The MCU Timeline Book - A Brutally Honest Review & Breakdown

Your timeline is the only thing that saves my understanding of the MCU, there's so much being released lately that it's difficult to understand the chronology and those responsible don't seem to be able to do the job or don't seem to care, I'm glad there are people like you, true fans who are dedicated to cleaning up all this mess. Thank you for that.

Hey Dakota I know you’ve probably read it a few times by now, but I really hope you keep your own version of the mcu- Timeline. I totally understand if you’re tired of making an effort, to clean up someone’s else’s mess but that’s the exact reason I respected your work from the very first Video I saw of you. The amount of love and dedication you’ve been putting in over the last years is definitely worth keeping. I also think that the clear-cut logic we as fans and especially you use, is absolutely more fitting than the opinion of someone that doesn’t care as much about it, as we do. For them it’s probably just a job for us its actual passion. However, I respect your choice if u want to spend your energy on other things.

Regarding the “6 months later” in Iron Man 2: It’s worth noting that this book is written from the perspective of a TVA agent, so non-diagetic info is omitted! This is clever because titles cards are things that only we, as audience, see. In-universe they don’t exist so they don’t have to reference them.

PLEASE DON'T CHANGE YOUR PLACEMENTS BECAUSE OF WHAT SOME STUPID PEOPLE WHO DON'T LOVE TIMELINES SAID!!!!!!!!! YOUR EFFORTS ARE A LABOR OF LOVE AND YOU SHOULD NEVER GIVE UP ON SOMETHING YOU LOVE. Please keep your placements. YOUR placements are the correct ones, no matter what these non-caring people say. Your MCU timeline graphic is exactly that, YOURS! Keep it yours by keep your correct placements. Many will be severely disappointed on you if you submit to the wrongful "official timeline." The fans are the ones who enjoy and love your work, marvel just gives us the movies. They can't keep retconning stuff and saying what is when it clearly isn't. All of your present subscribers and future subscribers implore you: don't EVER change your placements because of a stupid book full of mistakes. Keep your placements which are the correct ones and backed by evidence. I love you and your work. it's beautiful.

I’ve noticed a few people mention this, but I definitely agree that, although it’s hard to keep having the timeline be messed up by Marvel and you have to clean up their mess. Your version will always be superior and what a lot of consider as the more accurate timeline. The work you’ve put in is outstanding and we all thank you for it. Please don’t add this “official” timeline to your work, you’re doing amazing!

Hi Dakota, just a quick message to say that your work is colossal, I've been following your content for 1 year now and I'm really admiring what you've built over the years I obviously understand and respect why you'd want to change your timeline following the "official" one, but I hope you'll continue with the one you've been building all this time All the best 🙏

I honestly hope you keep your own timeline, the official one doesn't really need to be followed to a tee. We'll always know that fans like yourself will always know what they're talking about over anything official. I hope you don't feel super bad about it or anything. The official timelines that they've made in the past have always been incorrect in many ways, and personally I've never followed any of them to begin with.

Just finished to whole video, I agree that the people who wrote the book is not the right person for the job. It's like they did those cause they got paid for it, and we have guys like you who could do it better simply cause of love to the MCU

This is WONDERFULLY done. I feel your pain. Not all of it, for I don't had "time" to spend on "fighting city hall", but props to you and your valiant struggle. I love how you kept it serious and thoughtful, instead of going FULL rant. A lesser person would have just gone full rant. I also, am holding out hope...that some day in the future, they will come to their senses and just HIRE you for the job. You are definitely passionate for this type of material...and having someone (like yourself) involved in the beginning...would then provide a better after action reporting when things shuffle because of REAL world problems and the shuffling of shows and release dates. Thank you, again...for all the hard work that went into this video and ultimately your MCUTimeline, which to me and my family IS the canonical timeline for the MCU, book and Disney+ timelines be damned. This was done with love and dedication...and the world is a better place, because people like you care about the minutia that is otherwise overlooks by the peopl making these films and TV series. As always, have a wonderful day...and keep up the fight (for us and for the truth of correct placement) for the MCU that we all love.

Thanks for the video and your honesty. I have a few comments: 1. The 6 months later announcement in Iron Man 2 has never been a problem with me because it works regardless. It is either 6 months after Tony's speech (original intention ) but it can also be 6 months after Vanko smile like a maniac because he has finally a working arc reactor ( current canon retcon). 2. I hate the 2010 placement of Fury's big week. Sure 2011 means Vanko had to work 3 years to make his reactor and not 2 like the book suggest, but honestly it is believable with him doing it with very little. 2010 makes all the time clues in the first avenger movie wrong, and I don't see the value in doing that. 3. I understand why you will not challenge the book and make your timeline work with it but hopefully you will reconsider. If even you follow along, than the good fight of a better MCU continuity and D+ timeline is already lost. You offer a well researched alternative and you are always open to adjust base on new info, retcon or content. That being said, I will respect your choice either way.

so the person they hired isnt in charge of the disney+ timeline placement, but they did help write this book based on the disney+ timeline i love your videos bc you give full depth evidence on your placements and make sure each timeline placement fits in a very pleasing order to watch. i really wish they wouldve just hired you for the position bc the person they have now is SEVERLY slacking

Thor being with the Guardians for two years makes so little sense on so many levels💀

Bruh it’s Loki messing with the Loom!

Please don’t quit your timeline. All the people who REALLY care about the timeline look to you. This corporate book means so much less than your carefully woven timeline. Please don’t turn your timeline into the less accurate “official MCU timeline” because the Geekritique MCU timeline is better, and more important to us geeks.

Dakota, I was really looking forward to your review, and it did not disappoint! I hope maybe the writers or the executives in charge of the book or whoever gets to watch this and think again. If corrections were made before and with the release of the book, they surely can be made after, right? I don't really know why I've hyperfixated on the MCU timeline for so long, but still, it must be less time than what you've been dedicating it. And I truly admire that! So, that's why I look up to you and expected you to be as disappointed as I am with the timeline this book presents. To not make this comment way too long, I will say that I can understand why they went with seasons (although the book would've benefitted from month placements), I can understand not including Marvel TV, I can understand lumping together several titles, I can get behind the placements for Moon Knight, Werewolf by Night, Ant-Man, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, She-Hulk, even Eternals, and I'm willing to adjust my timeline to fit those, but Iron Man 3 and Thor: Love and Thunder just don't make any sense at all in December 2013 and October 2025 🤦‍♂️ and I will chose to ignore those!

Dakota, you are the one that has the official MCU Timeline in your hands. As you mentioned, the people in charge of that book did not care enough for the chronology of the movies as much as you do. Regardless of what the book says, I will still looking forward to your timeline reviews, because your timeline placement is precise and that book is full of tons of mistakes to even be considered “official” or “correct”. They should have done something good or not doing anything at all, so to this date, you still being the one having everything 100% right. Looking forward to your Loki season 2 video!!!

You ARE the canon timeline to us. Given that im a month late to this, im sure youve heard it thousands of times, but your work has genuinely been a huge help for me. Not in the sense of chronology, although that does help, but mentally. In the time since i first discovered your channel, ive been cataloging my own interpretation of the timeline, and comparing it with yours. This provided a major sense of security and consistency for me when i had nobody to talk to. Im not entirely sure it makes sense, but ive always enjoyed sorting things into an order as a form of escapism, and this timeline has always been the greatest one for me even before infinity war came out. Please keep doing what youre doing. It helps people more than you could imagine 💙

Dakota, I really love your work, and I would love to keep seeing you fight against what this book displays as the timeline. Your effort over the years does not go unnoticed, we love it! Also, if I'm ever working on a fictional Universe, I'll make sure to make such a coherrent timeline that it's impossible to mess it up

I actually don't really care about canon if it's gonna be that problematic, and choose to consume the products according to headcanon. That being said, you are my absolute hero. Really. As a person with some OCD behaviors, I feel the need for things to make sense in order to enjoy them, and your timeline makes the most sense of any others. I'm actually in the middle of my yearly MCU marathon, and since I discovered your channel, there's no other way to do it if it's not according to your timeline. I know it feels frustrating knowing they don't care enough, but you do. Please don't change your timeline, and keep up the excellent work for us fans that care for this stories. (Sorry if my English isn't the best :p)

so if you make the timeline 8.0 video, are you going to use the book? or stick with your placements… bc yours make more sense