MCU

English

Noun

MCU (plural MCUs)

1. (electronics) Initialism of microcontroller unit.
2. (telecommunications) Initialism of multipoint control unit.
3. (computing) Initialism of memory controller unit.
4. Initialism of master control unit.
5. Initialism of main control unit.
6. (chiropractic) Initialism of multi-cervical unit.
7. (television) Initialism of medium close-up.

Proper noun

MCU

1. Initialism of Marvel Cinematic Universe (“a shared universe and franchise of films and other media based on Marvel Comics, introduced in 2008”).
   • 2013, Kevin Feige, quoted in Laura Ciarolla, "Marvel announces third 'Avengers' film", The Daily Athenaueum (West Virginia University), Volume 125, Issue 86, 30 January 2013, page 3:

     It [Ant-Man] will, of course, be firmly planted in the MCU but a different corner than we've seen before.

   • 2015, Dan Casey, 100 Things Avengers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, Triumph Books, published 2015, →ISBN, page 128:

     […] Hydra is a sprawling global organization with highly advanced technology that has opposed S.H.I.E.L.D, the Avengers, and nearly every major superhero group in the MCU.1

   • 2015, Colin Harvey, Fantastic Transmedia: Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 84–85:

     It is interesting to note that, while Coulson is used to suture the various MCU films together and latterly to tie the Agents of SHIELD television show into the MCU, this has not occurred at other points in the franchise.

   • 2024 February 29, Jack King, “Why everyone you know is suddenly a Letterboxd head”, in GQ‎^[1]:

     Being Letterboxd-pilled is essentially shorthand for saying that you’re into movies more than your typical MCU buff, kind of like what MUBI is to Amazon Prime.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:MCU.

Hypernyms

• Marvelverse

Coordinate terms

• DCU (“DC Universe”) (fictional universe for DC Comics comic books)
• DCEU (“DC Extended Universe”) (shared universe for the DC Comics-based Warner Bros. theatrical films extended from 2013's Man of Steel)
• DCAU (“DC Animated Universe”) (shared universe for the 1990s and early 2000s DC Comics-based Warner Bros. animated television films and series)

Derived terms

• M-She-U (internet slang, derogatory, Marvel Cinematic Universe seen as too focused on feminism over well-written storylines)

Anagrams

• CMU, Cum., MUC, UMC, cum