10 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About The MCU
5. The MCU Timeline Is Broken
When Spider-Man: Homecoming kicks off, it wastes no time confirming that it takes place eight years on from the Avengers' Battle of New York, which sets it in 2020.
Many have pointed out that this creates a huge continuity error for the Marvel Cinematic Universe as it suggests the events of Homecoming take place after this year's Avengers: Infinity War, which would make no sense.
There's a chance Marvel has been lackadaisical with its time-keeping, but the notion that the timeline is broken, as some are claiming, isn't true. The studio has never definitively stated that every movie it releases is set in the same year it comes out.
Establishing that Infinity War is set in 2020 or 2021 would solve the problem, and Marvel is planning to address any lingering uncertainty by releasing an official timeline for the franchise at some point in the future.
Worst case scenario, the powers that be have to do some light retconning, and it wouldn't be the first time. Tie-in comic series Fury's Big Week rejigged the MCU timeline so Iron Man took place in 2010, and it was no biggie.