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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Legacy: The War and the 1940s 1 title
The Avengers Assemble 1 title
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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.
After New York 1 title
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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
Civil War, Infinity War and the Snap 1 title
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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.
The Blip 4 titles
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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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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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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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Avengers: EndgameEssential
What is left of the team works out what to do next. Do not watch this one first.
Spans five years.
After the Blip 3 titles
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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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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.
The Multiverse Saga 7 titles
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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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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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Spider-Man: Brand New DayEssential
Working the city alone, with nobody left who remembers who he is.
Other Universes 2 titles
Told outside the main story. Nothing here is needed to follow it.
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Loki — Season 1Essential
A version of Loki who escaped is arrested by an organization that polices the timeline itself.
- Loki
- Mobius M. Mobius
- Ravonna Renslayer
- Sylvie Laufeydottir
- He Who Remains
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Loki — Season 2Essential
The consequences of the first season's last shot, and someone having to hold the whole thing together.