Spider-Man: Homecoming has finally made its debut on Disney+, solidifying its place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline upon its arrival.
The film has recently regained attention with the announcement that it will be joining almost all of its MCU counterparts on the streaming platform on May 12th, including Tom Hardy's Venom.
Disney+ will feature a substantial amount of Spider-Man content, including Tobey Maguire's trilogy from the 2000s. There are also plans for more content featuring both Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield's versions of the character in the near future.
One of the benefits of the movies arriving on Disney+ is that it solidifies their place in the overall MCU timeline, which now spans 15 years in the real world and eight decades in the story (except for the ancient history depicted in 2021's Eternals).
Spider-Man: Homecoming Joins MCU Disney+ Timeline
Disney+ recently updated their official Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline by adding "Spider-Man: Homecoming" to its correct position in the Timeline Order section. The move confirmed the position of the 2017 Spider-Man movie after 2018's "Black Panther" and before 2016's "Doctor Strange," which had only been confirmed on non-US Disney+ platforms before its availability in the United States.
This accurate positioning of "Spider-Man: Homecoming" in the timeline is consistent with the movie's dialogue and title cards, which indicate that the events of "Black Panther" took place one week after "Captain America: Civil War," while "Spider-Man: Homecoming" occurred two months after the same team-up event.
The full list of MCU movies in chronological timeline order is listed below:
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Captain Marvel
- Iron Man
- Iron Man 2
- The Incredible Hulk
- Thor
- The Avengers
- Thor: The Dark World
- Iron Man 3
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- I Am Groot: Groot’s First Steps
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- I Am Groot: The Little Guy
- I Am Groot: Groot’s Pursuit
- I Am Groot: Groot Takes a Bath
- I Am Groot: Magnum Opus
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Ant-Man
- Captain America: Civil War
- Black Widow
- Black Panther
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Doctor Strange
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Ant-Man and the Wasp
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Avengers: Endgame
- Loki
- What If...?
- WandaVision
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Eternals
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Hawkeye
- Moon Knight
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- She-Hulk
- Ms. Marvel
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- Werewolf by Night
- The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
The full graphic can be seen below:
When Will New Spider-Man Content Join Disney+?
Non-US fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have already seen Spider-Man: Far From Home join the official Disney+ timeline, placing it shortly after the events of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier in Phase 4.
Once Spider-Man: No Way Home, the 2021 blockbuster, joins the service, it will likely be placed right after the second Spider-Man movie, with no time passing between the two stories on screen.
Fans are also waiting for a couple of other movies besides No Way Home to join the service, most notably 2014's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and 2021's Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
But with Disney and Sony Pictures slowly working on bringing all of these web-slinging movies into the same location, those details should all be worked out before too much time passes by.
Spider-Man: Homecoming is now streaming on Disney+.