The Entire MCU Timeline Explained (2023 Update)

Looper truly missed a huge opportunity by not hiring Michael Peña to give this whole recap as Luis

My Word! This is the Best chronologically put together explanation of entire MCU so far.. Well Done & Thank you !

The MCU is confusing af now. Not for your avg Joe. Everything feels like independent pieces. Too many new characters too fast. Comic nerds get it but for your avg joe . We are confused. Especially since most characters now arent your A list legacy characters, like a household name.

Marvel Cinematic Universe Timeline

MCU: Phase 1 - “Avengers Assemble”
Captain America: The First Avenger (1942 - 1945, 2011)
Agent Carter season 1 (1946)
Agent Carter (one-shot) (1946)
Agent Carter season 2 (1947)
Captain Marvel (1990, 1995)
Iron Man (2008 - 2010)
Iron Man 2 (2011)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer (2011)
The Incredible Hulk (2011)
The Consultant (2011)
Thor (965 AD, 2011)
The Avengers (2012)
Item 47 (2012)

MCU: Phase 2 - “Age of Heroes”
Iron Man 3 (2012)
All Hail the King (2013)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. s1 ep 1 - 7 (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. s1 ep 8 - 16 (2013 - 2014)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. s1 ep 17 - 22 (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
I Am Groot ep 1 (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2014)
I Am Groot ep 2 - 5 (2014)
Daredevil season 1 (2015)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. s2 ep 1 - 19 (2014 - 2015)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. s2 ep 20 - 22 (2015)
WHIH Newsfront (Ant-Man Campaign) (2015)
Ant-Man (1989, 2015)

MCU: Phase 3 - “Civil & Infinity War”
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. s3 ep 1 - 10 (2015 - 2016)
Jessica Jones season 1 (2015)
Daredevil season 2 (2016)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. s3 ep 11 - 19 (2016)
WHIH Newsfront (Civil War Campaign) (2016)
Captain America: Civil War (1996, 2016)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. s3 ep 20 - 22 (2016)
Black Widow (2016)
Black Panther (2016)
Luke Cage season 1 (2016)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016 - 2017)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot season 1 (2016)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 2016 - 2017)
Inhumans season 1 (2017)
Iron Fist season 1 (2017)
The Defenders (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017, 2018)
The Punisher season 1 (2017)
Runaways seasons 1 - 3 (2017 - 2018)
Cloak & Dagger seasons 1 & 2 (2017 - 2018)
Jessica Jones season 2 (2018)
Luke Cage season 2 (2018)
Iron Fist season 2 (2018)
Daredevil season 3 (2018)
The Punisher season 2 (2018)
Jessica Jones season 3 (2018)
Helstrom season 1 (2018)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5 (2017 - 2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. seasons 6 & 7 (2018 - 2019, alternate timeline)
Avengers: Endgame (2018, 2023)

MCU: Phase 4 - “Multiverse of Madness”
Loki season 1 (2012, outside of the timeline)
What If…? season 1 (outside of the timeline)
WandaVision (2023)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2024)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2024)
Eternals (2024)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2024)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2024)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2024)
Hawkeye (2024)
Moon Knight (2025)
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2025)
Ms. Marvel (2025)
Thor: Love and Thunder (2025)
Werewolf by Night (2025)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2025)
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2025)

MCU: Phase 5 - “Cosmic”
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2026)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2016)
Secret Invasion (2026)

Wow, this is for far the best time line explanation done! It's so helpful specially for busy people that don't have the time to watch TV show series and just had seen just the movies. Thank you for this amazing work. I am truly grateful 😊

One of the more fun parts of the whole chronology which isn’t mentioned here is that The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor and the opening and closing scenes of Captain America (as well as tie in comic book Fury’s Big Week) all take place pretty much at the same time. A TV in the background of Iron Man shows Hulk smashing up the university, and when Coulson gets called away part way through Iron Man it’s so he can investigate Thor’s hammer crash landing in New Mexico.

I can watch MCU movies over and over without getting enough. Thank you for this timeline.

i stop watching after endgame😊

Amazing!!! There's so much to cover! You forgot to put Wanda's memories from her childhood. And I love that you included Netflix, AOS, Cloak&Dagger and all of that.

The MCU is JUST getting started!

Really amazing review of such a crazy timeline! Looks like you got the 1987 ant-man/wasp in twice at 14:58 and 15:38 although the 2nd is much more detailed.

With this whole multiverse thing I feel like the timeline is gonna get more confusing

@Looper I don't normally leave comments on videos, but this MCU explainer is fantastic! Now I don't have to watch all those other Marvel movies that I didn't want to waste my time and money on. I look forward to future videos from this channel.

The MCU is a mess.

You have to get rid of that music

Oh my goodness - I'm finally starting to see how all the pieces fit together. Now I want to go watch them all again now that I have a light understanding of what's happening. Thank you!!!

Holy moly I just realised how much I missed from MCU. It’s like half of it I wasn’t aware of

The music is extremely distracting, I'm 5 minutes in and I can't listen anymore. Is there an alternative without the music?

holy crap this is actually insane how the directors and writers put everything together like a jigaw puzzle, a really really big one

This is awesome. Timelines been hard to follow but this helps. Only flaw - WandaVision is the very first event after End Game. It's been confirmed it takes place within a couple of weeks of the battle and lasts about 9 days. FATWS, Eternals (present day), Shang Chi and FFH take place in 2024. WV is October-November 2023.