The Ultimate Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Timeline

• Core Identity: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) timeline is the official, in-universe chronological sequencing of events occurring within the continuity designated as Earth-199999, from the dawn of creation to the latest narrative developments.
• Key Takeaways:
• Chronological vs. Release Order: The MCU can be experienced in two primary ways: the order in which the films and series were released theatrically or on streaming, or the chronological order in which the events unfold within the universe. This guide focuses exclusively on the chronological order to provide a seamless narrative journey. Learn more about the viewing orders.
• The Saga Structure: The timeline is organized into overarching “Sagas” which are further broken down into “Phases.” The first three phases constitute The Infinity Saga, focusing on the rise of the Avengers and their conflict with Thanos over the Infinity Stones. Phases Four through Six form The Multiverse Saga, which explores the fallout of the Infinity Saga and introduces the vast complexities of alternate realities and the threat of Kang the Conqueror.
• A Living Timeline: Unlike the static history of a completed story, the MCU timeline is constantly expanding and being refined. New films, Disney+ series, and even official guidebooks add depth, recontextualize past events, and introduce new eras, making a definitive guide an essential tool for any fan.

Navigating the Marvel Cinematic Universe can be a daunting task for newcomers and veterans alike. The most common question fans ask is: “In what order should I watch the MCU?” The answer depends on the desired experience. Release Order is the sequence in which the projects were released to the public. This path preserves the creators' intended reveals, post-credit scenes that set up future films, and the evolution of filmmaking style over time. It is often recommended for first-time viewers. Chronological Order, the focus of this encyclopedia entry, arranges the films and series according to the in-universe timeline of events. This method provides a linear, flowing narrative that shows how each story directly leads into the next from a character's perspective. It offers a unique and immersive way to experience the saga, watching history unfold as it happened.

Disney's own streaming service, Disney+, features a “Timeline Order” playlist for the MCU. For the most part, this official list aligns with the fan-accepted chronological viewing order. However, there are minor discrepancies, often made for thematic or narrative flow rather than strict chronological accuracy. For example, Disney+ places Black Panther after Captain America: Civil War. While the bulk of Black Panther's story does indeed take place a week after the events of Civil War, its prologue is set in 1992, and its narrative is largely self-contained. Similarly, Doctor Strange is placed before Ragnarok, though their timelines overlap significantly. This guide will adhere to the most granular, event-based chronological placement possible, noting where it may differ slightly from the Disney+ order for the sake of absolute accuracy.

It is critically important to distinguish the timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from that of the primary Marvel comics continuity.

• Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999): This is the designation given to the universe of the films and Disney+ series.¹⁾ Its history is self-contained, beginning with Iron Man in 2008. It is a more streamlined and grounded reality, with a history spanning (thus far) only a few decades of superhero activity.
• Prime Comic Universe (Earth-616): This is the central universe of Marvel Comics, with a history dating back to the publication of Fantastic Four #1 in 1961. Its timeline is immensely complex, featuring decades of stories, numerous reality-altering events (retcons), a “sliding timescale” to keep characters perpetually modern, and a vastly larger roster of characters.

The two timelines are entirely separate. Events, character origins, and relationships from the Earth-616 comics do not necessarily apply to the MCU, and vice versa. This guide is dedicated exclusively to the timeline of the MCU, Earth-199999.

This timeline presents the canonical films, Disney+ series, and Marvel One-Shots in the chronological order of their main narrative events. Prologues or flashbacks occurring in different time periods are noted.

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THE INFINITY SAGA The first grand chapter of the MCU, detailing the formation of the Avengers, the revelation of the Infinity Stones, and the ultimate confrontation with the Mad Titan, Thanos.

This phase introduces the core founding members of the Avengers and establishes the primary threats and cosmic elements of the universe.

1. 1. Captain America: The First Avenger
   • Year(s) Set: Primarily 1942-1945, with a frame story in 2011.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The origin of Steve Rogers. This film is the foundational historical text of the modern MCU, detailing the Super Soldier program, the rise of HYDRA, and the introduction of the Tesseract (the Space Stone). Though released fifth, its main story is the definitive starting point of the superhero era.
2. 2. Captain Marvel
   • Year(s) Set: 1995.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The origin of Carol Danvers. Set squarely in the mid-90s, this story introduces the Kree-Skrull war to Earth, explains how Nick Fury lost his eye, and reveals the inspiration for the “Avenger Initiative.” Its placement here bridges the gap between the WWII era and the modern day.
3. 3. Iron Man
   • Year(s) Set: 2008-2009.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The film that started it all. Tony Stark's transformation from weapons dealer to armored hero. The timeline is firmly established by news reports and on-screen dates. The famous post-credits scene, where Nick Fury introduces the Avenger Initiative, marks the true beginning of the interconnected universe.
4. 4. Iron Man 2
   • Year(s) Set: 2010.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Occurs approximately six months after the events of Iron Man. This film sees Tony dealing with the fallout of his public reveal, introduces Black Widow and War Machine, and runs concurrently with the events of The Incredible Hulk and Thor.
5. 5. The Incredible Hulk
   • Year(s) Set: 2010.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: While a slightly disconnected entry due to recasting, this film's events happen at roughly the same time as Iron Man 2. A news broadcast from the Culver University battle can be seen on a monitor in Iron Man 2, and the novelization confirms this overlap. The post-credits scene with Tony Stark and General Ross directly ties it into the lead-up to The Avengers.
6. 6. Thor
   • Year(s) Set: 2010.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Thor's banishment to Earth and first encounter with S.H.I.E.L.D. occurs during the same week as the events of Iron Man 2 and The Incredible Hulk, a period Nick Fury refers to as “The Big Week.” Agent Coulson leaves Tony Stark in New Mexico to investigate the mysterious hammer, directly linking the films.
7. One-Shot: The Consultant
   • Year(s) Set: 2010.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: A short film explaining why the World Security Council wanted Abomination on the Avengers team and how Coulson and Sitwell sabotaged the idea by sending Tony Stark to annoy General Ross (the final scene of The Incredible Hulk).
8. One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer
   • Year(s) Set: 2010.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: A brief adventure showing Agent Coulson's formidable skills as he stops a gas station robbery on his way to New Mexico in Thor.
9. 7. The Avengers
   • Year(s) Set: 2012.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The culmination of Phase One. Loki uses the Tesseract to invade Earth, forcing Nick Fury to finally assemble the Avengers. The “Battle of New York” becomes a pivotal, world-changing event that serves as a chronological anchor for many future MCU projects.

This phase explores the aftermath of the Battle of New York, delving deeper into the cosmic side of the MCU and challenging the newly-formed team from within.

1. One-Shot: Item 47
   • Year(s) Set: 2012.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Takes place immediately after The Avengers, following a couple who find a Chitauri weapon and use it for petty crime, leading to their recruitment into S.H.I.E.L.D..
2. 8. Iron Man 3
   • Year(s) Set: December 2012.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Set six months after the Battle of New York, this film focuses on Tony Stark's PTSD and his battle against the Mandarin. The Christmas setting firmly places it at the end of 2012.
3. 9. Thor: The Dark World
   • Year(s) Set: 2013.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Follows the Avengers' victory, with Loki imprisoned on Asgard. The Convergence event brings the Aether (the Reality Stone) into play. This film expands the cosmic lore and is the first to explicitly name one of the artifacts as an Infinity Stone.
4. One-Shot: All Hail the King
   • Year(s) Set: ~2014.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: A follow-up to Iron Man 3, set after Trevor Slattery's imprisonment. It reveals the existence of a real Mandarin and the Ten Rings organization, a plot thread picked up years later in Phase Four.
5. 10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
   • Year(s) Set: 2014.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Two years after the Battle of New York, this film radically alters the MCU's status quo by revealing that HYDRA has been secretly operating within S.H.I.E.L.D. since its inception. The subsequent collapse of S.H.I.E.L.D. has massive ramifications for the entire universe.
6. 11. Guardians of the Galaxy
   • Year(s) Set: 2014.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Though set in the far reaches of space, the film is explicitly dated “2014” after its 1988 prologue. It introduces the cosmic side of the MCU in full, forming the Guardians and centering on the Power Stone. The events occur concurrently with the S.H.I.E.L.D. collapse but are narratively separate.
7. 12. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
   • Year(s) Set: 2014.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: In a rare direct sequel, director James Gunn confirmed that this film takes place only a few months after the first one, keeping the team's dynamic fresh and Baby Groot young.
8. 13. Avengers: Age of Ultron
   • Year(s) Set: 2015.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The Avengers, now operating as a privately-funded team after S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fall, inadvertently create the malevolent A.I. Ultron. The film introduces Wanda Maximoff and Vision, and the conflict over the Mind Stone further sets the stage for the Infinity War.
9. 14. Ant-Man
   • Year(s) Set: 2015.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The main story is set in the months following the destruction of Sokovia in Age of Ultron. The new Avengers facility seen at the end of Ultron is the location of Scott Lang's memorable fight with Falcon, firmly placing it in the timeline.

The culmination of the Infinity Saga. The Avengers are fractured by internal conflict just as the greatest threat they will ever face, Thanos, makes his final move.

1. 15. Captain America: Civil War
   • Year(s) Set: 2016.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: One year after Age of Ultron, political pressure over the Avengers' collateral damage leads to the Sokovia Accords, a U.N. act to regulate superheroes. A philosophical and personal divide between Captain America and Iron Man splits the team in two. This event is a crucial turning point, referenced for years to come.
2. 16. Black Widow
   • Year(s) Set: 2016.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Set in the immediate aftermath of Civil War, this film follows Natasha Romanoff as she goes on the run and is forced to confront her past in the Red Room. It slots neatly between her escape and her reappearance in Infinity War.
3. 17. Spider-Man: Homecoming
   • Year(s) Set: Fall 2016.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Takes place two months after the events of Civil War, with Peter Parker struggling to balance high school life with his new “Stark Internship.” ²⁾
4. 18. Black Panther
   • Year(s) Set: 2016.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The main narrative begins one week after the death of King T'Chaka in Civil War, as T'Challa returns to Wakanda to assume the throne.
5. 19. Doctor Strange
   • Year(s) Set: 2016-2017.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The story of Stephen Strange's journey from surgeon to Sorcerer Supreme spans roughly a year. A reference to Strange being a potential threat is made during The Winter Soldier, but his accident and training occur afterward, culminating in early 2017. He is an established Master of the Mystic Arts by the time of his next appearance.
6. 20. Thor: Ragnarok
   • Year(s) Set: 2017.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Set two years after Age of Ultron, Thor has been searching the cosmos for Infinity Stones. His story arc here directly leads into the opening scene of Infinity War, with the post-credits scene showing his Asgardian refugee ship being intercepted by Thanos's vessel, the Sanctuary II.
7. 21. Ant-Man and the Wasp
   • Year(s) Set: 2018.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The film takes place shortly before the events of Infinity War. The story is largely self-contained, dealing with Scott Lang's house arrest after Civil War. The shocking post-credits scene, however, happens concurrently with Thanos's snap, trapping Scott in the Quantum Realm.
8. 22. Avengers: Infinity War
   • Year(s) Set: 2018.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The beginning of the end. The story takes place over a frantic 24-48 hours as Thanos arrives on Earth to collect the final Infinity Stones. It culminates in the “Snap,” or the Decimation, where Thanos erases half of all life in the universe.
9. 23. Avengers: Endgame
   • Year(s) Set: 2018 and 2023.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The film opens immediately after the Snap in 2018, then jumps forward five years to 2023. This five-year gap is known as The Blip. The surviving Avengers execute the “Time Heist” to retrieve the Infinity Stones from the past and reverse the Snap. This film serves as the epic conclusion to the Infinity Saga.
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THE MULTIVERSE SAGA The second grand chapter of the MCU, dealing with the aftermath of the Blip, the introduction of new heroes and legacies, and the terrifying emergence of the Multiverse and its conqueror, Kang.

This phase is defined by its exploration of grief and legacy in a post-Blip world, while simultaneously cracking open the door to the multiverse and introducing a new generation of heroes.

1. 24. Loki (Season 1)
   • Year(s) Set: 2012 (branched timeline), but takes place outside of normal time and space.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: This is the most complex timeline placement. The series follows the 2012 variant of Loki who escaped with the Tesseract during the Time Heist in Endgame. He is apprehended by the Time Variance Authority (TVA). While the inciting incident is in 2012, the series' events have ramifications across all of history, culminating in the destruction of the “Sacred Timeline” and the birth of the multiverse. It is essential viewing to understand the entire Multiverse Saga.
2. 25. What If…? (Season 1)
   • Year(s) Set: Across multiple branched timelines.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: An animated anthology series exploring alternate realities created from key moments in the MCU timeline diverging. Watched by The Watcher, these stories showcase the infinite possibilities of the newly unleashed multiverse.
3. 26. WandaVision
   • Year(s) Set: 2023.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Set just three weeks after the Blip, the series follows a grieving Wanda Maximoff as she creates a pocket reality in Westview, New Jersey. It explores her transformation into the Scarlet Witch and is a direct prequel to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
4. 27. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
   • Year(s) Set: 2024.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Takes place six months after the Blip. Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes grapple with the legacy of Captain America's shield in a world struggling to readapt after half its population suddenly returned.
5. 28. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
   • Year(s) Set: 2024.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Set during the spring of 2024, likely around the Chinese Qingming Festival. It's largely a standalone story but is firmly set in the post-Blip world.
6. 29. Eternals
   • Year(s) Set: Primarily 2024, with extensive flashbacks spanning 7,000 years.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The present-day story is set several months after the Blip, with the energy from the returned population triggering the “Emergence.” The film's historical flashbacks provide the most extensive ancient history of the MCU yet.
7. 30. Spider-Man: Far From Home
   • Year(s) Set: Summer 2024.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Takes place eight months after the Blip, during Peter Parker's summer vacation in Europe. It directly deals with the fallout from Tony Stark's death and ends with a world-changing cliffhanger.
8. 31. Spider-Man: No Way Home
   • Year(s) Set: Fall/Winter 2024.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The film picks up immediately—to the second—where Far From Home left off. The main events unfold over the subsequent weeks, leading up to the holiday season. It directly brings the consequences of the multiverse to Earth-199999.
9. 32. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
   • Year(s) Set: Late 2024 / Early 2025.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Takes place several months after the events of No Way Home, with lingering multiverse phenomena still affecting the world. It is also a direct continuation of Wanda's story from WandaVision.
10. 33. Hawkeye
    • Year(s) Set: December 2024.
    • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: A street-level story set during Christmas week in New York City, one year after the Blip. Clint Barton is forced to confront his past as Ronin while mentoring his successor, Kate Bishop.
11. 34. Moon Knight
    • Year(s) Set: 2025.
    • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The series is largely self-contained, but background details like a GRC (Global Repatriation Council) advertisement place it firmly in the post-Blip world of 2025.
12. 35. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
    • Year(s) Set: 2025.
    • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The show's timeline is fluid, taking place over several months in 2025. It runs concurrently with other events but is definitively after Shang-Chi's story (due to Abomination's presence) and before the events of Wakanda Forever.
13. 36. Ms. Marvel
    • Year(s) Set: Fall 2025.
    • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The school year setting places this story in the autumn of 2025, making it one of the later entries in Phase Four. It introduces mutants to the MCU for the first time.
14. 37. Thor: Love and Thunder
    • Year(s) Set: ~2025/2026.
    • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The placement is slightly ambiguous, but based on the growth of characters like Love and the time passed since Thor left with the Guardians, it's generally placed in late 2025 or early 2026.
15. 38. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    • Year(s) Set: 2025.
    • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: The story begins one year after the death of T'Challa, which is implied to have occurred around 2024. The film introduces Namor and Talokan and sets up the future of Wakanda.
16. 39. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
    • Year(s) Set: December 2025.
    • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: A short, fun special set between Love and Thunder and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. It provides a key update on the Guardians' status, including their purchase of Knowhere.

The threats grow larger as the multiverse becomes more unstable and the variants of Kang the Conqueror begin to make their presence known, setting the stage for a new multiversal war.

1. 40. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
   • Year(s) Set: 2026.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Scott Lang has become a celebrity author enjoying post-Blip life. The events of the film kick off shortly after the Holiday Special and formally introduce the Council of Kangs, the primary antagonists of the Multiverse Saga.
2. 41. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
   • Year(s) Set: 2026.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Takes place after the Holiday Special and Quantumania, serving as the emotional conclusion to this iteration of the Guardians team.
3. 42. Secret Invasion
   • Year(s) Set: 2026.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Set in the present day of the MCU, dealing with a rogue faction of Skrulls attempting to take over Earth. Nick Fury returns to handle a crisis he inadvertently helped create decades ago.
4. 43. Loki (Season 2)
   • Year(s) Set: Outside of normal time and space.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Picks up immediately after the explosive finale of Season 1. Loki and Mobius race to save the TVA and the entire multiverse from temporal meltdown caused by the branching timelines. Its conclusion fundamentally reshapes the structure of the MCU cosmos.
5. 44. The Marvels
   • Year(s) Set: 2026.
   • Synopsis & Timeline Placement: Follows the events of Captain Marvel, WandaVision, and Ms. Marvel, uniting Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan. The film's final scene and post-credits stinger have major implications for the future, including a direct connection to the X-Men film universe.

The official MCU timeline consists of the films produced by Marvel Studios and the series on Disney+. However, Marvel Television produced several other series that have a complex and hotly debated relationship with the main timeline.

From 2015 to 2019, Marvel Television produced a suite of interconnected, street-level shows for Netflix: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher.

• Original Intent: These shows were developed to be part of the MCU. They contain direct references to the Battle of New York (“The Incident”) and other Avengers-level events.
• The Divergence: However, the main films never acknowledged the events or characters of the Netflix shows. As the division between Marvel Studios and Marvel Television grew, the properties drifted apart.
• The Re-Integration: With the advent of the Multiverse Saga, Marvel Studios has begun re-integrating these characters. Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk (Kingpin) appeared in Hawkeye and Echo, and Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock (Daredevil) appeared in Spider-Man: No Way Home and She-Hulk. The upcoming series Daredevil: Born Again will continue their stories.
• Current Consensus: The general consensus is that the Netflix shows are being treated as a “soft canon” or a “sacred timeline adjacent” history. The core characters and their backstories are canon, but Marvel Studios may pick and choose which specific plot points from the original series to acknowledge, effectively performing a soft reboot. The official Marvel Studios' The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline book does not include these shows.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was the flagship show from Marvel Television, premiering in 2013.

• Early Seasons: The first few seasons were explicitly tied to the MCU. Season 1's entire premise was upended by the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a masterful feat of cross-platform storytelling. The show also dealt with the aftermath of Thor: The Dark World and introduced the Inhumans before they were slated for their own film.
• The Divergence: Around Season 5, the show began to significantly diverge. The characters dealt with time travel and alternate futures, and most critically, the series completely ignored Thanos's snap and the Blip, which would have been a world-altering event for its characters.
• Current Consensus: Most fans and timeline experts now consider Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to have branched off into its own separate timeline around Season 5. While its early history is shared with Earth-199999, its later seasons exist in a parallel reality. Like the Netflix shows, it is not included in the official timeline book. The same logic applies to other Marvel Television shows like Agent Carter, Runaways, and Cloak & Dagger.³⁾

Certain events in the MCU are so significant they serve as “Nexus Events”—moments that define an era and are constantly referenced, allowing viewers to anchor themselves in the timeline.

The climactic event of The Avengers. Loki and the Chitauri army invade New York City. This was the world's first large-scale, public confirmation of alien life and super-powered threats. It led directly to the creation of the Department of Damage Control, global anxiety about superheroes, and Tony Stark's PTSD, which fueled the creation of Ultron. Nearly every subsequent project referenced “The Incident.”

The central event of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The revelation that the terrorist organization HYDRA had secretly been growing within S.H.I.E.L.D. for 70 years led to the complete collapse of the world's premier intelligence agency. This act instantly destabilized global security, forced the Avengers to become a private entity, and scattered former agents (like Natasha Romanoff) and villains across the globe.

The political catalyst of Captain America: Civil War. After catastrophic collateral damage in Lagos, the United Nations ratified the Sokovia Accords, a legislative framework to place the Avengers under government control. The philosophical clash over accountability vs. freedom to act shattered the team, creating a schism between Team Cap and Team Iron Man that left Earth vulnerable just two years before Thanos's arrival.

The horrifying climax of Avengers: Infinity War. Using the completed Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos snapped his fingers and erased 50% of all living creatures in the universe. This single, instantaneous act of cosmic genocide, known as the Decimation, is the most impactful event in the MCU's history.

The triumphant resolution of Avengers: Endgame. Five years after the Snap, Bruce Banner, using a new gauntlet, reversed Thanos's action, bringing everyone back to life. This event, known as the Blip, created a new set of global crises. The world was now faced with the logistical and social nightmare of accommodating billions of people who had not aged for five years suddenly reappearing, an issue central to Phase Four stories like The Falcon and The Winter Soldier and WandaVision.

The Multiverse Saga has fundamentally changed the nature of the MCU timeline from a single, linear path to an infinite tree of branching realities.

The Disney+ series Loki provided the definitive explanation for the multiverse. The Time Variance Authority (TVA) pruned any reality that “branched” from the main “Sacred Timeline” to prevent a multiversal war caused by variants of a being known as Kang the Conqueror. When Sylvie, a Loki variant, killed the TVA's creator (“He Who Remains,” a variant of Kang), the Sacred Timeline was allowed to branch uncontrollably, creating the modern MCU multiverse. In Season 2, Loki takes control of the timeline, transforming it from a single thread into a massive, tree-like structure (Yggdrasil), holding all the branches together himself.

This animated series is a direct exploration of the newly formed multiverse. Each episode, observed by the cosmic being Uatu the Watcher, begins at a Nexus Event from the Infinity Saga and shows what would have happened if one key choice had been made differently. This creates new universes, such as one where Peggy Carter became the First Avenger (Captain Carter) or where a zombie plague consumed the world.

These two films brought the consequences of the multiverse directly to Earth-199999. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, a botched spell by Doctor Strange pulled villains (and heroes) from other cinematic Spider-Man universes (the Sam Raimi and Marc Webb films) into the MCU. In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Strange and America Chavez travel across multiple alternate realities, including Earth-838, showcasing the tangible dangers and differences that exist across the multiverse, and the threat posed by those who can traverse it, like the Scarlet Witch.

• The Infinity Stones
• S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Thanos
• The Avengers
• Multiverse
• Kang the Conqueror

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