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When is Doctor Strange actually set?
At most, Doctor Strange is set over a period of 3 and a half years.
Between out-of-universe information and in-universe references, we can safely assume that between the start of the movie and the ...
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How do the characters' timelines interact in The Witcher TV series?
You are correct. There are three linear timelines: Yennefer's, Geralt's, and Ciri's, which start at different times but all coincide by the final two episodes.
Here is a timeline of the events ...
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Is Spider-Man: Homecoming correct in saying it takes place 8 years after the Battle of New York?
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Based on recent interviews with Kevin Feige (president of Marvel Studios) and Joe Russo (one of the Infinity Wars directors), it seems safe to assume that the 8 year date was incorrect.
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Does the sun rise from the West in Middle Earth?
This might have been taken from the books without the explanation from the books included in the movie. In the books, Orodruin/Mount Doom is spewing out ash and smoke as Sauron starts the War of the ...
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In what order should I watch The planet of the Apes franchise?
Star Wars is a single franchise, but Planet of the Apes doesn't work like that. First, there is :
Original film series
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Escape from the ...
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Time jumps in Star Wars
There are no exact dates given for many of these, but there are "good" estimates as to how many years are between works. Wookieepedia has a complete canon history, but this also includes comic and ...
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How do the timelines between Black Panther and Captain America: Civil War interact?
According to Comicbook.com,
During this time, the only superhumans we know to be active are Black
Panther (Wakandan monarch T'Chaka, played by Atandwa Kani), and
possibly Captain Marvel (a yet-...
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Where does Deadpool fall in the X-Men timeline?
Deadpool exists in the DOFP New Timeline, post Apocalypse. Modern Day, so 2016ish, putting it closer to the The Wolverine post-credit scene, where Xavier and Magneto show up to recruit Logan in the ...
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Is Black Museum trying to suggest there is a chronological order in Black Mirror?
Well, it seems that Black Museum proves fan theories that the whole show exists in the same universe true.
From the interview with Charlie Brooker with Digital Spy,
In our exclusive interview, ...
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Which comes first chronologically, Jessica Jones Season 1 or Daredevil Session 2?
As far as we can tell, the Netflix shows are taking place in the same order they air, but several months "behind" real-time.
The shows are extremely vague on their timelines, but Jessica Jones ...
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Where do the timelines of X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past lie exactly?
According to the Fox executives, the storyline in Days of Future Past has erased all of X-Men 3: The Last Stand's storyline from canon, as well as parts of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
In-universe, ...
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Is there any particular order in which one should watch the movies of Marvel Cinematic Universe? Why?
Except for maybe Guardians of the Galaxy, which stands alone from most of the movies, Captain America: The First Avenger which time skips at the end and the Defenders Netflix series which tend to be ...
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Where does Elseworlds fit into Batwoman chronology?
After Batwoman S01E04 and before S01E05.
From Caroline Dries's tweet
After 104 we are officially caught up to Elseworlds! #batwoman
Later Russ Burlingame continued:
Because the writers wanted to ...
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What timeframe overlaps between Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum?
As I understand it, there isn't much overlap at all. That scene is effectively a "flash forward", a teaser to the events of the sequel, shown well out of chronological order. If you remove that final ...
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Which X-Men movies' timelines were erased by Days of Future Past?
Per Writer and Producer Simon Kinberg, "erased" is not an accurate description of how the timelines have been affected. As such, it is only a matter of opinion to state which aspects of the ...
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What is the chronological order of all the Bond Films based on plot?
Film wise (that is, ignoring depictions in television and cameo's), there are 3 continuities.
The simplest is the standalone Casino Royale. This is a one off
spoof, but as it was produced by MGM and ...
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How are the Daniel Craig Bond movie plots related?
In Spectre, all links are connected to previous Bond stories. Here are the links as per my understanding:
Spectre: Bond and Franz Oberhauser are brothers. After the younger Bond was orphaned, ...
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How much connected is the Night of the Living Dead film series?
"Loosely" connected in that they're chronological, but don't contain any recurring characters. In the first one, zombies had never existed prior to the events depicted in the movie. In all ...
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How could Thanos have the Infinity Gauntlet at the end of Age of Ultron?
From my own previous answer:
Thanos decides to do it himself after (it is assumed) the events of Age of Ulton although it's not clear when this event actually takes place in the MCU timeline
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Is there any particular order in which one should watch the movies of Marvel Cinematic Universe? Why?
Watch them in the order they were released, that's how they were designed to be watched.
Source: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/marvel-cinematic-universe-timeline-avengers/
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Where does Vixen S02E01 fall in Arrowverse timeline?
You noted that Firestorm was present in 2x01 of Vixen. The trailer for Season 2 seems to indicate that the story is taking place over a relatively short period of time and reveals that other heroes ...
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How do we know that the Emancipation episode falls into the events of Captain America: Civil War?
At the start of the episode there is a TV showing a new broadcast which mentions the Sokovia Accords (and the Cap vs Tony fight).
This episode clearly takes place after Civil War so there are no ...
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In what order should I watch The planet of the Apes franchise?
As far as I'm aware, there are two suggested watching orders:
1. Release order of films:
This involves watching the films in the order they were (or will be) released:
2. In-universe chronological ...
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Star Wars Rogue One is set in what period? Do the events take place before "The Force Awakens"?
This movie takes place right before the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.
The Force Awakens takes place after the events of Episode VI: Return of the Jedi which is the successor of Episode ...
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What is the timeline of Black mirror?
The "consciousness cookies" technology has been a recurring theme lately.
Black Museum tied the episodes together, but they were already pretty much tied together due to the same technology being ...
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How could Thanos have the Infinity Gauntlet at the end of Age of Ultron?
This has been asked with screenwriter and director too and their answer from businessinsider
How does "Avengers: Infinity War" fit with "Age of Ultron"?
Asked about this at a press junket, ...
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Episodic chronology of Crisis on Infinite Earths
First thing first there is no Crisis on Infinite Earths S01E01? As it's not a different show but a crossover of five existing Arrowverse showa with some extra additions.
First Crisis on Infinite ...
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X-Men Chronological Order
The chronological order goes like this:
X-Men: First Class [established by Days of Future Past to be a prequel to the original timeline]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine [explains how Wolverine got into the ...
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