Thread:SwagMasterDbl/@comment-29362220-20171207164550/@comment-26838855-20180220220552

OK, that's fine. Winderbaum was the one who said that last time as well. Yeah, just has to be ignored, at least for now. We have stronger evidence that means there's no point trying to bend time and space to make them fit together. Plus, he doesn't say "They are happening literally concurrently". Thanks for checking that out.

I agree that I think they have Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, and probably Ant-Man and the Wasp all in 2017 by their reckoning, which is just wrong...

But, as always, we just give the best timeline we can to suit all the evidence that's currently out there.

I'm not actually sure they have dates per se for their films. I think they mostly just work in relation to other films, which would explain the actual date inconsistencies, and is how Feige likes things to be laid out. He talks about how they "don't like to date their films", even though it happens all the time. So while I think their timeline if they did adhere to dates would be... ... it's possible that they are completely throwing out all actual dates and are just going by the pure relativity to each other. Feige doesn't seem to think they date their films much anyway, and always has talked about the timeline in terms of relativity "like Star Wars", and talked about how the 8 years later would make sense on their timeline of relative dates "in a macro perspective". In that case, it's possible it just looks like:
 * December 2007 - Opening of Iron Man
 * May 2008 - "I am Iron Man"
 * November 2008 - Fury's Big Week
 * December 2009 - Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel's The Avengers
 * Between Late 2010 and Mid-2012 or Late 2013 (there's no answer that fully works even ignoring everything other than the films) - Thor: The Dark World
 * December 2012-January 2013 or December 2013-January 2014 (depending on if they abide by that newspaper) - Iron Man 3
 * October 2013 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
 * 2014 - Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
 * Summer 2015 - Avengers: Age of Ultron
 * 2015 or 2016 - Ant-Man
 * 2016-2017 - Doctor Strange
 * 2017 - Captain America: Civil War, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Ant-Man and the Wasp
 * 2018 - Avengers: Infinity War
 * Several months BIM - Opening of Iron Man
 * IM - "I am Iron Man".
 * 6 months AIM - Fury's Big Week
 * "A year after that," 18 months AIM - Captain America: The First Avenger
 * "Just over a year after FBW," 19 months AIM - Marvel's The Avengers
 * "6 months since Marvel's The Avengers," 25 months AIM - Iron Man 3
 * "2 years since Thor, about a year since Marvel's The Avengers" - 30-31 months AIM - Thor: The Dark World
 * "4 years before Captain America: Civil War, which, further down we have placed as 105-106 months AIM," 58 months AIM - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
 * "2014. Iron Man'' came out in 2008, so let's just say 6 years," 71 months AIM - Guardians of the Galaxy and 73 months AIM - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
 * "2 years before Thor: Ragnarok, which further down we have placed as 106 months AIM," 82 months AIM - Avengers: Age of Ultron
 * "6 months before Captain America: Civil War, which further down we have placed 105-106 months AIM," 100 months AIM - Ant-Man
 * "A few months before Thor: Ragnarok, which further down we have placed 106 months AIM," 101 months AIM - End of Doctor Strange
 * "8 years after "I am Iron Man" but also 8 years after Marvel's The Avengers which is 19 months later, so about 9.5 months AIM + 8 years," 105-106 months AIM - Captain America: Civil War
 * "About the same time as Captain America: Civil War," 106 months AIM - Thor: Ragnarok
 * "Just after Captain America: Civil War," 106-107 months AIM - Black Panther
 * "2 months after Captain America: Civil War," 108 months AIM - Spider-Man: Homecoming

If they have done it like that, that's very frustrating. This is not the Star Wars universe, set in a very different galaxy with its own worlds, this is a series which is set mostly on present day Earth, and so dates are a thing. Especially when you include the whole universe's content, not just the films. It's kind of lazy if it's been done like that frankly, and dismissive of all other content in the MCU.