10 Things The MCU Wishes It Could've Done Differently
2. Avoided All Those Timeline Issues
For a good chunk of the MCU's first decade, everything about its timeline seemed to be in order. It was relatively easy to line the movies up in chronological order and understand which events were taking place when, but all of that has started to fall apart over the last several years.
For some baffling reason, the team behind Spider-Man: Homecoming incorrectly placed an "Eight Years Later" title card after the film's opening sequence, which suggested that the main events of the movie took place eight years after the Battle Of New York. The problem here is that the Battle Of New York took place in 2012's The Avengers, and Homecoming released in 2017: it should've been "Five Years Later".
Winter Soldier, Civil War, Infinity War and Endgame co-director Joe Russo later confirmed that this eight-year time jump was "incorrect", and all this confusion prompted Marvel Studios to release an official MCU timeline in 2018. But this didn't help matters, and in fact, it caused more puzzlement than Homecoming's initial gaffe.
The timeline states that Civil War takes place six years after Iron Man, despite Vision mentioning that, in the former film, it's been eight years since Tony announced himself as a superhero. Apparently, Black Panther now takes place in 2017, a year after Civil War, despite T'Challa watching a news report that states it's only been one week since T'Chaka's death - which happened in Civil War. Oh, and Doctor Strange supposedly went from a surgeon to a powerful sorcerer in just one year. Huh?
Setting up a timeline sounds quite easy, but the MCU got it so, so wrong, and you have to imagine that Marvel Studios is kicking itself over these continuity-breaking errors.