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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Apparently, Shield exists as an organization still despite being disbanded in the films years ago. Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage and Danny Rand live within spitting distance of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, but have never met them. I bet you Cloak and Dagger will never run into them, nor will the Runaways. Rand and Stark Industries seem to have no interest in competing with one another, despite both of it's chairmen being stubborn, egotistical philanthropists.

I don't know about SHIELD, since I haven't seen AoS.

As for Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, well....the Defenders aren't running into Spider-Man anytime soon, since he operates in Queens and that may not mean much if you aren't from New York or haven't been there, but Queens is quite a distance from Manhattan. In fact, you'd have less of a trip going from Manhattan to New Jersey by foot than you would going from Manhattan to Queens. New York City "seems" like everything is close together, but that's only because of the transit system.

And if I'm not mistaken, Rand and Stark Industries operate in completely different industries, right? The impression I got from Iron Fist was that Rand was a pharmaceutical company, while Stark Industries is tech-based.

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There was a killer twisting people's heads off in season 2 of Jessica Jones, but no one bothered to lift a finger to help her, despite her relationship to the killer being all over the news.

Are you referring to The Defenders or The Avengers? Yeah, it's a little weird that neither Danny nor Luke check up on her (perhaps they're too busy with whatever goes down in Luke Cage Season 2?) but for the Avengers, you've gotta figure they fight against world-ending threats. Aliens and robots. They don't really go around stomping out serial killers (even if they have superpowers, which, to the MCU, must be pretty mundane at this point).

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Nobody mentions things unless they are extremely vague about it, the Chitauri invading New York is called "The Event", while the Hulk is called "the big green guy". The closest thing to a cameo from any of the Avengers has been a Captain America Marvel Legends figure. The Sanctum Sanctorum is right there in Hell's Kitchen, and no one ever walks by it, and the Avengers Tower is not even featured in the skyline to any of these shows. Who wants to bet that the Defenders doesn't show up to help the Avengers protect New York once Thanos arrives?

Well, I wouldn't exactly say they're being "vague" about it. Daredevil Season 1 (and possibly Season 2, I can't remember) features news articles that straight up mention the "alien invasion" (keep in mind nobody would know what a 'Chitauri' is) and the Hulk and Abomination tearing apart Harlem. Several characters have conversations where they straight up talk about aliens invading, and the whole plot of DD Season 1 is even directly tied to the events of Avengers, since Wilson Fisk was able to rise to power by using his resources to repair Hell's Kitchen post-Avengers.

The Sanctum Santorum is located in Greenwich Village, which is about an hour walking distance away from Hell's Kitchen. It's even further from Harlem, which is about 2 hours away.

The Avengers tower is probably a budget constraint issue. If I'm not mistaken, they have to CGI in the Avengers tower every time they show the skyline in the movies. It's probably not cost-effective to do this every time they show the skyline in the TV shows (which is A LOT), so they don't even bother. And by now, it's a moot point since the Avengers are no longer based in Manhattan anyway.

I will admit, though, it'd be weird if the Netflix shows didn't at least reference Thanos and gang dropping into New York. But you've gotta figure that the Defenders are mostly active at night, and even then usually keep to themselves and their neck of the woods. The only one I could see actively getting involved in the fight against Thanos is Danny.