7 Recent Movies With Gaping Plotholes You Never Noticed

7. Spider-Man: Homecoming Breaks The MCU Timeline

Spider-Man: Homecoming marked a triumphant return for the wall-crawling superhero and successfully integrated him into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but not without screwing its timeline eight ways from Sunday.

The movie's intro sequences introduce Adrian Toomes and explains why he has a bee in his bonnet about Tony Stark and the government. It's set in the aftermath of the Battle of New York from the original Avengers, or 2012, if you prefer numerical terms.

The action then spider jumps to eight years later, which some quick arithmetic reveals to be the year 2020, but the film was a little hasty with that time leap and failed to take the bigger MCU picture into account.

Spider-Man: Homecoming couldn't possibly take place in 2020 since Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige had already revealed that Peter Parker's next outing in Avengers: Infinity War will be set in 2018 by that point.

The MCU timeline spiralled out of control somewhere between Phase 1 and the launch of the TV universe, but this Homecoming plothole makes it almost as broken as X-Men movie continuity, which can at least lay the blame on time travel.