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Movies X-Men Movies — The Fox films from X-Men through The New Mutants, plus Legion and The Gifted. Disney+ TV Shows — WandaVision onward. Marvel Television — Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Inhumans, Cloak & Dagger, Runaways, Helstrom. Netflix TV Shows — The Defenders saga. Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher. Specials — Werewolf by Night, the Holiday Special, I Am Groot, and The Punisher's last outing. Marvel Shorts — One-Shots and the Team Thor mockumentaries. Minutes each, and only two of them matter. Post-Credit Scenes Not Out Yet — Announced and dated, but nothing you can watch. Off by default so the counts stay honest. Sony Spider-Man Movies — Raimi, Webb, the Venom films and the animated Spider-Verse. A separate continuity that No Way Home reaches into. Pre-MCU Marvel Films — Marvel characters licensed out to other studios, 1998 to 2015. Blade, Ghost Rider, the first Fantastic Four films.
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Legacy: The War and the 1940s 2 titles

The Nineties 1 title

The Avengers Assemble 7 titles

  3. The green Hulk seen from behind, filling the frame, with a small figure of Edward Norton facing him.

    The Incredible Hulk

    Movie June 13, 2008 1h 52m Set in 2011

    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.

After New York 1 title

  1. A bald man in glasses and a tie above a young couple, all in hot pink and purple.

    Marvel One-Shot: Item 47

    Movie August 29, 2012 12m Set in 2012

    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.

The Avengers Assemble 1 title

  1. Tony Stark in a battered suit surrounded by dozens of empty armours, fire behind him.

    Iron Man 3

    Movie May 3, 2013 2h 10m Set in 2012–2013

    After New York, the armour is a coping mechanism. Then a bombing campaign takes the fight somewhere the suit cannot follow.

    Christmas.

After New York 6 titles

  3. Captain America and the masked Winter Soldier facing each other across a grey helicarrier skyline.

    Captain America: The Winter SoldierEssential

    Movie April 4, 2014 2h 16m Set in 2014

    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.

    • Steve Rogers
    • Natasha Romanoff
    • Sam Wilson
    • Nick Fury
    • Alexander Pierce
    • Maria Hill
    • Sharon Carter
    • Peggy Carter
    • Arnim Zola
  5. The Guardians in bright orange and blue, Baby Groot at the front, Gamora and Nebula behind.

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2Essential

    Movie May 5, 2017 2h 16m Set in 2014

    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.

  6. The Avengers in formation with Ultron's metal face looming behind them.

    Avengers: Age of UltronEssential

    Movie May 1, 2015 2h 21m Set in 2015

    An attempt to build something that would let everyone go home works exactly as well as that has ever worked.

Civil War, Infinity War and the Snap 7 titles

  1. Ant-Man in his red and silver helmet, tiny against the Golden Gate Bridge, with Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas above.

    Ant-ManEssential

    Movie July 17, 2015 1h 57m Set in 2015

    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.

    • Scott Lang
    • Hank Pym
    • Hope van Dyne
    • Darren Cross
    • Luis
    • Cassie Lang
    • Janet van Dyne
  5. A long-haired Thor beside a grinning man in a shirt and tie, magenta halftone behind them.

    Team Thor

    Movie August 28, 2016 3m Set in 2016

    Where the God of Thunder was during Civil War: sharing a flat in Australia and not helping.

  6. Thor grinning to camera against teal and purple, hair loose over his shoulders.

    Team Thor: Part 2

    Movie February 14, 2017 5m Set in 2016

    The flatshare continues. Thor tries to get a job and does not understand money.

The Blip 5 titles

  1. Scarlett Johansson in a white tactical suit, arms crossed, red silhouettes of the family behind her.

    Black WidowEssential

    Movie July 9, 2021 2h 14m Set in 2016

    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.

  3. Spider-Man crouched on a rooftop with the Vulture's huge dark wings spread above him.

    Spider-Man: HomecomingEssential

    Movie July 7, 2017 2h 13m Set in 2016

    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.

Civil War, Infinity War and the Snap 1 title

  1. A silver-haired man with a blue chin stripe leans in on a wary younger man in a tie.

    Team Darryl

    Movie February 20, 2018 6m Set in 2018

    The flatmate gets a new roommate: an exiled ruler with no money and expensive taste.

The Blip 3 titles

  2. Thanos's gauntleted fist across the top, the whole Avengers cast arranged in an arc beneath it.

    Avengers: Infinity WarEssential

    Movie April 27, 2018 2h 29m Set in 2018

    Everything that has been building for ten years arrives at once, and it is not remotely enough.

After the Blip 9 titles

  1. Simu Liu mid-kick with glowing rings on both arms, a dragon curling through the background.

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten RingsEssential

    Movie September 3, 2021 2h 12m Set in 2024

    A man parking cars in San Francisco under a name that is not his is found by the organization he ran away from.

    • Shang-Chi
    • Xu Wenwu
    • Trevor Slattery
    • Wong
  3. Spider-Man in the black stealth suit against European landmarks, Mysterio in a green cape behind.

    Spider-Man: Far From HomeEssential

    Movie July 2, 2019 2h 9m Set in 2024

    A school trip across Europe, an adult who wants a favour, and a kid who would very much like one summer off.

  4. A furious man with a moustache in a blue jacket against a green screen, leaning into a microphone.

    The Daily Bugle

    Season October 23, 2019 6m Set in 2025

    One-minute in-universe news segments, shouted. Made to run alongside the Spider-Man films.

  5. Ten figures standing in silhouette on a beach at sunset, in a wide, quiet composition.

    EternalsEssential

    Movie November 5, 2021 2h 36m Set in 2024

    Beings who have been on Earth for seven thousand years, forbidden to interfere, are forced to decide what that rule was ever for.

    Reaches back to 5000 BC.

    • Sersi
  6. Spider-Man in the red and black suit inside a spiral of shattered glass and orange sparks.

    Spider-Man: No Way HomeEssential

    Movie December 17, 2021 2h 28m Set in 2024

    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.

    • Peter Parker
    • Stephen Strange
    • Michelle Jones
    • Ned Leeds
    • May Parker
    • Happy Hogan
    • Wong
    • Quentin Beck
    • J. Jonah Jameson
  7. Doctor Strange in a red cloak against a cracked mirror of himself, the Scarlet Witch in flames below.

    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessEssential

    Movie May 6, 2022 2h 6m Set in 2025

    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.

    • Stephen Strange
    • Wanda Maximoff
    • Wong
    • Christine Palmer
    • Karl Mordo

The Multiverse Saga 8 titles

  3. Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel and Monica Rambeau standing back to back against a blue and purple starfield.

    The MarvelsEssential

    Movie November 10, 2023 1h 45m Set in 2026

    Three people with light-based powers start swapping places every time they use them, which is a serious problem in a fight.

    • Carol Danvers
    • Kamala Khan
    • Monica Rambeau
    • Nick Fury
    • Goose
  4. Deadpool in red and Wolverine in yellow, shoulder to shoulder, claws out.

    Deadpool & WolverineEssential

    Movie July 26, 2024 2h 8m Set in 2024

    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.

    • Wade Wilson
    • Logan
    • Cassandra Nova
    • Vanessa Carlysle
    • Colossus
    • Negasonic Teenage Warhead

Other Universes 18 titles

Told outside the main story. Nothing here is needed to follow it.

  1. Hugh Jackman's face half in shadow with three claws raised across it.

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine

    Movie May 1, 2009 1h 47m Set in 1845–1979

    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.

  2. The young team standing in sixties clothes, arranged in a formal line against pale grey.

    X-Men: First Class

    Movie June 3, 2011 2h 12m Set in 1962

    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.

  9. Faces of five young people behind torn white handwritten lettering.

    The New Mutants

    Movie August 28, 2020 1h 34m Set in 2010s

    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.

  10. A silhouetted figure gripping their head as it erupts into a cloud of pink and blue.

    Legion — Season 1

    Season February 8, 2017 6h 40m Set in Unclear on purpose

    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.

  11. Two glowing blue figures with white hair entwined against a starfield.

    Legion — Season 2

    Season April 3, 2018 9h 10m Set in Unclear on purpose

    Still refusing to confirm anything, now with a full year of dance sequences.

    Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.

  12. A man in profile against mint green, hands and flowers blooming across his face and coat.

    Legion — Season 3

    Season June 24, 2019 6h 40m Set in Unclear on purpose

    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.

  13. Six people in a row against orange light, the man at the front raising a glowing hand.

    The Gifted — Season 1

    Season October 2, 2017 9h 45m Set in 2017

    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.

  14. A green-haired woman reaching forward with a glowing hand, five figures in blue behind her.

    The Gifted — Season 2

    Season September 25, 2018 12h Set in 2018

    The underground splits over how hard to fight back.

    Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.

  15. Three white claw marks torn across a red Japanese sun on an otherwise empty background.

    The Wolverine

    Movie July 26, 2013 2h 6m Set in 2013

    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.

  16. Deadpool sitting cross-legged in his red suit with arms folded, on plain white, swords on his back.

    Deadpool

    Movie February 12, 2016 1h 48m Set in 2016

    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.

  17. Deadpool posed on a wooden chair in a scatter of falling gold sparks, parodying Flashdance.

    Deadpool 2

    Movie May 18, 2018 1h 59m Set in 2018

    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.

  18. An older Hugh Jackman holding a young girl's hand, both in silhouette against a low orange sun.

    Logan

    Movie March 3, 2017 2h 17m Set in 2029

    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.