The MCU"s Official Timeline Still Doesn"t Answer A 6-Year-Old Avengers Question
Summary
- The official timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe released in 2023 cleared up many mistakes and plot holes, but one key piece of information is still missing.
- While addressing plot holes, Loki's Time Variance Authority (TVA) fails to mention the new owner of Avengers Tower, a pivotal location in the MCU.
- The upcoming Phase 6 of the MCU, including the Fantastic Four reboot, could finally reveal the identity of the new owner of Avengers Tower.
One burning question, that has confused fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for six years, still hasn't been answered by Marvel Studios. An official timeline of the MCU was released in October 2023 in the form of the Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline book, which helped to clear up many mistakes, discrepancies, and plot holes in the franchise, and contained some major reveals about the MCU's history. While the timeline details every event in the MCU from the beginning of time through Phase 4, there is still one key piece of information that has been omitted, despite viewers having been calling for answers for several years.
Throughout the Official Timeline book, Loki's Time Variance Authority (TVA) and its anthropomorphic clock mascot, Miss Minutes, pop up to address plot holes in the MCU's history, and many of these occur during the timeline of 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming. Tom Holland's solo MCU debut as Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, featured many continuity mistakes, most notably Spider-Man: Homecoming's "eight-years-later" error, but Marvel Studios has finally admitted to these hiccups. Nevertheless, one pivotal moment in Spider-Man: Homecoming still hasn't been addressed, as one key landmark in the MCU came under mysterious new ownership during the Phase 3 film, but nobody yet knows exactly who acquired this prized piece of MCU real estate.