Thread:Mister Explicit/@comment-24669364-20170310004014/@comment-24669364-20170513011012

I'm stepping into very minor science territory here - I'm no scientist, but I figure this is a minor plot hole in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (and spoilers for that as well, if you haven't seen it yet).

I get that some planets in our solar system - and beyond - have different time span-ratios on other planets (so on other planets, a day could consist of well over 24 hours), but if we are following the Earth timeline (or at least our timeline), a major plot hole opens up.

So Stan Lee's cameo is that he is an astronaut informing the Watchers about his experiences on Earth, particularly his time in Captain America: Civil War. Now, Civil War takes place in 2016. Guardians 2 takes place in 2014, yet Stan Lee is already telling the Watchers of an event that would happen in the future (or at least, the prophesyed "future" in 2014 terms). To put it in a nutshell, Stan Lee's astronaut character is telling of his cameo as a FedEx employee in 2016 telling to a group of Watchers in 2014. And of course we know the cameo scene is in 2014, since it follows immediately after the Escape from the Eclector.

You might just say "well, you'll never know when he was hired as a FedEx employee. He could have been hired in 2013, or something.". We know as of the events of Captain America: Winter Soldier that Stan Lee's character is a security guard at the Smithsonian. In Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man, he is a war veteran and a bartender. The chances of Stan Lee's "character" - this plot hole is clinging on the ideology that Stan Lee is an actual character - switching from a security guard (then travelling to Xandar) to a FedEx employee to a war veteran to a bartender then back to being a FedEx employee is VERY slim.

Although this does beg the question - will Stan Lee make a cameo in Spider-Man: Homecoming? The Watchers were apparently his lift back home, and if they just left him there, then perhaps no cameo... because he's stranded on some moon harboring the atmosphere of a god-knows-where planet.

Chances are that he will make an appearance, but speaking logically, that is another plot hole altogether: How did Stan Lee get back to Earth?