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Carol Danvers joins U.S. Air Force.
Dr. Stephen Strange goes on a meditation
retreat and gets the Time Stone; T’Challa watches the throne; Thor defeats his goth sister, Hela, destroys home planet in the process; Thanos gets all six Infinity Stones and snaps away half the living universe.
The Avengers reunite, travel back in time, and prevent “the snap” from happening. Tony and Natasha sacrifice themselves to save humanity, and Cap becomes an old man. Peter Parker fights some Elementals and is still in high school, somehow.
The Avengers clash with Maximoff twins,
Tony and Bruce create two super-robots:
Ultron, who tries to delete humanity
and Vision, who tries to save it.
Peter Parker gets radioactive; the world turns on the Avengers, who turn on each other.
Cap and Winter Soldier clash, exposing the dark underbelly of S.H.I.E.L.D.; the Guardians of the Galaxy begrudgingly form to stop a universal threat; Peter Quill (Star-Lord) meets his dad, Ego the Celestial.
Loki steals the Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D., unleashing a swarm of aliens on
NYC; a traumatized Tony Stark
fights a terrorist called the Mandarin.
Thor battles the Dark Elves bent on unleashing the Aether (aka the Reality Stone).
Tony Stark is kidnapped while
weapon-testing for the Army. He creates
the first Iron Man suit to escape.
Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk, Thor lands on Earth, Black Widow collabs with Tony Stark.
Howard and Maria Stark assassinated
by the Winter Soldier.
Danvers crashes during a secret
flight test, absorbs the power of the
Tesseract. Cue Capt. Marvel.
Thanos kills families of Gamora and Nebula before adopting them as daughters.
Rogers’ best friend Bucky Barnes is
imprisoned by terror org HYDRA and turned
into Winter Soldier.
Howard Stark and British agent Peggy Carter plan to form Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D) .
Cap pursues a Nazi in possession of the Tesseract (containing the power of an Infinity Stone), but falls into the ocean and is
presumed dead (but isn’t). Billionaire inventor Howard Stark finds the Tesseract.
Scrawny Brooklyn boy Steve Rogers takes
some Super Soldier Serum, gets swole, and becomes Captain America.
THE INFINITY SAGA
Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok,
Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Endgame
Spider-Man: Homecoming, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange
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Captain America: The Winter
Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy
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Thor: The Dark World
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Captain America: The First Avenger
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Thor: Ragnarok
Captain America: Civil War,
Doctor Strange
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.1
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the Infinity Saga—all 22 movies in the box office juggernaut that are the first three “phases” of the MCU. If you’ve been paying attention, you know sh*t is not looking good for our Avengers, and it’s likely we’ll see some of our favorites for the last time. But how did we get here? The Marvel timeline is convoluted and about as consistent as Scarlet Witch’s accent. Some movies were released after ones that preceded them narratively, while Marvel retroactively changed the time frame of others, most notably Spider-Man: Homecoming. No wonder you’re confused. But we’re here to set the record straight. Just in time for us to be shattered by whatever happens in Endgame.
knew this time would come. Avengers: Endgame will round out what Marvel Studios is calling
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