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Plus, their timeline is a little ahead of ours – the latest MCU movies and shows take place in 2024, for example. That’s why we’ve rounded up every MCU movie and TV show and sorted them into chronological order, starting with Captain America: The First Avenger in the ’40s all the way up to No Way Home and Hawkeye. Marvel timeline: 1931-1995 (Image credit: Marvel Studios/Disney) Agents of Shield season 7 (1931-2019)* Captain America: The First Avenger (1943-45) One Shot: Agent Carter (1944) Agent Carter season 1 (1946) Agent Carter season 2 (1947) Captain Marvel (1995) Things are relatively simple – for now.
Marvel timeline: 2010-2012 (Image credit: Disney/Marvel Studios) Iron Man (2010) Iron Man 2 (2011) The Incredible Hulk (2011) One Shot: The Consultant (2011) One Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer (2011) Thor (2011) Avengers (2012) One Shot: Item 47 (2012) Iron Man 3 (2012) This is where things in the Marvel timeline begin to ramp up a bit. Iron Man, according to Marvel’s 10 Years of Marvel Studios book, actually takes place in 2010, not 2008. Meanwhile, Daredevil season 1 also takes place that year.
Agents of Shield season 3’s eleventh episode has a bit of a jump, and Civil War is dealt with from episode 20 onward. Speaking of which… Marvel timeline: 2017-2018 (Image credit: Marvel Studios/Disney) This is it. The year of the Snap.
Finally, when it comes to Ant-Man and the Wasp and Thor: Ragnarok, both take place immediately before Infinity War, so can be watched in either order. Ant-Man and the Wasp’s post-credits scene, though, runs simultaneously alongside Thanos’ Snap, while Ragnarok’s post-credits only take us to the beginning of Infinity War. In-universe, the snap takes place in 2018 even though there’s absolutely no reference to Thanos wiping out half the world in Agents of Shield season 6.
Loki, meanwhile, takes place outside of our conception of time. Loki really is a confusing one – but if you’re tackling the MCU, this is probably the place it makes sense to watch, otherwise you’ll be waiting years for more multiverse shenanigans. Eternals takes place after Avengers: Endgame, and most likely just after Spider-Man: Far From Home.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home has arrived in cinemas and unlike some other Phase 4 outings, it’s really easy to place on the timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The new movie picks up straight from Far From Home’s cliffhanger where Spider-Man’s identity was revealed to the world. See, nice and straightforward for once – unlike some other Phase 4 movies and TV shows which have been all over the timeline.
Marvel Studios We suggest watching Loki after Avengers: Endgame (as that’s when 2012’s Loki breaks off into his own timeline) and What If…? One note on our timeline: if something takes place in multiple time periods (such as Eternals), we’ve put it where the bulk of the movie or TV show takes place. There are slight exceptions you might want to take, such as not watching the Ant-Man and The Wasp credits scene until after Avengers: Infinity War, but it just depends on how dedicated you are to the order.
MCU in order – how to watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe in order 1. Agent Carter (one-shot on Iron Man 3 DVD) 5. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer (one-shot on the Captain America: The First Avenger DVD) 11.
Daredevil (season 2, eps 1-4) 30. Daredevil (season 2, eps 5-11) 32. Daredevil (season 2, eps 12-13) 34.
Agents of SHIELD (season 5, eps 19-22) – Concurrent with Infinity War 68. Agents of SHIELD (season 6) – takes place in Endgame’s five-year time jump 69. Agents of SHIELD (season 7) – takes place in Endgame’s five-year time jump 70.
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