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The 1990s 1 title

  1. A man in dark glasses reaching over his shoulder to draw a glowing sword, on deep red.

    Blade

    Movie August 21, 1998 2h 1m Set in 1998

    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.

The 2000s 20 titles

  2. A man in a long leather coat holding a sword upright in front of him, grey smoke behind.

    Blade II

    Movie March 22, 2002 1h 57m Set in 2002

    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.

  3. A figure in dark red leather on a rooftop in the rain, three others ranged below.

    Daredevil

    Movie February 14, 2003 1h 43m Set in 2003

    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.

  5. A huge green figure filling the frame between city buildings, fists clenched.

    Hulk

    Movie June 20, 2003 2h 18m Set in 2003

    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.

  6. A man in a black coat with a skull on his chest, standing in a dark corridor above a huge painted skull.

    The Punisher

    Movie April 16, 2004 2h 4m Set in 2004

    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.

  7. Three figures against blue-grey smoke, the man in front crossing bladed gauntlets over his chest.

    Blade: Trinity

    Movie December 8, 2004 1h 53m Set in 2004

    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.

  8. A woman in red leather holding two curved sai crossed in front of her.

    Elektra

    Movie January 14, 2005 1h 37m Set in 2005

    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.

  9. A small figure in a boat on a green swamp, sunlight cutting between hanging trees.

    Man-Thing

    Movie April 21, 2005 1h 37m Set in 2005

    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.

  10. Four figures in blue suits in front of a bridge, one made of orange rock, one on fire.

    Fantastic Four

    Movie July 8, 2005 1h 46m Set in 2005

    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.

  12. A woman with two pistols back to back with a tattooed man holding a gun, on blood red.

    Blade: The Series — Season 1

    Season June 28, 2006 45m Set in 2006

    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.

  13. A flaming skeleton on a burning motorcycle below two faces in close-up.

    Ghost Rider

    Movie February 16, 2007 1h 54m Set in 2007

    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.

  14. A chrome figure on a surfboard above four people in blue suits, skyscrapers behind.

    Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

    Movie June 15, 2007 1h 32m Set in 2007

    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.

  15. Robert Downey Jr in the red and gold Iron Man armour, helmet off, standing over a burning desert.

    Iron ManEssential

    Movie May 2, 2008 2h 6m Set in 2010

    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.

    • After the credits Someone is waiting in Tony's house with an offer. its own place below

  16. Post-credits scene · Iron Man

    The offer

    Someone is waiting in Tony's house with an offer.

    Leads to The Avengers — Four years and five films away.

  17. 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 the credits A familiar face walks into a bar to talk to a general about a team. its own place below

  18. Post-credits scene · The Incredible Hulk

    Putting a team together

    A familiar face walks into a bar to talk to a general about a team.

    Leads to The Avengers — The same recruitment drive.

  19. A man in black body armour holding a rifle, lit hard against a black background.

    Punisher: War Zone

    Movie December 5, 2008 1h 42m Set in 2008

    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.

  20. 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.

The 2010s 79 titles

  1. Two armoured figures back to back, the red and gold suit beside the grey War Machine, guns raised.

    Iron Man 2

    Movie May 7, 2010 2h 4m Set in 2011

    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.

    • After the credits A car pulls up in the New Mexico desert, and someone makes a phone call about what's in the crater. its own place below

  2. Post-credits scene · Iron Man 2

    Something in the desert

    A car pulls up in the New Mexico desert, and someone makes a phone call about what's in the crater.

    Leads to Thor — Picks up moments later.

  3. Chris Hemsworth in Asgardian armour holding Mjolnir, with Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins above him.

    ThorEssential

    Movie May 6, 2011 1h 55m Set in 2011

    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.

    • After the credits Fury shows a scientist a glowing cube and asks him to study it. Someone else is in the room. its own place below

  4. Post-credits scene · Thor

    The cube

    Fury shows a scientist a glowing cube and asks him to study it. Someone else is in the room.

    Leads to The Avengers — This is where that film starts.

  5. 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.

  6. Chris Evans in the wartime Captain America uniform, shield raised, amid flying debris.

    Captain America: The First AvengerEssential

    Movie July 22, 2011 2h 4m Set in 1943–1945

    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.

    • After the credits Steve is training in a gym, and he is not alone. its own place below

  7. Post-credits scene · Captain America: The First Avenger

    The world needs you

    Steve is training in a gym, and he is not alone.

    Leads to The Avengers — Directly.

  10. A burning skeletal rider on a blazing motorcycle, wheels trailing fire.

    Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

    Movie December 10, 2011 1h 36m Set in 2011

    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.

  11. The six Avengers standing together in a wrecked New York street, the city torn open behind them.

    The AvengersEssential

    Movie May 4, 2012 2h 23m Set in 2012

    A spy agency spends its last favors assembling people who do not work well together, because the alternative is losing the planet.

    • Mid-credits Deep in space, someone is told what attacking Earth would mean. They smile. its own place below
    • After the credits The team eats in silence. Nobody says anything at all.

  12. Mid-credits scene · The Avengers

    The smile

    Deep in space, someone is told what attacking Earth would mean. They smile.

    Leads to Avengers: Infinity War — Six years of setup starts here.

  13. 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.

  14. 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 the credits Tony has been telling this whole story to someone, and they have not been listening.
  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.

  18. Thor with hammer raised in front of a dark elf army, Natalie Portman and the cast ranged below.

    Thor: The Dark World

    Movie November 8, 2013 1h 52m Set in 2013

    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.

    • Mid-credits An object is delivered for safekeeping to a man with a very strange collection. its own place below

  19. Mid-credits scene · Thor: The Dark World

    One down, five to go

    An object is delivered for safekeeping to a man with a very strange collection.

    Leads to Guardians of the Galaxy — Same man, same collection.

  21. 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
    • Mid-credits In a facility somewhere in Europe, two people are being held in cells. Both can do things they should not be able to do. its own place below
    • After the credits Someone reads their own museum exhibit.

  22. Mid-credits scene · Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    Two people in cells

    In a facility somewhere in Europe, two people are being held in cells. Both can do things they should not be able to do.

    Leads to Avengers: Age of Ultron — The film opens on this facility.

  24. The five Guardians walking forward in a line, Star-Lord in his red coat leading, a raccoon and a tree beside him.

    Guardians of the GalaxyEssential

    Movie August 1, 2014 2h 1m Set in 2014

    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.

    • After the credits Back in the wreckage of the collection, something that should not be able to talk is drinking.
  27. 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.

    • Mid-credits Someone has run out of patience with people doing his errands, and picks up a gauntlet. its own place below

  28. Mid-credits scene · Avengers: Age of Ultron

    Fine, I'll do it myself

    Someone has run out of patience with people doing his errands, and picks up a gauntlet.

    Leads to Avengers: Infinity War — And he does.

  30. 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
    • Mid-credits A suit that has been in storage a very long time is shown to the person it was always meant for.
    • After the credits Two Avengers have a friend in a bad situation and cannot call anyone official about it. its own place below

  31. Post-credits scene · Ant-Man

    I know a guy

    Two Avengers have a friend in a bad situation and cannot call anyone official about it.

    Leads to Captain America: Civil War — That guy is Scott.

  32. Four figures in dark suits in front of a huge rock creature, ruins smoking behind.

    Fantastic Four

    Movie August 7, 2015 1h 40m Set in 2015

    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.

  35. 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.

  37. Captain America and Iron Man in profile facing each other, a cracked shield split between them.

    Captain America: Civil WarEssential

    Movie May 6, 2016 2h 27m Set in 2016

    After one operation too many goes wrong in public, the world asks the Avengers to sign something, and they do not agree about it.

    • Mid-credits Somebody is put safely on ice in a country that has been keeping its abilities quiet. its own place below
    • After the credits A teenager sits in his bedroom looking at a new piece of equipment.

  38. Mid-credits scene · Captain America: Civil War

    Safe in Wakanda

    Somebody is put safely on ice in a country that has been keeping its abilities quiet.

    Leads to Black Panther — He is still there.

  40. 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.

  42. Benedict Cumberbatch in the red cloak standing inside a folding, kaleidoscopic city.

    Doctor StrangeEssential

    Movie November 4, 2016 1h 55m Set in 2016–2017

    A brilliant, unbearable surgeon loses the use of his hands and chases a cure to a place that offers him something else entirely.

    • Mid-credits A visitor arrives at the Sanctum asking for help finding a missing person. its own place below
    • After the credits Someone who left decides there are too many sorcerers in the world.

  43. Mid-credits scene · Doctor Strange

    Looking for a father

    A visitor arrives at the Sanctum asking for help finding a missing person.

    Leads to Thor: Ragnarok — The scene is replayed there.

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

    Legion — Season 1

    Season February 8, 2017 50m 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.

  46. 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.

  47. 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.

  48. 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.

    • After the credits A gold woman stands over a cocoon and names what is growing inside it. its own place below

  49. Post-credits scene · Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

    What is in the cocoon

    A gold woman stands over a cocoon and names what is growing inside it.

    Leads to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — Six years later.

  50. 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.

    • Mid-credits In prison, one villain asks another for a name, and does not get it.
    • After the credits A public service announcement about patience, which is also a joke at your expense.
  52. 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 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.

  53. Thor in gladiator armour with a short haircut, flanked by Hulk, Valkyrie and Loki in acid greens and purples.

    Thor: RagnarokEssential

    Movie November 3, 2017 2h 10m Set in 2017

    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.

    • Mid-credits The refugee ship is stopped by something enormous. its own place below

  54. Mid-credits scene · Thor: Ragnarok

    Something enormous

    The refugee ship is stopped by something enormous.

    Leads to Avengers: Infinity War — That film opens seconds later.

  55. Six teenagers standing in a line against a pale sky and palm trees.

    Runaways — Season 1

    Season November 21, 2017 50m Set in 2017

    Six teenagers discover their parents have been doing something monstrous together for years.

    A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.

  57. T'Challa on a carved throne in the black Panther suit, his warriors standing around him.

    Black PantherEssential

    Movie February 16, 2018 2h 14m Set in 2016

    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.

    • Mid-credits A king tells the United Nations that his country has been keeping something from them.
    • After the credits Someone who was put on ice wakes up, and children outside call him a new name.
  58. 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.

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

    Legion — Season 2

    Season April 3, 2018 50m 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.

  60. 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 credits As everything falls apart, someone sends one last message on a very old device. its own place below

  61. Post-credits scene · Avengers: Infinity War

    The last page

    As everything falls apart, someone sends one last message on a very old device.

    Leads to Captain Marvel — The film exists to answer this.

  62. 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.

  63. A young woman holding a blade of light beside a young man wrapped in a dark cloak, on a rooftop.

    Cloak & Dagger — Season 1

    Season June 7, 2018 44m Set in 2018

    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.

  64. Ant-Man and the Wasp in red and gold, tilted diagonally across bright yellow ribbons of light.

    Ant-Man and the WaspEssential

    Movie July 6, 2018 1h 58m Set in 2018

    Under house arrest and two days from freedom, Scott is pulled back into a rescue that has been thirty years in the planning.

    • Mid-credits A routine trip into the quantum realm goes wrong, because something has happened topside. its own place below
    • After the credits An empty house, and a very large insect nobody is left to be annoyed by.

  65. Mid-credits scene · Ant-Man and the Wasp

    Stranded

    A routine trip into the quantum realm goes wrong, because something has happened topside.

    Leads to Avengers: Endgame — This is why he is missing.

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

    The Gifted — Season 2

    Season September 25, 2018 45m Set in 2018

    The underground splits over how hard to fight back.

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

  67. Six teenagers and a raptor drawn as bright graffiti on a brick wall.

    Runaways — Season 2

    Season December 21, 2018 50m Set in 2018

    On the run and living rough, with a dinosaur.

    A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.

  68. Brie Larson glowing gold and blue, hair alight, arms out, a starfield behind her.

    Captain MarvelEssential

    Movie March 8, 2019 2h 3m Set in 1995

    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.

    • Mid-credits Years later, the pager stops beeping, and the person who answered it is standing there. its own place below
    • After the credits The cat gets the last word.

  69. Mid-credits scene · Captain Marvel

    She answered

    Years later, the pager stops beeping, and the person who answered it is standing there.

    Leads to Avengers: Endgame

  70. Two faces split down the middle by a jagged green line, one in smoke and one in light.

    Cloak & Dagger — Season 2

    Season April 4, 2019 44m Set in 2019

    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.

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

    Legion — Season 3

    Season June 24, 2019 50m 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.

  75. 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.

    • Mid-credits A news broadcast makes two announcements, and the second one ruins Peter's life. its own place below
    • After the credits Two characters you have been watching turn out to have been someone else the whole time.

  76. Mid-credits scene · Spider-Man: Far From Home

    The broadcast

    A news broadcast makes two announcements, and the second one ruins Peter's life.

    Leads to Spider-Man: No Way Home — The whole film is the fallout.

  78. 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 1m Set in 2025

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

  79. Six figures standing inside a huge golden ring, purple smoke pouring around it.

    Runaways — Season 3

    Season December 13, 2019 50m Set in 2019

    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 2020s 28 titles

  2. 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.

  3. A man and a woman in profile, black and white, a screaming figure boiling out of smoke above them.

    Helstrom — Season 1

    Season October 16, 2020 50m Set in 2020

    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.

  4. 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.

    • After the credits At a graveside, a woman with a clipboard hands out a new assignment. its own place below

  5. Post-credits scene · Black Widow

    A new assignment

    At a graveside, a woman with a clipboard hands out a new assignment.

  6. 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
    • Mid-credits Two Avengers join a call about the rings, and nobody can explain what they are. its own place below
    • After the credits A sister who promised to shut something down has done the opposite.

  7. Mid-credits scene · Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    Nobody knows what they are

    Two Avengers join a call about the rings, and nobody can explain what they are.

  8. 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
    • Mid-credits Someone arrives on the ship claiming to be related to a character you already know.
    • After the credits In the dark, a voice stops a man from picking something up.
  9. 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
    • Mid-credits In a bar somewhere very warm, a man is being caught up on this universe's news, then is pulled back.
    • After the credits Not a scene. A trailer for what comes next.
  10. 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
    • Mid-credits A woman stops Strange in the street and tells him he has caused a problem he now has to fix.
    • After the credits A minor character from earlier gets the very last shot.
  11. Thor and the Mighty Thor with hammers raised, in hot pink and blue eighties colours.

    Thor: Love and Thunder

    Movie July 8, 2022 1h 58m Set in 2025

    Thor is trying to work out who he is with nothing left to avenge, which is when something starts killing gods.

    • Mid-credits A god who has been humiliated sends his son to deal with the person responsible.
    • After the credits Somebody is welcomed somewhere they earned.
  12. Baby Groot lounging in a tiny lounge chair beside a small palm tree.

    I Am Groot — Season 1

    Season August 10, 2022 20m Set in Various

    Five very short animated shorts about a small tree causing problems.

  14. The Black Panther mask carved in stone above a Wakandan skyline, with the cast in silhouette below.

    Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverEssential

    Movie November 11, 2022 2h 41m Set in 2025

    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.

    • Mid-credits On a beach in Haiti, Shuri is introduced to someone she did not know existed.
  16. Ant-Man and the Wasp standing in a swirling blue and purple quantum landscape.

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaEssential

    Movie February 17, 2023 2h 4m Set in 2026

    The whole family is pulled into the world under reality, where somebody has been waiting a very long time for a way out.

    • Mid-credits A vast assembly is called to order, and every single person there is the same person.
    • After the credits In 1901, two people watch a demonstration by an inventor who should not be there.
  17. The Guardians seated together with Cosmo the dog, in warm orange and gold light.

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3Essential

    Movie May 5, 2023 2h 30m Set in 2026

    To save one of their own the Guardians have to go back to where he was made, and find out who made him.

    • Mid-credits A new line-up stands around waiting for something to happen.
    • After the credits A card promises a particular character will return.
  19. 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
    • After the credits Someone wakes up in a house that is not quite right, and a doctor explains where she is.
  20. 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
  26. Bright cartoon Iron Man, Spider-Man, Captain America and Hulk trick-or-treating on a sunny street.

    Spidey and the Avengers: Halloween Team-Up!

    Movie September 24, 2026 45m Set in Its own continuity

    A Disney Junior Halloween special. Made for small children and not part of the main story at all.

    A preschool special in its own continuity. The characters share names with the films and nothing else.

  27. A silver android reading a newspaper in an armchair, a second, older one standing behind.

    VisionQuest — Season 1

    Season October 14, 2026 50m Set in 2026

    Announced for October. Nothing here spoils it, because nobody has seen it.

    Not out yet. A cast has been announced; until the show exists, printing one here would be repeating rumour as fact.

  28. A hooded, masked figure in a dark green cloak against a wall of glowing green metalwork.

    Avengers: DoomsdayEssential

    Movie December 18, 2026 2h 45m Set in 2027

    The one everything has been pointing at. Out in December; nothing here spoils it, because nobody has seen it.

    Not out yet. Marvel has announced a cast; until the film exists, printing one here would be repeating rumour as fact — and the reveals are exactly what this site is for.