Marvel Cinematic Universe - Timeline

I'm excited to see what timeline fun Damage Control gives us. There's an opportunity after almost every movie (Ant-Man was pretty clean and GotG wasn't on Earth) to tie-in with some clean-up. Obviously it should have it's own story line, but why not both?

I've had the thought that the TV-to-film ratio is getting ridiculous with so many shows in the works, but that thought's always followed by "THIS IS AMAZING."

On another note, someone had said that the CW Prelude comic is just adaptations of IM3 and TWS, but it's a four-issue series. I imagine issues #3 and #4 will be original content like we've seen for most films so far.
 
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dsethlewis said:
I'm excited to see what timeline fun Damage Control gives us. There's an opportunity after almost every movie (Ant-Man was pretty clean and GotG wasn't on Earth) to tie-in with some clean-up. Obviously it should have it's own story line, but why not both?

I've had the thought that the TV-to-film ratio is getting ridiculous with so many shows in the works, but that thought's always followed by "THIS IS AMAZING."
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I'd imagine after both Avengers films will have loads of possible stories to deal with. T: DW already had a clean up episode in AoS so that won't really be touched on I'd think.

As for the ratio, got to remember the number of films in phase 3 is double the amount in either phase 1 or phase 2. So while there will be a lot more tv shows there are a lot more films too. There will have to be an end to some of them eventually though, only AoS can really keep going indefinitely I'd say. The others would have to end at some point to allow for new tv shows to be made
 
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dsethlewis said:
I'm excited to see what timeline fun Damage Control gives us. There's an opportunity after almost every movie (Ant-Man was pretty clean and GotG wasn't on Earth) to tie-in with some clean-up. Obviously it should have it's own story line, but why not both?

I've had the thought that the TV-to-film ratio is getting ridiculous with so many shows in the works, but that thought's always followed by "THIS IS AMAZING."

On another note, someone had said that the CW Prelude comic is just adaptations of IM3 and TWS, but it's a four-issue series. I imagine issues #3 and #4 will be original content like we've seen for most films so far.
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Each adaptation is always two issues.
 
I think that the first two issues of Captain America: Civil War Prelude are adaptations of the Iron Man 3 film and the second two issues are adaptations of the Captain America: The Winter Soldier film.

From the December 2015 Marvel solicitations:
THE ROAD TO CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR BEGINS WITH THESE OFFICIAL ADAPTATIONS OF THE SMASH HIT FILMS IRON MAN 3 & CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER!
Synopsis for #1 & 2 (of 4): When THE MANDARIN strikes at the United States with a series of deadly terror attacks, IRON MAN must take action! But can TONY STARK handle the pressure when he has his own demons to face?

Plus, the second half of the synopsis for the remainder of the series: And when Captain America encounters an assassin named the Winter Soldier, he joins forces with Black Widow and Falcon to uncover a deep seated conspiracy in their very midst! It's spy versus spy as the fate of the country hangs in the balance!

Release Dates
Issue #1: 12/16/15
Issue #2: 12/23/15
TPB: 04/12/16

It's pretty great to get the two-issue Iron Man 3 adaptation, as the adaptations usually only come out right before the release of the sequel to the film that is being adapted (such as The Avengers Adaptation comics coming out right before the Avengers: Age of Ultron film). With no new Iron Man movie on the future releases list, it would be difficult to follow that pattern.
I wonder if we might finally get an adaptation for The Incredible Hulk right before Thor: Ragnarok.
 
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wyokid said:
Each adaptation is always two issues.
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freshmaker said:
I think that the first two issues of Captain America: Civil War Prelude are adaptations of the Iron Man 3 film and the second two issues are adaptations of the Captain America: The Winter Soldier film.

From the December 2015 Marvel solicitations:
THE ROAD TO CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR BEGINS WITH THESE OFFICIAL ADAPTATIONS OF THE SMASH HIT FILMS IRON MAN 3 & CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER!
Synopsis for #1 & 2 (of 4): When THE MANDARIN strikes at the United States with a series of deadly terror attacks, IRON MAN must take action! But can TONY STARK handle the pressure when he has his own demons to face?

Plus, the second half of the synopsis for the remainder of the series: And when Captain America encounters an assassin named the Winter Soldier, he joins forces with Black Widow and Falcon to uncover a deep seated conspiracy in their very midst! It's spy versus spy as the fate of the country hangs in the balance!

Release Dates
Issue #1: 12/16/15
Issue #2: 12/23/15
TPB: 04/12/16

It's pretty great to get the two-issue Iron Man 3 adaptation, as the adaptations usually only come out right before the release of the sequel to the film that is being adapted (such as The Avengers Adaptation comics coming out right before the Avengers: Age of Ultron film). With no new Iron Man movie on the future releases list, it would be difficult to follow that pattern.
I wonder if we might finally get an adaptation for The Incredible Hulk right before Thor: Ragnarok.
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And that's what I get for trying to do anything with a 26-hour sleep debt. I read Part 1 and Part 2 as Issue 1 and Issue 2.
 
From the January 2016 Marvel Solicitations:

MARVEL'S CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR PRELUDE #3 & 4 (of 4)
THE ROAD TO CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR BEGINS WITH THE OFFICIAL ADAPTATION OF THE SMASH HIT FILM CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER!
• When CAPTAIN AMERICA encounters an assassin named THE WINTER SOLDIER, he joins forces with BLACK WIDOW and FALCON to uncover a deepseated conspiracy in their very midst!
• It's spy versus spy as the fate of the country hangs in the balance!

Release Dates
Issue #3: 01/06/16
Issue #4: 01/27/16
 
freshmaker said:
The canon was just getting easy to sort through as to what was and was not official, but I've seen a couple of things brought up over the last month or so where some official word on the canon like we were getting before with the comics would really come in handy. Someone in the past seemed to have some good luck tweeting with some of Marvel's people, and they responded item by item stating whether a certain comic was canon or not.

When the WHiH videos started coming out, more questions were raised as far as if these videos are considered canon, and if previous short videos set in the MCU were canon as well. The following is a list of everything I could find (mostly from a list compiled by /u/bflaminio on the /r/marvelstudios subreddit):
Stark Expo 74
Stark Expo 2010
Stark Expo 2010: AccuTech
Stark Expo 2010: Cordco
Stark Expo 2010: Fujikawa
Galaxy Getaways
Meet Darren Cross
WHiH Newsfront Promo
WHiH Newsfront Top Stories
WHiH EXCLUSIVE: 2012 VistaCorp break-in security footage involving cyber-criminal Scott Lang
WIRED Insider Interviews Darren Cross, CEO of Pym Technologies
WHiH EXCLUSIVE: Scott Lang Interview

I can see different sides to whether people think these are canon, or fit as canon, or work in some kind of head canon. What I'm really looking and hoping for in this post is to: a) gather in one place the comics and videos that I have seen most discussed as far as their canon goes; and b) look for anyone who works for Marvel or anyone who knows who to talk to at Marvel to clarify officially their canonicity. I think wyokid was talking with Will Corona Pilgrim about MCU canon back in 2012, and I believe Aztlan was also getting some responses as recently as 2014. In February of 2015 in a Comic Book Resources article, we once again saw Will Corona Pilgrim talk about "in canon" versus "inspired by".
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I've been trying to cover all these promotional video's and more for a while now. And posted my findings on the following pages:
Stark Expo 2010
Ant-Man: Promotional Campaign
Galaxy Getaways
Rising Tide: Promotional
Fitz-Simmons Armory
Daredevil: Red Thread
Corporate Advertising

The Stark Expo video's are actually just a part of what seems to be an in universe website for the Stark Expo. The only thing that doesn't seem to add up is that the Expo took place in 2011 and not 2010 as stated on the website and video's.
The WHiH video's are part of a larger campaing, involving Google+ and twitter posts from WHiH, Darren Cross and Pym Tech. It also includes article written on the websites Mashable and Wired. All of this seems to tie-in with the MCU.
The Galaxy Getaway video doesn't seem to tie in. As the whole website of this travel agency uses pictures from the main characters out of Guardians of the Galaxy. The video about 'Meet Darren Cross' seems to be more of a trailer than an tie-in.
A website from the Rising Tide posted some video's aswell, which could be easily considered a part of the MCU. I wouldn't consider the Red Thread and Fitz-Simmons armory an tie-in of the MCU. There are also a lot of video's cocreated by Marvel and other brands, as shown on the Corporate Advertising page. I wouldn't consider these canon.

Finally there is also a Nelson and Murdock Law website. I think we can expect here more later this year.

But it would certainly be nice to get official confirmation as to what is canon and what not.
 
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AoS 3x05 is going to have as many lines in the timeline as the rest of the timeline.

Have fun people.
 
freshmaker said:
AoS: The Chase is not
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Hey DIB

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wyokid said:
Hey DIB

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Until we had concrete word, I kept it in to be safe. Now I can be rid of it.

As you know the "red stamp" explanation isn't perfect. I suppose all the print comics over the past few years that are MCU canon have had them, but the digital/infinite MCU comics that are canon haven't had them, and wasn't The Chase originally a digital comic? Hence my reasoning for including it (as well as it blatantly stating it occurred after a specific AoS episode).

Nice to have word on it. I'd ask about the Jessica Jones comic being canon, and while Bendis said it was, he may not have the final word on what is or isn't canon to the MCU even when he writes it. I'd wager it is absolutely canon, besides just being written as a canon tale... but so was AoS The Chase and many other non-canon tales, difference was we got official word on what was and wasn't canon up to a certain point, which left lingering questions about The Chase specifically since it came out after the last real bit of any "what is or isn't MCU comic canon" answers from Will Corona Pilgrim.
 
Can any one link me the source to telling whether the following are or aren't canon?

Iron Man: Fast Friends
The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files
Nick Fury: Spies Like Us
Iron Man: The Coming of the Melter
 
Basicly all the comics with an official tie-in stamp are canon. Some comics didn't had this stamp untill it was bundled in a TBH. The only comic which doesn't have a stamp but is considered canon by many, is the Jessica Jones one with the Netflix logo.
 
Donutman said:
Basicly all the comics with an official tie-in stamp are canon. Some comics didn't had this stamp untill it was bundled in a TBH. The only comic which doesn't have a stamp but is considered canon by many, is the Jessica Jones one with the Netflix logo.
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Well the infinite comics are also canon but don't have the stamp. And three of the four that I listed have not been published since the advent of the stamp so they were pre-stamp. So I was just seeing if there was a source for excluding them from canon as I have yet to find one.
 
Donutman said:
Take a look at page 5 of this thread. Will Corona Pilgrim confirms on twitter what is canon and what not.
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Ah, I see where he confirms certain comics. He doesn't explicitly rule out Fast Friends, Fury Files, or Spies Like Us but more or less does so by omission...
 
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