The Right Order To Watch Marvel Movies

Most of us have watched Marvel movies, but the question is how to watch Marvel movies in order to connect the dots after Marvel’s Endgame. Marvel movies never fail to excite their fans. Whether Iron man’s suits or Captain Marvel’s powers, it just takes one movie to make anyone a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Over the years, Marvel has released over 30 movies portraying superheroes, their lives, and their collective efforts to fight evil. These movies have been dots that are to be connected to understand MCU’s vision.

Hence, knowing the right order of Marvel movies is a must for all the fans. If that made you question your love, because the first marvel movie you watched was Captain America’s Civil War, then we have your back. In this article, we have listed all the Marvel movies in their release order for you to watch and find those missing dots. Here, we have covered all the Marvel movies that will answer ‘how to watch Marvel movies in order.’

Iron Man

The answer to ‘how to watch Marvel movies in order’ starts from this movie. This is the first-ever Marvel movie. The film introduces Tony Stark, a billionaire engineer, as the Iron Man when he creates a unique and powerful improvised armor with its arc reactor in his chest to fight against the evil Obadiah Stane.

The Incredible Hulk

This Marvel movie encapsulates the life of Bruce Banner as a failed gamma radiation experiment transforms him into the gigantic Hulk at times. Later, Bruce Banner saves the world from the bad guy, the Abomination. 

Iron Man 2

With Iron Man’s growing popularity, Tony Stark pushes himself to continue his father’s legacy and also save his deteriorating health. In the meantime, he develops a new AI, JARVIS, and with its help, he takes on the villain, Whiplash.

Thor

Revolving around the Asgardian, Thor, this Marvel movie portrays Thor’s arrogance and powers as he protects the Planet Earth from the Frost Giants aided by the hammer Mjölnir.

Captain America: The First Avenger

This film introduces Steve Rogers, a soldier dosed with the Super-soldier serum that transforms him into the muscular and strong Captain America. As Captain America, Rogers fights against the Hydra and Nazi general Schmidt to recover the Tesseract and his friend, Bucky. 

The Avengers

The first Marvel movie with all the superheroes combined and the answer to your query ‘how to watch Marvel movies in order’ is Avengers. This Marvel movie brought all the superheroes together for the first time. Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, and Natasha teamed up to fight against the tyrant Loki and his army of Chitauri. Well, this film showcased Thanos for the first time. 

Iron Man 3

This Iron Man sequel was the first film of MCU’s phase 2. Here a stressed Tony Stark is seen to be building multiple Iron Man suits to cope with his trauma. In the interim, a terrorist called Mandarin attacks Iron Man, and the plot changes to Stark’s journey fighting the evil Mandarin and rebuilding his inventions. 

Thor: The Dark World

This MCU movie showcases Thor’s adventures as he protects Asguard and fights against the evil Malekith, who was searching for the Aether, an infinity stone, to reunite with the astrophysicist Jane Foster.

Captain America: Winter Soldier

As a part of SHIELD, Captain America and the Black Widow trace an assassin called Winter Soldier who tried to kill Nick Fury. As the story unfolds, Rogers discovers that the assassin is his old friend, Bucky. 

Guardians of the Galaxy

This movie introduces Peter Quill(Star-Lord), a space wanderer, as he steals an orb of the villain Ronan. To fight against the villain and save the universe from the cosmic power of the orb, Quill teams up with Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Gamora, and Drax the Destroyer.

Avengers: The Age of Ultron

When Iron Man tries to use the Mind Stone to complete the defense program, things mess up, and the villainous Ultron is created. All the Avenger superheroes then assemble to fight against Ultron and save the world. Concurrently they come across the mysterious and powerful Pietro and Wanda.

Ant-Man

Revolving around the mugger Scott Lang, this Marvel movie introduces a new superhero, the Ant-Man. With the help of Dr. Pym, thief Scott turns into the Ant-man who can shrink or enlarge himself and thus fight against the baddie Darren Cross.

Captain America: Civil War

This movie embarks on phase 3 of MCU. The movie revolves around the United Nation’s intervention in the Avenger’s affairs thus dividing them into Stark’s and Steve’s teams. Besides the rift, the son of Wakanda’s King, T’Challa vows to kill Bucky who was suspected to kill the Wakandan King.

Doctor Strange

When medicines couldn’t heal the neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange after an accident, he sought help in a mysterious field. The spiritual and mystic powers not only heal him but also disclose the world’s destruction by some unseen forces. Then, he sets on the odyssey to become the most powerful wizard.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

When the Star-Lord and his team mess up with their duties, they find themselves at odds with the alien race, Sovereign. The story gradually unfolds Star Lord’s past as he encounters his mighty celestial and egoistic father.

Spiderman: Homecoming

Distressed by the thought of being more than a neighbourhood superhero, Peter Parker balances his life as Spider-Man and an ordinary school kid. It was when the villainous Vulture threatened mankind that Peter proved himself as Spider-Man.

Thor: Ragnarok

This Marvel movie portrays Thor’s efforts to free himself from the fire demon Surtur’s prison and find his father, Odin. On his expedition, he further discovers that Asgard will be destroyed during the predicted Ragnarok, and he has to fight against the villainous Helen to protect Asgard. 

Black Panther

This Marvel Movie showcases T’Challa as the heir to the Wakanda throne, before which he must prove his worth as Wakanda’s protector and fight against his evil cousin, Erik Killmonger. 

Avengers: Infinity War

To fight against the strongest villain, Thanos, all the superheroes come together. They all try to stop Thanos and his army from reaching the Infinity Stones and save the universe from Thanos’ covet of changing the universe’s fate.

Ant-Man and the Wasp

As Scott Lang endeavors to balance being a father and a superhero, he teams up with the Wasp for an urgent mission. As the story advances, the mission of fighting the evil Ghost reveals some hard secrets of the superhero duo. 

Captain Marvel

This is the story of the most powerful superhero, Carol Danvers, as she tries to connect the dots of her past life on Earth amidst an intergalactic war between the Skrulls and the Kree. Captain Marvel was Nick Fury’s first Avenger and the last resort to save the universe from Thanos.  

Avengers: Endgame

Endgame is the last movie in ‘How to watch Marvel movies in order’. Marvel movie was the showdown of MCU’s phase 3. With half the universe erased by Thanos, the Avengers assemble to reverse Thanos’ action by travelling back in time and collecting the Infinity Stones before Thanos, thus bringing back all the lost ones.

We hope we have answered How to watch Marvel movies in order. Marvel Fandom won’t ever fade away. S,o how about rewatching them from start to end?

Also, let us know in the comments below your favourite and first-watched Marvel movie.

For more such interesting content, follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

Also, Read:

• 7 New Marvel Films Ranked As Per IMDb Ratings
• What Makes Eternals One Of The Worst Movies Of Marvel?