Twin Peaks Takes Place in Marvel Universe (or So Marvel Claims)
Twin Peaks and the MCU are two extremely different settings that share next to no similarities between them. Still, Marvel really wants to incorporate Twin Peaks into its lore.
If you’re only familiar with the Marvel Universe from the movies, the implication of all the flashy superheroes and supervillains sharing the same lore with good old Dale Cooper sounds ridiculous. Still, in the comics, there’ve been one too many references to Twin Peaks over the years… But Marvel went even further than just including some Easter Eggs.
One of the X-Factor issues directly states that Twin Peaks is part of the Marvel Universe!
You see, the Twin Peaks protagonist is an FBI agent Dale Cooper. He’s arriving in a small town called Twin Peaks to investigate the murder of a popular student, Laura Palmer, whose body was found on a local shore wrapped in plastic.
Now compare what we just told you with this direct quote from X-Factor #71. The person talking’s called Valerie Cooper, by the way.
“I have a brother who’s an FBI agent, and I am so tired of him telling me about these exciting cases he gets… Like, for instance, this girl they found. She was dead… Wrapped in plastic,” shares Valerie Cooper.
There’s pretty much no more direct way to go about this. Naming a character Val Cooper and then having her tell about an FBI brother who found a girl’s body wrapped in plastic is basically the same as saying “Hey, the real Avengers’ HQ is in Twin Peaks, and Dale Cooper is the mastermind behind the first S.H.I.E.L.D.” or something like that.
Marvel seems to really love Twin Peaks and what to claim it as its own, it seems.
Valerie Cooper is far from the only person connected to the series: Twin Peaks has been mentioned multiple times in Marvel comics — both as a TV show and as a reality.
This creates a weird predicament as we know that some heroes like Logan literally visited Twin Peaks (which is called Westfall in Marvel). At the same time, we had Spider-Man referencing Twin Peaks the TV series and Star-Lord claiming it to be his biopic.
We have no official confirmation of the two franchises existing in the same universe from Twin Peaks — but clearly, Marvel really wants it to be true. Perhaps, they just dream of making a movie about Deadpool fighting Killer Bob someday, who knows?
Source: X-Factor
