A closer look
Keeping track of imaginary superheroes requires the bureaucratic obsession of an IRS auditor. Marvel Studios literally employs executives whose sole, exhausting job is to maintain the sacred timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe using a massive, constantly shifting internal spreadsheet. This timeline cop has to mathematically calculate how a 5-year time jump in 'Avengers: Endgame' impacts a random teenager's high school graduation in a Disney+ spin-off, brutally retconning any director's script that breaks the chronological laws of physics.
