Anyone with eyes can see that shared universes are all the rage these days, and have been ever since Nick Fury invited Tony Stark to talk about the Avengers Initiative back in 2008. While some shared universes are continuing to persevere (like Marvel and the DCU), others put their cart a little too far before the horse (RIP, Dark Universe). Sure, it's gotta be nice for studios and filmmakers alike to build a large sandbox to play within, but more often than not, it's better to just start playing and reveal a sandbox later. That's how a few auteur filmmakers named Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith did it in the 1990s, peppering in connections between their films that, in Smith's case, resulted in a full-blown "Avengers"-style crossover movie in the form of "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

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