When is Spider-Man: Far From Home set - before or after Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame?

Watching the first trailer for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spider-Man: Far From Home, I now understand how Aragon must have felt when Gandalf appears upon the hill at the battle of Helm’s Deep, having apparently cheated death at the hands of a very angry Balrog. Spoilers for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avengers: Infinity War, but we saw Peter Parker die in Tony Stark’s arms on Titan, reduced to apocalyptic dust alongside half of Earth’s ♛population following Thanos’ cataclysmic click. 

So how is Peter Parker seen taking a carefree school trip across Europe in the newly released 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer as if ‘the snappening’ never happened? It all comes down to a question of timing, and more specifically when Spider-Man: Far From Home is actually set. While we can’t yet confirm anything for sure, as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Studios has a habit of deliberate misdirection, there’s three plausible theories for Spider-Man: Far From Home’s place in the MCU timeline, which may or may not take place after the events of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avengers 4: Endgame. We break all three scenari🦹os below, examining th൩e evidence to support and undermine each one. 

Is Spider-Man: Far From Home set before Avengers: Infinity War?

First, there is a small but not impossible chance that Spider-Man: Far From Home actually takes place before the events of Avengers: Infinity War, sometime between 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spider-Man: Homecoming and Thanos’ arrival on Earth. That would certainly explain why society seems to be operating as normal (transatlantic commercial flights almost definitely wouldn’t be running if humanity had just lost 3.5 billion of its inhabitants), and why we get appearances from Nick Fury and Mariah Hill, who🧸 both succumbed to the dusting alongside Parker himself. 

earlier this year, Feige said that Far From Home will ask the question of “What is it like to try to go back to a normal life after what happens in [Infinity War]? Not to mention what happens in the next [🐲Avengers] movie."&൩nbsp;

If that’s the case, then the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer has essentially ruined the cliffhanger 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avengers: Infinity War ending by revealing that Peter, Nick Fury, Mariah Hill, and presumably everyone else who got snapped by Thanos will be revived in some way or another during the events of Endgame. This corroborates with reports that Marvel Studios was reluctant to market Far From Home before the theatrical release of Endgame, for this exact reason of undermining that jaw dropping finale, which has had every comic book fan talking for the past eight months. Sony - which owns the Spider-Man property - apparently pushed for the release of this trailer, however, and, if this theory holds true, Marvel Studios must have un✨willingly relented. 

Is Spider-Man: Far From Home set in a different timeline altogether? 

This is where things get really kooky. In June 2017, Sony boss that Far From Home literally begins “a few minutes after Avengers 4 wraps as a story.” That phrasing is a curious one, as it perhaps alludes to one of the most popular 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avengers 4 theories that Endgame will see Captain America, Iron Man, Ant-Man, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Captain Marvel going back in time to prevent Thanos from ever acquiring the Infinity Stones in the first place, thus retconning the events of Infinity War 🥂so t🐼hat everyone else won’t even remember it happening. 

With that in mind, what if Far From Home takes place in that alternative timeline, quite literally with Peter Parker on that school bus in Infinity War, only this time Thanos’ ship never shows up? We know that, canonically speaking, Infinity War takes place in the year 2017, which would also explain why Marvel removed any allusions to specific dates in the trailer, even going so far as to digitally Tippex the issue and expi🌼ry date on his passport. Why? Because anything referencing 2018 would pretty much confirm this timeline theory to be true, or so we think. Heck, it’s either that, or the entire story of Far From Home is in fact Peter’s lucid fever dream while his essence is trapped in the soul stone.

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