Marvel's biggest mistakes, according to Marvel
The Marvel Universe is sprawling – full of characters with their own rich backstory, long and complicated plots, and comics with a deep foothold in the pop-culture zeitgeist.
So it's no wonder the various people in charge of 23 movies (so far) have made some slip-ups in their adaptations of the classic Marvel stories for the big screen.
Of course, the number of mistakes Marvel has made is, according to some eagle-eyed fans, huge. But there are a few errors that even the filmmakers themselves have owned up to. Here are some of the biggest...
The Danai Gurira poster snub
Ahead of Avengers: Endgame, fans were waiting for every single morsel of information to make its way online. However, when the poster was released, fans were enraged – and rightly so.
The cast is, of course, huge, and they managed to fit 13 characters on it. But they only put 12 names. Danai Gurira's was missing.
Marvel wised up to the error, but not before Twitter did what it does best: shamed. Marvel quickly put out a new poster on Twitter and wrote: "She should have been up there all this time. Check out the official Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame poster." They tagged Gurira's Twitter handle and used the hashtag Wakanda Forever to a debated level of success.
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey
A glaring mistake that all Marvel fans spotted was the timeline clanger introduced in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Initially, the film was set to take place eight years after the events of The Avengers.
But Marvel eventually released a timeline for all of its movies to date, which confirmed Spider-Man: Homecoming took place in 2016, a scant four years after 2012's The Avengers.
So everything in Homecoming that referenced the eight-year gap is retconned, and you'll just have to ignore it. Sorry about that.
Stan Lee time travel
The post-credits scene of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 confirmed the most heartwarming theory – that Stan Lee, the man behind the comics, was an integral part of every single Marvel movie.
In it, Lee is on another planet with the species known as the Watchers. He's detailing the various appearances he's had in the Marvel movies. Some think this made him a Watcher, too.
But one error slipped through. Lee references his time as a FedEx man, which takes place in 2016's Captain America: Civil War. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, however, takes place in 2014.
Guardians auteur James Gunn owned up to it, saying in a Facebook Live: "Yes, I know I made a mistake. I'll own up to my mistake because Guardians of the Galaxy 2 theoretically happens in 2014 which is before Infinity War. And Stan Lee in the movie says, 'That time I was the Fed Ex guy,' which is what he is in Civil War.
"I screwed up; I wasn't thinking, But I'm going to say that probably Stan Lee used the guise of a Fed Ex guy more than one time."
So an own-up without quite owning up – classic Marvel.
The Collector's Easter egg
Gunn had to admit to another mistake – though this one was more of an editorial decision that had ramifications Gunn couldn't foresee.
"I made a mistake in the first one because I put something that looks like Adam Warlock's cocoon in the Collector's museum," he told IGN.
"For me, at the time, I was just making up fun stuff to put in the Collector's museum. I didn't know how seriously people were gonna take the Easter eggs."
Well, now he knows. Here's hoping Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3doesn't have any red herring Easter eggs.
The realfake real(?) Gauntlet
During Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel confirmed the timeline of the Gauntlet. The glove was created by Eitri (Peter Dinklage) and taken by Thanos for him to initiate the snap and wipe out half of existence.
But Infinity War wasn't the first time fans had seen the glove. It featured in both Thor and Thor: Ragnarok and the post-credits scene of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
The confusion meant that Infinity War writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely had to clear something up. Markus told Collider: "I think the Gauntlet was made when Loki was pretending to be Odin. Presumably, Eitri was running a relatively regular business and people would come there for things and somebody would have said something."
However, this only confused matters. Loki only shape-shifted into Odin at the end of Thor: The Dark World in 2013. So how did the Gauntlet exist in the first Thor movie from 2011?
The Gauntlet on Asgard was confirmed by Hela (Cate Blanchett) to be a fake during Thor: Ragnarok but how did a fake version of a gauntlet that didn't exist yet come to be?
In this case, the clarification has not helped at all.
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