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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Los Angeles, a new lab, and a case that turns on something nobody in it has the vocabulary for yet.
The same newsroom covering the fallout from Lagos, in the run-up to the Accords.
Three stories in one season: a spirit of vengeance, an artificial intelligence, and a world that is not the world.
Six five-minute episodes following one agent on a job the series only mentions.
The flatshare continues. Thor tries to get a job and does not understand money.
A royal family hiding on the moon is deposed and scattered across Hawaii.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Five very short animated shorts about a small tree causing problems.
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.
Five more wordless shorts about a small tree causing problems.
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.
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.
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.
