Fall Asleep To The Entire MCU Timeline

The whole Marvel Cinematic Universe in the order the story happened to itself, from the Big Bang and Arishem to a week in April 2027, taking in Odin and Hela, Johann Schmidt and the Tesseract, Project Rebirth, the founding of S.H.I.E.L.D., Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, the Starks on Long Island, Carol Danvers in 1995, Gulmira, Puente Antiguo, the Battle of New York, the Triskelion, Sokovia, Lagos, Leipzig, the Red Room, Mount Bashenga, the Snap, the Blip, the Time Heist, He Who Remains and the Time Variance Authority.

00:00 Intro
01:51 A Number Written Twice
09:21 Before Anyone Was Counting
16:37 The Order Asgard Settled Into
23:40 The Wrong Question About the Ice
30:32 The Word Supposedly
35:37 Two Dates for One Beginning
44:46 Filed Under Joke
50:36 Two Thousand and Eight, or Ten
1:14:39 The Year Everyone Found Out
1:39:56 The Part People Remember As the Plan
2:11:36 Days, Months and Vibes
2:14:18 Counting Backwards
2:14:20 The Obvious One
2:14:22 Five Years, Give or Take Five Months
2:14:23 What the Fix Cost
2:14:25 One Line, Administered
2:14:26 The Section Headed Propaganda
2:14:26 Still Being Extended
2:14:27 A Week Written Out In Advance
2:14:29 Ahead Of The Story

Most timeline videos put the films in order and read the plots out. This one follows the dates themselves and asks who wrote each of them down, because the record disagrees with itself in dozens of places and every disagreement tells you something about the person holding the pen.

Along the way: the page that writes the same year two different ways within eighteen lines of itself, the organisation that can date your business to the hour and cannot date its own founding to the decade, the two careful sources that put the first film two full years apart and never reconcile, the caption that was wrong enough to make a studio publish an official chronology, the five years that are five years and five months, the heist that made the archive invent universe names and admit in its own voice that it had invented them, the encyclopedia section on the timeline police headed simply Propaganda, and a week in a year no film has reached that is ruled more tightly than most of the past.

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SOURCES
Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki (marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com), event, character, location and organisation pages, retrieved 6 September 2026. This is a fan-maintained encyclopedia. Dates, credits, names and terminology are taken from it; its plot summaries are written by readers, not by a publisher, and nothing in this episode treats them as an official statement.
English Wikipedia, articles on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, its six phases, Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige, retrieved 6 September 2026. Production history, release dates and the published timeline diagram come from here.
TV Tropes, Wild Mass Guessing page for the franchise, Wayback Machine snapshot of 12 November 2025.
Six cached press and reference pages, retrieved 6 September 2026, used only for production questions the encyclopedias did not answer.

CAVEATS SPOKEN IN THE EPISODE, REPEATED HERE
The year of the first film is not settled. One careful source says 2008 and another says 2010, both show their working, and this episode does not pick between them.
The published timeline diagram distinguishes events on the main line from events off it by colour. The text version used here has no colour, so the placement of one film could not be determined and is left open.
The five-year gap after the Snap is empty on the published chart of films. The fan record underneath it is not completely empty, and the episode says so.
There are no verbatim quotations in this episode. No transcript layer exists for this franchise, so every scene is described rather than quoted.

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