WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Marvel's Ant-Man and The Wasp, in theaters now.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has had issues for years with how, exactly, its timeline fits together, which is a natural issue when you're mixing together the continuity of over a dozen films into one cohesive timeline. And, as such, it appears as though the ending of Ant-Man and The Wasp might have hit a bit of a snag in the overall timeline of the MCU.

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At issue is how, precisely, Ant-Man and The Wasp fits into the sequence of events established in Avengers: Infinity War, and whether it actually fits into the sequence at all.

During Avengers: Infinity War, when someone wonders where Hawkeye (Clint Barton) and Ant-Man (Scott Lang), it was explained that, following the fight between Cap's rogue group of Avengers and Iron Man's Sokovia Accords-certified Avengers, Ant-Man and Hawkeye took plea deals due to their respective families. Since they are under house arrest, they cannot participate in the fight in Infinity War.

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That's important, because it therefore nominally locks Infinity War into at least beginning while Scott Lang is still under house arrest. Ant-Man and the Wasp takes place in the last three days before Scott's house arrest ends, with Hope Van Dyne (Wasp) and her father, Hank Pym, breaking Scott out of his house arrest confinement because they need his help to save Janet Van Dyne from the Quantum Realm. They manage to save her in precisely three days. We know this because, at the end of the film, Scott is released from his house arrest, as his time is up.

Avengers: Infinity War, meanwhile, appears to also take place over the course of a few days. This is where the tricky part comes in.

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Ant-Man and The Wasp shows a few notable scenes before the film ends. We see Scott and Hope enjoying a drive-in movie with Scott's daughter Cassie, and we see Hank and Janet go to a beach, where Hank unveils their old home, shrunken down and hidden in a box. He then goes to grow the house to its normal size.

At the very least, it seems like a few days have passed between Scott being freed from house arrest and Hank and Janet's visit to the beach to reconnect.

Then... the first Post-Credits sequence comes up. It clearly implies that more time has passed, as everyone is back together and Hank has reconfigured his quantum tunnel so that it fits in the back of Luis' van. Scott then goes into the quantum tunnel and travels to the Quantum Realm where he is trying to acquire some healing quantum energy so that they could bring it back and continue to aid Ghost, who apparently was not permanently cured of her quantum dis-alignment that Janet seemed to heal her from earlier in the film.

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While Scott is in the Quantum Realm, however, Hank, Janet and Hope all vanish into dust. The "snappening" has now occurred and Ant-Man and The Wasp has now officially caught up to the timeline of Avengers: Infinity War, as Thanos has now eliminated half the population of the universe.

First off, there is a debate over whether Scott, Hank, Janet and Hope should have been doing experiments in the first place, as the ending of Avengers: Infinity War was preceded by an alien invasion of Earth, so you would think that that would have gotten the attention of our heroes. However, even if you wish to argue that they weren't aware of the invasion somehow, it still does not seem to line up with the other heroes explaining that Scott is under house arrest at the beginning of Avengers: Infinity War to him spending a week or two after his house arrest ended at the end of Ant-Man and The Wasp.

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We suppose that you could argue that the other "Secret Avengers" simply did not know when Scott's house arrest ended and it was actually already over when the events of Avengers: Infinity War began. Or perhaps Avengers: Infinity War took longer than is appeared. Or the ending of Ant-Man and the Wasp was a lot more condensed. No matter what, though, the timeline looks more than a bit fuzzy.

In theaters now, director Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and The Wasp stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Judy Greer, David Dastmalchian, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, Hannah John-Kamen, Randall Park and Walton Goggins.