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The first of my MCU edits, from Aug’ 2022, and was actually one of the first edits I ever wanted to do when I was thinking about getting into video projects at the start of 2022, just to fix that very annoying niggle in my head the film presented with its timeline gaff. (How they even had that oversight from a AAA film studio with a global audience in the first place, I really don’t know, but that’s a rant for another day.)
Unlike other Marvel edits, I was much easier on the deleted scenes as I enjoyed the film enough in its current form as it is, so changing the story in any massive ways just really didn’t feel necessary this time.
Name of the project comes from the main reason I wanted to undertake this project to begin with. A ‘4 years later’ cut is a bit on the nose, ‘Timeline’ cut is a bit too boring but it does open the door for a reference to the wider universe, namely the Sacred Timeline, so I called it that as a reference – if very slightly tongue-in-cheek.
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I started off with an annotation placing the Damage Control flashback in 2012, before changing the ‘8 years later’ card to a ‘4 years later’ one – using the Homecoming style font at the same size and colour, with the same 4-way motion transition as the theatrical release. Now the flashback and bulk of the film are both clearly labelled with the year they canonically occur, which fixes that gripe.
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Secondly, the footage of Peter’s “Documentary” including the clash of the Avengers in ‘Civil War’ has been removed, since it goes against said film. Especially his reaction when Scott turns into Gi-ant Man and how quickly he swings into action when Tony prompts him to nab Rogers’ shield.
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Thirdly, I took the audio from Toomes’ line to Bryce when he fires him off of his crew for his recklessness to create a sound dub. Now, when Vulture remarks to Tinkerer how long it’s been, he states ‘four years’ and not eight – backing up the time card at the beginning.
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I took out Prowler’s remark about not caring ‘what’ SM is under the suit, it always just felt unnecessary in that exchange. Now Peter corrects that he’s a boy, then overcorrects that he’s a “Man” and goes right to asking who’s selling the weapons around Queens, and that’s it.
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Fifthly, at the Homecoming dance when Peter arrives, MJ now no longer gives him the finger when she sees him. Considering how they end up getting together as a couple, taking away her publicly flipping him off makes their overall story across the three films more cohesive in this respect. Now Ned sees him and waves as usual but she looks at him mostly indifferently, cutting away again before she moves her arms at all – it’s gentler than the alternative at least.
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Lastly, I took out the Captain America post-credits segment where he speaks about the value of patience, and replaced it – ‘Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame’ have now come out of course, so our patience has now paid off. In its place I did put one deleted scene: the one where Prowler can’t unstick himself from his car and fails to flag someone down to help him, ending up on the phone with his nephew – openly mentioning Miles [Morales] by name – saying he won’t make it.
Including this as a substitute scene definitely felt good, bringing Miles into MCU canon like this, one way or another, and – as I stated above – none of the other deleted scenes really convinced me to change the story in a big way with them.
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Footnote: I am in no capacity a professional editor or VFX artist, so some areas are visibly mostly good as I have to be realistic with the footage in front of me and what I can do with it. If you do have any particular notes and feedback, feel free to give me your thoughts, but please be constructive and don’t be an ass about it.
