Short on time to catch up on all your favorite movies in the MCU? Want to just follow a specific character? Boom, there’s an order for that. Want to follow the varying plot lines? Boom, there’s an order for that. Here are some marathon suggestions before Infinity War.
IRON MAN
- Iron Man
- Iron Man 2
- Avengers
- Iron Man 3
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Captain America: Civil War
- Spider-Man: Homecoming (Supporting)
HULK
- The Incredible Hulk
- Avengers
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Thor: Ragnarok (Supporting)
THOR
- Thor
- Avengers
- Thor: The Dark World
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Thor: Ragnarok
CAPTAIN AMERICA
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Avengers
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Captain America: Civil War
BLACK WIDOW
- Iron Man 2 (Supporting)
- Avengers
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Supporting)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Captain America: Civil War (Supporting)
HAWKEYE
- Thor (cameo)
- Avengers
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Captain America: Civil War
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2
ANT-MAN
- Ant-Man
- Captain America: Civil War (Supporting)
BLACK PANTHER
- Captain America: Civil War (Supporting)
- Black Panther
SPIDER-MAN
As a lifelong Spider-Man fan, it’s a little odd that
- Captain America: Civil War (Supporting)
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
INFINITY STONES
The MacGuffins. The unifying thread that brings together Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and their trashy distant relatives from another galaxy. The blue Soul Stone is housed within the Tesseract, and lets the user open portals throughout the cosmos. Hydra also used it to blow shit up, which was bad. The red Reality Stone, formerly housed within the Aether and currently possessed by The Collector, allows the users to alter reality and shoot red stuff out of them. The purple Power Stone is currently safeguarded by the Nova Corps, though the Infinity War trailer shows that may no longer be the case. The yellow Mind Stone, formerly housed within Loki’s staff and now in the forehead of Vision. The green Time Stone
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Avengers
- Thor: The Dark World
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Doctor Strange
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
If you’re gonna wild out and watch all the movies anyways, watch them in chronological order and follow the entire history of the MCU. You’ll either feel scholarly or regretful. Either way, you’ll probably have a good time anyways.
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Iron Man
- Iron Man 2
- The Incredible Hulk
- Thor
- The Avengers
- Iron Man 3
- Thor: The Dark World
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Ant-Man
- Captain America: Civil War
- Black Panther
- Doctor Strange
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Thor: Ragnarok
See you all for Infinity War.