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Marvel Cinematic Universe · Release Order
Doomsday is not out yet, so this is a reading of what matters going in, not a ruling.
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.
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.
Three villains, a black suit and a dance number. Beloved now for reasons it did not intend.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
A weapons manufacturer is taken hostage, builds a way out of a cave, and comes home with a very different idea about what he wants to make.
A scientist on the run in South America looks for a cure for what he turns into when his pulse climbs, while the people who want to weaponize it close in.
Going public has consequences. A government wants the armour, a rival wants the contract, and a stranger with a grudge wants the man inside it.
An arrogant prince of an alien kingdom is stripped of his power and dumped on Earth, where nobody has any reason to be impressed by him.
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.
Two agents in a diner work out how to disobey an order from above without appearing to.
A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent stops for snacks and walks into an armed robbery. Four minutes, one joke, well told.
A spy agency spends its last favors assembling people who do not work well together, because the alternative is losing the planet.
A reboot five years later, with a lighter lead and a much better romance.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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.
After New York, the armour is a coping mechanism. Then a bombing campaign takes the fight somewhere the suit cannot follow.
Christmas.
Stuck on a desk and talked over by every man in the room, she goes and does the job anyway.
An enemy older than the realms wakes up, and the only route to stopping him runs through the one person nobody in Asgard should trust.
A documentary crew interviews a jailed actor who is enjoying prison rather more than he should.
A man out of his own time starts pulling at a thread inside the agency he works for, and something very good at killing is sent to stop him.
Overstuffed and building to a sequel that never came, but the ending is the reason to watch it.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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.
A blind lawyer works Hell's Kitchen by day and does something less legal about it at night.
An attempt to build something that would let everyone go home works exactly as well as that has ever worked.
In-universe news bulletins covering the Avengers the way a rolling news channel would.
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.
A private investigator who would rather not be anything else is forced to deal with a man she got away from once.
Two people arrive in the neighborhood with methods Matt cannot live with, and one of them he used to love.
The same newsroom covering the fallout from Lagos, in the run-up to the Accords.
After one operation too many goes wrong in public, the world asks the Avengers to sign something, and they do not agree about it.
A man with unbreakable skin who wanted a quiet job in Harlem is pulled into what the neighborhood is actually run by.
A brilliant, unbearable surgeon loses the use of his hands and chases a cure to a place that offers him something else entirely.
Six five-minute episodes following one agent on a job the series only mentions.
The flatshare continues. Thor tries to get a job and does not understand money.
A man declared dead fifteen years ago walks back into his family's company barefoot.
Still barely a team, still barely paid, and now being chased by a fleet they stole from — until someone turns up claiming to know where Peter came from.
A fifteen-year-old with an internship he cannot explain wants to be taken seriously, and picks a fight with people salvaging things they should not have.
Four people who all work alone are pushed into the same room by the same conspiracy.
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.
A man everyone believes is dead goes looking for the truth about the operation that killed his family.
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.
The flatmate gets a new roommate: an exiled ruler with no money and expensive taste.
Jessica finally looks into the accident that changed her, and would rather not find what she finds.
Everything that has been building for ten years arrives at once, and it is not remotely enough.
Harlem has a new problem, and Luke has become something the neighborhood expects things from.
Under house arrest and two days from freedom, Scott is pulled back into a rescue that has been thirty years in the planning.
A shorter, sharper season about what the fist is actually for.
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.
Matt is presumed dead, which is convenient for the man being released from prison.
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.
A road trip, a girl who needs protecting, and a man who cannot leave anything alone.
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.
What is left of the team works out what to do next. Do not watch this one first.
Spans five years.
The last season, and the most personal antagonist the show ever gave her.
A school trip across Europe, an adult who wants a favour, and a kid who would very much like one summer off.
Four minutes of errands before a school trip, done at speed and mostly badly.
One-minute in-universe news segments, shouted. Made to run alongside the Spider-Man films.
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.
A man parking cars in San Francisco under a name that is not his is found by the organization he ran away from.
Ninety-seven minutes, one red monster, and a mid-credits scene that mattered more than the film.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
With his name public and his life falling apart, Peter asks for a spell to make everyone forget, which goes about as well as you would expect.
A doctor cures himself into something worse. Famous mostly for how it was received.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
A girl who can punch holes between universes is being hunted, and the safest place for her is next to a man who keeps having the same dream.
Thor is trying to work out who he is with nothing left to avenge, which is when something starts killing gods.
A country in mourning is pushed by the rest of the world, and by a kingdom under the sea that has stayed hidden even longer than it did.
The whole family is pulled into the world under reality, where somebody has been waiting a very long time for a way out.
To save one of their own the Guardians have to go back to where he was made, and find out who made him.
The middle chapter, and it ends mid-sentence on purpose.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
Three people with light-based powers start swapping places every time they use them, which is a serious problem in a fight.
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.
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.
The last of the three, and it says so in the title.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
The last film Sony made in this vein before stopping.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
A new Captain America walks into an international incident at the centre of government and cannot tell who arranged it.
A group of people who have all done unforgivable things are put in a room together, and it is not a rescue.
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.
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.
Working the city alone, with nobody left who remembers who he is.
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.
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.
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.
