Yes, Marvel Just Connected Its Comics Continuity To the MCU, Marking a New Milestone For the Universe

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Warning: Contains SPOILERS for TVA #1! Ever since entering its Multiverse Saga, the MCU has greatly opened up its universe, establishing infinite timelines where multiple versions of the same hero/villain can exist simultaneously, and even interact with one another. Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Loki have all explored this idea. However, those examples only deal with movie/show universes. Now, the MCU has connected its multiverse with that of Marvel Comics, marking a new milestone with exciting possibilities.

In TVA #1 by Katharyn Blair and Pere Pérez, Spider-Gwen has joined the multiversal police force with the likes of Jimmy Hudson (Wolverine’s son from Earth-1610), Captain Carter, and even Gambit. In a way, Ghost Spider and the others feel like a new incarnation of the Exiles, as they’re a team of heroes who travel the multiverse to save the day in multiple realities as opposed to just one. However, this particular team is decidedly different from anything fans have seen in Marvel Comics up until this point, as they’re also partnered up with heroes from the MCU.

While Marvel Comics has its own version of the TVA, that’s not what fans are seeing in this comic. This TVA is exactly the same one from the MCU (Loki, Deadpool & Wolverine), and the comic isn’t subtle about that fact. TVA #1 includes Miss Minutes, Ouroboros (O.B.), B-15, and Mobius. While it could have been argued that these are just Marvel Comics’ versions of the MCU characters, that’s also quickly shut-down when Spider-Gwen herself goes into the heroic deeds of the MCU’sLoki, and how he single-handedly saved the multiverse (which fans saw in Loki season 2).

That means Earth-65’s Spider-Gwen, Earth-1610’s Jimmy Hudson, and Earth-86315’s Captain Carter are all teamed up with the MCU’s TVA, giving these Marvel Comics characters access to the live-action multiverse – and live-action characters access to the comic book multiverse as well. Needless to say, that’s a pretty big deal for the futures of both the MCU and Marvel Comics, and could result in some truly epic crossovers.

The Likes of Spider-Gwen & Jimmy Hudson Don’t Need an MCU Origin Story (Because They’re Already There)

While the number of possible future stories is limitless following the revelation that Marvel Comics’ multiverse is directly connected to the MCU’s, TVA #1 already spelled out the obvious next step the MCU should take: bringing these heroes into the live-action universe immediately. The likes of Captain Carter and Gambit have already gotten the MCU treatment, but Spider-Gwen and Jimmy Hudson haven’t yet been adapted into live-action. Now, no adaptation is even necessary. These two are already in the MCU because of TVA #1, so the MCU needs to address that by featuring them in a future project right away.

The MCU has already explored different versions of both Spider-Man and Wolverine, and now it has two members of the Spider-Family and Snikt-Family hanging out in the TVA, ready to drop into a live-action story at any point in time without further explanation as to who they are and how they got there. If fans are interested in finding out the origin of Spider-Gwen and Jimmy Hudson, all they have to do is read their respective back-issues as opposed to sitting through redundant origin stories. The context is in the comics, allowing them to make a seamless transition into live-action.

Marvel Comics Sharing a Multiverse with the MCU Could Redefine How the Movies Do Origin Stories

The Origin Stories of Heroes & Villains Can Now Be Streamlined in the MCU

Because of TVA #1, the MCU has a free ticket to bringing in Spider-Gwen and Jimmy Hudson whenever it wants, and that extends to every single Marvel Comics character in existence. Fans were actually given a taste of that in Deadpool & Wolverine, as Deadpool used TVA technology to not only peer into the established universe of the MCU, but also universes exclusive to Marvel Comics. Among those universes were Age of Apocalypse (Earth-295) and Old Man Logan (Earth-807128), just to name a few, proving that Marvel Comics variants can interact with the MCU’s versions of Marvel characters.

TVA #1 merely shows fans the other side of that proverbial coin, as the MCU’s original characters get the comic book treatment when presented in that medium. They’re the same characters, but the nature of their existence changes depending on how they’re observed by the audience. Age of Apocalypse Wolverine becomes live-action when he’s observed in the MCU, while B-15 becomes a comic book character when she’s observed in Marvel Comics. This concept is insanely meta, but it’s important to recognize it, as it means no one is off limits when it comes to being included in the MCU.

In the past, a comic book character would have to be adapted with their own unique origin story before becoming a live-action character. But now, if the MCU wants to introduce certain characters that haven’t yet gotten their own live-action treatment (or even variants of those that have), it won’t have to create a whole new narrative for them. All the MCU would have to do is craft a story where those characters are plucked from the comics and dropped into live-action by the TVA, and just like that, a fully-developed character can begin their MCU career.

Connecting Marvel Comics’ Multiverse with the MCU Could Spell Trouble for the Live-Action Heroes

Marvel Just Opened the Door for the Comics’ Greatest Current Multiversal Villain to Take Over the MCU

It’s incredibly exciting to consider that any character from across the Marvel Comics multiverse can appear in live-action without any explanation aside from ‘the TVA brought them there’, as that means the catalog of characters the MCU has immediate access to has just increased immensely. However, that could also be a bad thing for the heroes of the MCU, especially when considering Marvel Comics’ current greatest multiversal villain, one who has just taken over an entire reality like it was nothing and could do the same to the MCU: the Maker.

In Marvel Comics’ new Ultimate Universe continuity, the Maker (originally from Earth-1610) has traveled from Earth-616 to Earth-6160 and has reshaped that reality to his liking. Using multiversal and temporal technology, the Maker has rewritten Earth-6160’s history, inserting himself as that world’s ‘god’. The Maker did this with relative ease, implying that he could do the same to any universe across the multiverse. And now, that includes the MCU. Indeed, the MCU already has a character who originated from Earth-1610 with Jimmy Hudson, and it’s just opened the door for the Maker to join the fun.

While the idea that the Maker could become the MCU’s next ‘big bad’ because of this newly-established direct connection between Marvel Comics and the MCU is exciting (and is something the MCU should seriously consider), the fact that this connection exists at all is the main takeaway here. No matter how the MCU (or Marvel Comics) plans to move forward, TVA #1 confirms that, yes, Marvel just connected its comics continuity to the MCU, marking a new milestone for the universe.

TVA #1 by Marvel Comics is available now.

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