Thread:Quantum Endgame/@comment-37887317-20190404203537

I believe Avengers: Infinity War and Ant-Man & the Wasp should be set in June 2018. Here’s some additional evidence to support it:

I think it is possible for Thor and the Asgardians to have been traveling for months. They could have stopped somewhere like Vanaheim for supplies and likely dropped people off. Here’s why I theorize this:

When we see Thor and Loki in the end credits scene, we don’t see how many other people are on the ship at that point. Infinity War opens with Thanos immediately attacking the ship and slaughtering presumably everyone on board (we’re only shown a small fraction of people in that scene as well). Thor later mentions that Thanos only slaughtered “half” of his people, but it’s unclear what happened to the other half. If they escaped the attack, or Thanos let them go, then they would likely be adrift in space, and Thor would more likely be interested in finding them as his top priority. However, he not only makes no mention of this, but he also says “What more could I lose?” as if all of his people were dead or it didn’t matter. But if the other half of his people on the ship had already been dropped off at some point, then they wouldn’t be in immediate danger. Thor’s apparent apathy to their situation would be more reasonable, as they wouldn’t necessarily be in need of saving ASAP.

And Loki talking to Thor about whether it’s a good idea to go back to Earth doesn’t have to be right after Ragnarok either. People can bring things up whenever they want. Loki could have put off bringing up that uncomfortable fact for months (we know Loki’s not one to talk about his feelings). Thor's hair would have grown again, yes, but he could have cut it again. Maybe he found that short hair is easier to manage. Or maybe his hair takes insanely long to grow. Maybe that was why he was so devastated to have it cut.

So to clarify, Thor: Ragnarok would have happened in November 2017 (or earlier). At some point after that they could have dropped people off and got more supplies, and the end credits scene takes place in June 2018.

Regarding Agents of SHIELD, the machine saying December 6th 2017 isn’t necessarily guaranteed to be accurate. I say this because the Lighthouse is an extremely old bunker with dusty out of date equipment. It’s common for old clocks and computers to wind down over time and become inaccurate. Modern iPhones use satellites that do constant mathematical equations to account for their position around the world. Making sure a clock doesn’t get too fast or too slow is a process that requires periodic checkups, and the equipment in the Lighthouse has been abandoned presumably since the 70s. And it’s as old as the 70s, so it’s more likely to have gotten really slow to the point where it thinks it’s December 2017 when it’s really June 2018.

As for Coulson’s line about “Comfort and Joy,” that doesn’t necessarily confirm it’s around Christmas time. Coulson just spent a couple weeks in the future (a future without Day and Night), so his sense of time could be a little confused. He may also be going by the not-necesarily-accurate equipment in the Lighthouse. This also applies to his line about “All these months”. He knows it’s been a while, but he isn’t quite sure exactly how long they’ve been gone. Also, phrasing it like “all these months” puts clear emphasis on the fact that it was a long time. If it was only a few months, he probably would have said “a few months”. Coulson saying “All these months”, shows that he knows it’s been a long time, but he doesn’t quite know (or likely care) about the technicality of whether it’s more or less than 12 and if he should be calling it a year.

And Fitz being frozen could still be in Nov 2017.

There’s also a deleted scene in Infinity War where Tony mentions the date of his upcoming wedding as being “August 27th”. The wedding is clearly imminent, so Infinity War being in June would fit nicely.

Lastly, I believe the "2-year" time frame in Ant-Man and he Wasp is something that can't be sidelined. They are measuring his 2-year sentence to the day and that's a big part of the stakes of the movie. His sentence is almost over and if he gets in trouble now, his two years of waiting will have all been for nothing. If we assume he shortened his sentence, it kind of changes these stakes. He would be at the end of a shortened sentence, in which case he would have already been granted some slack. The urgency, while still existent, would be a little less than what the movie implied. Not to mention that if Scott did alter his sentence, that would definitely have been brought up, at least by Jimmy Woo. At the beginning, he probably would have said, "Really Scott? Breaking the perimeter now? We've been so nice to you. We even let you appeal to have your sentence shortened!"

So in conclusion, as per you guys' calculations,

Ant-Man and the Wasp should end on Wednesday, June 20th 2018

And Avengers: Infinity War should start on Wednesday, June 27th 2018. 