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I quite like the use of Miss Minutes to cheekily address continuity errors. There's a great section where she comments on the infamous eight years later from Homecoming.

I’m so happy that Marvel finally made everything in the timeline clear, and that Disney+ finally has everything 100% accurate and are willing to change it if they find something is wrong

I love how there are different colored branches to represent different points in time and that Endgame didn’t exactly break the sacred timeline yet!

I'm so happy that after waiting so much we have a Timeline book, but now we also need a multiverse book 😂 I was surprised to see Miss Minutes in the book, it's almost like the TVA wrote the book 😳 I really loveeee your breakdown timeline/book videos, thank you for doing them 😊

I was really hoping they would touch upon who the Presidents are in the MCU timeline officially. I feel like Marvel Studios deems that situation not necessary due to it not being a major focus. They really try to avoid politics in this.

I tend to go with what is official canon, so I feel pretty good about most of this. Sad to see that the comics, Sony movies, and the old shows are brushed under the rug, but I figure there would be extra hoops to jump through so they stuck with Marvel Studios projects only. Bit of a bummer, but I’m glad to have what we got!

To quote Deadpool, "These timelines are so confusing" 🤣🤣

14:34; we’ll he needed time to heal after 2/2/16. He didn’t just break his hands, he got all those cuts, and other injuries that required lots of time to heal. Then, he had to go to physical therapy. Then he tried various experimental and expensive surgeries that essentially drained him of his money. So yeah, seems like a pretty long time. Great video, as always!

I wish they clarified how the multiverse works exactly. Like what’s the difference between timelines, branches and universes? Also how Loki, Spider-Man NWH and DrStrange MoM fit together because it seems like they all have differences in how the multiverse works in them

For months we all said that if the TV shows weren't in this book, they weren't canon. Now we've got the book, we know the shows aren't in it, and we're still hesitating to make a judgement. I think we can't keep pushing the line for MTV recognition. The last time Kevin Feige acknowledged them as canon was when his boss was Perlmutter, and he simply had to accept the television shows as they were because he had no input in them. That's changed now, and it's clear that if anything from those shows are in the new MCU, it will be an invention

Great job my guy this book is really exiting, I'm glad you're making vids on it!

Love this channel and the effort/enthusiasm you put into each video :) I think once Deadpool is introduced they should do a series of shorts called ‘Loose Ends’, where Deadpool kills every character in the MCU they have no intention of returning to (like 616’s Baron Mordo, Scorpion from Homecoming etc)

I ultimately think it being canon if only in a multiverse sense(and not to the sacred timeline) is better than not being canon at all. I don’t think they want to say it’s all canon because a common complaint for the D+ show is that they feel like homework. Now imagine adding 5+ show with multiple seasons may be a bit overwhelming to the average viewer. Their good but it’s still a lot for ask for a lot of people. Idk. TLDR; watch them because it’s fun cannon or not.

This is absolutely amazing keep up the great work can’t wait to see more 🔥!

I just want to fast forward to 5 years from now to see how much the MCU evolved

Can’t wait to get this book myself, I’m glad it appears that there is some kind of plan.

i like that you guys are so still supportive about all the other shows 🤣 AOS fans are very dedicated

The video I've been waiting for!!! Thanks for your hard work!

Been waiting for this!!!

I got to get this. Definitely a Christmas gift. Glad we have clarity on the timeline. I hope theres a volume 2 that puts the Fox Xmen/ Fox Fantastic 4, Sony Spidermen timelines, and see how all those movies fit once we get to Secret Wars. Because they are technically "Canon" to the MCU. Great video. To me, the Netflix shows will always be canon. They fit in to well.

While I will definitely cry about the continued ambiguity towards Marvel Television, at least Fury’s Big Week was further canonized, which gives me hope for other supplemental materials.

Wow this is really great stuff !! You really do put in a lot of time to understand the nitty gritty of the MCU. Very pleased to have come across your channel. With my way of following you tube videos I listen I really don’t watch them. I have my ear buds in and I’m working (with with my business for about 2 or 3 hours a day or while doing yard work or whatever) & your videos are great for that. Thank you

oh wow ive been waiting for this video 👀im so happy its out!!!

Good video. It's great the Disney+ timeline adapted itself a bit to go inline with the book. Honestly I expected Werewolf By N. to happen in the past, maybe not a distant one because they have some sort of morden tech, but didn't expect it to happen in 2025... I don't know what will happen to the canon of the Marvel Netflix shows, but AofS is probably just in a different timeline to the sacred timeline. Not only they keep ignoring what happen in the show, Ms Marvel closed the door to inhumans in 616 universe I guess and Secret Invasion was a great oportunity to bring the agents back but in the show isn't clear if SHIELD is a thing in the present.

I will find it funny if Kang was the author

Most chill and sane Marvel video creator. Definitely a sub

I love ur vids they are so helpful!! Keep it up!!! ❤

You, my friend, had single handely made me very hyped for the book. I can't wait to get a copy

Kevin Feige said recently that all movies and shows made by other companies ARE CANON to the MCU MULTIVERSE

Been watching your timeline breakdowns, I love that you basically predicted everything that the timeline book established! Fantastic review, hoping to get my hands on this book! 😍

Love the prediction video you did, excited to see if you’ll do a vid discussing what you got wrong or the interesting choices they made. Keep up the good work!

Makes sense. They went with the coloured version because that’s the one that’s canon.

Thank you so much for the book, my copy came today! Watching your videos is always a highlight of my week, keep up the good work.

Finally I've been waiting for you to get your hands on this

Awesome video, loved the questions you posed

I'm confident that the What If? Entry once again confirms that it's all multiverse and there's no complicated timeline shenanigans. Nothing changes after Loki, it's always been multiverse. It all makes sense when you accept that these "branches" are just universes straying from the desired timeline of the TVA. There's no contradictions, no logical gaps, no paradoxes, no complicated timeline magic that causes constant confusion with every new bit of information. At 10:27 you can't confidently state that Loki causes new timelines and NOT universes, there's no evidence for that other than an interchangeable word, timeline/universe. I beg of you to find me something official that debunks the idea that it's all just multiverse. and NOT just someone referring to a universe as a timeline, that happens all the time, they're interchangeable. That's the whole point, except a timeline IS A universe, it is NOT a mystical meta-physical thing that does and does not exist at the same time and eventually turns into a universe. It is just the descriptive term for a universe, or a set of universes that follow the same series of events. Just to be extra clear, if you want to debunk it and take what I'm saying in good faith, and consider that your interpretation may be wrong, then look at anything you find about timelines and just swap it with the word universe, and see if it still fits within my multiverse theory. It's so much more simple, and has no evidence against it.

For me i personally don't think the pre disney plus shows aren't canon to MCU timeline but will probably be referenced via the multiverse

This was a great video. Ima sub.

I still cannot comprehend you only having 10k subscribers. I subscribed around 5-6k. Your MCU commentary and questions makes me consistently come back and check if a new video has dropped. I have recommended this channel to all of my friends and family who are MCU fans. Keep up the good work man!!

Have you had a chance to check out Werewolf by Night in Color yet? I'd be interested in seeing if you picked out any extra details from it now that color is highlighting things. For instance I noticed how Elsa has a strip of hair highlighted red. We couldn't see this in the original black and white version (or at least I didn't notice it on her when the color faded in at the end.) So that would be a cool video showing details we missed now that Werewolf by Night in Color has released.

I think it’s clear Agents of shield and Daredevil are a branch timeline that’s very similar to the main mcu

I am loving these mcu videos by you, cant believe youre not one of the big breakdown channels, I really wish I woulda been watching you back when WandaVison came out

The shield part is probably the easiest to answer lol. They just reconstructed it. Thought it was a no-brainer

#1: That they waited until *today* to change the D+ timeline is pretty messed up (the Shang-Chi mistake was still there when the sequence of the book leaked a couple months ago, which means they should've known about _before_ then, but there was no change then either). #3: Like you said, this book is about the Marvel _Studios_ output. And you mentioned "A Funny Thing" is missing; what about the other one-shots, and I Am Groot? (Feige is also playing fast-&-loose with the term "sacred timeline", which is used here differently than it is in Loki.) I agree that it should take a crystal clear declaration to remove the old shows, since he originally *made* crystal clear statements that AoS was in the MCU (m5e39EbGc1w&t=56s) and that the Defenders Saga took place in the same continuity as the films as well (NYnQnNerddA&t=1095s). #12: It was so obviously fall (whether 2023 or 2024) that it was utterly baffling when the writers said it took place near the time of Falcon & Winter Soldier. #15: The April 2025 placement actually still works with the moon phases; Geekritique confirmed that. The bigger issue is that it's thematically tied to Love & Thunder.... #17: ....which really *should* be June 2024, not because of his time with the Guardians, but because of the *very* precise statement on how long it had been since Thor & Jane broke up.

So if the What if episodes take place in separate universes and at the same time those universes are all branches of the Sacred Timeline... That would mean that "timeline" and "universe" are just two different words for the same thing. Timeline= universe.

Always a great time watching your videos

I just imagine he who remains sitting at his desk watching the timeline and every time something interesting branches out (Spiderman-Storys, Agents of Shield etc.) he tells the TVA to let it go, grabs a bucket of popcorn and binges the whole thing before integrating it in the timeline the way he wants. He has nothing else to do so he might a well enjoy the stuff we enjoy.

i personally think universes and timelines are in bubbles, universes are each unique in ways where changes differ majorly, impacting the entire flow of that 'universes' future and timeline, where as timelines are changes in that universe that would still lead to similar enough if not the same future events as the universe the timeline branches from, thus being in a bubble. i feel that also sticks perfectly to what he who remains did, and cut off all other timelines/universes from his own, he kept his own bubble off on its own, so the only timelines that branched in the "sacred timeline" would lead to the same major future events in time. (for example thanos or specifically what he who remained cut off for, no kangs) the sacred timeline going haywire at the end of Loki S1 i feel has that slow overtime effect that just seems sudden, like small events over years or centuries on one timeline cause it to split and grow in all different directions, but looking at the timeline as the blew threads it is, makes it seem like it just suddenly splits from one major event instead of each timeline changing bit by bit, one by one overtime slowly until they would converge with another "universes" splitting timelines, thus creating that connection between timelines/universes needed for kangs or more to become active in "our" timeline thats my personal belief of the mcu multiverse and "timelines", hope it makes sense!

you know your timeline is confusing when you release a whole book to explain it😂

Honestly, I hope they d a massive book after Avengers: Secret Wars and go through EVERYTHING Marvel, definitive declare what is and isn't canon

Finally I’ve been waiting on this book to come out and you to break down the timeline you’re the best at what you do

Old ass steve shows up to the Wakandans a year before infinity war. Maybe he even introduced himself to them in private years ago. Anyways, he asks for a shield, because the world is gonna need a captain america, and he wants to give it to falcon. They make him a shield and then he waits, gives the shield to Sam, heads up to the moon.

By mere nature of Steve going back in time with Peggy makes that a branched timeline.

Also nice finally hearing the book mentioned the years that we know the movies were set, but haven’t been mentioned

Super excited for this one... you've hyped this book up a lot

Nice breakdown again :)

Great video! 👍

15:10 My favorite theory is that old cap has actually already lived through the events of secret wars and the shield is what he used during that time. Then after SW he goes back to that point in endgame and gives Sam the shield. I hope that’s true lol

Great video! The new book seems like it will clarify some events but still leave some questions unanswered. Still excited to check it out.

Let’s go!!!!! Have been waiting forever as well

I think timelines and universes are the same thing. It’s just easier to think of them that way. Marvel themselves seem to be using the terms interchangeably. You mentioned how u don’t think 838 is a branch but I think it is as well as all the other pre-MCU marvel movie universes. The explanation is that the branch happened a lot further back in time and branched perhaps 100s of times subsequently creating a vastly different universe to 616. Say for example a branch occurred in 1568 and kept branching and branching and branching; who knows how different technology, cityscapes, society etc would look by the year 2015 for example? Also i think that accounts for vastly different looking variants or variants being born at different times like with Peter Parker

I'm glad I found this channel. You have answers I've been looking for😂😂

this video needs to go viral

Very nice recap!

Wow, the fact they put Shang-Chi before TFATWS is actually awesome!

I think from all this, my only gripe with the timeline is old Captain America. Only an hour and a half before we see him, we see Prof. Hulk talking about how traveling back to the past does not change their current present yet here we are. I do remember reading somewhere that the decision for old Cap's appearance was more of an emotional decision than a rational one so it can work out if they don't bring him along. Kudos to you for this whole video series on the timeline. It was a huge task and you tackled it very thoroughly and brilliantly. Very enjoyable. Have a great one! Edit: also, i love that Miss Minutes is like a mini villain in the book itself with all these slippery bananas she keeps chucking at us 😂

It's cool that they're finally officially nailing this stuff down. The book looks very comprehensive. I'm looking forward to getting it, even though I'm going to have to wait on purchasing it for a while!

i LOVE that i have this video and all your videos on the timeline book cuz that makes my decision on which book to choose IF i win your october contest MUCH easier😂 The Reign of Marvel Studios it is! the timeline book would make a great coffee table book but seeing as you (and others) provide me all the necessary details i want to know about, no need to get it for myself😂 thanks!!

Nice video ..💯❤️🔥

The book is freakin great and it’s the CURRENT and OFFICIAL say-so on the MCU timeline.

I think a key factor in determining whether or not Steve lived on the sacred timeline or on a branched timeline after joining Peggy, is that throughout both seasons of Loki, we see the TVA traveling to both the sacred timeline and to various branches, and not once are we led to believe that the TVA showing up branches the timeline. They do like to keep their presence relatively hidden, but there are also times where that is unavoidable, and their presence is very evident. But still no branch. So, we can assume that people merely traveling TO a timeline/universe don't cause enough damage to branch it, and that branches only occur if significant changes to the timeline occur, such as the events seen throughout the What If...? episodes or Loki escaping during 2012. Which means we can presume that the Avengers went back to their own 2012, in the Sacred Timeline, until the timeline branched off when Loki escaped, because he was obviously supposed to go back to Asgard with Thor. And that, because Steve placed all the Infinity Stones back to the time when they were taken from, no branches occurred. Except, however, for 2014, as Thanos and his entire ship traveled to the future and never returned to the past. So there exists a timeline where Peter Quill never meets Gamora, and the Avengers never face off against Thanos. And it is to THIS timeline where Steve would have placed the power and soul stones back into. Edit: The new shield Steve gave to Sam is still ultimately unexplained, but it could have come from Wakanda if What If...? S2 E2 is anything to go by.

love the video

Great video

This video made me question even more stuff about the MCU Timeline. I am glad they could answer the movies/show timeline placement, but now i wonder about the smaller stuff such as the history, as u stated, the U.S Presidency timeline and etc

If Steve did go into the past in the sacred timeline, maybe Peggy kept quiet, but one version of here did tell someone else and that is the Peggy look-a-like from Loki. Also, Peggy knew Howard Stark, who made the shield, so maybe she came up with an excuse to get Steve his shield.

It’s about time they made this! Just mad I didn’t get to first 😂

so excited to pick this up

dope!!

I'm of the mind that every "universe" is a branch of the sacred timeline. But I imagine something changing much early in history for Tobey's Spider-Man movie to happen. Like no super soldier serum in the 40s.

It will be interesting to dive deeper into these book with more videos. I'm happy it addresses some questions we had and it's unfortunate that is ignores the other ones. I'm especially bummed at the Marvel Tv situation. I hope they give us a proper answer soon because I'm tired of living in this limbo of "we make some connections but we won't confirm anything".

That's awesome

Oh boy yeah, it's finally here. I really need it

Mine should arrive this evening. Super stoked

Awesome 🤩

I finally subscribed

I think if a branched timeline contains something that was meant to be, it fractures into its own universe. For instance, Peggy was just as qualified as Steve to be the super soldier, so it stands to reason that the branching of an Agent Carter timeline could be so powerful that it becomes its own universe. I could be totally wrong, but as a lifelong comic nerd this is the best explanation I can come up with given everything we have to work with!! I know it’s not necessarily running on MCU rules, but I think something similar is happening in Spiderverse; theoretically, if Miguel’s logic is correct, then either Miles’ universe or Universe 42 should’ve long since ceased to exist. The timeline where Miguel had a happy family wasn’t fated to happen so it imploded, but the timeline where Miles became Spider-Man was fated to happen even though it involved multiverse shenanigans so it stayed intact. While Spiderverse and the MCU probably don’t intentionally run on the same logic, I still find it a probable explanation. What do you think?

10:30 In Marvel Comics, alternate timelines are a type of alternate universe. The MCU likely uses the same classification.

Great analysis as always! These conversations really help us understand the MCU much better, as it can be seriously complicated at face value, and I'm a proper MCU stan, so that says a lot 😅

hey! big fan, this book looks awesome

I just think it’s crazy they made a book of the timeline with how uncertain so many things were/are. Wouldn’t think they’d want to try to lock it in like that, but I like the effort I guess

You are still in the continuity in my heart Agents of Shield

I am impressed how much the Book answered. Even when it just gave an "half-answer" it still helped. So it exceeded my expectations.

Great analysis, I hope I win the contest, I would really like to get this MCU Timeline Book!

Another thing to keep in mind with respect to the pre-Disney+ shows is that while they take place in the same continuity, they were always separate from the "Phase" or "Saga" systems. _Inhumans_ was not a "Phase Three" show, and _Luke Cage_ was never part of "the Infinity Saga". There also are obviously things that happened in the MCU that won't be covered in the book if they're not relevant to the grander narrative; that could include anything from real-world historical events to backstory details that logically must have happened to disconnected stuff that happened at street-level. Plus, of course, an MCU timeline that covered _everything_ that happened in the MCU would be like 80% Marvel Television stuff.

I feel like the branched timelines off the sacred timeline were always different universes, that's why he who remained called it a multiversal war

As a huge inhumans + agents of shield fan the mcu always feels like a slap in the face i do 100% believe though that at one point feige was going to reintroduce A.O.S into the disney + side of the mcu but those shows and their productions flopped and now... well 💔

Waiting for a long time about learning different timelines of MCU..

Awesome video

Man, I've got a lot of thoughts about this timeline. First off, I think Agents of Shield is best thought of as a branched timeline. I feel like it works a lot better if Coulson actually dies in the sacred timeline since he is never mentioned again, and it has a better impact. Bringing him back makes a great nexus event to become a branched timeline, so I think that's the best way to look at it. However, the Defenders shows really have no reason to NOT be in the Sacred Timeline. They are all pretty self contained stories and their canon does not interfere with Marvel Studios at all. They also help flesh out New York in a post-Avengers timeframe which is nice. I like to think that the Defenders saga ends right before the blip, which is why we have unresolved plotlines regarding Iron Fist, Luke's control of Harlem, and Bullseye. Regarding Phase 4... man I really think it just works better rejecting the official timeline haha. I've always preferred Loki, Eternals (taking place mere days after Endgame, I like the 5 years ago line from Ajak since it implies Thanos spared Earth from the celestial birth, which I think is a cool concept), WandaVision, Shang-Chi, FatWS, Thor: Love and Thunder (I just see no way that Thor was with the Guardians for a year and a half, plus there is the whole growth of Groot issue), Moon Knight, Spider-Man: FFH, and Spider-Man: NWH. Then I actually move Multiverse of Madness from Fall 2024 to Fall 2025. I personally think it works better to have NWH lead right into Hawkeye since they both involve Christmas (I know the majority of NWH takes place in November, but I find it very strange for Doctor Strange: MoM to occur immediately after. They have completely different costumes, and I think it works better if some time has passed between multiversal events, especially since the ending has Strange going to deal with incursions. Plus, to be honest, I really like having Daredevil and Kingpin in back to back projects. The only real issue is that makes it two years instead of one for Wanda to be corrupted by the Darkhold, but I can live with that since in real life it was like a year and a half between releases) Then obviously we have Wakanda Forever in Spring 2025, followed by She-Hulk and Ms Marvel. We'll have to wait and see if Secret Invasion takes place before or after Ms Marvel until after The Marvels, but it's definitely somewhere in Fall 2025. Then we have Multiverse of Madness, Werewolf by Night, and Guardians Holiday Special at the end of 2025. This is followed by Quantamania and Guardians 3. I realize my version of the timeline is a little bit all over the place, but it makes the most sense to me and makes me happy. Feel free to leave your thoughts! And as always, great video!