Some MCU fans have been confused as to when each Marvel movie takes place. Well, now you don’t have to worry about any time discrepancies or conceived plot holes based on when and where some of these stories take place.Marvelhas mapped it all out, with a clearly defined year for each adventure.
The official timeline comes from theMarvel Studios: The First 10 Yearssourcebook. And it’s helping to clear up any confusion about when certain things happened between the first MCU movie in 2008, which was the mega-blockbusterIron Man, and the second to last released movie, which is this past summer’sInfinity War. Here is how 18 of the 19 movies thus far released fall into place, giving fans the perfect order to watch them all over again before seeingAvengers 4this summer.
Publisher Titan is behind the book Marvel Studios: The First 10 Years. And they were pretty smart to include this official timeline of events. Fans are able to explore the entire history of what’s happened, and more importantly, when it happened, leading up to the events seen inAvengers: Infinity War. It’s interesting to note thatIron Mantook place two years into the future of the actual date it was released. This timeline also indicates that the events ofIron Man 2and the firstThormovie were happening simultaneously within the same year.
It was previously revealed by director James Gunn that the first twoGuardians of the Galaxymovies took place pretty close to each other, with both storylines taking place in 2014. That means four years passed betweenGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2andInfinity War.
It’s expected thatAvengers 4will feature a very significant time jump, where we will see a more mature Cassandra Lang taking over for her dad Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man, and a future where Tony Stark and Pepper Potts are married and have a kid. But none of that has been confirmed. It’s also expected thatAvengers 4will go back through time to visit key moments from some of these movies, altering what we already know to be the MCU.
The one movie not listed in the official MCU timeline is Ant-Man and the Wasp. We know it takes place two years afterCaptain America: Civil War, which would place it in 2018. But the post-credit scene lines up with the events inInfinity War, which according to this timeline, takes place in 2017. There is also a time jump between the actual end of Ant-Man 2 and the post-credit scene, but that is expected to be only weeks, if not days, from what we see happening in the movie. Dialogue ininfinity Waralso indicates that it has happened 2 years afterCivil War. While this timeline has been put into place to solve some continuity issues, it appears to be creating new ones.
None of the Netflix MCU series, such asDaredevil,Jessica JonesandThe Punisherare mentioned. Neither is ABC’s Agents of Shield. That’s a whole other headache in and of itself. It appears that the official MCU timeline has helped balance some of this universe. But it’s also still a little wonky around the edges.Screen Rantpulled the timeline from the book to share with everyone.
