Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
Stuck on a desk and talked over by every man in the room, she goes and does the job anyway.
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Legacy: The War and the 1940s 3 titles
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Agent Carter — Season 1
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.
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Agent Carter — Season 2
Los Angeles, a new lab, and a case that turns on something nobody in it has the vocabulary for yet.
The Avengers Assemble 2 titles
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Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer
A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent stops for snacks and walks into an armed robbery. Four minutes, one joke, well told.
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Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant
Two agents in a diner work out how to disobey an order from above without appearing to.
After New York 6 titles
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Marvel One-Shot: Item 47
A broke couple find alien hardware in the wreckage of New York and use it to rob banks.
Two one-off characters who appear nowhere else. Nobody to keep track of.
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Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
A documentary crew interviews a jailed actor who is enjoying prison rather more than he should.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Season 1
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.
- Phil Coulson
- Melinda May
- Daisy Johnson
- Leo Fitz
- Jemma Simmons
- Grant Ward
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Season 2
Rebuilding from nothing, with a rival version of the same organization and a discovery about where some people's abilities come from.
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Daredevil — Season 1
A blind lawyer works Hell's Kitchen by day and does something less legal about it at night.
- Matt Murdock
- Karen Page
- Foggy Nelson
- Claire Temple
- Wilson Fisk
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Jessica Jones — Season 1
A private investigator who would rather not be anything else is forced to deal with a man she got away from once.
Civil War, Infinity War and the Snap 20 titles
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Daredevil — Season 2
Two people arrive in the neighborhood with methods Matt cannot live with, and one of them he used to love.
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Luke Cage — Season 1
A man with unbreakable skin who wanted a quiet job in Harlem is pulled into what the neighborhood is actually run by.
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Iron Fist — Season 1
A man declared dead fifteen years ago walks back into his family's company barefoot.
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The Defenders — Season 1
Four people who all work alone are pushed into the same room by the same conspiracy.
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The Punisher — Season 1
A man everyone believes is dead goes looking for the truth about the operation that killed his family.
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Jessica Jones — Season 2
Jessica finally looks into the accident that changed her, and would rather not find what she finds.
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Luke Cage — Season 2
Harlem has a new problem, and Luke has become something the neighborhood expects things from.
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Iron Fist — Season 2
A shorter, sharper season about what the fist is actually for.
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Daredevil — Season 3
Matt is presumed dead, which is convenient for the man being released from prison.
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The Punisher — Season 2
A road trip, a girl who needs protecting, and a man who cannot leave anything alone.
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Jessica Jones — Season 3
The last season, and the most personal antagonist the show ever gave her.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Season 3
The team is now in the business of finding people before a government does, and something came back through a doorway with them.
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WHiH Newsfront — Season 1
In-universe news bulletins covering the Avengers the way a rolling news channel would.
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WHiH Newsfront — Season 2
The same newsroom covering the fallout from Lagos, in the run-up to the Accords.
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Team Thor: Part 2
The flatshare continues. Thor tries to get a job and does not understand money.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Season 4
Three stories in one season: a spirit of vengeance, an artificial intelligence, and a world that is not the world.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot
Six five-minute episodes following one agent on a job the series only mentions.
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Inhumans — Season 1
A royal family hiding on the moon is deposed and scattered across Hawaii.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Season 5
The team wakes up somewhere with no sky, and has to work out what went wrong and when.
The Blip 7 titles
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Season 6
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.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Season 7
The last season is a tour through the last century, fixing what somebody else is trying to break.
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Cloak & Dagger — Season 1
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.
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Cloak & Dagger — Season 2
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.
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Runaways — Season 1
Six teenagers discover their parents have been doing something monstrous together for years.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
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Runaways — Season 2
On the run and living rough, with a dinosaur.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
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Runaways — Season 3
The last run, and the only Marvel Television show to cross over with another.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
Civil War, Infinity War and the Snap 1 title
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Team Darryl
The flatmate gets a new roommate: an exiled ruler with no money and expensive taste.
The Blip 1 title
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WandaVisionEssential
A sitcom that is not a sitcom, in a town that should not exist.
Set three weeks after Endgame.
- Wanda Maximoff
- Vision
- Billy Maximoff
- Agatha Harkness
After the Blip 8 titles
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The Falcon and the Winter SoldierEssential
Two people who both knew the same man are made to work together and to decide what a shield is for.
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Peter's To-Do List
Four minutes of errands before a school trip, done at speed and mostly badly.
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The Daily Bugle
One-minute in-universe news segments, shouted. Made to run alongside the Spider-Man films.
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Helstrom — Season 1
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.
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Hawkeye
Clint wants to be home for Christmas. A young archer with his old suit makes that difficult.
- Clint Barton
- Kate Bishop
- Maya Lopez
- Wilson Fisk
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Moon Knight
A museum gift-shop worker with blackouts discovers what has been using them.
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Ms. Marvel
A teenager in Jersey City who writes fan fiction about the Avengers finds she can do something herself.
- Kamala Khan
- Carol Danvers
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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
A lawyer who now has the same problem as her cousin would like to keep practicing law, thank you.
- Jennifer Walters
- Bruce Banner
- Wong
- Matt Murdock
The Multiverse Saga 7 titles
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Secret Invasion
Fury comes back to Earth for a problem that has been quietly building since the nineties.
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Echo
Maya Lopez goes home to Oklahoma, and the man she ran from follows.
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Agatha All Along
A witch with nothing left walks a road that grants a wish to whoever finishes it.
- Agatha Harkness
- Rio Vidal
- Billy Maximoff
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Daredevil: Born Again — Season 1
Matt Murdock has given up the other job. The man running for mayor has not given up anything.
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Daredevil: Born Again — Season 2Essential
The mayor's grip tightens and the lawyer stops pretending the law is going to be enough.
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Ironheart
Riri Williams is back in Chicago building something she cannot afford, and someone offers to fund it.
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Wonder Man — Season 1
An actor auditions for a superhero part in a Hollywood that already has real ones.
Other Universes 28 titles
Told outside the main story. Nothing here is needed to follow it.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
How Logan got the metal, told at length.
Reaches back to the 1840s.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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X-Men: First Class
Before any of it, two young men find each other and try to stop a war nobody else can see.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
The future has gone as badly as possible, so someone is sent back far enough to stop it starting.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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X-Men: Apocalypse
Something very old wakes up under Cairo and starts recruiting.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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Dark Phoenix
A rescue in orbit goes wrong and one of the team comes back holding far more than she can carry.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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Eyes of Wakanda
Animated. Wakandan agents recovering stolen artifacts across history.
An anthology spanning centuries, with a different cast each time.
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X-Men
Two men who agree about what is coming and about nothing else run rival schools for people born different.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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X2: X-Men United
A military scientist convinces a president that the problem needs solving, and old enemies have to work together.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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X-Men: The Last Stand
A company announces a cure, which is one word for it, and the question splits everyone.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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The New Mutants
Five young people are held in a facility for their own safety, which is not what is happening.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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Legion — Season 1
A man in a psychiatric hospital is told he is not ill. The show refuses to confirm anything.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
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Legion — Season 2
Still refusing to confirm anything, now with a full year of dance sequences.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
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Legion — Season 3
The last one, and the one that finally says what it has been about.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
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The Gifted — Season 1
A suburban family goes on the run when the children turn out to be mutants.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
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The Gifted — Season 2
The underground splits over how hard to fight back.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
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The Wolverine
Logan is summoned to Japan by a man he saved a long time ago who wants to return the favor.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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Deadpool
A mercenary takes an experimental cure, comes out unkillable and disfigured, and goes looking for the man responsible.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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Deadpool 2
Wade assembles a team, badly, to protect a boy from a soldier who has come a long way to kill him.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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Loki — Season 1Essential
A version of Loki who escaped is arrested by an organization that polices the timeline itself.
- Loki
- Mobius M. Mobius
- Ravonna Renslayer
- Sylvie Laufeydottir
- He Who Remains
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Loki — Season 2Essential
The consequences of the first season's last shot, and someone having to hold the whole thing together.
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Logan
An old man, a dying mentor, and a girl who needs driving across a country that has no use for any of them.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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What If…? — Season 1
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.
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What If…? — Season 2
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.
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X-Men '97 — Season 1
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.
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X-Men '97 — Season 2
The animated series continues, still picking up exactly where 1997 left off.
The 1990s animated continuity. Same names as the films, different people.
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What If…? — Season 3
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.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man — Season 1
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.
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Marvel Zombies
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.
Before the MCU 15 titles
Marvel characters licensed out, 1998 to 2015. None of it connects to anything else here.
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Blade
The film that proved a Marvel adaptation could work, two years before anyone else tried.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Blade II
A truce with the things he hunts, against something that hunts them.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Blade: Trinity
The third one, with a team he did not ask for.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Blade: The Series — Season 1
Twelve episodes on cable, then nothing. Very few people have seen it.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Hulk
Ang Lee's version, cut like a comic page and much stranger than its reputation.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Daredevil
The first go at the blind lawyer, twelve years before the good one.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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The Punisher
A man loses everything and works through a list. Sunnier than it sounds, which is the problem.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Elektra
A spin-off nobody asked for, out barely two years after the film it spun off.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Man-Thing
A swamp horror film that went straight to cable. Included for completeness, not enthusiasm.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Fantastic Four
The 2005 one. Bright, silly, and much less embarrassed about it than what came later.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
The sequel, and a chrome figure on a surfboard who is better than the film around him.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Ghost Rider
A stunt rider sells his soul and gets a flaming skull out of it.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Punisher: War Zone
A reboot four years later, far nastier, and quietly the best of the three.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
A sequel that gives up on being a normal film about twenty minutes in.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Fantastic Four
The grim one. Famously troubled, and it shows in every frame.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
Sony's Spider-Man Films 14 titles
Its own continuity. Two of these are the reason No Way Home lands the way it does.
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Spider-ManEssential
The one that started all of this. A teenager gets bitten and learns what it costs.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Spider-Man 2Essential
Still the high-water mark. A man who cannot afford to be a hero and does it anyway.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Spider-Man 3
Three villains, a black suit and a dance number. Beloved now for reasons it did not intend.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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The Amazing Spider-ManEssential
A reboot five years later, with a lighter lead and a much better romance.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2Essential
Overstuffed and building to a sequel that never came, but the ending is the reason to watch it.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseEssential
Animated, and the best thing anyone has done with this character on screen.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Venom
A journalist and the thing living in him argue their way through San Francisco.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Ninety-seven minutes, one red monster, and a mid-credits scene that mattered more than the film.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Morbius
A doctor cures himself into something worse. Famous mostly for how it was received.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseEssential
The middle chapter, and it ends mid-sentence on purpose.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Madame Web
A paramedic starts seeing a few seconds ahead. It does not go anywhere.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Venom: The Last Dance
The last of the three, and it says so in the title.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Kraven the Hunter
The last film Sony made in this vein before stopping.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Spider-Noir — Season 1
A private detective in a black coat, in black and white, in the Depression.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.