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Yeah makes sense, I can make that move.
What about the Timeline book placing What If...? at the end of the book?
In fairness they place all the events of What If across the timelines there, where we place them within their spots in time not just the "present day" scenes
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Nice article, TL;DR Nov 2025 is their guess. However I did see a source on Reddit in the comments (so that that however you will) saying it was May 2025, 5 months after Hawkeye. Normally I'd disregard that but this commenter spoke with certainty and apparently as a good rep of being correct so it stuck with me.We May Already Know When ‘ECHO’ Occurs on the MCU Timeline
While 2023 has been a mixed year of releases for the MCU, featuring titles that were so extremely poorly received like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Secret Invasion, that long-time fans of …
Personally myself I'm going with:
Loki S2 works better after quantumania cos of the Kang reference at the end. If you watch it before someone who explore the MCU for the 1st time (good luck whoever you are) would just think, WHAT?? When that happened. Instead for the Loki S1 Placement I like having it soon after endgame, not only for the fact that it is a flowless transition from the infinity saga to the Multiverse saga, thanks to ep 1 intro, but literally S1 finale brings us to, you knw almost everything that happens in the multiverse saga.
I would watch S2 after S1, until the time jump in the last Episode, that would be post-Quantumania
oh, I'm talking about a viewing order for new MCU fans. A new fan wouldn't know that.
Yeah, I got that, just wanted to throw it in here. I'm with Starvel on this one, except I would watch all of What If...? Post Loki S2
I definitely agree for a 1st time viewer it'd be confusing. However for a first time viewer I always recommend release order as their first watch (Black Widow alone would raise some questions if not straight up spoil things in its place). That's why I always plan my chrono viewing order for someone who is familiar with the franchise, and prefer S02 right after S01 for better flow. A little reference to a future event will be seen when we return to the timeline.
Honestly I might, I'm not 100% with any placement for What If in a binge. Before now I've had it at the end of the MCU after everything that's released
for a first timer, I use release order moslty, sometime changing placements for the films to flow better, basically fusing a release order to a chronological order, like I'm doing with my MignolaVerse timeline, oh and of course following the post credits scenes narrative.
That's actually very smart yeah. Little mix of the two would improve both
