 - So pissed that he drank out of a "Thanos was right" coffee mug a few episodes later?
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 8/22/2022, 10:54 PM
@Drace24 - Just to be clear. Helicopters are not allowed to fly over Manhattan or any other landmark in NYC. What you saw in Endgame was Citi Field which was in Queens. A different borough. And Far From Home takes place months after Endgame. Endgame took place 5 years after Infinity War. You don't think New York cleaned up it's financial district and midtown in 5 years and a few months? Society should have collapsed but you had Stark Industries, The Avengers, Wakanda, and what was left of the Sokovia Accords doing intense damage control. This is kind of why I was hoping Black Widow took place in the 5 year gap between Infinity War and Endgame to give us more Intel on the ramifications around the world.
Drace24
Drace24 - 8/23/2022, 7:44 AM
@SonOfAGif - I really REALLY think you are underestimating the blip. No fly zones stop mattering when planes crash because pilots vanished, ground crews vanished or mass hysteria breaks out on board. Globally there are over 100.000 planes in the air at any given time. During the blip almost all of these are doomed to crash, showering the world in 9/11s. And that's just air travel. Every single moving car would suddenly transform into a projectile. This alone will likely kill tens, if not hundreds of millions of people worldwide in just the first few minutes after the blip.

Then panic would set in. Noone would even realize what is happening, just that the world is suddenly going insane and completely falling apart. There would be riots and noone to stop them cuz police and military are suddenly very understaffed. Take that times a hundred after the food has vanished because supply chains have just stopped working. Meaning mass migrations out of destroyed cities into rural areas, essentially forming tribes and fighting for survival against other tribes. No more laws, no more borders, no more government. To think that the US would survive this and even recover in just five years is absolutely laughable! There just is no recovering from this.
(And btw, all of this is still under the foolish optimism that no panicking idiot would launch a nuke in that scenario or that understaffed nuclear facilities would magically not turn hot and showering the world in fallout.)

And no, I don't see how this would be any different for the MCU. What is Stark Industries supposed to do? 50% of its workforce has stopped existing and so has the entire economy so why would anyone still show up for work? I'm sure the Avengers could save some people but what are a handful of people, superpowers or not, supposed to do against the global collapse of every single nation? Including Wakanda btw, which lost its king and princess and therefor its entire royal bloodline. Yes, Ramonda likely took over in that time but she is not of royal blood which should drastically destabilize the country. How are they supposed to help anyone but themselfs?

And I haven't even gotten into the sheer ludicrousness of the idea that the world would just decide to clean up within months after the dusted returned. Even if society had survived these 5 years (which, again, is absolutely ridiculous) the second snap should have just collapsed it again.

Point is: Marvel is wise to not overthink this. It's totally a fascinating subject, but it does not make sense to pursue it within the MCU, which could never again tell a fun superhero story that's not a deeply depressing dystopia about how the world has already ended.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 8/23/2022, 4:30 PM
@Drace24 - You are underestimating the Blip. It was 50% of all life. That means the types of people who vanished were random and not specific to their career choice. I highly doubt everyone who vanished was an airline pilot or the driver of every car on the road. Did planes and cars crash? Absolutely. Did they all crash? No.
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