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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Doomsday is not out yet, so this is a reading of what matters going in, not a ruling.
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The 1990s 1 title
The 2000s 23 titles
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Iron ManEssential
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 Nick Fury introduces himself and mentions the Avenger Initiative.
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Post-credits scene · Iron Man
The offer
Someone is waiting in Tony's house with an offer.
Nick Fury introduces himself and mentions the Avenger Initiative.
Leads to The Avengers — Four years and five films away.
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The Incredible Hulk
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.
- Bruce Banner
- Thaddeus Ross
- Emil Blonsky
- Tony Stark
- After the credits A familiar face walks into a bar to talk to a general about a team. its own place below Tony Stark tells General Ross they're putting a team together.
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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.
Tony Stark tells General Ross they're putting a team together.
Leads to The Avengers — The same recruitment drive.
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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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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.
The 2010s 70 titles
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Iron Man 2
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.
- Tony Stark
- Pepper Potts
- James Rhodes
- Ivan Vanko
- Justin Hammer
- Nick Fury
- Phil Coulson
- Howard Stark
- Natasha Romanoff
- 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 Coulson has found Mjolnir.
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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.
Coulson has found Mjolnir.
Leads to Thor — Picks up moments later.
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ThorEssential
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.
- Thor
- Loki
- Odin
- Jane Foster
- Darcy Lewis
- Erik Selvig
- Heimdall
- Sif
- Frigga
- Phil Coulson
- Nick Fury
- Clint Barton
- 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 Erik Selvig is being quietly influenced by Loki, and the cube is the Tesseract.
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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.
Erik Selvig is being quietly influenced by Loki, and the cube is the Tesseract.
Leads to The Avengers — This is where that film starts.
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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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Captain America: The First AvengerEssential
A man too small and too sick to enlist is picked for an experiment because of exactly the qualities the army had been screening out.
Opens and closes in the present day.
- Steve Rogers
- Bucky Barnes
- Peggy Carter
- Johann Schmidt
- Howard Stark
- Abraham Erskine
- Arnim Zola
- Nick Fury
- After the credits Steve is training in a gym, and he is not alone. its own place below Fury tells him the world needs him for something.
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Post-credits scene · Captain America: The First Avenger
The world needs you
Steve is training in a gym, and he is not alone.
Fury tells him the world needs him for something.
Leads to The Avengers — Directly.
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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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The AvengersEssential
A spy agency spends its last favors assembling people who do not work well together, because the alternative is losing the planet.
- Tony Stark
- Steve Rogers
- Thor
- Bruce Banner
- Natasha Romanoff
- Clint Barton
- Loki
- Nick Fury
- Phil Coulson
- Maria Hill
- Pepper Potts
- Erik Selvig
- The Other
- Thanos
- Mid-credits Deep in space, someone is told what attacking Earth would mean. They smile. its own place below Thanos turns around for the first time.
- After the credits The team eats in silence. Nobody says anything at all. The shawarma scene.
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Mid-credits scene · The Avengers
The smile
Deep in space, someone is told what attacking Earth would mean. They smile.
Thanos turns around for the first time.
Leads to Avengers: Infinity War — Six years of setup starts here.
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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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Iron Man 3
After New York, the armour is a coping mechanism. Then a bombing campaign takes the fight somewhere the suit cannot follow.
Christmas.
- Tony Stark
- Pepper Potts
- James Rhodes
- Aldrich Killian
- Happy Hogan
- Harley Keener
- Trevor Slattery
- Bruce Banner
- After the credits Tony has been telling this whole story to someone, and they have not been listening. Bruce Banner has fallen asleep. He is not that kind of doctor.
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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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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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Thor: The Dark World
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.
- Thor
- Loki
- Jane Foster
- Odin
- Frigga
- Heimdall
- Darcy Lewis
- Erik Selvig
- Sif
- Malekith
- Algrim
- Taneleer Tivan
- Mid-credits An object is delivered for safekeeping to a man with a very strange collection. its own place below The Collector takes the Aether, and says one down, five to go.
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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.
The Collector takes the Aether, and says one down, five to go.
Leads to Guardians of the Galaxy — Same man, same collection.
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Captain America: The Winter SoldierEssential
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
- Bucky Barnes
- Wanda Maximoff
- Pietro Maximoff
- Baron Wolfgang von Strucker
- 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 Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, held by Baron von Strucker, with Loki's sceptre nearby.
- After the credits Someone reads their own museum exhibit. Bucky, at the Smithsonian, looking at who he used to be.
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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.
Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, held by Baron von Strucker, with Loki's sceptre nearby.
Leads to Avengers: Age of Ultron — The film opens on this facility.
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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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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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Guardians of the GalaxyEssential
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.
- Peter Quill
- Gamora
- Drax the Destroyer
- Rocket
- Groot
- Ronan the Accuser
- Nebula
- Yondu Udonta
- Taneleer Tivan
- Thanos
- Howard the Duck
- After the credits Back in the wreckage of the collection, something that should not be able to talk is drinking. Howard the Duck.
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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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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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Avengers: Age of UltronEssential
An attempt to build something that would let everyone go home works exactly as well as that has ever worked.
- Tony Stark
- Steve Rogers
- Thor
- Bruce Banner
- Natasha Romanoff
- Clint Barton
- Ultron
- Wanda Maximoff
- Pietro Maximoff
- Nick Fury
- James Rhodes
- Sam Wilson
- Maria Hill
- Ulysses Klaue
- Laura Barton
- Vision
- Thanos
- Mid-credits Someone has run out of patience with people doing his errands, and picks up a gauntlet. its own place below Thanos: fine, I'll do it myself.
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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.
Thanos: fine, I'll do it myself.
Leads to Avengers: Infinity War — And he does.
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Ant-ManEssential
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
- Sam Wilson
- Steve Rogers
- Bucky Barnes
- Mid-credits A suit that has been in storage a very long time is shown to the person it was always meant for. Hank shows Hope the Wasp prototype.
- After the credits Two Avengers have a friend in a bad situation and cannot call anyone official about it. its own place below Steve and Sam have Bucky trapped, and Sam says he knows a guy.
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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.
Steve and Sam have Bucky trapped, and Sam says he knows a guy.
Leads to Captain America: Civil War — That guy is Scott.
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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.
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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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Agent Carter — Season 2
Los Angeles, a new lab, and a case that turns on something nobody in it has the vocabulary for yet.
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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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Captain America: Civil WarEssential
After one operation too many goes wrong in public, the world asks the Avengers to sign something, and they do not agree about it.
- Steve Rogers
- Tony Stark
- Bucky Barnes
- Natasha Romanoff
- Sam Wilson
- James Rhodes
- Wanda Maximoff
- Vision
- Clint Barton
- Scott Lang
- T'Challa
- Peter Parker
- Helmut Zemo
- Sharon Carter
- Everett Ross
- Thaddeus Ross
- May Parker
- Mid-credits Somebody is put safely on ice in a country that has been keeping its abilities quiet. its own place below Bucky goes under in Wakanda, with T'Challa's protection.
- After the credits A teenager sits in his bedroom looking at a new piece of equipment. Peter and the web-shooter signal.
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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.
Bucky goes under in Wakanda, with T'Challa's protection.
Leads to Black Panther — He is still there.
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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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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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Doctor StrangeEssential
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 Thor, looking for Odin.
- After the credits Someone who left decides there are too many sorcerers in the world. Mordo, taking power from a former student.
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Mid-credits scene · Doctor Strange
Looking for a father
A visitor arrives at the Sanctum asking for help finding a missing person.
Thor, looking for Odin.
Leads to Thor: Ragnarok — The scene is replayed there.
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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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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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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2Essential
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.
- Peter Quill
- Gamora
- Drax the Destroyer
- Rocket
- Groot
- Nebula
- Yondu Udonta
- Mantis
- Kraglin
- Ego
- Adam Warlock
- After the credits A gold woman stands over a cocoon and names what is growing inside it. its own place below Ayesha calls him Adam.
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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.
Ayesha calls him Adam.
Leads to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — Six years later.
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Spider-Man: HomecomingEssential
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.
- Peter Parker
- Adrian Toomes
- Tony Stark
- Happy Hogan
- May Parker
- Ned Leeds
- Michelle Jones
- Liz Allan
- Steve Rogers
- Mid-credits In prison, one villain asks another for a name, and does not get it. Gargan asks Toomes who Spider-Man is. Toomes says he has no idea.
- After the credits A public service announcement about patience, which is also a joke at your expense. Captain America, on waiting.
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Inhumans — Season 1
A royal family hiding on the moon is deposed and scattered across Hawaii.
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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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Thor: RagnarokEssential
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.
- Thor
- Loki
- Hela
- Valkyrie
- The Grandmaster
- Korg
- Heimdall
- Odin
- Stephen Strange
- Bruce Banner
- Mid-credits The refugee ship is stopped by something enormous. its own place below Thanos's ship, the Sanctuary II.
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Mid-credits scene · Thor: Ragnarok
Something enormous
The refugee ship is stopped by something enormous.
Thanos's ship, the Sanctuary II.
Leads to Avengers: Infinity War — That film opens seconds later.
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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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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.
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Black PantherEssential
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.
- T'Challa
- Erik Killmonger
- Nakia
- Okoye
- Shuri
- Ramonda
- M'Baku
- Ulysses Klaue
- Everett Ross
- Bucky Barnes
- Mid-credits A king tells the United Nations that his country has been keeping something from them. T'Challa reveals Wakanda to the world.
- After the credits Someone who was put on ice wakes up, and children outside call him a new name. Bucky, healed, called the White Wolf.
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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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Avengers: Infinity WarEssential
Everything that has been building for ten years arrives at once, and it is not remotely enough.
- Thanos
- Tony Stark
- Steve Rogers
- Thor
- Bruce Banner
- Natasha Romanoff
- Stephen Strange
- Peter Parker
- T'Challa
- Peter Quill
- Gamora
- Drax the Destroyer
- Rocket
- Groot
- Mantis
- Nebula
- Loki
- Heimdall
- Vision
- Wanda Maximoff
- Sam Wilson
- James Rhodes
- Okoye
- Shuri
- Wong
- Pepper Potts
- The Stonekeeper
- Nick Fury
- Maria Hill
- Carol Danvers
- After the credits As everything falls apart, someone sends one last message on a very old device. its own place below Fury pages Captain Marvel.
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Post-credits scene · Avengers: Infinity War
The last page
As everything falls apart, someone sends one last message on a very old device.
Fury pages Captain Marvel.
Leads to Captain Marvel — The film exists to answer this.
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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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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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Ant-Man and the WaspEssential
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 Everyone but Scott is dusted, leaving him stranded.
- After the credits An empty house, and a very large insect nobody is left to be annoyed by.
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Mid-credits scene · Ant-Man and the Wasp
Stranded
A routine trip into the quantum realm goes wrong, because something has happened topside.
Everyone but Scott is dusted, leaving him stranded.
Leads to Avengers: Endgame — This is why he is missing.
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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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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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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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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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Captain MarvelEssential
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 Carol arrives at Avengers HQ.
- After the credits The cat gets the last word. Goose coughs up the Tesseract.
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Mid-credits scene · Captain Marvel
She answered
Years later, the pager stops beeping, and the person who answered it is standing there.
Carol arrives at Avengers HQ.
Leads to Avengers: Endgame
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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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Avengers: EndgameEssential
What is left of the team works out what to do next. Do not watch this one first.
Spans five years.
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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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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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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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Spider-Man: Far From HomeEssential
A school trip across Europe, an adult who wants a favour, and a kid who would very much like one summer off.
- Peter Parker
- Quentin Beck
- Michelle Jones
- Ned Leeds
- May Parker
- Happy Hogan
- Nick Fury
- Maria Hill
- Talos
- J. Jonah Jameson
- Mid-credits A news broadcast makes two announcements, and the second one ruins Peter's life. its own place below J. Jonah Jameson airs doctored footage and names Spider-Man as Peter Parker.
- After the credits Two characters you have been watching turn out to have been someone else the whole time. Fury and Hill were Talos and Soren; the real Fury is off-world.
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Mid-credits scene · Spider-Man: Far From Home
The broadcast
A news broadcast makes two announcements, and the second one ruins Peter's life.
J. Jonah Jameson airs doctored footage and names Spider-Man as Peter Parker.
Leads to Spider-Man: No Way Home — The whole film is the fallout.
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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.
The 2020s 35 titles
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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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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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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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Black WidowEssential
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.
- Natasha Romanoff
- Yelena Belova
- Alexei Shostakov
- General Dreykov
- Taskmaster
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
- After the credits At a graveside, a woman with a clipboard hands out a new assignment. its own place below Valentina points Yelena at Clint Barton.
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Post-credits scene · Black Widow
A new assignment
At a graveside, a woman with a clipboard hands out a new assignment.
Valentina points Yelena at Clint Barton.
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten RingsEssential
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
- Emil Blonsky
- Wong
- Bruce Banner
- Carol Danvers
- Mid-credits Two Avengers join a call about the rings, and nobody can explain what they are. its own place below Wong brings Shang-Chi and Katy to meet Banner and Carol Danvers.
- After the credits A sister who promised to shut something down has done the opposite. Xialing has taken over the Ten Rings.
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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.
Wong brings Shang-Chi and Katy to meet Banner and Carol Danvers.
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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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EternalsEssential
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
- Eros
- Eric Brooks
- Mid-credits Someone arrives on the ship claiming to be related to a character you already know. Eros, brother of Thanos, with Pip the Troll.
- After the credits In the dark, a voice stops a man from picking something up. Blade, unseen, speaking to Dane Whitman.
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Spider-Man: No Way HomeEssential
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
- Otto Octavius
- Norman Osborn
- Max Dillon
- Flint Marko
- Curt Connors
- Matt Murdock
- 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. Eddie Brock and Venom, leaving a fragment of symbiote behind.
- After the credits Not a scene. A trailer for what comes next.
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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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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessEssential
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
- Reed Richards
- Captain Carter
- Black Bolt
- Maria Rambeau as Captain Marvel
- Mid-credits A woman stops Strange in the street and tells him he has caused a problem he now has to fix. Clea opens an incursion and takes him with her.
- After the credits A minor character from earlier gets the very last shot. Pizza Poppa: I'm fine.
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Thor: Love and Thunder
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. Zeus sends Hercules after Thor.
- After the credits Somebody is welcomed somewhere they earned. Jane arrives in Valhalla, met by Heimdall.
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Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverEssential
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.
- Shuri
- Ramonda
- Namor
- Okoye
- Nakia
- M'Baku
- Riri Williams
- Everett Ross
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
- Toussaint
- Mid-credits On a beach in Haiti, Shuri is introduced to someone she did not know existed. Nakia and T'Challa's son, Toussaint.
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Two Guardians go to Earth to find Peter a Christmas present and pick a very specific one.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaEssential
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. The Council of Kangs.
- After the credits In 1901, two people watch a demonstration by an inventor who should not be there. Loki and Mobius watching Victor Timely.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3Essential
To save one of their own the Guardians have to go back to where he was made, and find out who made him.
- Rocket
- Peter Quill
- Gamora
- Drax the Destroyer
- Nebula
- Mantis
- Groot
- Kraglin
- The High Evolutionary
- Adam Warlock
- Mid-credits A new line-up stands around waiting for something to happen. Rocket's team: Groot, Kraglin, Cosmo, Adam and Phyla.
- After the credits A card promises a particular character will return. The legendary Star-Lord will return.
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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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The MarvelsEssential
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
- Valkyrie
- Hank McCoy
- After the credits Someone wakes up in a house that is not quite right, and a doctor explains where she is. Monica in the X-Men universe, met by Beast.
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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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Deadpool & WolverineEssential
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
- Eric Brooks
- Elektra Natchios
- Laura
- Remy LeBeau
- Johnny Storm
- Victor Creed
- St. John Allerdyce
- Happy Hogan
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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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Captain America: Brave New WorldEssential
A new Captain America walks into an international incident at the centre of government and cannot tell who arranged it.
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Thunderbolts*Essential
A group of people who have all done unforgivable things are put in a room together, and it is not a rescue.
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The Fantastic Four: First StepsEssential
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.
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The Punisher: One Last Kill
A man who thought he was finished is pulled back in. Under an hour, and it does not let up.
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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.
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Spider-Man: Brand New DayEssential
Working the city alone, with nobody left who remembers who he is.
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Spidey and the Avengers: Halloween Team-Up!
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.
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VisionQuest — Season 1
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.
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Avengers: DoomsdayEssential
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.