RUMOR: SPIDER-MAN Will NOT Appear in DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN, But Will Be Mentioned

@RolandD - *Looks at the Tom Holland price tag and raises hand* Nope. Me neither. Would have been shocked if Holland appeared because he doesn't need to. Save the actual physical team-up for "SM4". This show seems to already have enough going for it to attract viewers, particularly the ones who were fans of the Netflix shows.

Now "She-Hulk", on the other hand, needed to pony up the Ruffalo cash because you can't really do the She-Hulk origin story without Hulk. Same with "FatWS", "WV", etc. But "DD:BA" will be just fine without Holland (physically anyway). Hell, if they REALLY felt that they needed to have Spidey in it in some form (other than verbally", they could just recycle/reshoot footage of someone in the Spidey suit swinging around (or just CG it). Like if there were a scene where DD swings past a giant billboard of JJJ ranting about Spidey with an image or video of him in the background. None of that would actually require Holland or Simmons.

@StSteven - great ideas on how to include him if they decide to do anything at all. I wasn’t even thinking about the price tag but yeah, that would blow up the budget.

@RolandD - PLUS, having something a video montage like I just described prominently featured in "DD:BA" would go a LONG way in establishing this "street-level" corner of the MCU and who occupies it (at least in NYC), which would help to organize and compartmentalize all the new characters that they've been introducing recently for viewers. Could even include Kamala, although she's Jersey and is soon going to be intergalactic planetary planetary intergalactic (another dimension, another dimension).

@RolandD - Haha thanks man and no I ain't no scab, but I do think (hope) that now that we're (hopefully) past the Chapek era of (and I'm paraphrasing here): "I don't care if it isn't connected or the VFX isn't finished! I need more content now damn it! Do you hear me?!? More! More! MORE!" Feige's finally back in full control of what, how, why, and when MCU content gets developed and released and we'll something like a suggested, not just for the street-level characters that they currently have (and will soon have) but the other corners as well.

Like, I'm sure that Kevin & Co. are well aware of the current sentiment, not just from the folks like us but also the GA, and while we may know what something like "Secret Wars" will entail, the GA doesn't, so there are likely a lot of folks out there who are thinking "Okay, we have a whole slew of new characters (i.e. She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, MK, etc.) but where do they all fit into whatever we're heading toward?" I mean the GA knows that we're in the middle of the Multiverse Saga, but that's about it.

So to me it would make sense for Marvel to start to compartmentalize their characters to a certain degree to help the GA (and even us) make some sense of what they have laid out so far so that we can all have a better idea of what is coming, in both the smaller and larger scales. Like with the Infinity Saga it was a lot easier to follow, because you had considerably fewer characters and just one main bad guy, and everything seemed to head in a singular direction. But we don't necessarily have that right now because we have all these different corners and we're not sure how they all feed into the larger MS narrative. So to me, more clearly defining these different corners (like I said above with the street-level characters) would be a smart move at this point (or in the near future). They have enough characters now that they can legitimately define each corner as almost its own micro-verse.

So, for example, define the street-level corner with those heroes I listed and Fisk as the big bad of that corner. The we have the supernatural characters that we've introduced so far and those to come, and you can make Mephisto the big bad of that corner. Then we have the Avengers as the large-scale Earth-bound corner that generally deal with "Earth-level" threats (like whatever happens in "CA:BNW" and "Thunderbolts"). Then you will have F4 to basically take the place of GotG for cosmic stuff, and ultimately X-Men to handle mutant-related threats in the mutant corner. Now, naturally these corners will deal with issues that are normally outside of their respective corners and then of course team up for the big "crossover events", but I think that starting to compartmentalizing the characters (just like 6 year old me would do with my Marvel action figures) makes sense at this point.