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Marvel's Cinematic Universe Watching Order [Infinity Saga]

Yet another list with a handy guide to watching the MCU in proper order...

The obvious problem is the placement of the first Captain America Movie and the following Agent Carter 1-Shot and the series...

Here you will find the best watching order (entirely subjective) with the One-Shots and info on Post credits scenes (PC), as well as the info on were the One Shots were released on disc.

Warning, there might be spoilers...

Another warning:

If you start your MCU experience according to this list, then do not let yourself be discouraged with Agents of Shield or Agent Carter TV-Shows. Although they are charming in their own way and host some important events, they are very uneven. So feel free to skip those, but definitely watch EVERYTHING else.

Last update 10-07-2022

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1. Captain America: The First Avenger

PC: Nick Fury – The Avengers Initiative Trailer
It's technically set before the Avengers, BUT the bulk of the story is a Flashback to the second world war. So you might want to start with Captain, or with the One Shot, or if you like, you could watch Cap-One twice ;)
2. Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter

on Iron Man 3 Disc
This is NOT canon, but if you manage to simply forget the last scene with the phone call, than you might place this here... another way to head-canon this, is simply that things went wrong between the ending of this and the beginning of the TV-Show, leading to a similar position of Peggy at the SSR.
Either way.. I think it is a good short and should still be seen, even if the TV-Show practically erases it.
3. Agent Carter

Season 1
No spoilers for future shows or movies in the first season.
You are safe to watch it here.
ALTHOUGH user VitaEstBona aka Nick pointed out, that there is one scene, that might be considered a little spoilery.
But I think it is not really spoilery but foreshadowing.
Lets compare it to Star Wars:
The Prequels pretty much ruin the Episode 5 twist, while Agent Carters one scene sets up a later twist (and makes it IMO more believable).
But I agree with Nick, that this might be worth to point out!
4. Agent Carter

Season 2
No spoilers for future shows or movies in the first season.
You are safe to watch it here, although there is an element that first appeared in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, but I think it is much more interesting to learn of this element through Peggy than through Coulson.
5. Captain Marvel

PC1: Scene from shortly before ENDGAME, skip if you do not want spoilers
PC2: An epilogue to the movie
6. Iron Man

PC: Nick Fury; Avengers Initiative
(Big time jump from the post-war stories of Agent Carter)
7. Iron Man 2

PC: Mjolnir found
8. Marvel One Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer

on Captain America Disc
9. The Incredible Hulk

PC: Tony Stark; Avengers Initiative
although this was released before Iron Man 2, Tony Stark apears in the post credits scene as The Consultant. He takes the Consultant role at the end of Iron Man 2.
So it is better to watch it here.
10. Marvel One Shot: The Consultant

on Thor Disc
We get to see the behind the scenes situation and motivation behind the Hulk post credit scene.
11. Thor

PC: Teseract
12. Captain America: The First Avenger

PC: Nick Fury – The Avengers Initiative Trailer
As wrote earlier, this is the second place where you could watch Cap-One... although I like the movie, I would not watch it a second time here... I think beginning a monster-chronological viewing should start with Cap, cause the TV-Show Agent Carter and the Hulk movie pick up some threads started here.
Hulk actually feels like one last failure in the super soldier program, so it doe come off like the epilogue to Cap's first movie.
13. The Avengers

PC: Restaurant
14. Marvel One-Shot: Item 47

on Avengers Disc
15. Iron Man 3

PC: Tony Stark & Bruce Banner
16. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episodes 1:01 - 1:07
17. Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

on Thor: The Dark World Disc
18. Thor: The Dark World

PC1: Guardians of the Galaxy Intro
PC2: Thor and Jane Foster
The D+ timeline has this right after The Avengers and before Iron Man 3, but that makes no sense, as the AOS episode 8 deals with the direct fallout from this movie.
19. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episodes 1:08 - 1:16
20. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

PC1: Hydra HQ
PC2: Bucky Barnes
21. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episodes 1:17 - 1:22
22. Daredevil

Daredevil runs concurently to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but I cannot determine exactly how, BUT AoS2 intertwines definetly with Age of Ultron, whereas Daredevil does not. Therefore I would place Daredevil here. Breaking up DD and Aos2 would seem pointless.
23. Guardians of the Galaxy

PC1: Dancing Groot
PC2: Collector & Howard the Duck
Thanks to user thedavidrosario, who pointed out, that this is definitely happening after The Dark World, because The Collector has the Aether already in his collection.
24. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

PC1: Kraglin Training
PC2: Ravagers Assemble
PC3: Groots Room
PC4: The Astronaut
25. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episodes 2:01 - 2:19
26. Avengers: Age of Ultron

PC: Thanos grabs the Gauntlet
27. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episodes 2:19 - 2:22
28. Ant-Man

PC1: The Wasp
PC2: Civil War (This scene IS in Civil War and I might actually sugest to skip it, as it spoils it a bit)
29. Jessica Jones

Both JJ and DD run concurrently to season 3 of AOS, but I think it makes sense to watch AOS last, as it will lead into Civil War.
As far as I understand JJ-s1 runs parallel to the first half of AOS-s3.
30. Daredevil

As AOS will lead right into Civil War, and Daredevil Season 2 is a rather stand alone season, so as mentioned above, it might make sense to watch DD-s2 and JJ-s1 first.
As far as I understand DD-s2 runs parallel to the 2nd half of AOS-s3.
31. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episodes 3:01 - 3:19
32. Captain America: Civil War

PC: Bucky's fate
PC2: Spiderman teaser
33. Black Widow
34. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episodes 3:20 - 3:22
35. Luke Cage

Season 1
36. Spider-Man Homecoming
37. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episodes 4:01 - 4:08
38. Doctor Strange
39. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episodes 4:09 - 4:22
40. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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41. Black Panther
42. Iron Fist

Season 1
43. The Defenders
44. Marvel's Inhumans
45. The Punisher

Season 1
46. The Runaways

Season 1 + 2
47. Jessica Jones

Season 2
48. Cloak & Dagger

Season 1
49. Luke Cage

Season 2
50. Iron Fist

Season 2
51. Daredevil

Season 3
52. The Punisher

Season 2
53. Jessica Jones

Season 3
54. Cloak & Dagger

Season 2
55. The Runaways

Season 2
56. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episodes 5:01 - 5:19

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thedavidrosario

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Pretty good order! I like that it minimizes all the disk swapping when watching the films and the One-Shots. Note: Guardians definitely takes place after Thor 2, because the Collector is in possession of the Aether that was given to him during the first post-credits scene from "The Dark World."

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Lazara

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The list seems to be okay. First of all, the Agent Carter One-Shot, from where does the fact that it's not cannon come from? Because the One-Shot ends with Agent Carter getting a job at the SRR, which will later become SHIELD.

Other than that, I think I'd prefer to watch Captain America before Avengers instead. This was a easy decision before Agent Carter was released, because the Phase 1 was pretty straight forward. Now, I'm not sure where to watch it, and as I want to rewatch all of the MCU before the release of Agent's of Shield season 3, I'm starting to panic.

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@thedavidrosario said:

the Collector is in possession of the Aether that was given to him during the first post-credits scene from "The Dark World."

Thanks for that info... introduced it to the time line :)

@lazara said:

Because the One-Shot ends with Agent Carter getting a job at the SRR, which will later become SHIELD.

Hmm... Peggy gets hired at the beginning only to leave the very next day to create SHIELD in the One Shot.

The TV show takes place over many episodes... and if you watch the show and the one shot back2back you will notice that both do not go well with each other.

@lazara said:

Other than that, I think I'd prefer to watch Captain America before Avengers instead. I'm starting to panic.

The Ed Norton Hulk pretty significantly teases Captain America, BUT if you watch it the other way around, AND with AGENT CARTER in between, than HULK seems almost like a thematic closure for the super soldier program. So I still recommend starting the MCU with Cap1.

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11jelle11

will you update the list now the new season of agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.S is out.

and will you also do this when new ivies come out?

thanks for this order i really enjoy the movies

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Hey there, have not been active for some time, but am now doing the needed updates :)

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@kondorr:

Hey Kondorr - I've been watching the MCU using the order you put together in this list and I'm really enjoying it. Thanks so much for putting this together!

I was wondering if you were planning on doing another update soon? It's been close to a year since your last update. I am getting near the end of what you have here and was hoping to see this get updated so I can follow the best order of content beyond Agents of Shield Season 3.

Thank you!

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Someone should add Spiderman Homecoming to this list

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Marvel's Cinematic Universe Watching Order [Infinity Saga]

List items

1. Captain America: The First Avenger

2. Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter

3. Agent Carter

4. Agent Carter

5. Captain Marvel

6. Iron Man

7. Iron Man 2

8. Marvel One Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer

9. The Incredible Hulk

10. Marvel One Shot: The Consultant

11. Thor

12. Captain America: The First Avenger

13. The Avengers

14. Marvel One-Shot: Item 47

15. Iron Man 3

16. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

17. Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

18. Thor: The Dark World

19. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

20. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

21. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

22. Daredevil

23. Guardians of the Galaxy

24. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

25. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

26. Avengers: Age of Ultron

27. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

28. Ant-Man

29. Jessica Jones

30. Daredevil

31. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

32. Captain America: Civil War

33. Black Widow

34. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

35. Luke Cage

36. Spider-Man Homecoming

37. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

38. Doctor Strange

39. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

40. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

41. Black Panther

42. Iron Fist

43. The Defenders

44. Marvel's Inhumans

45. The Punisher

46. The Runaways

47. Jessica Jones

48. Cloak & Dagger

49. Luke Cage

50. Iron Fist

51. Daredevil

52. The Punisher

53. Jessica Jones

54. Cloak & Dagger

55. The Runaways

56. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.