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How to watch the Marvel

movies in order
By Nick Pino 8 days ago

Here’s a chronological guide to the

Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in
order

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If you're planning a Marvel Cinematic

Universe (MCU) marathon in 2021, you'll
need to know how to watch the Marvel
movies in order. This guide will break down
how to watch all 23 Marvel movies in their
chronological and release orders, and we'll
also explain how Disney Plus shows like
WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter
Soldier and now Loki !t alongside them in
the canon.

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Marvel movies are set for a big 2021 after

taking 2020 o". On July 9, 2021, prequel
movie Black Widow will release in theaters
and on Disney Plus via Premier Access for an
extra fee, while four more will follow this
year: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten
Rings, Marvel's The Eternals and Spider-Man:
No Way Home are also planned for a 2021
release. You'll !nd a full list of all Marvel's
upcoming movies and TV shows on this
page.

Forget about the future, though: what do

you need to know about watching the
Marvel movies in order now? Well, there are
two main ways to do it, for one. Watching
them in chronological order starts with
Captain America: The First Avengers, kicking
o" with Steve Rogers' WWII-era
transformation into the hero. The other,
more obvious option is the Marvel movies
release order – this allows you to see the
movies in the way Marvel Studios originally
released them.

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However you watch the Marvel movies in

2021, you're in for a good time. These box
o#ce titans have transformed the face of
modern cinema – and have become so big in
their own right that they've spilled out into
the world of television. Fundamentally, these
superhero stories make a great rewatch,
wherever in the story you pick up.

Here, then, is how to watch the Marvel

movies in order in 2021.

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How to watch the Marvel

movies in order:
chronological order
We will begin with a Marvel Cinematic
Universe (MCU) timeline. This breaks down
how to watch the 23 Marvel movies in
chronological order, which at the time of
publication starts with Steve Rogers'
transformation into Captain America in the
1940s, and ends with Peter Parker's trip
abroad in Spider-Man: Far From Home. This
is your Marvel movies order of choice if you
want to see MCU events play out as they
happened. We'll also explain how the TV
shows !t into this order below.

Here's the chronological viewing order of the

Marvel movies:

Captain America: The First Avenger (takes

place during WWII)
Captain Marvel (takes place in 1995)
Iron Man (takes place in 2010)
Iron Man 2 (takes place after Iron Man)
The Incredible Hulk (time unspeci!ed, pre-
Avengers)
Thor (takes place six months before
Avengers)
The Avengers (takes place in 2012)
Iron Man 3 (takes place six months after
The Avengers)
Thor: Dark World (post-Avengers, pre-
Ultron)
Captain America: Winter Soldier (post-
Avengers, pre-Ultron)
Guardians of the Galaxy (sometime in
2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (after
Guardians)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (takes place in
2015)
Ant-Man (takes place in 2015)
Captain America: Civil War (post-Ultron,
pre-In!nity War)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (post-Civil War,
pre-In!nity War)
Doctor Strange (takes place in 2016)
Black Panther (takes place in 2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (post-Ultron, pre-In!nity
War)
Avengers: In!nity War (takes place in
2017)
Ant-Man and The Wasp (ambiguous, but
!ts nicely between IW and Endgame)
Avengers: Endgame (starts in 2017,
!nishes in 2022)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (eight
months post-Endgame)

WandaVision, meanwhile, actually takes

place mere weeks after Endgame. The
Falcon and the Winter Soldier is set six
months after Endgame – so both shows take
place before Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Loki, meanwhile, is technically set after the
events of The Avengers, but in another
timeline – we'd advise watching it after
Avengers: Endgame.

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WandaVision (three weeks after Endgame)

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (around
six months after Endgame)
Loki (technically post-The Avengers, but
best watched after Endgame)

With Black Widow coming in July 2021, we'll

update this list at release – it's already been
con!rmed the movie takes place after
Captain America: Civil War, but we won't add
it until you've actually got the chance to see
the movie.

Avengers: In!nity War was the !rst of a two-part !nale to Phase

3. (Image credit: Marvel Studios/Disney)

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Marvel movies in order:

release date
Would you rather watch the MCU movies in
release order? Try this list. Watching the
Marvel movies in release order is how
Marvel Studios intended you to see the story
play out, and you'll get to enjoy how the
movies got bigger and better over the years
– especially as Disney took over ownership
and started pumping up the budgets. You'll
also !nd Marvel movies release dates for
Phase 4 and beyond below, which is
accurate as of the publication time at the top
of this article.

Phase One

Iron Man (2008)

The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)

Phase Two

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
(2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)

Phase Three

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Doctor Strange (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Black Panther (2018)
Avengers: In!nity War (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Phase Four

WandaVision (TV show)

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV
show)
Loki (TV show – now releasing)
Black Widow (July 9, 2021)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten
Rings (September 3, 2021)
The Eternals (November 5, 2021)
Ms Marvel (TV show – late 2021)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (December 17,
2021)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of
Madness (March 25, 2022)
Thor: Love and Thunder (May 6, 2022)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (July 8,
2022)
The Marvels (November 11, 2022)
Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania
(February 17, 2023)
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 (May 5,
2023)

The future of the Marvel Cinematic

Universe, including TV shows

Blade (TBD)
Fantastic Four (TBD)
Hawkeye (TV show – TBA)
She-Hulk (TV show – TBA)
Moon Knight (TV show – TBA)
Secret Invasion (TV show – TBA)
Ironheart (TV show – TBA)
Armor Wars (TV show – TBA)
Wakanda series (TV show – TBA)

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Marvel movies on Disney

Plus

(Image credit: Disney Plus)

Wondering which Marvel movies are on

Disney Plus? The Incredible Hulk and the
Spider-Man !lms are the only movies not
available on Disney Plus, and that's because
Universal and Sony own the distribution
rights to them respectively. You'll have to
buy or rent them on DVD, Blu-Ray or digital
if you want a full Marvel movie marathon.

These are the Marvel movies on Disney Plus

in the US, UK and Australia:

Iron Man
Thor
Iron Man 2
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Avengers
Iron Man 3
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Thor: The Dark World
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Ant-Man
Captain America: Civil War
Doctor Strange
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Captain Marvel
Avengers: In!nity War
Avengers: Endgame
Thor: Ragnarok
Black Panther
Ant-Man and the Wasp

These are the Marvel TV shows available on

Disney Plus, meanwhile:

WandaVision (now available)

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (now
available)
Loki (June 9, 2021)
What If...? (summer 2021)
Ms Marvel (late 2021)
Hawkeye (late 2021)
She-Hulk (TBA)
Moon Knight (TBA)
Secret Invasion (TBA)
Ironheart (TBA)
Armor Wars (TBA)
Wakanda series (TBA)

Iron Man 3 remains a perennial favorite of ours among the

Marvel movies. (Image credit: Disney/Marvel Studios)

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Best Marvel movies

What are the best Marvel movies? We've all
got strong opinions on this (Civil War, In!nity
War and The Avengers are the winners for
us) – but below, we've let the people have
their opinion, ranking the Marvel movies
based on user scores from IMDb. The
peoples' votes are spot-on with some things
(Thor: The Dark World and The Incredible
Hulk are no one's favorite Marvel !lms), and
other things extremely wrong (Ant-Man and
the Wasp is surely worse than Captain
America: The First Avenger?). Curiously, it's a
tie between the last two Avengers movies,
Endgame and In!nity War, for the best !lm
of the MCU so far.

Best

Avengers: In!nity War (2018) – Rating:

8.4
Avengers: Endgame (2019) – Rating: 8.4
The Avengers (2012) – Rating: 8.0
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) – Rating:
8.0
Iron Man (2008) – Rating: 7.9
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) - Rating: 7.9
Captain America: Civil War (2016) –
Rating: 7.8
Captain America: The Winter
Soldier (2014) – Rating: 7.7
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) –
Rating: 7.6
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) –
Rating: 7.5
Doctor Strange (2016) – Rating: 7.5
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) –
Rating: 7.4
Black Panther (2018) – Rating: 7.3
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) – Rating:
7.3
Ant-Man (2015) – Rating: 7.3
Iron Man 3 (2013) – Rating: 7.2
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) – Rating:
7.1
Thor (2011) – Rating: 7.0
Iron Man 2 (2010) – Rating: 7.0
Captain America: The First
Avenger (2011) – Rating: 6.9
Thor: The Dark World (2013) – Rating: 6.9
Captain Marvel (2019) – Rating: 6.9
The Incredible Hulk (2008) – Rating: 6.7

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How to download Marvel

movies
If you want to download Marvel movies for
later viewing, you can save o$ine copies via
the Disney Plus app on your portable device
(smartphone or tablet). You can't do this on
a desktop PC or laptop, though.

You'll need enough storage space, but just

look for the download symbol on any title in
the Disney Plus app:

Click the download symbol on the right, here.

Content you download on your phone will

stay in your device's main memory if it
doesn’t have an external microSD card slot.
That includes all Apple iPhone smartphones,
iPad tablets and a few others handsets (like
the Google Pixel 3a).

A 1-hour download takes about 400MB of

storage depending on your download
quality: High quality is six times better than
standard quality while medium is 50% better
than standard quality (which is the Disney
Plus app’s default).

If you're happy to buy the movies, too, say

through Amazon Prime, that'll also allow you
to download Marvel movies locally.

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