What is Phase 4 and 5? Aquisition!
I started mapping the MCU ([LINK](https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1__uqmgybvIuDeufTWUEb_d1N7MMwvrQ2tLE6jNGcOYQ/edit?usp=sharing) \- I think I set the link work this time), and realised Phase 4 and 5 is not narrative, but bureaucratic. They are about to hang the SONY and Netflix marvel-universes to the MCU.
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Darn, not even all parts of the MCU is MCU!
And nope, if it is not canon, than it is NOT part of the MCU. Here is where the production-company doesn't matter.
For example we are certain the Inhuman-series is NOT part of the MCU, as well as Runaways, Moon Knight, Agent Carter (both the oneshot and the series), Shang Chi, What if...?, Marvel Zombies, F4 First Steps, and even the majority of She-Hulk.
YFNSM on the other hand is NOT part of the MCU BECAUSE the MCU is a live-action franchise, not an animated-one. And I have no time for comic-tyins, or the Sopiderverse-connection either. It'd lead too far.
Eg. D&W can be considered part of the MCU, and through them ALL the X-men movies, but there is no actualy connection eg. with Moon Knight aside come corporate head stating so, and we all know how trustworthy CEOs are (less than zero).
Secondly, this all comes down to, as stated by multiple people in this thread, your misunderstanding of what the MCU is. The MCU is the name of the franchise, the umbrella under which the current Marvel Studios movies come under. All of the movies,TV shows and shorts under the banner are considered MCU but not necessarily the main timeline 616. Think of the MCU as more of a multiverse than a universe as it's just the blanket name for the franchise.
\#1 - it is not built upon
\#2 - the only connection to the MCU in it is Trevor
\#3 - It contradicts what we learnt about the Ten Rings that we learnt in Iron Man 1.
And with the Multiverse just some characters being present means absolutely nothing. Like Imma Destroy Ze World Inhuman-dude doesn't make the Inhuman-series canon if Agents of Shield is canon.
Unfortunately until then we only have the fact that the Ten Rings were ten literal rings, or the very least every commanders of the oragnisítion should be wearing a ring like Bald Guy in IM1.
Without any of the two factor fulfilled described here, I consider Shang Chi to be on an alternative timeline, thus not part of the MCU.
I don't really understand what you're trying to say in that second paragraph, but there being many sects of the Ten Rings organisation is explained in Shang Chi.
That's not how canon works, you can't consider it anything when it is very obviously a mainline MCU movie set in Earth-616
At this point I think you are straight up trolling.
Black Widows, Extremis, The Abomination, Wong and LITERALLY HULK AND CAPTAIN MARVEL at the end credits scene?
But as a 2nd Shang Chi movie is coming out, probably, I don't see why you convulsions all over that movie.
I've seen D&W, once. Not remember much about the connecting tissue to the MCU, but I remember there was something.
The same way if finaly something connects Moon Knight to the other installments, it'll instantly jump on the chart. Same for Runaways, Agents of Shield season 4-7 (I readied an excuse to do so), Cloak&Dagger, or even the bloody Inhumans-series (which just does not fit at all to what Agents of Shield established).
But I'm not allowing free-floating stuff into the MCU just because it was made by the Marvel Studios or whatever. Eg. Agent Carter Oneshot got retconned out of the canon by Endgame, despite being made by Marvel Studios and not ABC like the Agent Carter series (which also went not-canon by the same move).