The timeline actually works better than Marvel thinks -- if they just let go of their internal conceits and look at the MCU as so far laid out. The only hard and fast dates we have are 2014 for the two GOTG films and 2016 for Homecoming. Using the derived stuff from other referents, Iron Man gets bumped back to it's original release year of 2008. Iron Man 2 starts in early-ish 2010, and encompasses also Thor and Incredible Hulk (and the beginning of Doctor Strange is a bit before that). The bookends of Captain America are right after, and Avengers is a couple months after that.. So the eight years after the Chitauri attack holds up.
The only one I have any issue settling is Iron Man 3. It's around the end of some year. The problem arises in how long it's been since Tony's one-night-stand with Maya. That was New Year's Even 1999/2000. When she shows up at his door, he has a panicked moment that there's a thirteen year old kid waiting in her car. She corrects his math for gestation, but it still would mean that's Christmas 2013. Which means Tony's been (not) dealing with his PTSD and building thirty-plus suits for a good three years. Which I don't have a problem with, except that it feels like it's supposed to be much closer after Avengers than that. *shrug*
I haven't waded more actively into the rest of Phases 2 and 3 yet, as it also involves all the series, as well as the films.
But as for Black Panther being "too soon", just rewatched Civil War and, while nothing solid is in the dialogue, it only seems to be about four or five days after the bombing that everything is wrapped up and Zemo is in T'Challa's custody.
--Jonah
The only one I have any issue settling is Iron Man 3. It's around the end of some year. The problem arises in how long it's been since Tony's one-night-stand with Maya. That was New Year's Even 1999/2000. When she shows up at his door, he has a panicked moment that there's a thirteen year old kid waiting in her car. She corrects his math for gestation, but it still would mean that's Christmas 2013. Which means Tony's been (not) dealing with his PTSD and building thirty-plus suits for a good three years. Which I don't have a problem with, except that it feels like it's supposed to be much closer after Avengers than that. *shrug*
I haven't waded more actively into the rest of Phases 2 and 3 yet, as it also involves all the series, as well as the films.
But as for Black Panther being "too soon", just rewatched Civil War and, while nothing solid is in the dialogue, it only seems to be about four or five days after the bombing that everything is wrapped up and Zemo is in T'Challa's custody.
--Jonah
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