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Movies X-Men Movies — The Fox films from X-Men through The New Mutants, plus Legion and The Gifted. Disney+ TV Shows — WandaVision onward. Marvel Television — Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Inhumans, Cloak & Dagger, Runaways, Helstrom. Netflix TV Shows — The Defenders saga. Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher. Specials — Werewolf by Night, the Holiday Special, I Am Groot, and The Punisher's last outing. Marvel Shorts — One-Shots and the Team Thor mockumentaries. Minutes each, and only two of them matter. Post-Credit Scenes Not Out Yet — Announced and dated, but nothing you can watch. Off by default so the counts stay honest. Sony Spider-Man Movies — Raimi, Webb, the Venom films and the animated Spider-Verse. A separate continuity that No Way Home reaches into. Pre-MCU Marvel Films — Marvel characters licensed out to other studios, 1998 to 2015. Blade, Ghost Rider, the first Fantastic Four films.
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Legacy: The War and the 1940s 1 title

The Nineties 1 title

The Avengers Assemble 3 titles

After New York 4 titles

  1. Captain America and the masked Winter Soldier facing each other across a grey helicarrier skyline.

    Captain America: The Winter SoldierEssential

    Movie April 4, 2014 2h 16m Set in 2014

    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
  3. The Guardians in bright orange and blue, Baby Groot at the front, Gamora and Nebula behind.

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2Essential

    Movie May 5, 2017 2h 16m Set in 2014

    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.

  4. The Avengers in formation with Ultron's metal face looming behind them.

    Avengers: Age of UltronEssential

    Movie May 1, 2015 2h 21m Set in 2015

    An attempt to build something that would let everyone go home works exactly as well as that has ever worked.

Civil War, Infinity War and the Snap 2 titles

  1. Ant-Man in his red and silver helmet, tiny against the Golden Gate Bridge, with Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas above.

    Ant-ManEssential

    Movie July 17, 2015 1h 57m Set in 2015

    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

The Blip 9 titles

  1. Scarlett Johansson in a white tactical suit, arms crossed, red silhouettes of the family behind her.

    Black WidowEssential

    Movie July 9, 2021 2h 14m Set in 2016

    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.

  3. Spider-Man crouched on a rooftop with the Vulture's huge dark wings spread above him.

    Spider-Man: HomecomingEssential

    Movie July 7, 2017 2h 13m Set in 2016

    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.

  7. Thanos's gauntleted fist across the top, the whole Avengers cast arranged in an arc beneath it.

    Avengers: Infinity WarEssential

    Movie April 27, 2018 2h 29m Set in 2018

    Everything that has been building for ten years arrives at once, and it is not remotely enough.

  9. Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany in fifties dress, breaking apart into colour television static.

    WandaVisionEssential

    Season January 15, 2021 5h 24m Set in 2023

    A sitcom that is not a sitcom, in a town that should not exist.

    Set three weeks after Endgame.

After the Blip 7 titles

  2. Simu Liu mid-kick with glowing rings on both arms, a dragon curling through the background.

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten RingsEssential

    Movie September 3, 2021 2h 12m Set in 2024

    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
    • Wong
  3. Spider-Man in the black stealth suit against European landmarks, Mysterio in a green cape behind.

    Spider-Man: Far From HomeEssential

    Movie July 2, 2019 2h 9m Set in 2024

    A school trip across Europe, an adult who wants a favour, and a kid who would very much like one summer off.

  4. Ten figures standing in silhouette on a beach at sunset, in a wide, quiet composition.

    EternalsEssential

    Movie November 5, 2021 2h 36m Set in 2024

    Beings who have been on Earth for seven thousand years, forbidden to interfere, are forced to decide what that rule was ever for.

    Reaches back to 5000 BC.

    • Sersi
  5. Spider-Man in the red and black suit inside a spiral of shattered glass and orange sparks.

    Spider-Man: No Way HomeEssential

    Movie December 17, 2021 2h 28m Set in 2024

    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
    • Quentin Beck
    • J. Jonah Jameson
  6. Doctor Strange in a red cloak against a cracked mirror of himself, the Scarlet Witch in flames below.

    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessEssential

    Movie May 6, 2022 2h 6m Set in 2025

    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

The Multiverse Saga 9 titles

  3. Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel and Monica Rambeau standing back to back against a blue and purple starfield.

    The MarvelsEssential

    Movie November 10, 2023 1h 45m Set in 2026

    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
  5. Deadpool in red and Wolverine in yellow, shoulder to shoulder, claws out.

    Deadpool & WolverineEssential

    Movie July 26, 2024 2h 8m Set in 2024

    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

Other Universes 2 titles

Told outside the main story. Nothing here is needed to follow it.

  1. Tom Hiddleston in a brown TVA jacket surrounded by clock faces and floating objects.

    Loki — Season 1Essential

    Season June 9, 2021 4h 48m Set in Outside time

    A version of Loki who escaped is arrested by an organization that polices the timeline itself.

    • Loki
    • Mobius M. Mobius
    • Ravonna Renslayer

Sony's Spider-Man Films 6 titles

Its own continuity. Two of these are the reason No Way Home lands the way it does.

  1. A figure in a red and blue suit crouched on a rooftop, casting a long shadow.

    Spider-ManEssential

    Movie May 3, 2002 2h 1m Set in 2002

    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.

  2. A masked figure holding a red-haired woman, a city skyline glowing behind them.

    Spider-Man 2Essential

    Movie June 30, 2004 2h 7m Set in 2004

    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.

  3. A close-up of a red and blue mask with a torn chest emblem, city lights behind.

    The Amazing Spider-ManEssential

    Movie July 3, 2012 2h 16m Set in 2012

    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.

  4. A figure in red and blue clinging to a skyscraper, the city far below.

    The Amazing Spider-Man 2Essential

    Movie May 2, 2014 2h 21m Set in 2014

    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.

  5. An upside-down figure falling between blue skyscrapers, glass and snow around him.

    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseEssential

    Movie December 14, 2018 1h 57m Set in Various

    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.

  6. An animated figure in a black and red suit ahead of dozens of others across an orange sky.

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseEssential

    Movie June 2, 2023 2h 20m Set in Various

    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.