Marvel Casts Doubt on Agents of SHIELD's MCU Canonicity In New Timeline

The upcoming MCU timeline book officially licensed by Marvel contradicts Agents of SHIELD fans‘ long-held beliefs that the show is canon.

When Agents of SHIELD first premiered on ABC in 2013, it was marketed as a tie-in to the MCU films. The series was headlined by Clark Gregg’s Agent Phil Coulson, who had a bad date with the business end of Loki’s bladed staff in 2012’s The Avengers and seemingly did not survive.

But he was brought back from the dead in Agents of SHIELD to lead a new team of spies and agents. With dozens of references to the wider MCU in the series’ first few seasons, it was easy to believe that SHIELD was legitimately connected to the movies. But as the show went on, those connections became more tenuous.

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