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Originally Posted by warmachine6

hmm i thought each phase was after each avenger movie as it was set after , oh well

I don't think it's just that an Avengers movie ends a phase but it did the first time around so that set an expectation I think. The film that actually starts the next phase of films though is apparently the film which in one way or another directly addresses the last Avengers movie. So Iron Man 3 was the starting movie of phase 2 and a chunk of that movie's plot was Iron Man coping with what happened in the Avengers, not greatly done but done. Now with Civil War kicking off phase 3 there will be a much larger story impact from Age of Ultron as Ultron's destruction of Sokovia is the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back and sets the political plot of Civil War into motion with the Sokovia Accords. It seems that Marvel tries to begin a phase with a movie that follows up on what happened in the previous phase's Avengers story.