An infamous Spider-Man timeline mistake got called out in the new, official MCU timeline book.

DK Books new MCU timeline saw Marvel Studios own up to a sizableSpider-Man: Homecomingcontinuity error.

As with most multimedia mega franchises, theMCUtimelineis sprawling and complex.

Michael Keaton as Adrian Toomes in Spider-Man: Homecoming

And yeah, there are a few errors.

One of the biggest is found in 2017sSpider-Man: Homecoming, and long story short, mistakes were made.

The error concerns a certain, now notoriously incorrect time card placed near the start of the film.

Michael Keaton as Adrian Toomes in Spider-Man: Homecoming

This climactic fight is otherwise known as the Battle of New York fromThe Avengers.

But this would be impossible as only 4 years had passed sinceHomecomingwas set in the Fall of 2016.

And thats how things are indeed portrayed in the book.

8 Years Later text from Spider-Man: Homecoming

The events of Toomes flashback and the rest of the film are respectively placed inSpring 2012 andFall 2016.

The timeline book takes a stab at explaining this.

This ones a real head scratcher for usI reckon an analyst misplaced the case file.

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And if Miss Minutes cant figure it out, nobody can.

And this would make sense if there truly was an eight-year gap betweenThe AvengersandHomecoming.But there isnt.

Marvel StudiosSpider-Man: Homecomingis available to stream onDisney+and can be bought wherever movies are sold.

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