When Does ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Actually Take Place in the MCU Timeline?
Marvel fans have spent months piecing together exactly where ‘Avengers: Doomsday‘ fits into the sprawling MCU timeline, and the picture is finally starting to come into focus. With so many overlapping threads from recent Phase Six projects, figuring out the exact placement has become its own kind of puzzle for die hard viewers.
The timing question matters more than usual this time around, since the film is stitching together heroes from three separate universes into one collision course.
‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Timeline Explained
According to reporting on the film’s connections to other recent Marvel releases, the movie is likely to take place in or around 2028. That placement comes largely from how the story picks up threads left dangling in earlier Phase Six entries.
The film appears to continue directly from Thunderbolts, which itself was initially set in 2027 following the events of Captain America Brave New World. A significant time jump near the end of that film changes things considerably for where ‘Avengers Doomsday’ lands on the calendar.
A fourteen month time jump at the end of Thunderbolts pushes the story into late 2028 or possibly even 2029, and that jump is not just incidental background information. The post credits scene in Thunderbolts was actually confirmed to be a snippet pulled directly from Avengers Doomsday, filmed during production of that later movie rather than for Thunderbolts itself.
‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Connections to Spider-Man and Daredevil
That overlap in production and footage strongly suggests the two films are meant to be read together on the timeline. This means the fourteen month jump likely marks the starting point for Avengers Doomsday, putting both Spider-Man Brand New Day and Avengers 5 in roughly the same window of MCU history.
There is some logic behind why certain heroes might be missing from the Doomsday roster given this placement. If two major Avengers team members are absent from the film, it could simply be because their storylines in Spider-Man Brand New Day are keeping them occupied elsewhere during this stretch of time.
The 2028 setting also lines up neatly with other corners of the MCU calendar. Placing Spider-Man Brand New Day in 2028 means it would follow the events of Daredevil Born Again season two and The Punisher special presentation, with the latter believed to be set around 2026 or 2027.
Continuity threads are clearly being woven with intention here. Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle is confirmed to appear in Spider-Man Brand New Day, and setting that film later in the timeline helps tie together his appearances across Daredevil Born Again, the Punisher special, and the new Spider-Man film.
‘Avengers: Doomsday’s’ Place in the Wider Multiverse Saga
Beyond the calendar year itself, the scope of where the story physically unfolds is just as sprawling. The setting of the film reportedly stretches from the MCU’s version of Hell’s Kitchen all the way to Doomstadt, the capital of Latveria in a far off reality, and even to an Earth where mutants first revealed themselves back in the year 2000.
On the studio side, the production timeline has been locked in for a while now. ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ is the thirty ninth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and serves as an installment of Phase Six, with a sequel titled ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ set to follow.
The film is a direct sequel to a long list of prior MCU entries, including ‘The Avengers,’ ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ ‘Loki’ season two, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ ‘Captain America: Brave New World,’ ‘Thunderbolts,’ and ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’.
According to the film’s own marketing description, ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ follows beloved heroes from three distinct universes as they are set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they have ever encountered. That framing lines up with the multiversal scope suggested by the various timeline reports circulating so far.
What the 2028 Setting Means for the ‘Doomsday’ Story
Placing the film in 2028, rather than immediately following Endgame, gives the Russo Brothers room to let several dangling Phase Six storylines mature before crashing them together. It also explains why so many separate corners of the MCU, from street level heroes to mutants to Latverian royalty, can plausibly collide in one film without feeling forced.
For now, Marvel has not issued an official on screen confirmation of the exact year, so most of this remains carefully assembled fan and press deduction rather than studio statement. That has not stopped the theorizing, and if anything it has only made the wait for December 18 feel longer.
With Doctor Doom’s motivations and the fate of the Sacred Timeline still very much up in the air, where exactly all of this lands chronologically could end up mattering just as much as who survives it. Do you think a 2028 setting makes sense for pulling these three universes together, or were you expecting Doomsday to pick up right where Endgame left off?
