Thread:BEJT/@comment-27496405-20170830154244/@comment-26838855-20171025234500

Saw Ragnarok. Had a blast. Not perfect, no, but so much fun.

They mention a couple of times that it has been 2 years since Age of Ultron, and there's no other references to a number of years. There's a minor thing that's mentioned that must have happened between Sokovia and the ending of Age of Ultron. Also, time flows differently on Sakaar (seemingly faster, but not with linear correlation of speed). I'd definitely recommend going by the timeline of Asgard, which is in line with the timeline of Earth, and from Asgard I'd say it's probably about a week. I think Heimdall says something in the middle of the film about it having been days, though I can't recall the exact quote. That will be a bit weird-looking on the actual timeline. Maybe like the Framework, some sort of sub-system.

There is also a time gap between the events of the film and the scene that is presumably set just before Infinity War, but it could have been hours or it could have been a year, it's very hard to say.

Overall, I would usually just say sure, real time. Why not? Works fine for our timeline, it would be 8 months after Doctor Strange (it does seem like he's had a bit of time to improve some skills), 4 years after The Dark World as Tom Hiddleston said, and 2 years after Age of Ultron, as well as working with a small time gap to Infinity War. Except, Feige specifically used this film as an example against real time. "And I think there's a presumption, "Well if the movie came out in November 2017, it must take place in November 2017" - which is not the case." So it would be a bit weird to just go ahead and place it in real time. All the same... I don't know. Completely ignoring real time and purely going by the evidence that has been given to us - 4 years after Loki took the throne in The Dark World on November 14, 2013, taking us roughly to September 30, 2017 for the start of the film, and 2 years after Sokovia on May 6, 2015, taking us roughly to May 25, 2017 for the middle of the film. Considering that has more weight as it's direct dialogue from the film, I guess that would overall give us about June/July 2017? I'd need to sit down and do the maths and be able to write down exactly how many days are spanned and things. But yeah, summer 2017 I guess. I don't know, it'll probably all be thrown out by the "official MCU timeline" in a few months anyway.