Marvel Cinematic Universe

The **Marvel Cinematic Universe** (**MCU**) is a media franchise and shared universe created by Marvel under the division Marvel Studios, which besides to the main reality, it contains a number of other alternate or branched realities and dimensions; some of them connecting to other media franchises.

The universe was insereted on the Marvel Comics multiverse system as "Earth-199999", however this has never been adressed in the MCU on-screen, and instead, Kevin Feige have designated the MCU primary universe as "Earth-616", which has been adressed on and off-screen.

## History

Starting with *Iron Man* in 2008, Marvel began to grow and expand the universe through the years, strongly connecting their first following films, in order to made the anticipated crossover *The Avengers*. In the same year Marvel also started producing comics and video games set or inspired in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting with the video game *Iron Man*, and the comic *Iron Man: Fast Friends*.

In 2011, Marvel Studios started a series of in-universe short films called "Marvel One-Shots", which were included in the Blu-ray release of some of the films, being the first one *The Consultant*.

In 2012, partly due to the successful and world famous *The Avengers*, Marvel started producing *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.* under the division Marvel Television, being so the first TV series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the same year Marvel began producing "full-canon" comics (MCU Red Stamp), starting with *The Avengers Prelude: Black Widow Strikes*.

## Media

### Films

1. *Iron Man*
2. *The Incredible Hulk*
3. *Iron Man 2*
4. *Thor*
5. *Captain America: The First Avenger*
6. *The Avengers*
7. *Iron Man 3*
8. *Thor: The Dark World*
9. *Captain America: The Winter Soldier*
10. *Guardians of the Galaxy*
11. *Avengers: Age of Ultron*
12. *Ant-Man*
13. *Captain America: Civil War*
14. *Doctor Strange*
15. *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2*
16. *Spider-Man: Homecoming*
17. *Thor: Ragnarok*
18. *Black Panther*
19. *Avengers: Infinity War*
20. *Ant-Man and the Wasp*
21. *Captain Marvel*
22. *Avengers: Endgame*
23. *Spider-Man: Far From Home*
24. *Black Widow*
25. *Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings*
26. *Eternals*
27. *Spider-Man: No Way Home*
28. *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness*
29. *Thor: Love and Thunder*
30. *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*
31. *Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania*
32. *Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3*
33. *The Marvels*
34. *Deadpool 3*
35. *Captain America: Brave New World*
36. *Thunderbolts*
37. *Blade*
38. *Fantastic Four*
39. *Avengers: The Kang Dynasty*
40. *Avengers: Secret Wars*
41. *Spider-Man 4*
42. *Armor Wars*
43. *Shang-Chi 2*
44. *X-Men*

### Special Presentations

1. *Werewolf by Night*
2. *The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special*

### TV Series

1. *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.*
2. *Agent Carter*
3. *Daredevil*
4. *Jessica Jones*
5. *Luke Cage*
6. *Iron Fist*
7. *The Defenders*
8. *Inhumans*
9. *The Punisher*
10. *Runaways*
11. *Cloak & Dagger*
12. *Helstrom*
13. *WandaVision*
14. *The Falcon and The Winter Soldier*
15. *Loki*
16. *What If...?*
17. *Hawkeye*
18. *Moon Knight*
19. *Ms. Marvel*
20. *I Am Groot*
21. *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law*
22. *Secret Invasion*
23. *Echo*
24. *Ironheart*
25. *X-Men '97*
26. *Agatha: Darkhold Diaries*
27. *Daredevil: Born Again*
28. *Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man*
29. *Marvel Zombies*
30. *Eyes of Wakanda*

1. *Wonder Man*
2. *Nova*
3. *Vision Quest*

### Shorts

1. *The Consultant*
2. *A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer*
3. *Item 47*
4. *Agent Carter*
5. *All Hail the King*
6. *Team Thor: Part 1*
7. *Team Thor: Part 2*
8. *Team Darryl*
9. *Peter's To-Do List*

### Web Series

1. *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Double Agent*
2. *WHiH Newsfront*
3. *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Academy*
4. *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot*
5. *The Daily Bugle*

### Others

* Books
	+ Comics
	+ Artbooks
	+ Guidebooks
* Video games
* Attractions and outside media
* Documentaries
	+ Docuseries
* Corporate advertising
* Canceled media

## External Links

* Marvel Cinematic Universe on Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
* Marvel Cinematic Universe on Wikipedia
* Marvel Cinematic Universe on Marvel Database
* Marvel Cinematic Universe on Microsoft
* Marvel Cinematic Universe on Rotten Tomatoes