9 Movie Plot Holes Confirmed By The Creators

6. The Timeline Mistake - Spider-Man: Homecoming

The Plot Hole

Early on in Spider-Man: Homecoming, a title card indicates that the bulk of the film takes place eight years after The Avengers' iconic Battle of New York.

And yet, given that The Avengers takes place in 2012, this would place Homecoming as transpiring in 2020, some four years after Captain America: Civil War (set in 2016), which clearly isn't the case. So, what gives?

The Confirmation

Numerous parties have since come out and acknowledged that this date was wrong.

Avengers: Infinity War co-director Joe Russo called the stated time jump "a very incorrect eight years", while co-producer Eric Carroll said of the timeline, "It will be a little off. There will be some awkward chronology in that the movie comes out almost two years after Civil War, but we’re playing it like it’s a few months after Civil War. It hasn’t been years since Tony called him back. It came down to one of things we wanted to do was keep him in high school as long as possible."

In the fallout of all the confusion, Marvel Studios honcho Kevin Feige also came out and assured fans that an official canon timeline would be released in the near-future, and that it was last year.

The timeline confirmed that Homecoming indeed took place in 2016, a few months after Civil War. And with that, relief...