Jed Whedon, an executive producer on Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., has made it clear that the ABC series will not address Avengers: Endgame. You can read this full quote here…

When Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. first started, Whedon and co were fairly slavish in trying to keep up with the big screen events of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. However, as the show has grown, the film tie-ins have become less and less prevalent.

And with Endgame (the follow-up to Avengers: Infinity War) reaching cinemas before Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns on the small screen, Whedon and his fellow producers have been given a perfect opportunity to avoid addressing the big-screen bust-up between Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Thanos.

Asked by Collider whether Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. will address ‘the Snap’ – the massive genocide from the end of Infinity War, which will play a major part in Endgame – Whedon said this:

“Some of these problems might be solved in the next Avengers movie. And so not knowing how they’re going to handle some of that and the fans not knowing any of that stuff we felt like we couldn’t touch it, because of the second movie that was going to come out where they’re going to tell a whole new part of the story. So the fact that our air date is after works out. We’d always sort of planned that way. That we were going to wait until that movie comes out and then our story can continue without us having to address it.”

As much as we’d like to see how the Snap affected the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. team, skipping over these movies and carrying on is a lot easier for the writers. It’s a move that makes a lot of sense.

Endgame will premiere in cinemas on April 24th, and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 6 will debut on ABC on May 10th.