Events of the film over time?

[spockside]

My apologies if this has already been posted somewhere. Has anyone seen a description of the passage of time in the Avengers movie? In other words, how long between the opening scene and the Stark Tower scene, between the Stark Tower scene and the Stuttgart scene... etc. How many days pass while the plot is taking place, that sort of thing. I've

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[tyranusfan]

All I know for sure is that it's roughly 3 weeks after Cap wakes up at the end of Captain America. However, food for thought, Pepper says she's "flying to D.C. tomorrow," when Coulson arrives at Stark Tower. Then we see her on Stark's jet during the battle in NYC. So, the question becomes: was that her flying TO D.C., of back FROM D.C.?"

If it's her flying to D.C., then that means everything from Tony's homework to Stuttgart to Loki opening the portal happened in a matter of hours!

One might also consider the effect of time zones. The helicarrier was flying from the direction of Europe to the USA, it seems, and they would see sunrise before the East Coast....

This might not be of much help. :)

[spockside]

Actually, that's just the kind of brainstorming I'm looking for, thanks. :D

[zeta_tauri]

I always assumed Pepper was in the air at that point because it was the safest place for her to be. Sort of like how they stick the President on Air Force 1 whenever there's a massive emergency state-side.

[spockside]

Sounds reasonable to me.

[equal_to_k]

You'd also have to consider how long it took Natasha to get from Russia to India and then to the US with Bruce in tow. A couple of days at least. And that Tony was probably told after they had Bruce on the bandwagon - since they all arrived at the Helicarrier arround the same time.

This would put the theft of the Tesseract probably three or so days before Stuttgart

[camiilovespanic]

8m57w6 made a timeline of the movie, here

[meinterrupted]

That's what I was going to say!

There's also this timeline that has actual dates for everything from the first Aesir/Jotun war, up through the Avengers. Hands down the best timeline I've found (though it doesn't break down The Avengers as well as 8m57w6 did). I reference it a lot.

[tyranusfan]

Only problem with this timeline, though, is that Tasha didn't bring Banner to NYC, she brought him to the carrier, which was somewhere in the North Atlantic...

[spockside]

Ooh, thanks! I'll peruse them both in more depth soon.

However, my big question is...how the hell did Clint get the iridium to where Erik was (presumably NYC) from Germany?

[grachonok]

It's possible that iridium wasn't in Germany - it's a scientist who was there, the lab itself might be in USA.

It's also possible that SHIELD jets fly much faster that normal planes:),

Also, Russia is a big country:), if Natasha is in Asian part of it, or even in one of former USSR Republics, she can be much closer to India than from Moscow (and actually be in the same time zone as Bruce).

In an alternative opening the interrogatiopn of Maria Hill takes place '48 hours after the Tesseract incident'. I assume they meant 'after the battle ended' - so Loki and Thor's departure happens 48 hours after the battle.

Still figuring it out...

[spockside]

The name of the company on the side of the building Hawkeye breaks into is "Schafer Sicherheitsdienst", which leads me to assume it's in Germany, if not actually Stuttgart. So then...where does he get the SHIELD jet to fly back to NY?

And Bruce is shown as being in Kolkata, which is an hour and a half further east than Moscow, which is pretty darn close time-wise.

Re: Still figuring it out...

[grachonok]

ok, let's start from the beginning

[tyranusfan]

Does Barton actually return to the USA after Stuttgart? We don't see him in the truck Selvig is on, do we?

He may have simply shadowed the helicarrier at a distance until some prearranged time Loki wanted him to come in and attack (or on some signal from the scepter, since I think it's on the screen in the hijacked Quinjet's cockpit).

Remember that he didn't know where Selvig ended up with the Tesseract, so there's little reason to think he returned to the USA after Stuttgart.

[spockside]

We don't see him in Selvig's truck...but if Hawkeye didn't deliver the iridium himself, how did it get to Selvig in the U.S.?

[tyranusfan]

That's a valid point, but they were all equally brainwashed. Another henchman could have flown it to NY while Barton went after the carrier. Loki didn't have any problem leaving them to their own devices, there's no reason the group couldn't have split up. :)

[spockside]

True dat. It's good to have minions... XD