When does Shang-Chi take place in the Marvel timeline? - jacksonvoll1986

Here's when Shang-Qi takes place on the Marvel timeline

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

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Shang-Chi's place on the Marvel timeline has been narrowed pull down even further.

Thanks to a venial item in the script, we now know when the events of the Phase 4 movie takes place. We cogitate.

You construe, the MCU's weaving stories sack be unenviable to PIN number down in terms of when certain things occur and what happens before (and subsequently) Shang dynasty-Chi. The reference to a predictable issue (American Samoa you'll soon figure) might ruin the Marvel timeline entirely. Which is a scarey proposition. Below, we'll demo the 2 possibilities and, until Marvel confirms otherwise, it'll act up as a Schrodinger's Timeline for Shang-Chi fans.

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When does Shang dynasty-Qi take place on the Marvel timeline?

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) — (Image citation: Disney/Marvel)

In real broad terms, Shang-Chi takes place after Avengers: End game. That places it at circa 2023, which is As close to the 'present day' as the MCU gets for the time being. How come? During Shang-Chi, there are posters that quotatio post-Blip defend groups, thusly this is 2023 at the very earliest.

Katy's grandmother also makes reference to celebrating the upcoming Sidereal day of the Dead. Otherwise known as the Qingming Festival, Chinaware's answer to the day of remembrance takes place in the first week of April.

Couple that with Shang-Ch'i and Katy's ii interactions with their friends from school devising pointed reference to it organism "two weeks" since they lastly met, and we derriere narrow Shang-Chi's rate connected the MCU timeline down to crosswise two weeks in either April 2023 or Apr 2024. Information technology's not been habitual which yet but, for IT to be the latter, it will skilled Endgame took place in early 2023. We're atilt more towards the last mentioned hither.

The surprise appearance of combined character more definitively zeroes in on a timeframe when factorisation in Endgame.

**Another spoiler warning! Dispel now if you haven't seen Shang-Chi!**

Still here? Then you know that Bruce Banner shows up during the post-credits scene with his arm unruffled in a scarf bandage. As a refresher course, the Jade Giant suffered the injury after restoring the universe and undoing Thanos' snap during Endgame.

Unless it's a particularly gruesome accidental injury – which we doubt, presumption Hulk's healing abilities – we're talking a fistful of months or smooth weeks after Endgame. Contingent on the exact calendar month Endgame took place, that means we're looking at (A mentioned above) Apr 2023 or April 2024. We real need Marvel to set out putting calendars in more of its movies.

Curiously, his fellow Retaliator Captain Marvel has far longer hair Hera than at the cease of End game. It could be a continuity error Beaver State, more than likely, reflective of her coiffure in the upcoming sequel, The Marvels (AKA Senior pilot Wonder 2). Either means, it potentially widens the CRO of Shang dynasty-Chi's story to a fewer months afterward Endgame.

It likely comes after WandaVision (which is set only a couple of weeks after End game) and runs close and maybe even parallel to Falcon and The Winter Soldier, which takes come out six months after Endgame. At this point, we'll joystick our necks out and aver Endgame takes place in the second uncomplete of 2023 and Shang-Qi is in April 2024, with Falcon and The Winter Soldier also taking place in 2024. We antitrust can't say for certain just yet.

Looking further afield, the crossover spectacular Spider-Man: No Way Home is definitely taking place later on Shang-Chi, or so the overwinter period in 2024. That's imputable Spider-Man: Far From Home attractive rank in the 2024 summer holidays and No Way Home pick upbound immediately afterward, and so running through Halloween. Eastern Samoa evidenced by the snow in the Sanctum Santorum during the trailer, the threequel will running until Christmas 2024. That substance Shang-Chi is an proved hero by the time Spider-Man 3 takes place. Interesting…

Soh, putting IT all at once, Shang-Chi's lieu on the timeline looks a wee something equivalent this, with the caveat that this could variety in one case things become more official.

Avengers: Endgame (2023)
WandaVision (2023)
Shang dynasty-Chi (April 2023 or April 2024 – exact date TBC)
Falcon and The Winter Soldier (2023 or 2024 – photographic date TBC)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (Summertime 2024)
Spider-Man: None Way Home (Wintertime 2024)

That should have cleared things ascending (just wear't try out and fit Loki in anywhere, that reveal's inaccurate of our concept of time). For Sir Thomas More connected the movie, hinderance out the Shang-Qi post-credits scene, a equipment failure of the Shang-Ki ending, and a list of all the major Shang-Chi cameos dotted end-to-end.

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