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I don't understand why people are so insistent on calling everything "part of the MCU." The MCU is everything that's part of the production. It's a series of movies, show, shorts, ect that not only tie in to each other, but require a final stamp of approval from the executive producers, having their creative direction guided and governed by certain rules. That's it. It doesn't mean nothing else can be connected. It doesn't mean anything else is worthless or noncanon. It doesn't make a title automatically "better" or even more important. The term "MCU" purely refers to this production of titles. No Way Home is an MCU title, but the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies were more important to it than fellow MCU title Civil War was. The Netflix series and Agents of Shield are straight up derived from Avengers and take place in the world created for it. Versions of the characters from these series later end up in proper MCU titles, and AOS straight up uses actors already in the movies, but neither considered to truly be in the MCU. That's why on Disney+ these shows are deliberately left out when viewing MCU, the same as the old Spider-Man movies.

That doesn't mean that they're bad, doesn't mean they're lesser, doesn't mean they're pointless. The MCU isn't higher. Other franchises can connect to the MCU, and even be more important in some cases. Deadpool 3 will be in the MCU, the first two films will be important backstory and relevant buildup to his character, but they're not becoming part of the MCU. Because again, a title is only part of the MCU if it was overseen by the same production team.

I don't understand why this concept is so hard to grasp. Why have morons insisted "Fant4stic is MCU" and other such drivel ever since J Jonah Jameson was in Far From Home? Why do people feel the need to redefine the term that has a specific meaning and function to scope so broad that it's worthless? Are they just butthurt Xmen fans? The movies you like aren't made better or worse due to inclusion in, nor exclusion from the MCU. "MCU" isn't a certification that has any bearing on value.