You may have noticed a thing that interests me is how much movies and TV shows feel like they're taking place "in the real world". One measure of this is what you might call the "what is anyone's job anymore" test.

A lot of TV shows and franchises get bored with mundane details and basically give up on characters having real jobs anymore or explaining their day-to-day existence at all. Like...I guess in the MCU, they were all living in Avengers HQ? Which was stocked by...SHIELD? Tony? Eh.

At the start of "Killing Eve", Eve was a low-level MI6 grunt. But by the last season, she was a cook, and then she quit that and...I guess didn't need any money to live on? Did that newspaper pay her? Did Carolyn? Eh.

Of course you can have characters who don't live the capitalist nine-to-five, but when you basically ignore these things, I start to sort of lose touch with my suspension of disbelief, and it can start to feel like it's "not in the real world anymore".

And of course, "feeling like the real world" is only one aesthetic choice. It's most jarring when things start out feeling more or less "like the real world" and then seemingly give up on that.

(Another example of this may be the "Fast And Furious" series. Are they government agents now? Independently wealthy from past heists? Both?)

"Independently wealthy" and/or "some kind of consulting agent for an agency that apparently lets you do whatever you want" are two common ways to hand-wave this kind of thing.

Anyway, even a little acknowledgment of "real world constraints" can provide drama, comedy, or relatability. Like imagine uh, some incarnation of Peter Parker about to go on a date with MJ and having to check if his Avengers Stipend has gone through yet.