![]() (He’s managed to keep working, despite never aging, by pretending to be his own son/grandson/great-grandson: “I’m part of the greatest dynasty in the history of Bollywood”!)Īn incomplete list of Kingo’s Bollywood output includes The Shadow Warrior 2: Voyage of Time, Son of Sarosh, Shadow Warrior 3, Phantom Gun, Galikota, Khel, and The Legend of Icarus. The most meta of the reveals is the fact that Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani), the MCU’s first South Asian superhero, has spent the past 100 years or so working in Bollywood as a film star. In 2021’s Eternals, we’re first introduced to the large “family” of super-powered aliens tasked with keeping the Earth safe from other aliens during the early days of human history it’s only a bit later into the film that we see how these characters are living in a post-Blip world. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Instead, he ends up sitting next to Betty (Angourie Rice), who is not a fan of the game - but does end up becoming Ned’s girlfriend, for a short time, so it seems to have all worked out. It’s also worth noting here that Peter’s best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) had originally planned to spend the flight playing the also-fictional video game Beast Slayers with Peter. Hunting Hydra: Tracking Down the World’s Most Notorious Criminals: Continuing the trend of connecting Hydra with Nazis, this is 1000% a title you’d expect to see on the broadcast schedule for the History Channel, in an alternate universe where something like Hydra exists. Though, here’s another idea - unofficial sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun? Heart of Iron: The Tony Stark Story: Hard to glean much in the way of details from this title alone, but let’s just note that it’s not the only project mentioned in this article to take a stab at covering the life and times of Iron Man the man.įinding Wakanda: Presumably a documentary about the only-recently-revealed African country. Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård) has never hosted a special episode devoted to our scientific understanding of the phenomenon which makes it possible for Thor (Chris Hemsworth) to travel from Asgard to Earth. ![]() Erik Selvig: Nova is of course the long-running science program airing on PBS since 1974 per the official website for the show in our universe, though, Dr. Thank you, prop makers, designers, and Tony-winning composers, for your service. ![]() The key aspect is the fun of this - those working behind the scenes on these films and TV shows clearly take great pride in creating flawless fake posters, trailers, and sometimes even fully-staged excerpts for these projects, and it’s a pleasure to appreciate all their hard work. This also, as with our previous guides, does not include pop culture created for non-Disney+ series (sorry about that, Trish Talk and the filmography of Whitney Frost). ![]() But it’s these fictional media properties that also help to make the MCU feel like its own distinct entity as a storytelling universe.Ī lot of the fictional pop culture created within the MCU may or may not be fully canon, as we’ll get into below. Instead, they’re films that exist only within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, alongside a collection of other strictly fictional projects spanning the worlds of theater, film, and television.Įarlier, as a part of Marvel Pop Culture Week, we cataloged all of the “real” pop culture to which MCU films and TV shows have referred over the years. All of these are intriguing titles for movies - the bad news is that none of them exist for real. This review is part of Consequence’s Marvel Pop Culture Week, examining all the ways in which the MCU invokes our world’s pop culture and - more importantly, in this case - creates its own.Ĭreature of the Dark Galaxy. ![]() The post A Field Guide to the MCU’s Fictional Movies, TV Shows, and More appeared first on Consequence. ![]()
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