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Where is Spider-Man: Far From Home in the MCU timeline?

By Leah Smith

Peter Parker(TOM HOLLAND) is stopped by an Italian Customs Officer (GIADA BENEDETTI) in Columbia Pictures' SPIDER-MAN: ™ FAR FROM HOME.
Peter Parker(TOM HOLLAND) is stopped by an Italian Customs Officer (GIADA BENEDETTI) in Columbia Pictures' SPIDER-MAN: ™ FAR FROM HOME. /
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Spider-Man: Far From Home is set to become the twenty-third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So where does it fit into the ever-growing MCU timeline? Luckily, it slots in right at the end after Avengers: Endgame.

Note: This post will contain major spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. It will remain spoiler-free for Spider-Man: Far From Home.

One of the biggest questions surrounding Spider-Man: Far From Home had to do with its place in the MCU timeline. More specifically, how this movie was going to be impacted by the previous two Avengers movies and the snap.

Barring any blatantly wrong title cards that break the timeline again, the first post-Endgame trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home answered this question directly. This movie will be taking place five years later in the post-snap future — which, makes the most sense seeing as Peter Parker was one of the characters who spent those five years as dust.

This will mark the first real look at the post-snap MCU and how people are adjusting to five years after having vanished. For Peter, the means that while he and the main teenagers (Ned and MJ) were dusted and are therefore still in high school, a lot of their fellow classmates could have aged five years and graduated. (Unless the movie really wants to keep it simple and somehow all of Peter’s grade at his school was dusted.)

The post-Endgame setting of this movie allows for the inclusion of many previously disked characters with no hoops needed to jump through to explain how everybody is back. Peter went back to school, while Maria Hill and Nick Fury returned to working for S.H.I.E.L.D. No word yet on what Aunt May was doing during the snap, but that is sure to also finally be addressed in this film.

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By Spider-Man: Far From Home being at the end of the MCU timeline, it really makes this the aftermath-of-Endgame film. It gets to explore what the snap and fight against Thanos meant for everybody outside of the Avengers bubble in the MCU. And it will also provide a first look at what the MCU really looks like without Tony Stark/Iron Man — both for the world as a whole and for Peter Parker.