Marvel Movies In Order: How To Watch All MCU Movies and Series Chronologically
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If you want to see the Marvel and Avengers movies in order as they happened in-universe, we’ve listed all the MCU movies and series in chronological order, in one guide! You might be surprised to discover that the very first one is the animated series Eyes of Wakanda, an anthology that follows Wakandan warriors across four different stories dating as far back as 1260 B.C.
While Iron Man, set and released in 2008, can claim the banner as the first film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, within its story, Chris Evans has got Robert Downey Jr. beat. That’s because Evans’ origin story as Captain America in The First Avenger takes place in 1942. There, we’re also first fully introduced to the Tessarect, an energy cube that initializes the Infinity Saga, which climaxed with 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.
After Captain America: The First Avenger, you might also want to check out its spiritual companions, Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter and Agent Carter — the first is a 15-minute short film and the second is a two-season series — both of which focus on Hayley Atwell’s Peggy Carter character. Next would be The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which, although it takes place on an alternate version of Earth, is set in the 1960s.
After that the next movie set in the timeline is Captain Marvel, the blockbuster with a Blockbuster, set in 1995, with Brie Larson starring as the cosmic Carol Danvers. And then it’s time to hit the start with Iron Man and RDJ’s world-making turn as Tony Stark. The movies can be seen in release order after that, except for 2021’s Black Widow, which is set in the aftermath of 2016’s Captain America: Civil War.
Through the epic finale of Endgame (which essentially completed the first 3 phases of the MCU), there was a forward time jump of 5 years, placing most everything in Phase 4 and onward in the near future. Phase 4 started at the movies with Shang-Chi and invited its lineup of TV series to really do some heavy lifting, with Loki, Wandavision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Hawkeye pushing the story forward. Then there was the gigantic one-two Spider-Man punch with Far From Home and No Way Home. Moon Knight, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and now Thor: Love and Thunder are all set chronologically by release after that. Most recently, we added Deadpool & Wolverine, Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, Wonder Man: Season 1, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday coming soon.
So if you want to watch the MCU by release order, the list above is your guide. But if you want to take an alternate route and see the movies chronologically within the franchise’s own timeline (including the TV shows), check out our guide below! (Alex Vo)
MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE MOVIES AND SHOWS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
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