Guardians of the Galaxy Relativity (and timeline placement)

[pr0xyt0xin]

I want to talk about where this movie takes place in the MCU timeline. Both officially and unofficially speaking...

So the original movie came out in 2014. And 26 years pass between 1988 and Peter Quill finding the orb. 34 years pass between [BLACKOUT]Ego impregnating Meredith Quill and the GotG meeting Ego[/BLACKOUT]. In other words they happen in fairly short succession.

However, this presents a couple of questions. Will 4 years have passed between GotGv2 and Infinity War? What will have happened to the team in between that time? Where is Adam Warlock and why hasn't he and Ayesha continued to pursue their vengeance? [BLACKOUT]Stan Lee wasn't the FedEx man until 2016 [/BLACKOUT](granted, this has already been explained away by Gunn).

I have a different theory. 34 years have passed for Quill. But due to time dilation, ~38 years will have passed on earth by Infinity War.

Now, obviously there's various forms of space travel in fiction, and specifically in the MCU. Some of those nullify relativity (such as the hyperspace jumps seen in GotGv2) but that might not be the only method of space travel Quill used in his adventures.

Quite frankly, I think it was genius of Gunn to say "26 Years Later" and "34 Years Later" instead of "2014." And I postulate that with GotG and GotGv2 we may actually be watching movies set in the very near future (in earth time). Even though they are still "modern day" in a sense, to Star-Lord himself.

There may or may not be a way to prove or disprove this when Avengers: Infinity War comes out next year. But I think it's a fun theory to discuss in the meantime.

 

[StormC]

The MCU screws up its timeline quite a bit (Vision refers to the events of Iron Man as being "eight years ago" in Civil War, even though IM takes place in 2010). Best to assume it takes place in the current year unless otherwise said.

 

[Batmannerism]

Honestly, I stopped caring about how any cbm or tv show deals with time lines or time travel, after watching the Flash - whose writers did a terrible job, but still managed to make the show fun.

So personally, I just don't care which story starts or fits in where - hell, with a time stone there's the possibility of time travel, so really does it matter ?

I do like that GOTG has its own timeline 1980, 1988 and 2014, but even if it broke that pattern I wouldn't care.

 

[metaphysician]

I highly doubt time dilation will have any relevance, since the people in space use FTL drives. Also, exact dates matter less for maintaining good continuity than relative years. As long as you know which relevant movies have already happened, its good.

 

[2kt09]

"Very near future" still sounds like inconsequential more or less present day.

Sort of like the brief scene on Earth to showcase what's at stake. I'm assuming that seemingly random blob attack will be left for television to do what they want with that.