MCU movie viewing order

[Vic Sage]

Marvel Cinematic Universe - recommended viewing order:

Phase 1
1 Captain America: First Avenger (July 2011)
2 Iron Man (may 2008)
3 Incredible Hulk (June 2008) [optional]
4 Iron Man 2 (may 2010)
5 Thor (may 2011)
6 Marvel's The Avengers (may 2012)

phase 2:
7 Iron Man 3 (may 2013)
8 Thor: The Dark World (November 2013)
9 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (april 2014)
10 Guardians of the Galaxy (August 2014)
11 Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (may 2017)
12 Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 2014)
13 Ant-Man (july 2015)

phase 3:
14 Captain America: Civil War (may 2016)
15 Spider-Man: Homecoming (July 2017)
16 Black Panther (february 2018)
17 Doctor Strange (november 2016)
18 Thor: Ragnorak (november 2017)
19 Ant-Man & Wasp (July 2018)
20 Avengers: Infinity War (april 2018)
21 Captain Marvel (march 2019)
22 Avengers : The Conclusion (may 2019)

Edited May 15, 2018 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

I'm telling you, Hulk, while being a (mostly) stinky movie, is canonical. The Incredible Hulk is generally classified as a reboot, but is more of a sequel, even if it's a sequel that allows you to ignore it's predecessor if you choose.

Also, there are the several canonical TV shows. WHAT ORDER SHOULD I WATCH ALL THOSE EPISODES RELATIVE TO THE MOVIES, MAN?!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Captain Marvel will eventually move into the 2 slot, from what I hear.

[nymr83]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Captain Marvel will eventually move into the 2 slot, from what I hear.

Lets not get Vic started on Captain Marvel again.

[Edgy MD]

And don't get Fman started about "The two-slot."

And Ant-Man and the Wasp, I guess, will drop back to somewhere between 14 and 19.

[Vic Sage]

I'm telling you, Hulk, while being a (mostly) stinky movie, is canonical. The Incredible Hulk is generally classified as a reboot, but is more of a sequel, even if it's a sequel that allows you to ignore it's predecessor if you choose. Also, there are the several canonical TV shows. WHAT ORDER SHOULD I WATCH ALL THOSE EPISODES RELATIVE TO THE MOVIES, MAN?!

here's a viewing order that includes the TV shows:

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/marvel-cinematic-universe-timeline-avengers/

[Vic Sage]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Captain Marvel will eventually move into the 2 slot, from what I hear.

well, the story will start early in the MCU chronology, but it'll go right up and into Avengers 4, so it'll need to basically be a flashback that will then serve as the lead-in to the conclusion of the series.

[Vic Sage]

Nymr83 wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Captain Marvel will eventually move into the 2 slot, from what I hear. Lets not get Vic started on Captain Marvel again.

oh, you mean MS. MARVEL? Or do you mean the actual Captain Marvel, the Kree warrior, Mar-Vell, to be played by Jude Law in the upcoming MS. MARVEL movie? Or do you mean the original Captain Marvel, now owned by DC and known as Shazam?

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Why do you recommend this order rather than the order of production?

[Vic Sage]

its the chronology of the interior world of the MCU, showing which events preceded which others on their timeline.

[Edgy MD]

The mammoth master cut could take timeline jumps (flashbacks, credits scenes) within a movie and push them forward or back in the chronology.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, that's the ideal way to do it. That final scene from First Avenger, when Steve Rogers runs out into Times Square, would be delayed until after, I don't know, Iron Man 2?

[dgwphotography]

I like Vic's point of showing them in chronological order, but I would show Phase 1 (Iron Man, Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, The Avengers) in production order, and what follows in chronological order.

We are given a quick history of Howard Stark in Iron Man 1 & 2 - He basically shows up with no needed explanation in Captain America, and is nice call back to the IM movies.

[metirish]

I am no expert on the MCU but this list seems wrong to me , makes for some interesting banter in the comments section though

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/15/the-20-best-marvel-films-ranked

[Vic Sage]

metirish wrote: I am no expert on the MCU but this list seems wrong to me , makes for some interesting banter in the comments section though https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/15/the-20-best-marvel-films-ranked

moronic list.
Ghost Rider? Thor 1? Iron Man 3? They don't even make a top 30 list.

[metirish]

I had never even heard of Ghost Rider

[Vic Sage]

Based on my custom logarithms, here is the proper ranking of all 50 theatrically released Marvel movies to date:

LOGAN
BLACK PANTHER
IRON MAN
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
THOR 3: Ragnorak
CAPTAIN AMERICA III: Civil War
DEADPOOL
SPIDER-MAN 2
AVENGERS
CAPTAIN AMERICA II: Winter Soldier

X-MEN: Days Of Future Past
SPIDER-MAN: Homecoming
SPIDER-MAN
DR. STRANGE
X-MEN II: x-men united
X-MEN: 1st Class
BLADE
Avengers III: Infinity War
DEADPOOL II
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, vol. 2

X-MEN
CAPTAIN AMERICA: First Avenger
ANT-MAN & the WASP
ANT-MAN
IRON MAN 3
AVENGERS II: Age Of Ultron
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
THOR
IRON MAN 2
INCREDIBLE HULK (08)

THOR 2: Dark World
WOLVERINE, the
SPIDER-MAN 3
BLADE II
X-MEN: Apocalypse
X-MEN III: The last stand
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN II
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE
DAREDEVIL
PUNISHER

HULK (03)
FANTASTIC FOUR II: rise of the silver surfer
FANTASTIC FOUR (05)
BLADE III: Trinity
GHOST RIDER
PUNISHER WAR ZONE
ELEKTRA
HOWARD THE DUCK
GHOST RIDER II: spirit of vengeance
FANTASTIC 4 (2015)

[Vic Sage]

As it turns out, THOR and IRON MAN 3 did make the top 30 (at 28 and 25, respectively), but not top 20, with GHOST RIDER finishing near the bottom (45).

[Benjamin Grimm]

I've seen most of these movies. The exceptions are the Blade and Punisher movies, the second Deadpool, the second Ghost Rider, Elektra, Howard the Duck, and the 2015 Fantastic Four.

Was the omission of Man-Thing intentional or unintentional?

[Vic Sage]

it initially premiered on TV. I only listed theatrical features.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I didn't know that! I thought it was a theatrical release in Australia.

[MFS62]

But Blade III gave us Ryan Reynolds in unmasked snarkiness. That should be worth something.
Later

[Vic Sage]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I didn't know that! I thought it was a theatrical release in Australia.

yes, it was theatrically released in a few countries, but not in the U.S.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I've seen most of these movies. The exceptions are the Blade and Punisher movies, the second Deadpool, the second Ghost Rider, Elektra, Howard the Duck, and the 2015 Fantastic Four.

Oddly enough, I watched Howard the Duck back in the day (my youthful crush on Lea Thompson played a part). What an odd choice for the first Marvel movie.

[Edgy MD]

I would consider it more of a George Lucas initiative than a Marvel initiative. But yeah, the only big screen Marvel character before that I can think of is a bunch Captain America single reel serials from World War II.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Whatever happened to that superhero tournament that we had on the Crane Pool a few offseasons ago. I feel like I know who a lot more of the characters are now.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It fizzled out. The last poll was posted in November 2014.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Well, here we are, offseason again.