Spider-Man Mistake: 6 Years Later, Marvel Admits This Huge Homecoming Failure

We’re at the beginning of Spider-Man: Homecoming, the first part of the Tom Holland-led trilogy (the saga that now has an official name). Directed by Jon Watts in 2017, the feature film begins in 2012, days after the terrifying Battle of New York that raged in The First Avengers.

We see Adrian Toomsey’s character (the future Vulture played by Michael Keaton) recover scraps of Chitauri material that will later be used to create his flying exoskeleton. After the scene ends, a card appears on the screen that says “8 years later,” and the feature film takes us back to modern times, where Peter Parker lives his daily life as a high school student, full of superhero adventures in the sky. Manhattan.

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However, as MCU fans were quick to point out after the film’s release, the number of years on that elliptical cardboard box doesn’t hold up at all. Indeed, if 8 years had passed since Battle of New York (in 2012), Spider-Man: Homecoming would logically have been set in 2020, not 2016.

This big mistake, confirmed by Adrian Toomes’ line (which explains that he managed to evade the government for “8 years”), was recently officially acknowledged by Marvel between the pages of the book. Marvel Studios’ Marvel Cinematic Universe – Official Timeline (According to the site Direct).

This book, dedicated to the MCU timeline, mentions a mistake made at the beginning of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Via Miss Minute, a small TVA talking clock found in the last Loki series, which even attempts to justify this anomaly.

“Red Alert! Hello again! Adrien Toomes says the Battle of New York happened 8 years ago, but this event was only four years ago. This situation has been a real headache for us. I think the analyst misplaced the file”announces Miss Minute.

So we can conclude from this explanation – which humorously disguises the writers’ error as a TVA anomaly – that Homecoming takes place 4 years (not 8) after the first Avengers.

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