Marvel Cinematic Universe - Timeline

Thanks.

I interpreted the end credit scene as a flash back to earlier in the movie. I would imagine it occurs shortly after the explosion.
 
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DIrishB said:
Updated for the BluRay/DVD Chapter names and time codes for Guardians of the Galaxy.

Only thing I wonder about is if we should move the end credit scene with the Collector and HtD to occurring just after the Guardians defeat Ronan. I think its fine as is, the impression being that the events of the film occur over a few days at most (3-4 days), and I doubt the Nova Corps is going to postpone officially thanking them and wiping their records clean. It is surprising they'd be able to rebuild the Milano so fast, but with their advanced technology I wouldn't peg it as impossible or unlikely.
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All their wounds have healed as well. Not sure if the Nova Corps have advanced medical equipment or not. Or whether any of the characters have sped up healing. It's never specifically stated. Quill definitely doesn't because the cut on his hand from fighting Gamora remains on his hand throughout the entire movie. Excluding the last scene in question. If the Nova Corps doesn't have advanced medical technology it could even be longer than 3-4 days. It could explain them fixing the Milano so quick. Just a thought.
 
Bob_A_Mickelson said:
Thanks.

I interpreted the end credit scene as a flash back to earlier in the movie. I would imagine it occurs shortly after the explosion.
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Spoon_Wielder said:
All their wounds have healed as well. Not sure if the Nova Corps have advanced medical equipment or not. Or whether any of the characters have sped up healing. It's never specifically stated. Quill definitely doesn't because the cut on his hand from fighting Gamora remains on his hand throughout the entire movie. Excluding the last scene in question. If the Nova Corps doesn't have advanced medical technology it could even be longer than 3-4 days. It could explain them fixing the Milano so quick. Just a thought.
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This was my thinking as well. I just wanted to get a consensus before I changed that.
 
I realize the y'all reached a consensus already, but I'm itching to get in on it. The above was exactly my reading, also.
 
SHIELD #1 (which was actually really good) has the page Quesada drew and it says it was made for the cast of the show. I think that's enough to take it off of the timeline.
 
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Pfft, the wheel's already been invented. My edit is easily the best. Because I'm awesome.
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Didn't you just do Phase One? I want to see one blend Cap2 and SHIELD.

wyokid said:
SHIELD #1 (which was actually really good) has the page Quesada drew and it says it was made for the cast of the show. I think that's enough to take it off of the timeline.
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I'm sure that issue was just an advertisement, but I don't see how this is evidence that it's non-canon.
 
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dsethlewis said:
Didn't you just do Phase One? I want to see one blend Cap2 and SHIELD.
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The Phase One edit was the only one I put online. I don't have that kind of bandwidth to put up a Phase 2 and a Shield edit. Plus the first half of season one is so bad. I don't like remembering it's a part of the MCU.
 
I just noticed an error in where you've placed Ep. 16 of End of the Beginning.

I was watching the episode and what clued me in is something May says right after Ward has shot Thomas Nash. She says and I quote, 'Just got a message from HQ. Fury's back. He's waiting for you at the Triskelion.'

The problem is where you have it placed in the timeline, everyone believes Fury is dead at this point. In fact, he's only just revealed himself to still be alive to Cap and Black Widow. And he's no where near the Triskelion. So the majority of this episode takes place even before Fury's 'killed' in the first act of Captain America The Winter Soldier.

Later on in the episode Simmons and Fitz are on the phone, and while the phone is cutting out, Simmons (who is at the Hub at this point) says there's lots of commotion going on. I think we all assumed this was HYDRA beginning to reveal itself. I think this is actually the Hub receiving news that Cap has 'defected'. Right after he's fought his way out of the Triskelion. It would only make sense for SHIELD to send out a global alert on this.

What do you guys think?

I'm still watching the other crossover episodes so I'll let you know if I spot anything else to support this.
 
Spoon_Wielder said:
I just noticed an error in where you've placed Ep. 16 of End of the Beginning.

I was watching the episode and what clued me in is something May says right after Ward has shot Thomas Nash. She says and I quote, 'Just got a message from HQ. Fury's back. He's waiting for you at the Triskelion.'
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I'll have to rewatch it, but I placed it the way I did because the AoS writers apparently screwed up by the events of the crossover episodes with CA-TWS not covering enough days to reflect the amount of days passing in the film.

It's also entirely possible the message May received was a ruse by Hydra to lure Coulson's team back to base so they could eliminate them. She never said she talked to Fury directly (and even if that were the case, it's not beyond the realm of possibility Hydra could fake Fury's voice). Plus the fact that the scene from CA-TWS where Fury is attacked on the street after leaving the Triskelion that aired at the end of one of those episodes kind of firmly gives an anchor point to work from, as does the first 8-9 minutes of AoS 1x16 establishing as occurring not long before (maybe a day at most) the opening of CA-TWS.

The problem is where you have it placed in the timeline, everyone believes Fury is dead at this point. In fact, he's only just revealed himself to still be alive to Cap and Black Widow. And he's no where near the Triskelion. So the majority of this episode takes place even before Fury's 'killed' in the first act of Captain America The Winter Soldier.
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Again, you're not taking into account that much of SHIELD was infiltrated by Hydra at that point, and with Hydra about to make their power play, it stands to reason they'd be attempting to eliminate loyal SHIELD agents (after all they did just that in those episodes). It seems likely they'd have a Hydra agent lie and tell May that Fury was at HQ waiting for them, as a way to ensure Coulson and his team (staunch "Fury loyalists", if you will) come back to HQ so Hydra can take them out easily.

Later on in the episode Simmons and Fitz are on the phone, and while the phone is cutting out, Simmons (who is at the Hub at this point) says there's lots of commotion going on. I think we all assumed this was HYDRA beginning to reveal itself. I think this is actually the Hub receiving news that Cap has 'defected'. Right after he's fought his way out of the Triskelion. It would only make sense for SHIELD to send out a global alert on this.

What do you guys think?

I'm still watching the other crossover episodes so I'll let you know if I spot anything else to support this.
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I'm open to suggestions, but I spent days trying to make sense of the AoS/CA-TWS crossover and how it played out, and that's the best I could come up with. If you can find a better way of it fitting together, I'm all ears.
 
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Hey guys, what are your thoughts on the placement of the Agent Carter series? It opens with a few flashbacks, one of which is from the Agent Carter short. But there doesn't seem to be any references to it and so far I get the impression it's building up to her being recruited to Shield.
 
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Hey guys, what are your thoughts on the placement of the Agent Carter series? It opens with a few flashbacks, one of which is from the Agent Carter short. But there doesn't seem to be any references to it and so far I get the impression it's building up to her being recruited to Shield.
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It takes place in the time between Captain America: The First Avenger and Agent Carter (one-shot).
 
Hurricanebtvs said:
Hey guys, what are your thoughts on the placement of the Agent Carter series? It opens with a few flashbacks, one of which is from the Agent Carter short. But there doesn't seem to be any references to it and so far I get the impression it's building up to her being recruited to Shield.
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Most of the flashbacks were all scenes that originated in Captain America - The First Avenger, one of which (the scene with Peggy talking to Cap over the radio as his plane goes down in the Arctic) was then used in the Agent Carter one shot. However, there was a shot of Peggy kicking a goon through a window that was from the One Shot.

The showrunners have all said that the show happens before the One Shot (especially since the show has established Peggy as still working for SSR and the One Shot ends with her being recruited to form SHIELD by Howard and Dugan), so I'm guessing that scene was just a mistake or we're to assume it was a different mission than the one seen in the One Shot (which occurs later).

But as Wyo said:

wyokid said:
It takes place in the time between Captain America: The First Avenger and Agent Carter (one-shot).
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The order goes:

Captain America - The First Avenger (except the bookend scenes that take place in present day)
Agent Carter (TV series)
Agent Carter (One-Shot)

...exactly how the timeline itself has it laid out.




I'm in the process of adding the first two episodes (aired as the two hour premiere but its technically two different episodes).

A note:

I'm not breaking up the first episode's flashbacks for a couple reasons. One, its unnecessary, since those scenes have all been established otherwise (like the Cap place crash scene, etc). I'm treating them as memories (as they're presented in the show itself) Peggy is having, sort of reflecting on her life since the war ended.

Its a case of flashback scene versus a scene portrayed as a memory. While the flashback scenes actually occur in the past, the memory scenes are just memories of past events being remembered in the present by a character, thus not requiring any episode break up for those... however there is still time code break up based on the passing of days, since the newspaper seen at the beginning gives us a firm date to work from.
 
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Unfortunately, Agent Carter's first episode has already created a bit of a continuity gaffe...

The episode opens with Peggy reading a newspaper which gives the date as April 21, 1946. At around the 07:15 mark Peggy is eating dinner and reading another newspaper which shows the date as June 24, 1946 (this is still obviously the same day as the episode opening, both since Peggy is wearing the same outfit, and her roommate was complaining about feeling sick and is later seen sick in bed... doubtful she's been sick for two months).

Likely just the prop master not paying attention. I'm going to use the April 21 date, since that was presented first and more noticeably.
 
DIrishB said:
The order goes:

Captain America - The First Avenger (except the bookend scenes that take place in present day)
Agent Carter (TV series)
Agent Carter (One-Shot)

...exactly how the timeline itself has it laid out.
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Don't forget the flashback scenes from Agents of SHIELD, which go between Captain America and the Agent Carter TV series. But I think that's still in line with the timeline.
DIrishB said:
Unfortunately, Agent Carter's first episode has already created a bit of a continuity gaffe...

The episode opens with Peggy reading a newspaper which gives the date as April 21, 1946. At around the 07:15 mark Peggy is eating dinner and reading another newspaper which shows the date as June 24, 1946 (this is still obviously the same day as the episode opening, both since Peggy is wearing the same outfit, and her roommate was complaining about feeling sick and is later seen sick in bed... doubtful she's been sick for two months).

Likely just the prop master not paying attention. I'm going to use the April 21 date, since that was presented first and more noticeably.
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Where was Carter when she was reading the first newspaper? Is it possible that it was an old paper she had picked up?
 
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