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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The 1990s 1 title
The 2000s 15 titles
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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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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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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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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.
The 2010s 46 titles
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Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant
Two agents in a diner work out how to disobey an order from above without appearing to.
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Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer
A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent stops for snacks and walks into an armed robbery. Four minutes, one joke, well told.
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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 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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Marvel One-Shot: Item 47
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.
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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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Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
Stuck on a desk and talked over by every man in the room, she goes and does the job anyway.
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Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
A documentary crew interviews a jailed actor who is enjoying prison rather more than he should.
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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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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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Daredevil — Season 1
A blind lawyer works Hell's Kitchen by day and does something less legal about it at night.
- Matt Murdock
- Karen Page
- Foggy Nelson
- Claire Temple
- Wilson Fisk
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WHiH Newsfront — Season 1
In-universe news bulletins covering the Avengers the way a rolling news channel would.
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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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Jessica Jones — Season 1
A private investigator who would rather not be anything else is forced to deal with a man she got away from once.
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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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Daredevil — Season 2
Two people arrive in the neighborhood with methods Matt cannot live with, and one of them he used to love.
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WHiH Newsfront — Season 2
The same newsroom covering the fallout from Lagos, in the run-up to the Accords.
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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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Luke Cage — Season 1
A man with unbreakable skin who wanted a quiet job in Harlem is pulled into what the neighborhood is actually run by.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot
Six five-minute episodes following one agent on a job the series only mentions.
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Team Thor: Part 2
The flatshare continues. Thor tries to get a job and does not understand money.
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Iron Fist — Season 1
A man declared dead fifteen years ago walks back into his family's company barefoot.
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The Defenders — Season 1
Four people who all work alone are pushed into the same room by the same conspiracy.
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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 Punisher — Season 1
A man everyone believes is dead goes looking for the truth about the operation that killed his family.
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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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Team Darryl
The flatmate gets a new roommate: an exiled ruler with no money and expensive taste.
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Jessica Jones — Season 2
Jessica finally looks into the accident that changed her, and would rather not find what she finds.
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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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Luke Cage — Season 2
Harlem has a new problem, and Luke has become something the neighborhood expects things from.
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Iron Fist — Season 2
A shorter, sharper season about what the fist is actually for.
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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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Daredevil — Season 3
Matt is presumed dead, which is convenient for the man being released from prison.
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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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The Punisher — Season 2
A road trip, a girl who needs protecting, and a man who cannot leave anything alone.
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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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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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Jessica Jones — Season 3
The last season, and the most personal antagonist the show ever gave her.
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Peter's To-Do List
Four minutes of errands before a school trip, done at speed and mostly badly.
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The Daily Bugle
One-minute in-universe news segments, shouted. Made to run alongside the Spider-Man films.
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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 12 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.