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.
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The 2000s 2 titles
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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
The 2010s 35 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Inhumans — Season 1
A royal family hiding on the moon is deposed and scattered across Hawaii.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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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
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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 22 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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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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-Man: Brand New DayEssential
Working the city alone, with nobody left who remembers who he is.