Disney’s content purge has claimed the lives of many titles both old, new, popular, and entirely forgotten, but the removal of Marvel‘s Runaways still came as a shock.
If the Mouse House is happy to exile a TV series bearing the name of its biggest and most lucrative cash cow, then what could possibly come next? As much as some people would love to see it happen, though, don’t expect Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania be joining it in the ether of on-demand purgatory.
You could even go so far as to say that anything to fall under the official Marvel Cinematic Universe umbrella is guaranteed to exist for as long as Disney Plus does, but beyond that is where things might start to get a little murkier. Depending on what country you live in, the platform contains everything from Cloak & Dagger to Legion via Gifted, Agent Carter, and the Marvel One-Shots, and it also wouldn’t be a stretch to say that not everything is guaranteed permanent membership of the library.
None of the feature films that comprise the mainline MCU are going anywhere, and none of the official TV shows will be joining them, either, at least not for now. However, anything that arrived post-Iron Man since 2008 is by no means safe as Runaways has already proven, so it’s going to be one nervous waiting game to see which – if any – Marvel properties are next in the firing line.
If Inhumans can make out alive, for argument’s sake, then surely everything else gets a free pass.