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The Marvel Cinematic Universe in story order and release order. Follow the heroes one by one, visit every planet and realm, see how the multiverse fits together, and find the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and Blade films that came before.
Avengers: Doomsday
Now showing in theaters
What to know before you watch →What's on Nexus Timeline
Avengers: Doomsday guide
Countdown, backstory, cast, fan theories and the must-watch list.
Open →Story timeline
Every MCU film and series in the order the story happens.
Open →Watch order
Release order by phase, plus what's coming next.
Open →Characters
135 heroes, villains and variants with life timelines.
Open →Places
Asgard, Vormir, Wakanda, the Quantum Realm and every world in between.
Open →Multiverse & Earth numbers
Earth-616, 838, 10005 and the rest, explained.
Open →X-Men timeline
Fox's mutant films in story order, and where the MCU picks them up.
Open →Beyond the MCU
Sony's Spider-Man, Blade, Netflix's Daredevil and other non-MCU titles.
Open →Two sagas, six phases
Marvel Studios groups its releases into phases. Phases 1–3 form the Infinity Saga, which builds to Thanos. Phases 4–6 form the Multiverse Saga, which builds to Avengers: Secret Wars. On this site each phase takes the colour of an Infinity Stone.
The Infinity Saga
Twenty-three films that introduce the Avengers and climax with the war against Thanos.
The Multiverse Saga
Films and Disney+ series that break reality open: Kang, the TVA, incursions and the road to Secret Wars.
The six Infinity Stones
Before the universe existed there were six singularities. When the universe was born, they were condensed into the six Infinity Stones, and each controls one part of existence. Thanos spent the whole Infinity Saga gathering them.
Space Stone
- Hidden in
- The Tesseract
- First seen
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Fate
- Taken by Loki, then by Thanos in Infinity War
Mind Stone
- Hidden in
- Loki's sceptre, then Vision's forehead
- First seen
- The Avengers
- Fate
- Ripped from Vision by Thanos
Reality Stone
- Hidden in
- The Aether
- First seen
- Thor: The Dark World
- Fate
- Left with the Collector, taken by Thanos on Knowhere
Power Stone
- Hidden in
- The Orb
- First seen
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Fate
- Held by the Nova Corps until Thanos took it from Xandar
Time Stone
- Hidden in
- The Eye of Agamotto
- First seen
- Doctor Strange
- Fate
- Given to Thanos by Strange on Titan
Soul Stone
- Hidden in
- Vormir
- First seen
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Fate
- Taken at the cost of a loved one: Gamora, then Natasha
Where to start
The essentials
The shortest route that still makes the big crossovers land.
- Iron Man
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- The Avengers
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Captain America: Civil War
- Black Panther
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Avengers: Endgame
- Loki (Season 1)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Thunderbolts*
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Release order
Watch in the order audiences did. The twists and post-credit scenes land as intended.
Open the watch order →Story order
Start in 1943 with Captain America and follow the in-universe calendar to the present.
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