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Let's make a Marvel movie timeline!

Fist McStrongpunch

Fist McStrongpunch

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Ok, lemme start this off by saying I know that officially the different film franchises are in totally separate continuities. I don't care. If that's all you have to say, then go away, you bore me. I just want to see if we can fit them into a common continuity anyway. You know, for fun.

So, these films:

X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men
X2: X-Men United
X-Men: The Last Stand
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Daredevil
Elektra
The Punisher
Punisher: War Zone
Ghost Rider
Fantastic 4
4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
The Incredible Hulk
And the upcoming Avengers-related movies too if you care to speculate
Also Blade movies if you care.

I'd like to include Ang Lee's Hulk as well but it just can't be done.

So, does X-Men's mutant hysteria come before or after the people of NYC embrace Spidey and the F4? Is OsCorp's exoskeleton project an attempt to replicate Stark's Iron Man suit?

Might I suggest that the more mundane films (Punisher, Daredevil, Elektra) happen before most of the stories of well-known mutants, mutates, and the like.

Known connections:
Stark Industries made Magneto's plastic prison.
Stryker was photographed with Von Doom.
JJJ says there's already a Doctor Strange.

LET'S DO THIS!
 
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:p I made the conscious decision to start at the beginning of the current comic movie fad, which I placed either in '98 with Blade or '00 with X-Men.
 
Fist McStrongpunch said:
So, these films:


X-Men
X2: X-Men United
X-Men: The Last Stand

So, does X-Men's mutant hysteria come before or after the people of NYC embrace Spidey and the F4? Is OsCorp's exoskeleton project an attempt to replicate Stark's Iron Man suit?
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Remember that these movies take place, as the first X-Men movie indicated, "In The Near Future".
 
Fist McStrongpunch said:
Known connections:
Stark Industries made Magneto's plastic prison.
Stryker was photographed with Von Doom.
JJJ says there's already a Doctor Strange.
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Also, there is a file on a computer desktop labled "Franklin Richards" in X2. This actually supports the "X-Men movies take place in the near future" hypothesis.
 
Fist McStrongpunch said:
Known connections:
Stark Industries made Magneto's plastic prison.
Stryker was photographed with Von Doom.
JJJ says there's already a Doctor Strange.
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Also, a folder on Franklin Richards was seen on Stryker's computer screen in X2. So the F4 movies would have to take place quite a while before X2.

EDIT: What are the odds?

EDIT 2: I just had a thought. How many of the movies actually give us enough information to pin a specific year? XMO:W ends in 1979, as the Wolverine/Deadpool battle at the nuclear plant was clearly meant to be the X-Men version of the 3-Mile Island incident. Of course, given how Scott appears to be a teenager in that movie, the other X-Men movies can't take place that far into our future.
 
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Chris3123 said:
XMO:W ends in 1979, as the Wolverine/Deadpool battle at the nuclear plant was clearly meant to be the X-Men version of the 3-Mile Island incident. Of course, given how Scott appears to be a teenager in that movie, the other X-Men movies can't take place that far into our future.
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Does it say it's 1979? If it doesn't, it could be the 90s in that world.
 
Fist McStrongpunch said:
The Punisher
Punisher: War Zone

I'd like to include Ang Lee's Hulk as well but it just can't be done.
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Neither can The Punisher or Punisher: War Zone.

Neither have anything to do with each other, so it's one or the other.
 
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"The Incredible Hulk" takes place during "Iron Man 2" because you can see in Fury's office footage of the Hulk attacking the military outside Betty's university.
 
Shazam! said:
Chris3123 said:
XMO:W ends in 1979, as the Wolverine/Deadpool battle at the nuclear plant was clearly meant to be the X-Men version of the 3-Mile Island incident. Of course, given how Scott appears to be a teenager in that movie, the other X-Men movies can't take place that far into our future.
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Does it say it's 1979? If it doesn't, it could be the 90s in that world.
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I think if this timeline is to work, we will have to accept that the Marvel movie timeline utilizes the same "sliding timescale" concept that the comic universe uses. After all, IM2 takes place six months after the first movie, despite being released years later. So, obviously, the sliding scale is in effect.
 
Shazam! said:
Chris3123 said:
XMO:W ends in 1979, as the Wolverine/Deadpool battle at the nuclear plant was clearly meant to be the X-Men version of the 3-Mile Island incident. Of course, given how Scott appears to be a teenager in that movie, the other X-Men movies can't take place that far into our future.
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Does it say it's 1979? If it doesn't, it could be the 90s in that world.
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The writers had Stryker's facility located on 3-Mile Island, and had a battle occur just outside said facility that messed up the nearby plant. It's so obvious it was meant to be the 3-Mile Island incident, which occurred in 1979. They didn't give a year when they were fighting in Vietnam, but that doesn't mean the war could have been going on in the 80s.

And even if it wasn't exactly 1979, it certainly wasn't the 90s. Unless the 90s in this universe looked like the late 70s/early 80s.
 
Admiral_Young said:
"The Incredible Hulk" takes place during "Iron Man 2" because you can see in Fury's office footage of the Hulk attacking the military outside Betty's university.
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Maybe not during, but at least after. I would imagine that S.H.I.E.L.D. are studying that footage very closely.
 
War Zone is the better of the two. It's completely ridiculous though.

The Punisher has a decent fight scene with the Russian but that's about it. The rest is prancing about with fire hydrants and calling people gay.
 
Since X-Men came out in 2000 , I would say the near future would be about now. That could put Scott as bieng a teen between 90-93 and that is still a streach. You would have to put X-Men around 2005 which is still putting Origins at late 80s early 90s. I would just give the writers a bit of a pass and asume that the X-Men do not age like we do. Ang Lee's Hulk dosent even deserve to be mentioned. I'm assuming all the rest is happening within a few years of each other. Iron Man and Incredible Hulk is the same timeline. I'm assuming that Spiderman is already in existence. The problem is that a lot of these movies involve New York, so the FF and Spidey are not aware of each other and niether is the population. Don't know how that works. One thing Can be sure the rest of the movies will be interconnected. With Spidey bieng rebooted it's hard to say where that will fit. I would definately say that the hatred for Mutants comes in a few years after all is said and done. That probably would put X-Men:Last Stand around 2012 omg! It is the end of the world.
 
We may just have to accept that the Marvel version of the Three Mile Island incident happened later than it did in our universe. Unless Scott is about 45 in the movies it just doesn't work out.

Anyway, I agree with the poster who placed the X-Men films at about 2010. Place the others around 2000-2008 or so and have Wolverine end in about 1992ish and I think we can make this work. That would make Scott about 33-35 in the movies. Much more reasonable.

Punisher, Daredevil, Elektra are all self-contained and very limited in scope. They could go pretty much anywhere, but I think placing them in 2000-2002, near the beginning of the costumed hero fad, is best.

I'm more interested in when the Spider-Man, Fantastic 4, and Avengers-type films take place compared to one another. I keep coming back to the idea that the Oscorp and Quest exoskeletons are attempts to replicate Stark's Iron Man tech, just as Hammer and other organizations were shown to be doing in IM2. Or should Spider-Man come earlier?

Then of course there are issues such as where are the other heroes while Spidey is battling Sandman, or when the F4 are chasing down the Silver Surfer. Should we just assume that the absent adventurers were otherwise engaged, maybe?
 
^ Well how does it work in the comics universe? I've read a few Marvel universe comics but not loads.
I never really get how many superheroes does NY even need? Spider-Man, Daredevil, Fantastic 4, the X-Men are nearby. Maybe in the 70s Taxi Driver era when NY could be a dangerous place, but nowadays post Giuliani there can't be that many purse grabbers for Spider-Man to look out for (an element of the Kick-Ass comic I enjoyed that he finds it hard to actually find any crime)

Plus why do people hate mutants like the X-Men, and yet love freaks like the FF and Spider-Man?
 
Honestly, I'm not a superhero comic guy. I like the movies a lot, but I'm just not really interested in the comics. But what with it seems about half the Marvel heroes based in NY, I assume that yes, they just handwave it by saying the other guys are too busy dealing with their own bad guys to get involved.

As for why there's all the mutant-hatin happening in X-Men, maybe after all these incidents with Sandman and von Doom and the Abomination and others, the populace just decided that it really wasn't a good idea for people to have these dangerous superpowers.
 
Fist McStrongpunch said:
Honestly, I'm not a superhero comic guy. I like the movies a lot, but I'm just not really interested in the comics. But what with it seems about half the Marvel heroes based in NY, I assume that yes, they just handwave it by saying the other guys are too busy dealing with their own bad guys to get involved.

As for why there's all the mutant-hatin happening in X-Men, maybe after all these incidents with Sandman and von Doom and the Abomination and others, the populace just decided that it really wasn't a good idea for people to have these dangerous superpowers.
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My thoughts exactly on the mutants.
 
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