The original Avengers was the flashpoint for all of the timeline woes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe up until this point – releasing in 2012 and potentially taking place in either 2009 or 2012 depending on which way you’re counting. By comparison, the rest of Phase Two has been pretty easy. No real conflicting timelines in any … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 11 – AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
We’re halfway there. Well, sort of. We’re halfway through the Marvel movies that have thus far been released, but there’s also Captain Marvel and, of course, Avengers: Endgame on the horizon. I’m still not quite sure how I’m going to handle those since I won’t be able to use screenshots the way I have up until now, … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 10 – GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Back in 2014, I got to attend a Q&A at USC with Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of the then-newly released Captain America: The Winter Soldier. During the Q&A, a question came up about the lack of a visible date on Nick Fury’s head stone at the end of the film (believe it or not, I … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 9 – CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
We’re beginning to establish a pattern here. After one movie completely derails the timeline we’ve established, we get a nice, easy Thor movie with almost no concrete references to dates. These first two Thor movies are definite low points in terms of quality, but in this one, specific, dumb category, they are a delight. This one’s gonna … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 8 – THOR: THE DARK WORLD
Well, this is awkward… After making my sweeping, definitive declaration that The Avengers actually takes place in 2009, looks like I’m going to have to be second guessing that. This is the first major crisis of this project, so let’s not waste a lot of time on foreword and just dive right in. As a reminder our … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 7 – IRON MAN THREE
This is it. In terms of timeline, this is the lynchpin of the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it’s the reason why everyone got in a tizzy over the version of the timeline as presented by Spider-Man: Homecoming. The crucial question is when does this movie take place? Is it 2009 or 2012? If it’s 2009, … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 6 – THE AVENGERS
This whole exercise of trying to establish a firm timeline for the Marvel Cinematic Universe is more than a little bit silly because precisely when each of these stories takes place doesn’t really matter. The setting is significant inasmuch as figuring out how each movie relates to one another, but the core story of Iron Man doesn’t … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 5 – CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
This one was surprisingly easy! After the mess that was Iron Man 2, imagine my delight when Thor contained almost no overt references to specific dates. It doesn’t do much good in the way of reinforcing a clear timeline, but it also doesn’t further muck with what we’ve already established. There will be plenty of muck to … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 4 – THOR
I didn’t expect it to be like this. I came into this project with open eyes, knowing that it would get very stupid very quickly. I didn’t realize it would get quite this stupid quite this quickly. To be fair, Iron Man 2 was a mess of a production (and subsequently a mess of a movie), … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 3 – IRON MAN 2
Boy, this is a weird one. On the surface, this seems easy. There are almost no overt references to dates in this film, so you should just be able to rely on other films (namely Iron Man 2) to place its location on the timeline. But then there are three scenes where this movie just vomits … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 2 – THE INCREDIBLE HULK
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