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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.
Two men who agree about what is coming and about nothing else run rival schools for people born different.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, 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.
A military scientist convinces a president that the problem needs solving, and old enemies have to work together.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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.
A company announces a cure, which is one word for it, and the question splits everyone.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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.
How Logan got the metal, told at length.
Reaches back to the 1840s.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
Before any of it, two young men find each other and try to stop a war nobody else can see.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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 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.
Logan is summoned to Japan by a man he saved a long time ago who wants to return the favor.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
A team with no powers and one very large plane runs the cases the Avengers never hear about.
The back half runs alongside The Winter Soldier and is much better for it.
Stuck on a desk and talked over by every man in the room, she goes and does the job anyway.
A documentary crew interviews a jailed actor who is enjoying prison rather more than he should.
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.
The future has gone as badly as possible, so someone is sent back far enough to stop it starting.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
Rebuilding from nothing, with a rival version of the same organization and a discovery about where some people's abilities come from.
A year after the war, the woman who won it is answering phones. Then an old contact asks her to clear his name off the books.
A blind lawyer works Hell's Kitchen by day and does something less legal about it at night.
In-universe news bulletins covering the Avengers the way a rolling news channel would.
The team is now in the business of finding people before a government does, and something came back through a doorway with them.
A private investigator who would rather not be anything else is forced to deal with a man she got away from once.
Los Angeles, a new lab, and a case that turns on something nobody in it has the vocabulary for yet.
A mercenary takes an experimental cure, comes out unkillable and disfigured, and goes looking for the man responsible.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
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.
Something very old wakes up under Cairo and starts recruiting.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
Three stories in one season: a spirit of vengeance, an artificial intelligence, and a world that is not the world.
A man with unbreakable skin who wanted a quiet job in Harlem is pulled into what the neighborhood is actually run by.
Six five-minute episodes following one agent on a job the series only mentions.
A man in a psychiatric hospital is told he is not ill. The show refuses to confirm anything.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
The flatshare continues. Thor tries to get a job and does not understand money.
An old man, a dying mentor, and a girl who needs driving across a country that has no use for any of them.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
A man declared dead fifteen years ago walks back into his family's company barefoot.
Four people who all work alone are pushed into the same room by the same conspiracy.
A royal family hiding on the moon is deposed and scattered across Hawaii.
A suburban family goes on the run when the children turn out to be mutants.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
A man everyone believes is dead goes looking for the truth about the operation that killed his family.
Six teenagers discover their parents have been doing something monstrous together for years.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
The team wakes up somewhere with no sky, and has to work out what went wrong and when.
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.
Still refusing to confirm anything, now with a full year of dance sequences.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
Wade assembles a team, badly, to protect a boy from a soldier who has come a long way to kill him.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
Two teenagers in New Orleans wake up with powers that only work when they are near each other.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
Harlem has a new problem, and Luke has become something the neighborhood expects things from.
A shorter, sharper season about what the fist is actually for.
The underground splits over how hard to fight back.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
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.
On the run and living rough, with a dinosaur.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
A road trip, a girl who needs protecting, and a man who cannot leave anything alone.
The pair go after a trafficking ring, and find out what their powers cost other people.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
A year on, with someone missing and someone wearing a familiar face.
From here the show runs on its own track; see the canon note.
A rescue in orbit goes wrong and one of the team comes back holding far more than she can carry.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
The last season, and the most personal antagonist the show ever gave her.
The last one, and the one that finally says what it has been about.
Fox's mutant television, in its own corner of that continuity.
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.
The last run, and the only Marvel Television show to cross over with another.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
The last season is a tour through the last century, fixing what somebody else is trying to break.
Five young people are held in a facility for their own safety, which is not what is happening.
A separate universe from the main line. Deadpool & Wolverine made that connection explicit rather than tidy, so this order is a reading of it, not a ruling.
A brother and sister hunt the worst thing their family ever produced. Cancelled after one season.
A Marvel Television cast that never crosses into the films.
A sitcom that is not a sitcom, in a town that should not exist.
Set three weeks after Endgame.
Two people who both knew the same man are made to work together and to decide what a shield is for.
A version of Loki who escaped is arrested by an organization that polices the timeline itself.
Animated. Familiar stories with one thing changed, and then followed honestly to the end.
Alternate universes, so it does not sit on the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
An anthology. Every episode has a different cast, so a single list would be a lie.
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.
Clint wants to be home for Christmas. A young archer with his old suit makes that difficult.
A museum gift-shop worker with blackouts discovers what has been using them.
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 teenager in Jersey City who writes fan fiction about the Avengers finds she can do something herself.
Five very short animated shorts about a small tree causing problems.
A lawyer who now has the same problem as her cousin would like to keep practicing law, thank you.
A black-and-white monster hunt at a funeral, over in under an hour.
Two Guardians go to Earth to find Peter a Christmas present and pick a very specific one.
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.
Fury comes back to Earth for a problem that has been quietly building since the nineties.
Five more wordless shorts about a small tree causing problems.
The consequences of the first season's last shot, and someone having to hold the whole thing together.
More of the same idea, and rather more confident with it.
Alternate universes, so it does not sit on the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
An anthology. Every episode has a different cast, so a single list would be a lie.
Maya Lopez goes home to Oklahoma, and the man she ran from follows.
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.
Animated, and a direct continuation of the nineties series.
Its own universe, not the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
A continuation of the nineties series with its own large ensemble, not yet listed.
A witch with nothing left walks a road that grants a wish to whoever finishes it.
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.
The last run of the animated series.
Alternate universes, so it does not sit on the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
An anthology. Every episode has a different cast, so a single list would be a lie.
Animated. A different first year for Peter Parker.
Its own universe, not the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
Its own universe with its own versions of familiar people, not yet listed.
Matt Murdock has given up the other job. The man running for mayor has not given up anything.
Riri Williams is back in Chicago building something she cannot afford, and someone offers to fund it.
Animated. Wakandan agents recovering stolen artifacts across history.
An anthology spanning centuries, with a different cast each time.
Animated, and not for children.
An alternate universe, not the main timeline.
An alternate universe, so it does not sit on the main timeline. Placed at the end.
An anthology in its own universe, with a rotating cast.
An actor auditions for a superhero part in a Hollywood that already has real ones.
The mayor's grip tightens and the lawyer stops pretending the law is going to be enough.
A man who thought he was finished is pulled back in. Under an hour, and it does not let up.
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.
The animated series continues, still picking up exactly where 1997 left off.
The 1990s animated continuity. Same names as the films, different people.
