Leipzig and Tønsberg – Avengers in Europe

Hi everyone! Lisa is still on her well deserved vacation. I’m Fabian and this Weekly Chart is not a table.

I’m quite the comic book fan now, but wasn’t that much into them in my childhood. I really liked Tabaluga but didn’t get into comic books and movies until the Raimi Spider-Man movies. The Avengers was the movie that really got me hooked and made me start exploring the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and Marvel comics. Today I can say that I watched all 22 MCU movies (some of them multiple times). Most movies take place in the United States or in space, like the Guardians of the Galaxy.

I wanted to explore if any of the action occurs in Europe. Immediately the airport fight from Captain America: Civil War came to mind. Spider-Man was introduced to the MCU in that very fight as well, and fans loved it!

The map shows 12 locations from various MCU movies. I did not consider the TV shows and if you are an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D fan, there are quite a few locations missing.

One interesting point: a lot of MCU movies talk about Sokovia, which is located in Eastern Europe. Sokovia is the main location in Avengers: Age of Ultron and supposed to be between Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In Captain America: Civil War it appears again – a screen shows that Sokovia is located at the northwest coast of the Black Sea. Since it doesn’t exist in our universe, it doesn’t show up on this map.

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To visualize these places I chose a locator map, since it’s so easy to point to, well locations (it’s right there in the name). I always had a hunch that only a few stories in MCU movies take place in Europe. It turns out that there are actually quite a lot of places in Europe featured in MCU movies, which I did not expect to see. This locator map shows very well that a lot of Captain America: Civil War happened in Europe. The protagonists travelled quite a bit. Maybe Black Widow took the train from Vienna to Leipzig instead of the Quinjet.

If you want to learn more about locator maps, check out the following links:

• How to create a locator map
• New in locator maps: Point to locations & markers with callout lines

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Please let me know if I missed something or you want to talk about why “Thor: The Dark World” is a masterpiece.