Disney Is Wrong: Here's The Real MCU Timeline
The Disney+ MCU timeline is wrong — but here's the correct timeline. In general, the first two phases of the MCU told their story in chronological order (with the notable exception of Captain America: The First Avenger). Things have gotten more complicated in phases three and four, however, and it increasingly feels as though even Marvel Studios isn't entirely sure what the correct sequence of events really is anymore. This impression isn't helped by Disney+, which gets the MCU timeline wrong on several counts.
To be fair, some of Disney+'s MCU timeline is well-thought-through. The Disney+ timeline moves Thor: The Dark World to before Iron Man 3, a smart approach that actually improves the shared universe's narrative structure — even if it does break Agents of SHIELD's internal timeline. But the Phase 4 timeline is rather more problematic, even contradicting explicit references in the films and TV series themselves themselves. As an example, Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings explicitly references the festival of Qingming, which means it must take place around late March or early April — meaning it has to come before The Falcon & the Winter Soldier.
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If viewers want to watch the MCU in chronological order, then the MCU Disney+ timeline is a good start. It isn't quite right, however, meaning audiences will need to tweak it a little. This viewing list only includes official content produced by Marvel Studios, not the Marvel Television shows — whose canonicity is debatable — or the various tie-in comics.
In release order, the MCU began with 2008's Iron Man. However, two MCU movies and a one-shot are set prior to this, and it's possible to place these with a strong
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