worldview setting is an extremely important part of film art. Generally speaking, whether it is a realist or a fantasy story, the setting types can be divided into three types:
1. Stories based on the real world, suitable for adaptations of real events, small character stories, etc.
2. A story completely out of the real world, suitable for dystopias, magical stories, etc.
3. Stories that "change" the real world, suitable for future imagination, large-scale stories, etc.
Almost all superhero movies belong to the third category, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
is in the MCU, and many things are the same as the real world, such as the popular hits of Xingjue, the video store that Captain Marvel passed by, the Second World War that Captain America experienced and so on. Another very important point for
is time. Before Iron Man appeared, the earth in the MCU was not much different from the earth in the real world, except for the unknown organizations such as SHIELD. When the Avengers Alliance is established, the MCU will completely separate from our real world, aliens invade, supernatural beings can be seen everywhere, extinction-level events are frequent, and the world is no longer the original world.
In "Captain America 3", Vision talks about a "calculation formula", which probably means that the more superheroes, the earth becomes more and more insecure. There may be some causal relationship between this.
Following this topic, we rearrange the MCU until the timeline of the 22 movies in "Avengers 4", and we can find a terrible statistic: the humans at
have experienced at least 7 extinction crises. Including two evil conspiracies of Hydra to dominate the world.
1940s: "Captain America: The Avengers Pioneer"
Event: The Red Skull Group collapsed
Captain America is still the earliest Earth superhero in the known universe. The main plot of the movie began with Red Skull’s discovery of the universe’s Rubik’s Cube in 1942. The Second World War ended in 1945.
If it were not for Captain America and his comrades to fix the Red Skull together, then humans will likely be ruled by Hydra, and the "framework" in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. becomes a reality.
1990s: "Captain Marvel"
Big Event: The Cree Missile Crisis
"Captain Marvel" became the second earliest film on the timeline, and the film has a precise time description. Captain Marvel gained superpowers in 1989 and was taken to the planet Kerry; in 1995, he unexpectedly returned to Earth to search for memories.
The earth, which was still very backward at that time, was unfortunately involved in the dispute between the Cree and the Scroo, and human civilization was almost destroyed by the Cree’s missiles.
2010: "Iron Man"
big event: Superhero enters the public eye
"Iron Man" is MCU's first movie, in terms of worldview setting, Marvel has made an extraordinary move. Although the plot is a relatively regular hero origin story, the classic line of the ending Iron Man broke the tradition that superheroes cannot "show their faces". At this time, MCU is completely different from other superhero movies.
just as the number of movies increased, various lines and subtitles showed deviations in the time description of "Iron Man". Finally, Marvel officially released an "official timetable", setting the time for Iron Man to announce his identity in 2010.
But the problem is still not solved completely. The subtitles can be wrong, but the characters' lines are the "realistic part" of the work and cannot be modified. These issues will be discussed together later.
2011:
"Invincible Hulk"
event: Harlem area event
"Iron Man 2"
event: World Expo event
"Thor"
event: "Destroyer Mecha" invasion event
according to the official prelude In the comic "Avengers Prelude: Fury's Important Week", the main plots of the three movies in the first phase of the MCU were set to occur simultaneously in a certain week in 2011, and the official schedule confirmed this setting afterwards. The three things
are not extinction levels, but they all threaten the lives of citizens. Among them, the crises of "Invincible Hulk" and "Iron Man 2" are triggered by the villain to challenge the superhero, corresponding to the vision the opinion of.
The alien invasion event in "Thor" directly led S.H.I.E.L.D. to restart research on the universe's Rubik's Cube (there may be controversial in the middle, and I will have the opportunity to say later) to make weapons to prevent alien invasion. As a result, the Rubik's Cube was activated. The energy was released, and Rocky was in trouble.
2012: "Avengers"
event: New York alien invasion event
has been collecting infinite gems for a long time, and asked Loki to find the activated universe cube, and then Nick Fury’s Avengers plan After restarting, a wormhole was opened over New York, and the Zetarians invaded vigorously. This is all right, the whole world knows about the existence of aliens.
2013: "Iron Man"
Event: Manchuria incident
After the Battle of New York, Iron Man suffered from PTSD. It happened that a terrorist named Manchuria was threatening the security of the world. Fate brought these two people together. The severity of the
incident has reached the highest alert level in the United States, because even the president has been involved. If Iron Man is defeated, the United States will fall into a more serious crisis.
2013: "Thor 2: The Dark World"
event: "Convergence of Celestial Bodies" event
Thor returned to Asgard after the Battle of New York, and his girlfriend Jane Foster accidentally found him in order to find his whereabouts Ether particles, one of the soul gems.
The dark elf leader Malekis noticed the energy of the etheric particles and rekindled the action to create a dark universe. If it weren't for Thor to stop it, not only the earth, but the nine kingdoms would be destroyed by the dark elves.
2014: "Captain America 2"
event: S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed
After the Battle of New York, Captain America helped S.H.I.E.L.D. perform various difficult tasks and adapt to modern life. However, he couldn't get used to SHIELD's work style, and always felt that it was a bad thing to have "secrets" among colleagues.
Sure enough, the shocking conspiracy of the Hydra organization hit S.H.I.E.L.D., if it weren't for the prevention of the US team and the Black Widow, it would be hard to say who threatened Hydra, including Iron Man and Doctor Strange, who is still a genius doctor. , Will it be killed by the "Insight Project".
No matter what, the collapse of S.H.I.E.L.D. has a huge impact on the MCU. Even if the American drama "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." tries to restore the existence of S.H.I. The plots of "2" and "US Team 3" are directly related.
2014:
"Guardians of the Galaxy"
event: Ronan event
"Guardians of the Galaxy 2"
event: Igo event
"Guardians of the Galaxy" series of two movies are released almost 3 years apart, but The story inside is not long apart.
The Guardian of the Galaxy was established because of Ronan’s crisis. Xingjue said that if Ronan is not stopped, the earth will be in danger. This statement is open to question, because Ronan provoked Thanos, and Thanos may have destroyed him before he went to Earth.
The real crisis of the earth is the Ego incident in "Guardians of the Galaxy 2". The severity of this crisis may be greater than that of "Thor 2". The planets planted by Ego will get GG, so there is no need to wait for Thanos. Take action to control the population.
2015: "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron"
event: Sokovia incident
after the collapse of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers shoulder the responsibility of maintaining the safety of the earth.
It’s just that Iron Man’s "Ultron Project" was messed up, triggering the Sokovia incident that threatened human civilization.
is different from S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers are not regulated. After such a thing, the public began to question the existence of this superhero organization.
2015: "Ant-Man"
big event: Pim Technology was copied
"Ant-Man" introduced the concept of quantum field and shrinking technology, the story happened after the Sokovia incident, the pattern is not big.
Thanks to the help of Scott Lang, the old Ant-Man Hank Pym kept his technology, otherwise the Pym particles would no longer be a secret.
2016: "Captain America 3"
event: the Sokovia agreement
After the Sokovia incident, the reorganized Avengers continue to be high-profile under the leadership of Captain AmericaTo maintain world security.
However, during an operation in Lagos, the United League accidentally bombed a building. Originally, the media that had been thinking about the reunion had hyped up, and the reunion was forced to sign the Sokovia agreement, and it was unable to reach an internal consensus.
The leak in the room happened to be rainy nights, and a terrorist named Zemo got in the way, which intensified the internal contradictions of the reunion.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Bureau is gone, and the Avengers are in name only. In fact, they are reduced to an underground organization and superpowers are strictly controlled. If there is another crisis similar to the New York incident, who can protect the earth?
2016: "Spider-Man: Return of Heroes"
minor incident: theft of reconnected equipment
Now it seems that the credits are seriously wrong, "8 years ago" should be "4 years ago." To be more serious, you have to ignore the props in the film about 2017 (just treat it as a "typographical error").
Four years after the New York incident, alien weapons have flowed into the black market. The fledgling Spider-Man, who wants to prove himself, investigates deeply and exposes the condor's theft conspiracy.
Compared with the MCU movies of the same period, "Spider-Man: Homecoming" can only be said to be a "small fight". On the contrary, the story line of Iron Man is more informative, such as the relocation of the headquarters of Fulian.
Around 2017: "Doctor Strange"
Event: Domam's invasion
The story of "Doctor Strange" has a relatively large time span. Strange stayed in Nepal for a long time before finally learning magic.
didn't expect that he had just started, the three sanctuary of the earth would be invaded, and Domam, who was more powerful than Thanos, would get the opportunity to invade the earth.
Although this extinction crisis has nothing to do with the reunion, stupid humans don’t know what happened, but the ending egg still points out a similar problem to the Sokovia agreement. Master Mordow believes that this is not Too many "superpowers" are to blame.
2017: "Thor 3: Ragnarok"
Event: Asgard's Ragnarok
"Reunion 3" prelude comics tie the story time of "Doctor Strange" and "Thor 3" together, Thor When Loki and Loki came to the earth to find dad, it happened not long after the Domam incident ended.
Thor encountered the greatest crisis of his life in Thor 3, losing his hammer, losing his father, and losing his home.
At the same time, he has finally grown into a true king.
2017: "Black Panther"
big event: Wakanda launches global cooperation
After the signing of the Sokovia agreement, "Black Panther" Techara became the new king of Wakanda. He returned to Wakanda for the coronation ceremony, but unexpectedly encountered an attempt by the unexpected guest Eric to usurp the throne.
During the internal struggle of Wakanda, Captain America, who broke with Iron Man, was out on a secret mission, so he was not involved in this "court struggle." The Winter Soldier who stayed behind at Wakanda succeeded in clearing the "bad memory" about Hydra after the dispute ended.
In addition, the new king also decided to share Wakanda's technology with the world, and the earth's technological level has achieved a great leap forward.
After 2018: "Avengers 3" & "Avengers 4"
big event: Thanos snaps event
Marvel's official "timetable" reset "Avengers 3" to 2017, but it is a role in the movie The line clearly stated that this was two years after the civil war in "Mei Team 3". The worldview of the movie should be based on the content of the work, and the lines that have appeared cannot be changed, unless you can only say that the character has a wrong memory or missed the word.
Phantom said in "American Team 3" that "Iron Man announced his identity eight years ago", but the official timetable was 6 years ago. This can be attributed to Phantom's "personal error". However, it is not a single character in "Reunion 3" that says "two years later", and the official timetable forcibly changed is very inappropriate. The main reason why
was revised to 2017 may be because the ending egg of "Thor 3" is immediately after "Reunion 3", and the story of "Thor 3" is set in 2017.
But in fact, the time of the tail egg is set to 2018 (it takes time for the spacecraft to sail to the earth, Loki does not necessarily ask Thor immediately), and then regards the "8 years ago" of Vision as a slip of the tongue, ignoring " Spider-Man: Homecoming" "8 years ago" subtitles, then the entire MCU timeline is very smooth, Iron ManIt is said that Thanos is his 6-year nightmare, and the above time and years are relatively accurate.
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