As the franchise has leaned more and more into its comedic potential, “The Blip” seems like a phrase its funnier characters won’t mind uttering in the future. An earlier in-universe name for the event was “The Decimation,” which was both too somber and definitionally wrong. The snapping part of The Blip could, for all we know, still be called The Snap, but the entire thing was just a little blip.Ĭalling the temporary death of half of all life in the universe a “blip” also helps set the tone of the MCU going forward. More than that, though, The Snap was the thing that made everyone disappear, but it doesn’t really cover the ensuing half-decade and the surprise of everybody eventually coming back. There were only a handful of characters, all superheroes, who were around when Thanos actually snapped his fingers, so it’s understandable that the physical act of snapping might not be the most widely prominent part of the entire incident. The name makes sense for a lot of reasons, both within the fiction of the MCU and from a narrative perspective. Instead, they refer to the entire five-year period as “The Blip.” What are the inhabitants of the MCU calling “The Snap” these days?Īlthough MCU fans have called Thanos’ erasure of half of all life “The Snap” or “The Snappening,” that’s not what the characters are calling it. Between that bit of evidence, and the fact that it definitely wasn’t mid-winter in New York City during the events of Infinity War, it’s probably fair to say Far From Home takes place at least a school year after the events of Endgame.įar From Home is the story of how badly Peter Parker wants to enjoy his summer vacation. This despite the fact that they already completed their midterms! Which means they were closer to the end of the school year when they disappeared than the beginning. In the very informative student news broadcast which kicks off the film, Peter Parker’s classmate, Betty Brant, notes that she and half of her current classmates, the ones who were turned to dust back in 2018, were forced to redo the entire school year once they reappeared on Earth in 2023. When does Far From Home take place, exactly?Īt least five years after 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, though it’s probably closer to six, which would likely place the events of the film in the summer of 2024. If it isn’t obvious, minor spoilers ahead: Here are the big Endgame questions that Far From Home answers. So how is the world of the MCU doing in a post- Endgame era? As the next film in the franchise, it was up to Spider-Man: Far From Home to explain how Thanos and the Thanos reversal changed everything. All of sudden everyone came back, to a world partially destroyed by several major attacks and still very much reeling from all the trauma that entails. And just when they’d resigned themselves to the idea that their loved ones wouldn’t be reappearing, snap! They did. For five years, 50 percent of society just limped around their vacant realities, wondering whether or not the missing people would ever pop back into their lives. If Marvel fans thought they had it rough - what with having to wait one year to understand how Avengers: Endgame resolved Infinity War’s erasure of half of all life in the universe - the inhabitants of the MCU had it several times worse.