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Marvelous 345678 wrote: It could have been Stark Expo 2010-2011... Remember there was a Stark Expo Poster saying that there would be one from 2017 to 2018.

It is very possible. Cap is found on the last days of 2011 and he is woken up in January 2nd 2012. It is the next year.

Please consider my option I of course consider your opinion! But there's no possible time jump in Iron Man 2. The Expo starts, then the next day is the senate hearing, the next day Tony gets back, and then there is a small gap of anywhere between hours to a few days before Pepper is appointed CEO. On that day, there is clearly "362 days remaining" of the Expo, putting it no more than a few days after the beginning of the "year-long" Expo, and then on the day of the Battle at the Stark Expo, there is "343 days remaining", so only 19 days between those dates. It is possible to extend that gap between Tony getting back and Pepper's appointment up to a few days, but the Monaco fight, which is within the 362-343 tight number of days, is shown on the MCU timeline to still be 6 months after "I am Iron Man", like the beginning of the film, so it cannot be more than a few days put in that gap.