Spider-Man: Far From Home causes yet more problems with the official MCU timeline on Disney+. The MCU's Spider-Man films have been associated with a number of continuity problems in the shared universe, with Spider-Man: Homecoming incorrectly claiming it was set eight years after the events of The Avengers - when in fact it was just four years later. That prompted Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to suggest Marvel should one day publish an official MCU timeline, an idea that ultimately became part of the MCU's offering on Disney+.

The Disney+ timeline is widely considered broken, however, and Spider-Man: Far From Home is making matters worse. The film has been added to Disney+ in some international territories, beginning with Japan in June. Viewers who refer to the MCU in chronological order will see it has been added between The Falcon & the Winter Soldier and Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings, which would set it in spring 2024 in the MCU timeline. This can't possibly be correct, because the film tells the story of Peter Parker's summer vacation to Europe.

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Far From Home Makes Disney+'s Broken MCU Timeline Worse

Peter crying in Spider-Man Far From Home

Spider-Man: Far From Home is being added to a section of the Disney+ timeline that was already incorrect. Dialogue in The Falcon & the Winter Soldier explicitly sets the Disney+ TV show six months after Avengers: Endgame, which would mean it takes place in late April and early May 2024. The end of Shang-Chi occurs on the day of Qingming, a Chinese festival that takes place in early April. The Disney+ MCU chronology has clearly put those two entries back-to-front, and now Spider-Man: Far From Home - a summer vacation movie that claims to be eight months after Avengers: Endgame - has been placed between them. That whole section of the timeline is clearly wrong.

Where Spider-Man: Far From Home SHOULD Go In The MCU Timeline

There are many occasions where the MCU timeline is a matter of interpretation. Moon Knight, for example, contains few explicit clues to its placement - although, appropriately, some attentive viewers have noted the phases of the moon can be used to date the show. The placement of Thor: Love & Thunder is particularly problematic, and there's intense debate over how Thor's latest adventure fits into the MCU timeline. What is surprising, though, is that the section of the timeline containing Spider-Man: Far From Home is actually one of the easiest to figure out.

Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings must come first, simply because it builds to a climax in early April (probably on April 4, the date of Qingming in 2024). It is then followed by The Falcon & the Winter Soldier, which explicitly dates itself in late April or early May, six months after Thanos' snap was reversed - an event confirmed many times to take place on October 17, 2023. Spider-Man: Far From Home would come next, beginning another two months after the Blip and telling the story of Peter Parker's summer vacation. This part of the MCU viewing order is one of the most clearly-defined, but the very incorrect placement of Shang-Chi is made worse by putting Spider-Man: Far From Home before it. Marvel has made changes to the Disney+ timeline before now, swapping the order of Black Widow and Black Panther, so hopefully they'll eventually put Shang-Chi in the right place too.

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