The MCU is in its sixteenth 12 months, and through that point there was an enormous variety of movies, TV exhibits, net collection, and one-shots. The universe has sprawled in dimension, and even for essentially the most ardent Marvel followers it’s a severe problem to each watch all the things and preserve your head across the timeline.
We’ve put collectively a chronological timeline of the Marvel films, exhibits, and extra, so you realize which order to look at the Marvel films and exhibits in – and what phases all of them slot in with. Alternatively, should you’d want to look at them within the order that they really got here out, we’ve additionally put collectively a launch date order for all of the exhibits and movies.
Marvel has issued its personal official timeline for the films within the guide Marvel Studios: The First Ten Years, which does its greatest to present particular years for when the assorted movies are set (as much as, however not together with, Captain Marvel & Avengers: Endgame):
- 1943-1945: Captain America: The First Avenger
- 1995: Captain Marvel
- 2010: Iron Man
- 2011: Iron Man 2, The Unbelievable Hulk, Thor
- 2012: The Avengers, Iron Man 3
- 2013: Thor: The Darkish World
- 2014: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- 2015: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man
- 2016: Captain America: Civil Battle, Spider-Man: Homecoming
- 2016/2017: Physician Unusual
- 2017: Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity Battle, Ant-Man & the Wasp
For reference, we’re now in Part 5, which is the second phase within the Multiverse Saga. This kicked off with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – yow will discover out when that’s out there to stream right here.
We even have an analogous articles for watching the entire Spider-Man movies so as and the Mission: Unimaginable movies so as. You may as well learn the way She-Hulk units up for Daredevil’s future within the MCU.
How one can watch the Marvel films and TV exhibits in chronological order
There are a few disclaimers to our listing beneath. First up, the timeline will get extra advanced because it goes on, so it will get tougher to order the movies completely. For instance, Physician Unusual begins simply earlier than Captain America: Civil Battle, however takes a time soar and ends method after it, whereas Black Panther kicks off shortly after Civil Battle, however the entire story doubtless performs out earlier than the majority of Physician Unusual.
It doesn’t assist that Marvel broke its personal timeline. There are a number of little inconsistencies dotted across the place, however essentially the most egregious is Spider-Man: Homecoming, which claims to happen eight years after the New York assault within the first Avengers. That will set the movie in 2020 – two or three years after Avengers: Infinity Battle, which Marvel itself claims is about in 2017 regardless of ample proof that the Snap occurred within the spring of 2018.
It’s a fairly minor gaffe within the scheme of issues, nevertheless it’s a reminder to not take the MCU’s chronological timeline too significantly – even Marvel itself can’t preserve all of it straight, so so long as you watch issues in about the proper order you’ll be high-quality.
In order for you the visible cliff notes, Marvel has now launched each single post-credit scene as much as Endgame (together with Captain Marvel’s) so as in one giant Twitter thread, so you possibly can revisit each little tease as they constructed the MCU up.
Marvel.com additionally has its personal timeline order. Nevertheless, we’ve solely used this to tell the exhibits within the Part 4 part, as components of the listing battle with earlier ones from Marvel Studios. For instance, it claims that Thor: The Darkish World takes place earlier than Iron Man 3, which might set this movie in 2013, and never 2012 as earlier sources said.
Disney+ up to date its personal listing in January 2024 to incorporate the Netflix Marvel exhibits, and we’ve reordered our personal listing based mostly on this.
We’ve break up all the things into Marvel’s ‘phases’, however there are some gray areas: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was made inside Part Three, however is about virtually instantly after its predecessor; Captain Marvel was one of many closing Part Three movies, however is about earlier than most of Part One, and a number of the TV exhibits sit awkwardly between the totally different film phases.
As well as, although Marvel claims that Spider-Man: Far From House is the final movie in Part Three, it takes place after the primary two Disney+ exhibits – so we’ve adjusted the order to accommodate for this.
With out additional ado, right here’s our chronological ordering of the Marvel movie universe because it stands proper now. The movies are in daring, TV exhibits aren’t. You’ll be able to watch nearly all of the movies and exhibits by signing up for Disney Plus, excluding the Spider-Man movies and some different titles – these are marked with an asterisk. You may as well discover the complete listing in our full information to Marvel on Disney Plus.
You may as well purchase the field units of all of the phases from HMV and Amazon within the UK, and Walmart and Amazon within the US.
Part One: 1943-2012
Part Two: 2012-2015
- Merchandise 47 (one-shot — Avengers DVD/Blu-ray)*
- Iron Man 3
- All Hail the King (one-shot – Thor: The Dark World DVD/Blu-ray)*
- Brokers of Defend (season one: episodes 1 — 7)
- Thor: The Darkish World
- Brokers of Defend (season one: episodes 8 — 16)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Brokers of Defend (season one: episodes 17 — 22)
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- I Am Groot season 1 (episode 1)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- I Am Groot season 1 (episodes 2-5)
- I Am Groot season 2
- Daredevil (season one)
- Jessica Jones (season one)
- Brokers of Defend (season two: episodes 1 — 19)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Brokers of Defend (season two: episodes 20 — 22)
- Ant-Man
- Luke Cage (season one)
- Daredevil (season two)
- Brokers of Defend (season three: episodes 1 — 19)
- Iron Fist (season one)
- The Defenders (season one)
Part Three: 2015-2023
- Captain America: Civil Battle
- Black Widow
- Brokers of Defend (season three: episodes 20 — 22)
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- The Punisher (season one)
- Brokers of Defend (season 4: episodes 1 — 8)
- Physician Unusual
- Brokers of Defend: Slingshot (net collection)*
- Brokers of Defend (season 4: episodes 9 — 22)
- Black Panther
- Inhumans
- Runaways (season one and two)
- Jessica Jones (season two)
- Cloak and Dagger (season one)*
- Luke Cage (season two)
- Iron Fist (season two)
- Daredevil (season three)
- The Punisher (season two)
- Jessica Jones (season three)
- Cloak and Dagger (season two)*
- Runaways (season three)
- Brokers of Defend (season 5, episodes 1 — 19)
- Ant-Man and The Wasp
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Avengers: Infinity Battle
- Brokers of Defend (season 5, episodes 20 – 22)
- Brokers of Defend (season six)
- Brokers of Defend (season seven)
- Avengers: Endgame
Part 4: 2023-2025
- Loki season 1 (Learn beneath)
- What If…? seasons 1 and a couple of (Learn beneath)
- WandaVision
- The Falcon And The Winter Soldier
- Spider-Man: Far From Dwelling
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Eternals
- Spider-Man: No Approach Dwelling*
- Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity
- Hawkeye
- Moon Knight
- Echo
- She-Hulk
- Ms. Marvel
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually
- Werewolf By Evening
- The Guardians of the Galaxy Vacation Particular
Part 5: 2025 onwards
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Secret Invasion
- Loki season 2 (Learn beneath)
- The Marvels*
* – not out there on Disney Plus
The newest Marvel collection, Echo, is about 5 months after Hawkeye, which locations it proper earlier than She-Hulk within the fictional timeline.
It’s value noting that Loki takes place in its personal separate department of time. Technically, the primary episode picks up throughout 2012 within the Battle of New York. Nevertheless, seeing because the scene that Loki time-travels from is in Avengers: Endgame, the present makes much more sense within the context of all the opposite movies because it offers with matters such because the Infinity Stones and Kang.
What If…? additionally options tales which are scattered all through the MCU timeline. Once more, the present wants the context of earlier movies so as to make sense.
Spider-Man: No Approach Dwelling attracts on different Spider-Man universe movies, however we’ve not included these within the official MCU timeline. The identical goes for different movies starring Marvel characters that weren’t made by Marvel Studios corresponding to Fox’s X-Males, the three Blade movies and Ghost Rider.
Now we have included Brokers of Defend, Inhumans, Cloak and Dagger and The Runaways on this listing. Despite the fact that Disney+ doesn’t embody them on the ‘official’ timeline proper now, they reference occasions within the sacred timeline (watch Loki season 1 for context).
How one can watch the Marvel movies and TV collection in launch date order
For those who’d want to look at the movies and collection within the order wherein they have been launched, then it is a lot easier. We’ve listed beneath all the things that has come out thus far within the MCU. For the TV collection, we’ve listed the date from when the primary episode occurred, and for a way lengthy the present was on the air.
We haven’t included the DVD shorts on right here – you’ll be capable to discover them with every of the films, or on Disney+. As with the above listing, the films are marked in daring.
- Iron Man (2008)
- The Unbelievable Hulk (2008)
- Iron Man 2 (2010)
- Thor (2011)
- Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
- The Avengers (2012)
- Brokers of Defend (2013-2020)
- Thor 2 (2013)
- Iron Man 3 (2013)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
- Agent Carter (2015-2016)
- Daredevil (2015-2018)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
- Ant-Man (2015)
- Jessica Jones (2015-2019)
- Captain America: Civil Battle (2016)
- Luke Cage (2016-2018)
- Physician Unusual (2016)
- Iron Fist (2017-2018)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. II (2017)
- Spiderman: Homecoming (2017)
- The Defenders (2017)
- Inhumans (2017)
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
- The Punisher (2017-2019)
- Runaways (2017-2019)
- Black Panther (2018)
- Avengers: Infinity Battle (2018)
- Cloak and Dagger (2018-2019)
- Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
- Captain Marvel (2019)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Spiderman: Far From Dwelling (2019)
- WandaVision (2021)
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
- Loki (2021-2023)
- Black Widow (2021)
- What If…? (2021-2024)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
- Eternals (2021)
- Hawkeye (2021)
- Spider-Man: No Approach Dwelling (2021)
- Moon Knight (2022)
- Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity (2022)
- Ms. Marvel (2022)
- Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
- I Am Groot (2022-2023)
- She-Hulk (2022)
- Werewolf By Evening (2022)
- The Guardians of the Galaxy Vacation Particular (2022)
- Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually (2022)
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
- Secret Invasion (2023)
- The Marvels (2023)
- Echo (2024)
All of the upcoming Marvel films and TV exhibits
Marvel initially outlined the discharge order for many tasks in Part 5, in addition to a number of movies in Part Six. These three phases will make up what Marvel is looking the Multiverse Saga.
Nevertheless, there was a shake-up in these launch dates. Check out what’s in retailer beneath:
Part 5
- Deadpool 3 (cinema launch 26 July 2024)
- Agatha: Darkhold Diaries (Autumn 2024)
- Captain America: Courageous New World (14 February 2025)
- Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man (Date TBC)
- Daredevil: Born Once more (Date TBC)
- Marvel Zombies (Date TBC)
- Armor Wars (Date TBC)
- Ironheart (Date TBC)
- X-Males ’97 (Date TBC)
Part 6
- Incredible 4 (cinema launch 2 Could 2025)
- Thunderbolts (25 July 2025)
- Blade (cinema launch 7 November 2025)
- Avengers 5 (cinema launch 1 Could 2026) – beforehand titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty
- Avengers: Secret Wars (cinema launch 7 Could 2027)
Blade and Thunderbolts have been initially within the Part 5 line-up, however the launch dates now place them after Incredible 4, which is a Part Six film. Until Marvel specifies in any other case, we assume that these two movies are actually additionally a part of Part Six.
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