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Linked universe1/13/2024 Munch remained there until his on-screen retirement party in 2013, where he reminisced with characters from Homicide some 14 years after that show’s finale. ![]() He became a regular on the New York-based show Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, the first of many, many Law and Order spin-offs. When Homicide ended in 1999, Munch took the unusual step of getting a transfer to another fictional precinct. After retiring from doing actual police work, Landsman became an actor who pretended to be a cop in The Wire, a show that already had a character named after him (as did Michael Chabon’s 2007 novel, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union). Munch was based on real-life Baltimore homicide detective Jay Landsman. There was nothing in his early appearances to indicate a tendency to commute between fictional universes. Belzer’s Munch was a veteran cop with a weakness for sardonic humour, dysfunctional relationships and conspiracy theory. Homicide featured a strong ensemble cast, with Belzer appearing alongside Andre ( Brooklyn Nine-Nine) Braugher, Yaphet ( Live and Let Die) Kotto and Ned ( Mister Loo-Thor) Beatty. He later went on to create the critically-acclaimed and not altogether dissimilar Charm City-based epic, The Wire (2002-2008). The show was set in Baltimore and based on a non-fiction book by the city’s former crime reporter David Simon. Played by stand-up comedian turned actor Richard Belzer, Detective John Munch made his debut in one of TV’s greatest ever cop shows, Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999). There’s an older, spandex-free cinematic universe, and that one’s held together by a haggard, bespectacled Jewish detective who goes by the name of John Munch. ![]() Marvel, though, aren’t the first to attempt such a feat. ![]() The home of Iron Man, Thor and Captain America (with a joint custody agreement now in place for Spider-Man) has become a movie hit factory, and rival studios have been quick to imitate their lucrative shared universe formula. The mega-successful Marvel Cinematic Universe is, at its heart, a big-screen adaptation of what Stan Lee and his bullpen of underappreciated artists did at Marvel Comics back in the 60s: have superheroes from different comic books team-up and engage in covert acts of multi-level marketing.
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