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Marvel Cinematic Universe · Release Order
Doomsday is not out yet, so this is a reading of what matters going in, not a ruling.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 spy agency spends its last favors assembling people who do not work well together, because the alternative is losing the planet.
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.
After New York, the armour is a coping mechanism. Then a bombing campaign takes the fight somewhere the suit cannot follow.
Christmas.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Rebuilding from nothing, with a rival version of the same organization and a discovery about where some people's abilities come from.
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.
An attempt to build something that would let everyone go home works exactly as well as that has ever worked.
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.
The team is now in the business of finding people before a government does, and something came back through a doorway with them.
Los Angeles, a new lab, and a case that turns on something nobody in it has the vocabulary for yet.
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.
After one operation too many goes wrong in public, the world asks the Avengers to sign something, and they do not agree about it.
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.
Three stories in one season: a spirit of vengeance, an artificial intelligence, and a world that is not the world.
A brilliant, unbearable surgeon loses the use of his hands and chases a cure to a place that offers him something else entirely.
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.
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.
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.
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 royal family hiding on the moon is deposed and scattered across Hawaii.
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.
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.
Six teenagers discover their parents have been doing something monstrous together for years.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
The team wakes up somewhere with no sky, and has to work out what went wrong and when.
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.
Still refusing to confirm anything, now with a full year of dance sequences.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
Everything that has been building for ten years arrives at once, and it is not remotely enough.
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.
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.
Under house arrest and two days from freedom, Scott is pulled back into a rescue that has been thirty years in the planning.
The underground splits over how hard to fight back.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
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.
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.
On the run and living rough, with a dinosaur.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
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.
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.
What is left of the team works out what to do next. Do not watch this one first.
Spans five years.
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.
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.
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.
A school trip across Europe, an adult who wants a favour, and a kid who would very much like one summer off.
The last run, and the only Marvel Television show to cross over with another.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
The last season is a tour through the last century, fixing what somebody else is trying to break.
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.
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.
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 version of Loki who escaped is arrested by an organization that polices the timeline itself.
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.
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.
A man parking cars in San Francisco under a name that is not his is found by the organization he ran away from.
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.
Clint wants to be home for Christmas. A young archer with his old suit makes that difficult.
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.
A museum gift-shop worker with blackouts discovers what has been using them.
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.
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 teenager in Jersey City who writes fan fiction about the Avengers finds she can do something herself.
Thor is trying to work out who he is with nothing left to avenge, which is when something starts killing gods.
A lawyer who now has the same problem as her cousin would like to keep practicing law, thank you.
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.
The whole family is pulled into the world under reality, where somebody has been waiting a very long time for a way out.
To save one of their own the Guardians have to go back to where he was made, and find out who made him.
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.
Fury comes back to Earth for a problem that has been quietly building since the nineties.
The consequences of the first season's last shot, and someone having to hold the whole thing together.
Three people with light-based powers start swapping places every time they use them, which is a serious problem in a fight.
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.
Maya Lopez goes home to Oklahoma, and the man she ran from follows.
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.
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.
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 witch with nothing left walks a road that grants a wish to whoever finishes it.
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.
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.
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.
A new Captain America walks into an international incident at the centre of government and cannot tell who arranged it.
Matt Murdock has given up the other job. The man running for mayor has not given up anything.
A group of people who have all done unforgivable things are put in a room together, and it is not a rescue.
Riri Williams is back in Chicago building something she cannot afford, and someone offers to fund it.
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.
Animated. Wakandan agents recovering stolen artifacts across history.
An anthology spanning centuries, with a different cast each time.
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.
An actor auditions for a superhero part in a Hollywood that already has real ones.
The mayor's grip tightens and the lawyer stops pretending the law is going to be enough.
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.
The animated series continues, still picking up exactly where 1997 left off.
The 1990s animated continuity. Same names as the films, different people.
Working the city alone, with nobody left who remembers who he is.
