The hype is high for Secret Invasion‘s arrival on streaming in just over a week’s time. Going by what we’ve seen and been promised so far, the Disney Plus show looks set to be a noirish political conspiracy thriller that should hark back to the good ol’ days of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. You’d think, then, that the Samuel L. Jackson vehicle would be able to wipe away any lingering feelings that the MCU has become too much of a joke these days. But, well, apparently not.
One fan with a chip on their shoulder went viral on Twitter for sharing their umbrage with a recent clip from the show, which sees Cobie Smulder’s Maria Hill mention how Nick Fury has never been “the same after The Blip.” As user @KeyWatkins51299 vented, “I REALLY hate the fact that they called Thanos’s mass genocide ‘the Blip.’ It sounds lame.” The fan admitted that they much prefer the alternate name, “The Snap.”
One comment made the intelligent point that The Blip would’ve come about because it better reflects what the world at large witnessed when Thanos wiped out half the universe, as only the Avengers were around to see the Infinity Gauntlet snap itself. Nonetheless, this doesn’t change the connotations around the word “blip.”
Others attempted to push this as a sign the MCU is doomed. Although the OG thought this was going to far, they did admit they think The Blip is just “goofy.”
While there is a definite silliness to The Blip name, it should be pointed out that this perfectly suited the MCU project that originally introduced this term — Spider-Man: Far From Home, the first Marvel movie released after Avengers: Endgame. After that film, it became the go-to way of referring to what fans had previously called The Snap. So that means that even something like Secret Invasion is stuck with it, lest it risk making a mess out of MCU continuity.
Let’s hope there won’t be any further accusations of goofiness once Secret Invasion premieres June 21.