Marvel Fan Argues That the Blip Ruined the MCU and Its Long-Term Storytelling

Here’s a little something to spark a conversation with your family and friends while hanging out with them on Christmas! A Marvel fan has shared some interesting thoughts on the MCU and argues that The Blip has ruined the MCU and the Multiverse Saga.

Ever since the Infinity Saga ended with Avengers: Endgame, Marvel Studios has been struggling with moving forward, and the lack of quality of storytelling and other things have now led to major superhero fatigue. Their last film, The Marvels, was a box office disaster for the studio. Marvel is not in a good place at the moment.

Let’s face it, Kevin Feige has spread himself thin and storytelling has suffered because of it. Now, one fan on Reddit suggests the problems may have originated with The Blip and the consequences of the five-year time jump. Here’s the argument being made:

I don't know how much I wanna get into this here, but I thought I'd just let my general thoughts be known, but I think "The Blip", while an interesting development for setting up the conclusion of the Infinity Saga, was, is, and forever will continue to be a stain in the storytelling of the MCU. It's such a major universe-shattering event that it has to be addressed and when it isn't, then the projects feel incomplete.

I just watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. It was the first time in a long time that I was sitting there, enjoying an MCU movie. But there was something nagging at the back of my head:

Was the High Evolutionary blipped? Did it affect his experiments? Did the Blip affect the populations he created? This same thing occurred to me while watching Moon Knight. I wanted to know if Marc was blipped or if he was out Moonknighting during the five year gap. Neither of these projects really addresses it, and I feel the further out we get from Infinity War, the less it will be addressed, despite an entire generation of the entire universe having to deal with the repercussions.

It doesn't help with the fact that when they try to address it as a major plot point, it kinda fell flat on its face (FatWS).

It's just going to be a large elephant in the room that fans who have been watching fo years will think about but I fear will be mishandled from now until it's retconned or whatever.

I don't think The Blip is the main issue of the MCU, there are bigger problems that need to be addressed like quality storytelling and filmmaking. But, The Blip has definitely been handled poorly and inconsistently. I can see how it’s become an issue, and I have caught myself wondering the same thing that this Reddit user is wondering.

A good point is also made that the five-year gap has also proven to be largely irrelevant. There’s something really interesting to explore there, but Marvel hasn’t really gone into much depth with it and now they are mostly just avoiding it.

It’s a shame that they set something up so interesting and then they really didn’t know what to do with it./ What are your thoughts on the matter!?