Welcome to the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phases page.
(Last update 07/26/2024)
The Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline being a never ending debate and if you want to watch the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), then following the chronological order suggested to watch the MCU is not a good idea if you are not familiar with it.
Some scenes to post-generic movies will be incomprehensible and some characters are introduced in movies released in theaters before but taking place after others...
In short, it is better to follow the order of release of the movies/series as they were created for a first viewing of the MCU.
I advise you to see this on this page:
Marvel Cinematic Universe.
However, the lists below gives you a good idea of how the MCU timeline should or could be viewed with the series!
Every year the Marvel universe gets richer, so it's important to have some time markers.
The MCU story is now divided up into 5 phases right now and these movies/series are all connected and have been divided into "phases" to mark an important time period/epoch in the Universe.
Phases 1-3 are often referred to as the Infinity Saga, while Phases 4-5 form part of the new Multiverse Saga with Kang and the Multiverse.
How to watch the Marvel movies in order? It's a fair question, especially now the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) has been blown to excessive proportions thanks to the multiverse. Spider-Man: No Way Home introduced characters from throughout Spider-Man's many years on the big screen – and we're not just talking about Tom Holland's films.
For anyone wanting to tackle the MCU for the first time – or perhaps this is your fifteenth rewatch – we're here to help. This is your ultimate viewing guide to the Marvel movies/series.
There are a few different watch orders below. We've also included a separate section on the Spider-Man movies as these are not necessarily in the main MCU timeline, but are part of the Marvel multiverse and help with understanding No Way Home.
First up, here's how to watch the Marvel movies in release order. Marvel films, we should note, are split into Phases, with the end of a Phase typically indicating a natural end to a story arc. The beginning of a Phase, therefore, signals the introduction of new, important characters. Below, we go through Phases 1 to 5 in release order. Yes, that includes WandaVision/Falcon and The Winter Soldier/Loki. No, they're not technically movies, but the MCU is changing so rapidly that the Disney Plus shows are now just as important.
Feel free to comment at the very bottom of the page to give your opinion, suggestions, debate and also tell me if I made any mistakes in order to correct them and/or improve the page!
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1. Iron Man (2008)
2. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
3. Iron Man 2 (2010)
4. Thor (2011)
5. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
6. The Avengers (2012)
7. Iron Man 3 (2013)
8. Thor: The Dark World (2013)
9. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
10. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
11. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
12. Ant-Man (2015)
13. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
14. Doctor Strange (2016)
15. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (2017)
16. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
17. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
18. Black Panther (2017)
19. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
20. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
21. Captain Marvel (2019)
22. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
23. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
24. WandaVision (Disney Plus series)
25. Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Disney Plus series)
26. Loki season 1 (Disney Plus series)
27. Black Widow (2021)
28. What If...? season 1 (2021) (Disney Plus series)
29. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
30. Eternals (2021)
31. Hawkeye (Disney Plus series)
32. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
33. Moon Knight (2022)
34. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
35. Ms. Marvel (2022)
36. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
37. I Am Groot (Disney+ animated series - 2022)
38. She-Hulk: attorney at law (Disney+ serie – 2022)
39. Werewolf By Night (Disney Plus special, 2022)
40. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
41. Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special (Disney Plus special, 2022)
42. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
43. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (2023)
44. Secret Invasion (2023) (Disney Plus)
45. Loki season 2 (2023) (Disney Plus)
46. The Marvels (2023)
47. What If... ? season 2 (2023) (Disney Plus series)
48. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
We also know a fair amount of what's coming up in the future, with Marvel having laid out plans for Phase 5 and beyond. Series or films that are already in production or being broadcast are removed from this list. Here's a taste of the Marvel movies coming our over the next few years. (TBA = To be announced)
X-Men '97 is now included in the MCU Multiverse Saga section on Disney+, creating a connection to the wider MCU. X-Men '97's inclusion in the Multiverse Saga suggests other MCU Phase 4 and 5 projects could also be set in other universes.
Agatha All Along (2024) (Disney Plus series)
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
Thunderbolts (2025)
Fantastic Four (2025)
Blade (2025)
Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (2026)
Avengers: Secret Wars (2027)
Armor Wars (Disney Plus series) (TBA)
Black Panther 3 – TBA
Daredevil Born Again (2025)(Disney Plus)
Ironheart (2025) (Disney Plus)
Marvel Zombies (Disney Plus series) (TBA)
Nova (TBA)
Shang-Chi 2 (TBA)
Spider-Man: Freshman Year (Disney Plus series) (TBA)
Spider-Man: Sophomore Year (Disney Plus series) (TBA)
Wakanda/Okoye spin-off (Disney Plus series) (TBA)
What If...? season 3 (Disney Plus series) (TBA)
Wonder Man (Disney Plus series) (TBA)
Ms. Marvel Season 2 (Disney Plus series) (TBA)
Werewolf By Night (Disney Plus series) (TBA)
Doctor Strange 3 (TBA)
MCU veterans looking for a new way to watch.
Want to experience the MCU in a more complicated, yet still viable way? Then you'll perhaps want to know how to watch the Marvel movies/series in chronological order.
This one's a little more complicated than the above list. Luckily, Marvel has revealed the official year in which each movie takes place. That goes right up to Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which fits snugly in-between Endgame and Far From Home. Loki's place on the timeline remains to be seen. As for Moon Knight, it seems to be in the same period as Spider-Man: No Way Home and Hawkeye but a doubt remains and it could be either in 2023 or 2024.
We can thank Marvel itself for making things much clearer with the release of their
"Official Timeline" ,
(You can also order it directly here), book that has eased many of our temporal-based headaches. Better still, this chronological list will make you see the MCU in a different light. We're going to start with Captain America: The First Avenger in the 1940s and work our way up to the MCU present day in 2026.
1. Captain America: The First Avenger (1942-1943)
2. Captain Marvel (1995)
3. Iron Man (2010)
4. Iron Man 2 (2011)
5. The Incredible Hulk (2011)
6. Thor (2011)
7. The Avengers (2012)
8. Iron Man 3 (2012)
9. Thor: The Dark World (2013)
10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
11. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
12. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (2014)
13. I am Groot (2014)
14. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
15. Ant-Man (2015)
16. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
17. Black Widow (2016)
18. Black Panther (2016)
19. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2016)
20. Doctor Strange (2017)
21. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
22. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
23. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
24. Avengers: Endgame (2018-2023)
25. Loki (outside of our conception of time, but around here!)
26. Loki season 2 (also outside of our conception of time!)
27. What If...? (season 1) (multiverse)
28. WandaVision (2023)
29. Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings (2024)
30. Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2024)
31. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2024)
32. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2024)
33. Eternals (2024)
34. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2024)
35. Hawkeye (Christmas 2024)
36. She-Hulk: attorney at law (2025)
37. Moon Knight (2024)
38. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2025)
39. Ms. Marvel (2025)
40. Thor: Love and Thunder (2025)
41. Werewolf By Night (2025)
42. Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special (2025)
43. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2026)
44. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2026)
45. Secret Invasion (2026)
46. The Marvels (2026)
47. What If...? (season 2) (multiverse)
48. Deadpool & Wolverine (multiverse)
The Multiverse was originally categorized and protected by Merlyn, who established the Captain Britain Corps. Most realities have a Captain Britain designated to protect its version of the British Isles and in extension the reality, thanks to an omniversal dimensional nexus situated in a tower on the shores of the United Kingdom. Individual members of the Corps draw their power from this nexus thanks to Merlyn's magic and science.
The Multiverse is the collection of alternate universes that share a universal hierarchy. A large variety of these universes were originated from another due to a major decision on the part of a character. Some can seem to be taking place in the past or future due to differences in how time passes in each universe. Often, new universes are born due to time traveling; another name for these new universes is an "alternate timeline". Earth-616 is the established main universe where the majority of Marvel books take place.
In Marvel comics, this concept has been introduced and continuously explored; in fact, there are 161 universes in Marvel, each with their own Earth. Most hero teams, from the Avengers and X-Men to the Fantastic Four and more, have experienced interdimensional crises.
Thanks to Spider-Man: No Way Home, we have had various Spider-Man villains from through the multiverse in the MCU, and to fully understand everyone's motives and intentions in No Way Home, you need to have watched a fair few older Spider-Man movies.
These take place on three alternative timelines: one where Tobey Maguire is Spider-Man, another where Andrew Garfield is Spidey, and a third where Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock becomes the villain Venom. For a full deep dive into watching these movies, then check out our guide to how to watch the Spider-Man movies in order.
Morbius although apart in the MCU because of its post-generic ending fits in the MCU just in the period Spider-Man: No Way Home & Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
For Madame Web, the film is part of the SSU (Sony's Spider-Man Universe), not the MCU.
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Venom (2018)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Morbius (2022)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Madame Web (2024)
MARVEL/NETFLIX/DISNEY+/HULU... SERIES TIMELINE IN THE MCU
These series do take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe even if there is no reference of them in the movies. One important thing to know is that the Defenders Universe/Saga takes place after the Battle of New York in the first Avengers movie.
The Defenders Saga, which were once considered part of the MCU, but also sort of not. They start very much linked to the movies, and then gradually lose all connection – thanks mainly to originally being Netflix products. Now, they are all on Disney Plus, and if you want to tackle Daredevil, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and The Punisher, then you're going to want to know the watch order. We have exactly the piece you're after: How to watch The Defenders Saga in order. The list is below:
Daredevil season 1
Jessica Jones season 1
Daredevil season 2
Luke Cage season 1
Iron Fist season 1
The Defenders
The Punisher season 1
Jessica Jones season 2
Luke Cage season 2
Iron Fist season 2
Daredevil season 3
The Punisher season 2
Jessica Jones season 3
Spider-Man: No Way Home (non-Defenders Saga movie)
Hawkeye (non-Defenders Saga show)
She-Hulk episode 8 (non-Defenders Saga show)
Daredevil's story, which started in She-Hulk and will continue in Born Again in 2024, loosely picks up where the Netflix series left off.
Those three seasons on Netflix haven't been declared officially, but Charlie Cox's return and an intriguing Secret Invasion connection is about as close as we'll get to confirmation that The Defenders Saga semi-existed in the MCU.
X-Men, meanwhile, exist completely outside of the MCU as part of (formerly) Fox's X-Men cinematic universe. But that could be about to change with Hugh Jackman's arrival as Wolverine in Deadpool & Wolverine. Rumors suggest that the threequel could revolve around the "Merc with a Mouth" killing off the Fox universe. That'll make those X-Men movies canon in the MCU, before removing them entirely. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
If you're short on time we'd recommend the Spider-Man films and the Spider-Verse movies for both greater understanding of the multiverse and a deeper appreciation of No Way Home.
Before going further, you should know that the Marvel/Netflix series (Defenders Saga): Daredevil, The Defenders, Luke Cage, Iron fist, Punisher, Jessica Jones... have been removed for clarity from the MCU. The Runaways and Cloak & Dagger series are not included because of their lack of interest in the MCU call the Defenders Saga. The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series is also removed until the chronological problems are explained or a member of Marvel Studios confirms its canonicality to the MCU. The same goes for some preludes that simply rehash the previous film (example: the Avengers: Endgame prelude rehashes the Avengers: Infinity War story).
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The order of viewing that I propose you below is an order including all the "veterans" MCU but also including: Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the Netflix series (Dardevil etc...), hulu series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, the one-shots, Sony movies etc...
There are still series that are not part of this list, or even the MCU, that I still recommend you watch such as: The Amazing Spider-Man (1977), X-Men '97, Hit-Monkey, Blade (2006).
Obviously this order is very personal but I think it's a shame to deprive ourselves of these productions which are still part of the MARVEL universe. Please check also this page
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Salut, si vous avez des corrections ou des informations ou tout simplement un avis sur l'univers de Marvel et ses phases, son ordres ou tout simplement une critique sur un film ou une série n'hésitez pas à poster un commentaire.
Hi, if you have any corrections or information or simply an opinion on the Marvel universe and its phases, its orders or simply a review on a film or series do not hesitate to post a comment.