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 12 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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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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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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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 15 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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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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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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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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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.: 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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Team Darryl
The flatmate gets a new roommate: an exiled ruler with no money and expensive taste.
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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.
The 2020s 8 titles
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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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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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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.