2016: Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming.2014: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2011: Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk, Thor.1943-1945: Captain America: The First Avenger.According to Screenrant, the new Marvel: The First Ten Years guidebook lists the dates in which the films take place as the following: Does it solve all our problems? Well, not exactly. And now Marvel's official timeline is here. “All of that debate has made us go, 'Okay, at some point, I'm not sure exactly when, we're going to publish a timeline and see what it all is.' It wasn't meant to flummox anybody exactly, and I'm not sure I'd do it again the same way, but it does all connect to where we placed it.” When pressed by Cinemablend about the issue, Feige said, To him, the confusion was quite surprising. Other fans didn't budge on their understanding of the timeline and committed to herculean research efforts to prove how this eight year time jump simply could not work.Īs the fan community fell into chaos to try and resolve this issue, Marvel Studios' President Kevin Feige took notice of the concern. Many insisted that there is no way Marvel could have made such a serious blunder and presented a plentitude of theories to rationalize how this rendering of the timeline could make sense. So clearly, something is off here.įans scrambled to make sense of this. So, if present day in Spider-Man: Homecoming takes place 8 years after The Avengers, that would put present day in the MCU at 2020. If we hold that the Marvel films more or less take place when they were released (unless otherwise stated in the film), this puts The Avengers in 2012. The film, in order to get us to the present day, then presents a title card reading, “8 Years Later.” But here’s the problem.

The film begins after the events of The Avengers, with Adrian Toomes’ construction team cleaning up the city after Stark and company’s destructive battle against Loki. Critics praised Tom Holland’s first solo film as a solid return to form for Spider-Man, but fans noticed a small detail in the movie that threatened to destroy the entire fabric of the Marvel timeline.

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