A Marvel Cinematic Universe fan, who definitely seems to be a binge-watcher, has created a detailed graphic explaining the entire MCU timeline, guiding everyone into the multiversal events and the inter-dimensional stories that have crossed over into the main MCU afterEndgame. The updated timeline has taken the events ofWhat If…?andSpider-Man: No Way Home, both of which have expanded the stories told in the MCU films and have adjoined them with new sets of events that are branched from the original timeline, occurring in an entirely different universe. The timeline also includesLoki, which actually went beyond time and gave the MCU’s “sacred” and shared continuity whole new inception.
TheRedditpost includes the time branches connecting to the oldest of events in the MCU films and cleverly connects all of them to the new ramifications in those stories caused by the introduction of the Multiverse concept in the franchise. Here’s acloser lookat the said post:
It’s pretty comprehensive, the updated timeline, made more readable by the symbols, and the attached index that gives a glimpse at the branching timelines and explains the rationale behind these crossovers. What makes it crazier is the inclusion of Sam Raimi’s and Marc Webb’sSpider-Manfilms, as well as the adjunct Sony’s Spider-Man UniversethatSpider-Man: No Way Home crossed overwith, all comprising seven films outside the MCU with another one,Morbius, awaiting release.
Besides,What If…?andLokigets a more stretched and complex, episode-wise inclusion in the updated timeline, as both the shows played an essential role in creating these branched universes, eventually opening up the multiverse in the MCU. WhileLokicut open the multiversal branches,What If…?gave us a glimpse at howknown MCU events have changed in those branched realities. What’s interesting is how the Redditor has left hints to the arrival of Kang in the franchise, which will further clear up the confusion of these intersecting stories. The timeline, however, has kept the non-Disney+ series out of the main timeline, keeping them at the outskirts of this shared continuity.
LokishowedJonathan Majors as He Who Remains, a variant of Kang, an evil conqueror of inter-dimensional realities, who is now about to cause cataclysmic shifts in the original MCU timeline. He explicitly tells Sylvie and Loki,
You came to kill the Devil, right? Well, guess what? I, keep you safe. And if you think I’m evil, well. Just wait till you meet my variants. And that’s the gambit. Stifling order or cataclysmic chaos.
And withSpider-Man: No Way Home, we know howopening up of portals across the multiverse can be chaotic, and it’s just going to get complex withDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessandAnt-Man and The Wasp: Quantumaniawhen they will be ready to have their place in this new timeline. Time is a much more intricate subject in the MCU as it “works differently” than what cinematic fiction has depicted it earlier and as the franchise gets bigger, now with multiple television productions adjoining, the MCU would need more attention to grab hold of its events.
