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There’s a Big Ol’ Timeline Retcon in Deadpool & Wolverine


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Granted, he could theoretically have used Cable’s time-travel device from Deadpool 2 to casually universe-hop, but it actually benefits his story if this isn’t the case since living full time in the Avengers’ shadow makes people consider him less of a hero. However, Spider-Man: Homecoming — which opens in the aftermath of The Avengers, a film set after Iron Man — jumps forward eight years according to onscreen text, in order to arrive at the events of Civil War. Mathematically, that doesn’t line up, and this eight-year gap has been even by Marvel president Kevin Feige, who explained that it will be sorted out in some official capacity (an eventual book on the MCU’s timeline went on to call it a mistake).

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