Worst: Marvel teases connections between Sony and the MCU but won't commit
Remember how Venom showed up in the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home? That isn't important. Or how Deadpool and Wolverine was supposed to properly connect the Sony universe and the MCU? That turned out to only matter for a scene and a half. Marvel has been teasing connecting their various film and television projects for years, but 2024 included two different movies refusing to follow through.
In Deadpool and Wolverine, there is one scene where Deadpool tried to join the Avengers in Earth-616, followed by a couple of scenes at the TVA. Other than that, Wade is pretty focused on saving his own universe, with no real impact on the MCU. Venom: The Last Dance has one scene of Eddie getting drunk on Earth-616 before reverting to a movie that has nothing to do with that!
Venom and Deadpool are popular characters, and fans were excited to see them try to fit into the MCU. But both of their new movies avoided properly connecting the universes in a frustrating bait-and-switch for fans. Admittedly, Deadpool and Wolverine's plot was driven by the interference of the TVA, but even that was predominantly done through a rogue agent that was never seen in any MCU properties.
If they were unwilling to connect these universes, then they could have just kept them apart. Instead, Marvel lured fans in with the promise of new connections just to give them one scene when there could be so more in there. We know the issues with Sony's Spider-Man Universe make it difficult to make a complete connection here, but how quickly the tease was dropped was just disappointing.