MCU: 14 Things You Learn Rewatching Spider-Man: Homecoming

12. The Timeline Doesn’t Make Any Sense

Although the initial wave of Marvel movies all roughly took place in the same short space of time, ever since The Avengers, the timeline of the MCU has been an absolute mess.

Small details like Steven Strange being name dropped in The Winter Soldier (which apparently takes place before the Sorcerer Supreme’s own movie) have brought the timeline into question, and since then all bets have been off. At least, until Spider-Man: Homecoming established that all modern MCU flicks take place eight years after Loki's invasion of New York.

That cleared things up at the time, but since then it’s become obvious that Homecoming’s time-jump has only made matters even more confusing. In their eagerness to shoehorn Spidey into the MCU (look! He was the kid from Iron Man 2! That makes things less dumb probably!) Sony and Marvel ended up putting their foot in their mouth, to the point where Infinity War is ignoring the timeline altogether.

It doesn’t take anything away from the movie itself, but it does sort of make its relationship to the wider Marvel universe a bit awkward.