Captain America: The First AvengerEssential
A man too small and too sick to enlist is picked for an experiment because of exactly the qualities the army had been screening out.
Opens and closes in the present day.
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Doomsday is not out yet, so this is a reading of what matters going in, not a ruling.
A man too small and too sick to enlist is picked for an experiment because of exactly the qualities the army had been screening out.
Opens and closes in the present day.
A year after the war, the woman who won it is answering phones. Then an old contact asks her to clear his name off the books.
Los Angeles, a new lab, and a case that turns on something nobody in it has the vocabulary for yet.
A soldier in an alien war crash-lands on a planet she does not remember, with someone else's version of her own past in her head.
A weapons manufacturer is taken hostage, builds a way out of a cave, and comes home with a very different idea about what he wants to make.
Going public has consequences. A government wants the armour, a rival wants the contract, and a stranger with a grudge wants the man inside it.
A scientist on the run in South America looks for a cure for what he turns into when his pulse climbs, while the people who want to weaponize it close in.
An arrogant prince of an alien kingdom is stripped of his power and dumped on Earth, where nobody has any reason to be impressed by him.
A spy agency spends its last favors assembling people who do not work well together, because the alternative is losing the planet.
After New York, the armour is a coping mechanism. Then a bombing campaign takes the fight somewhere the suit cannot follow.
Christmas.
An enemy older than the realms wakes up, and the only route to stopping him runs through the one person nobody in Asgard should trust.
A team with no powers and one very large plane runs the cases the Avengers never hear about.
The back half runs alongside The Winter Soldier and is much better for it.
A man out of his own time starts pulling at a thread inside the agency he works for, and something very good at killing is sent to stop him.
Rebuilding from nothing, with a rival version of the same organization and a discovery about where some people's abilities come from.
A thief steals the wrong orb and ends up in a cell with four other people who all want to kill each other slightly less than they want to get paid.
A prologue in 1988.
Still barely a team, still barely paid, and now being chased by a fleet they stole from — until someone turns up claiming to know where Peter came from.
An attempt to build something that would let everyone go home works exactly as well as that has ever worked.
The team is now in the business of finding people before a government does, and something came back through a doorway with them.
A burglar fresh out of prison is handed a suit that shrinks him, by an old man who needs a theft done and cannot do it himself.
After one operation too many goes wrong in public, the world asks the Avengers to sign something, and they do not agree about it.
Three stories in one season: a spirit of vengeance, an artificial intelligence, and a world that is not the world.
A royal family hiding on the moon is deposed and scattered across Hawaii.
The team wakes up somewhere with no sky, and has to work out what went wrong and when.
A year on, with someone missing and someone wearing a familiar face.
From here the show runs on its own track; see the canon note.
The last season is a tour through the last century, fixing what somebody else is trying to break.
On the run and off the books, Natasha goes back to the people she was raised with, which is not the same thing as family.
A prologue in 1995.
A new king inherits a country that has spent centuries hiding what it can do, and a challenger arrives who thinks that was a crime.
A fifteen-year-old with an internship he cannot explain wants to be taken seriously, and picks a fight with people salvaging things they should not have.
A brilliant, unbearable surgeon loses the use of his hands and chases a cure to a place that offers him something else entirely.
Asgard is promised an ending. Thor is stranded on the far side of the galaxy with a collar around his neck and no hammer to reach for.
Two teenagers in New Orleans wake up with powers that only work when they are near each other.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
The pair go after a trafficking ring, and find out what their powers cost other people.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
Six teenagers discover their parents have been doing something monstrous together for years.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
On the run and living rough, with a dinosaur.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
The last run, and the only Marvel Television show to cross over with another.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
Under house arrest and two days from freedom, Scott is pulled back into a rescue that has been thirty years in the planning.
Everything that has been building for ten years arrives at once, and it is not remotely enough.
What is left of the team works out what to do next. Do not watch this one first.
Spans five years.
A sitcom that is not a sitcom, in a town that should not exist.
Set three weeks after Endgame.
Two people who both knew the same man are made to work together and to decide what a shield is for.
A man parking cars in San Francisco under a name that is not his is found by the organization he ran away from.
A school trip across Europe, an adult who wants a favour, and a kid who would very much like one summer off.
A brother and sister hunt the worst thing their family ever produced. Cancelled after one season.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
With his name public and his life falling apart, Peter asks for a spell to make everyone forget, which goes about as well as you would expect.
Clint wants to be home for Christmas. A young archer with his old suit makes that difficult.
A girl who can punch holes between universes is being hunted, and the safest place for her is next to a man who keeps having the same dream.
A museum gift-shop worker with blackouts discovers what has been using them.
A teenager in Jersey City who writes fan fiction about the Avengers finds she can do something herself.
A lawyer who now has the same problem as her cousin would like to keep practicing law, thank you.
Two Guardians go to Earth to find Peter a Christmas present and pick a very specific one.
Thor is trying to work out who he is with nothing left to avenge, which is when something starts killing gods.
A country in mourning is pushed by the rest of the world, and by a kingdom under the sea that has stayed hidden even longer than it did.
Fury comes back to Earth for a problem that has been quietly building since the nineties.
The whole family is pulled into the world under reality, where somebody has been waiting a very long time for a way out.
Maya Lopez goes home to Oklahoma, and the man she ran from follows.
To save one of their own the Guardians have to go back to where he was made, and find out who made him.
Three people with light-based powers start swapping places every time they use them, which is a serious problem in a fight.
A witch with nothing left walks a road that grants a wish to whoever finishes it.
Matt Murdock has given up the other job. The man running for mayor has not given up anything.
The mayor's grip tightens and the lawyer stops pretending the law is going to be enough.
A man who thought he was finished is pulled back in. Under an hour, and it does not let up.
Riri Williams is back in Chicago building something she cannot afford, and someone offers to fund it.
An actor auditions for a superhero part in a Hollywood that already has real ones.
A washed-up mercenary is recruited by an organization that manages timelines, and immediately makes everything much worse.
Placement is loose on purpose; the film treats its own chronology as a joke.
A new Captain America walks into an international incident at the centre of government and cannot tell who arranged it.
A group of people who have all done unforgivable things are put in a room together, and it is not a rescue.
Four explorers come back from a trip changed, in a bright retro-futurist world that has already decided they are heroes.
Set in its own universe, not on the main timeline.
Working the city alone, with nobody left who remembers who he is.
Told outside the main story. Nothing here is needed to follow it.
Animated. Wakandan agents recovering stolen artifacts across history.
An anthology spanning centuries, with a different cast each time.
A version of Loki who escaped is arrested by an organization that polices the timeline itself.
The consequences of the first season's last shot, and someone having to hold the whole thing together.
Animated. Familiar stories with one thing changed, and then followed honestly to the end.
Alternate universes, so it does not sit on the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
An anthology. Every episode has a different cast, so a single list would be a lie.
More of the same idea, and rather more confident with it.
Alternate universes, so it does not sit on the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
An anthology. Every episode has a different cast, so a single list would be a lie.
Animated, and a direct continuation of the nineties series.
Its own universe, not the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
A continuation of the nineties series with its own large ensemble, not yet listed.
The animated series continues, still picking up exactly where 1997 left off.
The 1990s animated continuity. Same names as the films, different people.
The last run of the animated series.
Alternate universes, so it does not sit on the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
An anthology. Every episode has a different cast, so a single list would be a lie.
Animated. A different first year for Peter Parker.
Its own universe, not the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
Its own universe with its own versions of familiar people, not yet listed.
Animated, and not for children.
An alternate universe, not the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
An anthology in its own universe, with a rotating cast.