The Marvel cinematic universe has become pretty massive, and the studio will now be adding yet another component to it.

According to Newsarama, during Marvel Animation's panel at Emerald City Comic-Con, Vice President of Animation Development and Production Cort Lane was asked if Marvel would ever have an animated project as part of the cinematic universe. Lane said that he couldn't announce anything official but confirmed that things are in the works. He pointed to the Netflix Daredevil series as a "proof of concept" for a show tying in to the larger world of Marvel.

There are a number of Marvel animated shows currently running such as Avengers Assemble, Ultimate Spider-Man and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy series, but these aren't actually connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This creates a situation where we have the MCU, which encompasses the feature films and the live-action TV shows (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, and Daredevil), and a separate animation universe. However, an upcoming project will finally have the world of animation enter the MCU.

With this, the MCU is getting pretty huge. It already consists of 10 films, three TV shows, and there's plenty more in the works. On the one hand, it's pretty cool to have all these separate pieces of entertainment connected with each other, but it seems like at some point this might all become hard to manage and get a bit confusing. Presumably shows like Avengers Assembled will still be running when this new project comes out, which means we would have some animated shows that aren't part of the MCU but one show that is. If anyone call pull off something like this though, it's definitely Marvel.

For now, we can look forward to Daredevil, the latest MCU project which launches on Netflix on April 10. Aimed at an older audience than anything Marvel has produced so far, the series revolves around a blind lawyer who becomes a masked vigilante, as we previously reported. After that, the next major Marvel project will be Avengers: Age of Ultron, hitting theaters on May 1.

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