DIrishB
The Timeline Guy
Eh, I always presumed Tony was born around 1969/1970 based on his appearance (as a kid) in the footage showing his dad doing the thing for the 1974 Stark Expo (him removing the building model and his dad yelling at him to put it back). So I think that works, even though the dates are different, the year is still the same.
Is that a 5th Element poster? Weird (but great movie...always hoped they'd get around to the sequel).
As for the dates, I'd have to suggest most of that stuff is non-canon since it either doesn't appear in the movie itself, or is not clearly seen enough to be taken as fact. Its likely just a case of the prop makers not being given specific info in terms of the timeline.
Its clearly shown Red Skull obtains the Tesseract in March, 1942, then we get a cut to Steve attempting to join the Army. I just assume more than a year has passed between those two scenes, to place Steve's super-soldier procedure in mid-1943. In the film itself, its shown on his draft card (4F) after the alley fight where he gets his butt kicked to occur June 14, 1943, and the super-soldier experiment/transformation to occur on June 24 (or thereabouts) based on the newspaper date (though the day of the week doesn't line up correctly, but I guess this can be explained as the MCU being an alternate reality... gotta use comic book logic there
).I had placed it in 1942 originally based on the First Vengeance comic dating those events as such, but apparently thats incorrect (have to take the info from the films over the official comics).
This is a good point, however, with the first Iron Man definitely occurring in 2008 due to the on-screen date, and the "6 months later" tag at the beginning of Iron Man 2 (which I already pushed another 6 months further--explained by Vanko building his armor over a course of 6 months--I'm not sure that works). That'd mean pushing Iron Man 2, Thor, and Incredible Hulk to 2010 and Avengers to 2011, which isn't a huge deal, but kind of ignores the on-screen time jump of 6 months later. However, I think your logic is sound, and as you said the December, 2009 Time magazine also dates IM2 occurring sometime after, so I'll change those dates.
Good eye, sir! The massive amount of info you've provided has made this timeline much better and more accurate.
I've also updated for the Thor adaptation comic.
