
One of the Deadpool 3 trailer Easter eggs might have just offered up a clue as to when it takes place on the Marvel timeline.
Towards the start of the teaser, which emerged online after debuting at the 2024 Super Bowl, titular wisecracker Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is abducted by Time-Keepers – you know, the armored officers with the light-up "pruning" sticks that we first met in Disney Plus TV series Loki – and whisked off to the Time Variance Authority headquarters. There, Matthew Macfadyen's character Paradox pitches the idea of Wade becoming a bonafide hero, like Iron Man and Captain America, and looks to fill him in or all things MCU using a bunch of TVA monitors.