How to watch the Marvel movies in order: release date What If.? season 1 – technically, this spans the entire multiverse, but it's best watched after Endgame.Loki – technically post-The Avengers in 2012, but best watched after Endgame.The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – around six months after Endgame.WandaVision – three weeks after Endgame.Finally, Hawkeye's solo adventure (well, paired adventure with Kate Bishop) is set two years post-Endgame, which means it takes place in 2024. It's set in the wider multiverse, so it plays out around events that we've seen on the big and small screens.
The MCU's first animated series – What If.? – is like Loki. Loki, meanwhile, is technically set after the events of The Avengers, but in another timeline – we'd advise watching it after Avengers: Endgame. Meanwhile, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is set six months after Endgame – so both shows take place before Spider-Man: Far From Home. Now for the Marvel shows order: WandaVision takes place mere weeks after Endgame. So the timeline, as we mentioned, is getting messier as time goes on. Eternals, too, is set well before Cap's origins story, as well as during the present day. Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton, meanwhile, revealed the martial arts hero's film takes place within the "present day". Some timing is ambiguous – for example, Black Widow, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Black Panther and Doctor Strange all take place at roughly the same time, and they're set across varying lengths of time, which makes ordering them tricky.īlack Widow, though, technically takes place entirely within the events of Captain America: Civil War, which means it comes first out of those. Eternals – set in the present day of the MCU, though it does flash back through 7,000 years of human history.Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – set in the present day of the MCU.Spider-Man: Far From Home – set eight months after Endgame.Avengers: Endgame – starts in 2017, finishes in 2022.Ant-Man and The Wasp – ambiguous, but fits nicely between IW and Endgame.Avengers: Infinity War – occurs in 2017.Thor: Ragnarok – post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War.Spider-Man: Homecoming – post-Civil War, pre-Infinity War.Black Widow – takes place right after Civil War.Captain America: Civil War – post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War.Avengers: Age of Ultron – occurs in 2015.
The Avengers was the movie that made us all believe in the MCU vision, and things have only gotten bigger and better since then.