Wondering What The Best Order Is To Watch The Marvel Movies and TV Shows?
Are you wondering what the best order is to watch the Marvel Movies and TV Shows?
***THE LIST HAS BEEN UPDATED AS OF 05/14/2019***
Yeah, I was too, that’s why I decided to write this BLOG. While this BLOG isn’t exactly a “movie review” it’s very much about the Marvel movies, and the TV shows too.
When some of the original Marvel Cinematic Universe movies first came out, like many of you, I was excited and anxious to see them. I watched Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America and a few others. But over time, I began to get a little burned out on “Superhero” movies, and missed a few of them as they were released, and as more time passed, I got a little lost as to which ones I had seen, and what was the best order to watch them. So over time, I pretty much lost interest in them.
Then Netflix released Season 1 of The Punisher and I binge watched the entire season in one sitting, I was hooked!! Naturally, Netflix knows what you are watching and begins suggesting other similar shows, so after The Punisher, I watched Luke Cage over the next few days. This was right around the time that The Defenders came out on Netflix, and I saw that Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Iron Fist were all part of The Defenders. So I decided to watch Jessica Jones, then Iron Fist and lastly Daredevil. After watching ALL of those in roughly a one week span, I watched The Defenders, I couldn’t get enough.
I was anxious to find more shows that aligned with these, but I was all caught up on the shows.... so I thought, I was only caught up on the Netflix series. If you can’t tell by what you’ve read so far, I’m not really big into comic books, I didn’t even realize that the “Marvel Universe” was all connected. I just thought Marvel was a “brand” of comic books that had several superheroes, I didn’t actually know they were all intertwined. I mean, I knew some of them were connected, but I didn’t discover that they were ALL connected until chatting with some of my coworkers. We were discussing which shows and movies we had seen and we were trying to figure out the timeline of everything. They kept mentioning more and more movies and shows that I didn’t know about. That’s when I decided it was time to set out and do some research and determine what order everything should be watched in.
Once I started researching, I also began to realize how many of the movies I hadn’t seen yet. I thought that maybe I missed 2-3 movies but now that I’ve compiled this complete list, I realize how many I haven’t seen yet. I also knew that Agents of Shield had something to do with the series but I didn’t know there were so many seasons. Again, I had no idea ALL of these movies and shows were connected. After reading several BLOG’s and articles, I put together a list, now keep in mind, that I haven’t read any of these comics, my list was created from the opinions of several Marvel enthusiasts. I simply pieced together a timeline based on the most commonly agreed upon timeframes for everything I read and found online. Sure, you might disagree with a few of these or I may have couple that are out of order, but overall, I feel pretty confident that this is a good timeline of all the Marvel movies and shows.
As I was writing this BLOG, I just finished watching season 2 of Jessica Jones! So now I guess it’s time to start going through the rest of this list and checking off more movies and shows and until I'm all caught up.
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Order | Movie or Show | Type | Date | Network |
1 | Captain America The First Avenger | Movie | 2011 | Marvel |
2 | Agent Carter (season one) | Show | 2015 | ABC |
3 | Agent Carter (season two) | Show | 2015 | ABC |
4 | Agent Carter (one-shot - Iron Man 3 DVD) | One Shot | 2013 | ABC |
5 | Captain Marvel | Movie | 2019 | Marvel |
6 | Iron Man | Movie | 2008 | Marvel |
7 | Iron Man 2 | Movie | 2010 | Marvel |
8 | The Incredible Hulk | Movie | 2008 | Marvel |
9 | The Consultant (one-shot - Thor DVD) | One Shot | 2011 | Marvel |
10 | A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor's Hammer (one-shot Captain America: First Avenger DVD) | One Shot | 2011 | Marvel |
11 | Thor | Movie | 2011 | Marvel |
12 | The Avengers | Movie | 2012 | Marvel |
13 | Item 47 (one-shot - The Avengers DVD) | One Shot | 2012 | Marvel |
14 | Iron Man 3 | Movie | 2013 | Marvel |
15 | All Hail the King (one-shot - Thor: The Dark World) | One Shot | 2013 | Marvel |
16 | Agents of Shield (season one: episodes 1 - 7) | Show | 2013 | ABC |
17 | Thor The Dark World | Movie | 2013 | Marvel |
18 | Agents of Shield (season one: episodes 8 - 16) | Show | 2013 | ABC |
19 | Captain America The Winter Soldier | Movie | 2014 | Marvel |
20 | Agents of Shield (season one: episodes 17 - 22) | Show | 2013 | ABC |
21 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Movie | 2014 | Marvel |
22 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | Movie | 2017 | Marvel |
23 | Daredevil (season one) | Show | 2015 | Netflix |
24 | Agents of Shield (season two: episodes 1 - 19) | Show | 2014 | ABC |
25 | Avengers Age of Ultron | Movie | 2015 | Marvel |
26 | Agents of Shield (season two: episodes 20 - 22) | Show | 2014 | ABC |
27 | Ant-Man | Movie | 2015 | Marvel |
28 | Jessica Jones (season one) | Show | 2015 | Netflix |
29 | Daredevil (season two) | Show | 2016 | Netflix |
30 | Agents of Shield (season three: episodes 1 - 19) | Show | 2015 | ABC |
31 | Captain America Civil War | Movie | 2016 | Marvel |
32 | Agents of Shield (season three: episodes 20 - 22) | Show | 2015 | ABC |
33 | Luke Cage (season one) | Show | 2016 | Netflix |
34 | Agents of Shield (season four: episodes 1 - 8) | Show | 2016 | ABC |
35 | Agents of Shield: Slingshot | Web Series | 2016 | Marvel |
36 | Agents of Shield (season four: episodes 9 - 22) | Show | 2016 | ABC |
37 | Iron Fist (season one) | Show | 2017 | Netflix |
38 | The Defenders (season one) | Show | 2017 | Netflix |
39 | Spider-Man Homecoming | Movie | 2017 | Marvel |
40 | Doctor Strange | Movie | 2016 | Marvel |
41 | The Punisher (season one) | Show | 2017 | Netflix |
42 | Runaways (season one) | Show | 2017 | Hulu |
43 | Black Panther | Movie | 2018 | Marvel |
44 | Agents of Shield (season five, episodes 1 - 14) | Show | 2017 | ABC |
45 | Cloak & Dagger (season one) | Show | 2018 | Freeform |
46 | Jessica Jones (season two) | Show | 2018 | Netflix |
47 | Inhumans (season one) | Show | 2017 | ABC |
48 | Luke Cage (season two) | Show | 2018 | Netflix |
49 | Iron Fist (season two) | Show | 2018 | Netflix |
50 | Daredevil (season three) | Show | 2018 | Netflix |
51 | Runaways (season two) | Show | 2018 | Hulu |
52 | The Punisher (season two) | Show | 2019 | Netflix |
53 | Cloak and Dagger (season two) | Show | 2019 | Freeform |
54 | Thor Ragnarok | Movie | 2017 | Marvel |
55 | Ant-Man and The Wasp | Movie | 2017 | Marvel |
56 | Avengers Infinity War | Movie | 2018 | Marvel |
57 | Agents of Shield (season five, episodes 20 - 22) | Show | 2019 | ABC |
58 | Avengers Endgame | Movie | 2019 | Marvel |
Coming Soon | ||||
N/A | Spider-Man: Far from Home | Movie | 2019 | Marvel |
N/A | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | Movie | 2020 | Marvel |
N/A | The Eternals | Unknown | 2020 | Unknown |
N/A | Doctor Strange 2 | Movie | Unknown | Marvel |
N/A | Black Panther 2 | Movie | Unknown | Marvel |
N/A | Jessica Jones (season three) | Show | 2019 | Netflix |
N/A | New Warriors (season one) | Show | Unknown | Unknown |
Coming Soon To Disney+ Streaming Service | ||||
N/A | Series based on Loki | Show | Unknown | Disney+ |
N/A | Series based on Scarlet Witch and Vision | Show | Unknown | Disney+ |
N/A | Series based on Hawkeye | Show | Unknown | Disney+ |
N/A | Series based on Falcon and The Winter Soldier | Show | Unknown | Disney+ |
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