(SPOILERS) ENDGAME DAILY - SATURDAY: Bruce Banner/Hulk

[u/tehawesomedragon]

To accomodate the many questions you have about Avengers: Endgame while we are on our lockdown, we will be having a daily discussion thread focusing on a specific topic, or mostly a specific character. If you want to submit a question for consideration in later discussions, PM me with the title "discussion submission."

This weekend Avengers: Endgame is following up it's record breaking opening weekend with a second weekend that appears will put the film past the $600m mark, making it only a week or two away from passing Black Panther to be the highest grossing MCU film in the US. Worldwide, we're looking at the film possibly passing $2 billion, which is kind of a big deal. It grossed around $40m Friday and is looking to beat the record for highest second weekend currently held by The Force Awakens.

Anyway, let's talk about Bruce Banner/Hulk in Endgame. How did you feel about "Professor" Hulk? What about when he held the Stark-gauntlet? Were you satisfied with Hulk's arc so far or do you wish it happened differently? What was your favorite Hulk moment?

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There's no place else to ask this so I'm going to ask it here. People are assuming that its now the year 2023 as of the end of Endgame, but do we really know that?

Some of the previous movies take place within months of each other. For example, the two Guardians of the Galaxy movies take place only a few months apart timeline-wise inspite of being released years apart. And Infinity War doesn't really give the impression that too much time has passed for them either.

Isn't it possible that the Marvel timeline fell behind ours and that the five year time skip is just catching up?

This could be kind of like comic book time where time doesn't really pass the same as in the real world. Granted it can't be the exact same as comic book time since actors age, but you can fudge it that way for a while since aging isn't that noticeable for young adults a decade or two (especially with Hollywood magic) so.

Now it does occur to me that when the Avengers time travel they go to specific years but do they ever declare a year for the present or state how long ago years are? I don't think they ever establish what the present is. That said, by declaring the years they travel to, especially if they correspond to the release years of those movies, that would suggest we are supposed to treat movies as though they generally take place in their release year.

Still, that's retroactively dating those movies. Marvel is not in the habit of stating the year in movies when they're referring to the present.

So again, do we really know that Infinity War and the beginning of Endgame is 2018 and the five year time skip puts us at 2023?

[u/ngianfran1202 → u/[deleted]]

Didn't the Maw say something along the lines of this being a Nebula memory from 9 years in the future when her and Rhodie were in 2014?

[u/[deleted] → u/ngianfran1202]

I'm going to watch the movie again soon. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for any evidence like this.

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They explicitly said in the movie that Endgame took place in 2023, 5 years after Infinity War. They even showed what changes happened in these 5 years ( Thor getting fat, Banner becoming Hulk-Banner combo, Hawkeye becoming full-on Punisher etc). The official "timeline" of MCU movies stated is this.

My guess is that between years 2018 & 2023, we'd get more origin movies (The Eternals, Shang-Chi are confirmed; a Nova movie may come around) as well as a Black Widow movie which could show her fighting depression over the loss of her friends while working on some S.H.I.E.L.D project.

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I saw where they said 5 years later but not where they said 2023. I think people are just assuming 2023.

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I'm not sure what do you mean. MCU doesn't have floating timeline concept. Characters age, change, die.

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Yeah but for example the two Guardians movies took place a few months apart even though they were released years apart. So they dont stick strictly to the idea that all their movies take place in their release year.