Captain America: From Messy Timeline to Brave New World

We don’t want to say anything too obvious here, but the further we get into the MCU, the more stuff happens. And the closer we get to the end of a phase, some Marvel projects find themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to tie up a ton of loose threads in service of a broader plot. With The Fantastic Four: First Steps just around the corner, and technically ringing in a whole new phase, Captain America: Brave New World seems to be in that exact situation.

The events that have led us here go all the way back to 2008 and are now scattered across Disney+ series and movies alike, and not necessarily in a good way. So here follows a messy account of all the loose ends that wound up on Sam Wilson’s to-do list.

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