Marvel Cinematic Universe - Timeline

[DIrishB]

Few minor updates. Will be doing some major updates in the next couple weeks, once I get a chance to sit down and watch the Thor DVD and break it up into chapters. Also, going to be adjusting the placement of Incredible Hulk to overlay its events as occurring around the same time as Iron Man 2 and Thor (to make sense of the scene at the end of Iron Man 2 where the events of the Hulk fight at the university are shown). The Consultant short helps to kind of make more sense of the timeline there.

 

[Frapalino]

On the Captain America bluray there is going to be another Coulson short, this time he is on his way to Thor's hammer after the end of Iron Man 2.

 

[DIrishB]

On the Captain America bluray there is going to be another Coulson short, this time he is on his way to Thor's hammer after the end of Iron Man 2.

Yup, I've got it tentatively placed right at the end of Iron Man 2, beginning of Thor.

And while I'm a bit pissed I have to buy a Blu-Ray player to fulfill my completist mentality, I have to give it to Marvel Studios and their marketing department. The Marvel One-Shot short films starring Coulson was a very smart idea (filming these shorts on a limited budget--lets be honest, they can't cost much--but forcing people to buy the Blu-Ray to see them...very smart).

 

[Frapalino]

They aren't available on itunes? They should use these films as commercials, not as a way to make money. They should be used to generate buzz and introduce characters that they think might have the ability to be the lead of a show or film. After they have 5 or so shorts, then collect them and sell that. Do like Pixar and DC animation, have shorts before their films.

 

[DIrishB]

Updated with the Thor DVD chapters. Still need to do some re-arranging for the ordering of the overlapping DVD Chapters for Iron Man 2, Thor, and Incredible Hulk, just to make sure the chronology is accurate. Also need to do some adjustements related to The Consultant short in relation to the final scene in Incredible Hulk (with Stark and Ross at the bar).

 

[Captain Canuck]

for those of us too cheap/not obsessed with completion enough to buy the bluray, here's the Consultant short.

[video=youtube;Jbx1k9gj5Xk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbx1k9gj5Xk[/video]

 

[DIrishB]

for those of us too cheap/not obsessed with completion enough to buy the bluray, here's the Consultant short.

[video=youtube;Jbx1k9gj5Xk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbx1k9gj5Xk[/video]

Heh...I'm surprised Marvel hasn't forced them to take that down due to copyright issues.


EDIT: Nevermind, they did take it down. However, it can still be seen over on Twitvid:

Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant

 

[Captain Canuck]

yeah, i didn't expect it would last very long. But I got to see it, so I'm happy.
It certainly isn't worth buying the BluRay/DVD combo pack over though (in my mind at least, to each his own DiB). If I was going to buy the BluRay anyway it would make a nice little extra, but I'm glad I didn't spend extra money just for that.

EDIT: it's not down, the embedding is just disabled (for now).

 

[DIrishB]

yeah, i didn't expect it would last very long. But I got to see it, so I'm happy.
It certainly isn't worth buying the BluRay/DVD combo pack over though (in my mind at least, to each his own DiB). If I was going to buy the BluRay anyway it would make a nice little extra, but I'm glad I didn't spend extra money just for that.

A large part of me agrees with you. I've been putting off getting a Blu-Ray player for years now, sticking with DVDs for two reasons: DVD quality is more than good enough in my opinion in terms of visuals, and the price of Blu-Rays (usually between $25-30 or more) is about twice the price (on average) of DVDs.

However, I've noticed a continuing trend of less and less special features on DVDs, most being reserved for Blu-Ray or some sort of Ultimate Edition DVD (Lord of the Rings - Extended Editions, Watchmen - Complete Story Edition, etc).

But, as said, my completist tendencies are prompting me to want that short, meaning I have to buy the Blu-Ray. Same with Captain America DVD (unless they release the next One-Shot on the DVD as well, but I doubt that).

DVDs are slowly being phased out. When DVDs first came out, I held back and stuck with VHS (mainly because my already huge movie collection at the time was all VHS), but around 10-12 years ago VHS pretty much stopped coming out altogether. I expect the same to happen to DVDs within the next few years. I figure I may as well jump on the Blu-Ray bandwagon now, even if a part of me is under protest.

EDIT: it's not down, the embedding is just disabled (for now).

Really? I even went to the link before and it said it was down due to a Marvel / Disney copyright. Weird.

 

[Captain Canuck]

A large part of me agrees with you. I've been putting off getting a Blu-Ray player for years now, sticking with DVDs for two reasons: DVD quality is more than good enough in my opinion in terms of visuals, and the price of Blu-Rays (usually between $25-30 or more) is about twice the price (on average) of DVDs.

Yes. To all of that.

However, I've noticed a continuing trend of less and less special features on DVDs, most being reserved for Blu-Ray or some sort of Ultimate Edition DVD (Lord of the Rings - Extended Editions, Watchmen - Complete Story Edition, etc).

Which is super annoying. Seriously.

DVDs are slowly being phased out. When DVDs first came out, I held back and stuck with VHS (mainly because my already huge movie collection at the time was all VHS), but around 10-12 years ago VHS pretty much stopped coming out altogether. I expect the same to happen to DVDs within the next few years. I figure I may as well jump on the Blu-Ray bandwagon now, even if a part of me is under protest.

I think they're trying hard to make the shift totally over to Blu-Ray, but there are still a lot of people who buy DVDs. I really feel like Blu-Rays are naturally a niche market and the studios (or whoever) is trying to force consumers to make the switch. You can see the strategies, Blu-Ray DVD combo packs, not putting almost any special features on DVDs, etc. But as you said, the picture quality isn't different enough to justify spending that much more money. If and when the shift comes and DVDs are no longer made, I'll by a Blu-Ray player, but I won't re buy my DVDs on Blu-Ray, and I'll stick with DVDs until then. And then several years later, when the main market is in downloads and streams instead of physical copies, we'll do this all over again.

Really? I even went to the link before and it said it was down due to a Marvel / Disney copyright. Weird.

Yeah, it's still there on youtube.

 

[DIrishB]

Updated for thread to completely and accurately place the overlapping events of Iron Man 2, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant, and tentative placements for ending scenes of Captain America: The First Avenger and Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer. Also did a bit of re-arranging for some of the associated tie-in comics.

Also deleted Captain America - Sentinel of Liberty (iPhone Game) (because it ends with Cap and Bucky taking down the Red Skull on his Bomber together, a different version of events from the Cinematic's version of Bucky dying earlier and Cap taking down Skull on his Bomber later on) and the other iPhone tie-in game Thor - Son of Asgard (though I may bring this back later on depending on the events of The Avengers next year, but its doubtful... this all depends on how Loki's return is handled, due to his also returning in Son of Asgard--the events of The Avengers will trump those in Son of Asgard).

EDIT: Also, some timeline placement stuff regarding the actual month placements for Iron Man 2, mainly: on the Iron Man 2 DVD, its said by Favreau that IM2 begins about 6 months after IM1. Specifically, the prologue scene of IM2 with Vanko's father dying happen concurrently or immediately after Tony reveals himself to the world as Iron Man in the very ending of IM2. These all occur specifically in May, 2008 (its specifically shown in IM1 that this is the date, with IM1 starting in Feb 2008 and spending about 3 months in captivity by the 10 Rings terrorists).

Favreau's 6 month later date for Iron Man 2 is all well and good except for one thing: the Monte Carlo race. This occurs in May of each year (unless we assume the MCU's timeline is slightly altered from our own, but I think my solution is both simpler and more logical for a couple reasons).

My solution is that from about the end of May, early June, Vanko begins work on his own knock-off Arc Reactor and gets it working around that time, June, maybe July 2008 (or a little later)...Vanko isn't quite as skilled as Tony as evidenced by Tony's comments abuot cycle rotation when speaking to Vanko after his capture at the race, so it stands to reason it took him a little longer to get his arc reactor working, and also maybe a bit longer for him to complete the exo-skeleton and whips (putting us into fall or late 2008 ). Six months from there is May, 2009, which coincides with the Monte Carlo Grand Prix.

This also helps make more sense of the placements of Thor and Incredible Hulk, since the seasons shown in those movies tend to reflect more spring or summer than winter or fall.

The End for now... until Cap is released on DVD and Blu-Ray with the next Marvel One-Shot: Funny Thing Happened... and their corresponding updates.

Enjoy!

 

[DIrishB]

Updated to include Captain America - The First Avenger (AAFES Special #11), a comic story set in the MCU, written by William Harms and illustrated by Shawn Martinbrough. It was a special free issue made available to US Soldiers through Exchange stores.


This link gives more info on the Captain America - The First Avenger (AAFES Special #11) issue

 

[Captain Canuck]

Heh...I'm surprised Marvel hasn't forced them to take that down due to copyright issues.


EDIT: Nevermind, they did take it down. However, it can still be seen over on Twitvid:

Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant

Now it is down on youtube. But it's still up on twitvid as you said.

 

[wyokid]

If someone made a fan edit of this, I would faint.

 

[DIrishB]

If someone made a fan edit of this, I would faint.

If I had the software to do it, I totally would.

 

[Captain Canuck]

Something Funny Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer:
[video=youtube;3tjwLv1VWrw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tjwLv1VWrw[/video]

 

[DIrishB]

The new Marvel One-Shot: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer", available on the Captain America Blu-Ray and DVD (apparently the DVD will carry it too instead of only the Blu-Ray like was done with Thor and The Consultant, at least according to a few online sites), can be seen on Superherohype.

Not sure how long it'll stay up, but its linked to Twitvid (where The Consultant short is still up), so just search for it there if the link isn't working.




Also, updated for this short. Since it didn't involve any scene-splits, it was an easy one. Will update for the Cap DVD next week when its released.

 

[Grocer Man]

Coulson rocks.

 

[Spoon_Wielder]

I've actually been working on a chronological order fan edit. I found your timeline when I was doing some research.

 

[DIrishB]

I've actually been working on a chronological order fan edit. I found your timeline when I was doing some research.

Nice! When you finish, if theres anyway you could post a link (or links) it would be much appreciated.

 

[Captain Canuck]

i agree, that would be sick

 

[Spoon_Wielder]

I would but it's about 10 hours long, and I have no idea where to post it without getting into some major legal issues

 

[Spoon_Wielder]

If you guys have any ideas where I can post it, I'm all ears.

 

[DIrishB]

If you guys have any ideas where I can post it, I'm all ears.

You could always post it as a torrent.






Also, got the timeline updated (re-watched Captain America this weekend to split up the chapters), just need to post it here (should have it up by this weekend).

 

[wyokid]

I would LOVE that

 

[DIrishB]

Updated for Captain America DVD and all its chapters. The timeline is as complete as it can be until Avengers comes out.

 

[Spoon_Wielder]

Hey guys, the fanedit of the movies is almost done. But I need help thinking of a name for it. Any ideas?

 

[DIrishB]

Hmmm... good question. The official title of the universe is Marvel Cinematic Universe (but thats kind of boring). Maybe something that ties it to the Avengers ("Road to the Avengers"...?). Or just a mash-up of all the film titles (Captain America, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, Incredible Hulk)?

 

[Frapalino]

This is going to be fun to watch. Maybe "Avengers Assemble: Supercut"?

 

[wyokid]

I'm missing like 6 comics and that bugs the crap out me!