The peoples' votes are spot-on with some things (Thor: The Dark World and The Incredible Hulk are no one's favorite Marvel films), and other things extremely wrong (Ant-Man and the Wasp is surely worse than Captain America: The First Avenger?). What are the best Marvel movies? For us on TechRadar, the Avengers movies mark the peak of the MCU, but the whole thing is incredibly subjective.īelow, we've ranked the Marvel movies based on user scores from IMDb.
Iron Man 3 is perhaps the least consequential Marvel movie in terms of plot, but secretly one of the most fun. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (now available).
These are the Marvel TV shows available on Disney Plus, meanwhile:
These are the Marvel movies on Disney Plus in the US, UK and Australia:
You'll have to buy or rent them on DVD, Blu-Ray or digital right now if you want a full Marvel movie marathon. Wondering which Marvel movies are on Disney Plus? The Incredible Hulk and the Spider-Man films are the only MCU films on Disney Plus, and that's because Universal and Sony own the distribution rights to them respectively. Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania (July 28, 2023).Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (November 11, 2022).Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (May 6, 2022).Ms Marvel (TV show – expected early 2022).Spider-Man: No Way Home (December 17, 2021).Upcoming Marvel movies: release dates for Phase 4 and beyond When is Shang-Chi released on Disney Plus?.Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV show).Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).You'll also find Marvel movies release dates for Phase 4 and beyond below, which is accurate as of the publication time at the top of this article. Watching the Marvel movies in this 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. Want to watch the MCU movies in release order instead? Try this list. 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).Loki, meanwhile, is technically set after the events of The Avengers, but in another timeline – we'd advise watching it after Avengers: Endgame. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is set six months after Endgame – so both shows take place before Spider-Man: Far From Home. WandaVision actually takes place mere weeks after Endgame. Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton, meanwhile, has confirmed that his movie takes place within the "present day" of the MCU, which makes it the most recent in the timeline as it stands. Black Widow, though, technically takes place entirely within the events of Captain America: Civil War, which means it comes first out of those. 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. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (set in the present day of the MCU).Spider-Man: Far From Home (eight months post-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 (takes place 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 (takes place in 2015).Guardians of the Galaxy (sometime in 2014).Captain America: Winter Soldier (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron).Thor: Dark World (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron).Iron Man 3 (takes place six months after The Avengers).Thor (takes place six months before Avengers).The Incredible Hulk (time unspecified, pre-Avengers).Iron Man 2 (takes place after Iron Man).Captain America: The First Avenger (takes place during WWII).Here's the chronological viewing order of the Marvel movies as of 2021: We've listed the MCU shows order below, too, so you can see how they fit around the movies. This is how you'll want to watch the Marvel movies in order if you're a continuity buff – it lets you enjoy the sequence of events as they happened.