Watching the Marvel movies in this order is how Marvel Studios intended you to see the story play out, and you'll get to enjoy how the movies got bigger and better over the years – especially as Disney took over ownership and started pumping up the budgets. Want to watch the MCU movies in release order instead? Try this list.

Loki (technically post-The Avengers in 2012, but best watched after Endgame).

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (around six months after Endgame).

WandaVision (three weeks after Endgame).

Loki, meanwhile, is technically set after the events of The Avengers, but in another timeline – we'd advise watching it after Avengers: Endgame. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is set six months after Endgame – so both shows take place before Spider-Man: Far From Home.

WandaVision actually takes place mere weeks after Endgame. Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton, meanwhile, has confirmed that his movie takes place within the 'present day' of the MCU, which makes it the most recent in the timeline as it stands. Black Widow, though, technically takes place entirely within the events of Captain America: Civil War, which means it comes first out of those. Some timing is ambiguous – for example, Black Widow, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Black Panther and Doctor Strange all take place at roughly the same time, and they're set across varying lengths of time, which makes ordering them tricky. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (set in the present day of the MCU).Spider-Man: Far From Home (eight months post-Endgame).Avengers: Endgame (starts in 2017, finishes in 2022).Ant-Man and The Wasp (ambiguous, but fits nicely between IW and Endgame).Avengers: Infinity War (takes place in 2017).Thor: Ragnarok (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War).Spider-Man: Homecoming (post-Civil War, pre-Infinity War).Black Widow (takes place right after Civil War).Captain America: Civil War (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War).Avengers: Age of Ultron (takes place in 2015).Guardians of the Galaxy (sometime in 2014).Captain America: Winter Soldier (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron).Thor: Dark World (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron).Iron Man 3 (takes place six months after The Avengers).Thor (takes place six months before Avengers).The Incredible Hulk (time unspecified, pre-Avengers).Iron Man 2 (takes place after Iron Man).Captain America: The First Avenger (takes place during WWII).

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