Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a shared universe created by Marvel Studios featuring its independently made films. All so far exist in the same universe, much like Marvel has done with their comics. Starting with Thor, each film's Blu-ray release has included a short film called a Marvel One-Shot.

Several tie-in comics have also been released, and pre-ordering the Sega Iron Man video game, released at the same time as its movie counterpart, got you a copy of an exclusive comic book along with the game. It was also available at GameStop for a limited time, and is of dubious canonicity.

The franchise takes place on Earth-199999, though throughout the franchise the planet is simply referred to as "Earth".

Phase One

 * Iron Man (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk (2008)
 * Iron Man 2 (2010)
 * Thor (2011)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
 * The Avengers (2012)

Phase Two

 * Iron Man 3 (2013)
 * Thor: The Dark World (2013)
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) (unreleased/post-production)
 * Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (unreleased/filming)

Phase Three

 * Ant-Man (2015) (unreleased/pre-production)
 * Captain America 3 (2016) (unreleased/development)
 * Doctor Strange (TBA) (unreleased/development)
 * Thor 3 (TBA) (Unreleased/development)
 * The Avengers 3 (TBA) (unreleased/development)



One Shots

 * The Consultant
 * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer
 * Item 47
 * Agent Carter
 * All Hail the King

TV Series

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

TV Series in Development

 * Agent Carter
 * Daredevil
 * AKA Jessica Jones
 * Iron Fist
 * Luke Cage
 * Defenders

Comics

 * Fury's Big Week (2012)
 * Iron Man 3 Prelude (2012)
 * Thor: The Dark World Prelude (2013)
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier Infinite Comic (2014)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy Prequel Infinite Comic (2014)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude (2014)

​Undeveloped Movies

 * Alien Legion
 * Black Panther
 * Black Widow
 * Blade
 * Captain America 3
 * Gargoyle
 * Ghost Rider
 * Hawkeye
 * Iron Man 4
 * Ka-Zar
 * Loki
 * Longshot
 * Luke Cage
 * Morbius
 * Mort the Dead Teenager
 * Ms. Marvel
 * Namor
 * Nick Fury
 * Nighthawk
 * Power Pack
 * Prime
 * Punisher
 * Runaways
 * Taskmaster
 * The Incredible Hulk 2
 * The Inhumans
 * War Machine
 * Werewolf by Night
 * Warriors Three

Video Games

 * Iron Man video game (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk video game (2008)
 * Iron Man 2 video game (2010)
 * Thor: God of Thunder (2011)
 * Captain America: Super Soldier (2011)
 * Iron Man 3 video game (2013)
 * Thor: The Dark World - The Official Game (2013)

Stories inspired by the universe

 * Iron Man: Teen Novelization (2008)
 * Iron Man: The Junior Novel (2008)
 * Iron Man: A New Hero (2008)
 * Iron Man: I Am Iron Man! (2008)
 * Iron Man book (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk book (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk Movie Novelization (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk: A Hero Called The Hulk (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk: Larger Than Life! (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk: Movie Sticker Book (2008)
 * Iron Man: Security Measures (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture (2008)
 * Iron Man: The Art of Iron Man the Movie (2008)
 * Iron Man 2 book (2010)
 * Iron Man 2: The Official Movie Storybook (2010)
 * Iron Man 2: The Junior Novel (2010)
 * Iron Man 2: Iron Man's Friends and Foes (2010)
 * Iron Man 2: Meet the Black Widow (2010)
 * Iron Man 2: Iron Man vs. Whiplash (2010)
 * Iron Man 2: Iron Man Fights Back (2010)
 * Iron Man 2: The Reusable Sticker Book (2010)
 * Iron Man: The Art of Iron Man 2 (2010)
 * LG Iron Man exclusive (2010) (no official title)
 * Iron Man 2: Fist of Iron (2010
 * Target Iron Man 2 Custom Comic (2010)
 * Iron Man Royal Purple Custom Comic (2010)
 * Iron Man: Will Online Evils Prevail? (2010)
 * Thor Junior Novel (2011)
 * Thor: Movie Storybook (2011)
 * Thor: Heroes & Villains (2011)
 * Thor: From Asgard to Earth (2011)
 * Thor: Attack on Asgard (2011)
 * Thor: Thor's Revenge (2011)
 * Burger King Thor exclusive (2011) (no official title)
 * Thor: The Art of Thor the Movie (2011)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger (junior novelization) (2011)
 * Captain America: Movie Storybook (2011)
 * Captain America: America's Secret Weapon (2011)
 * Captain America: The Hydra Files (2011)
 * Captain America: Operation: Super-Soldier (2011)
 * Captain America: The Great Escape (2011)
 * Captain America: The Art of Captain America - The First Avenger (2011)
 * Avengers: The Avengers Assemble (2012)
 * Avengers: The Avengers Movie Storybook (2012)
 * The Avengers: Battle Against Loki (2012)
 * The Avengers: The S.H.I.E.L.D. Files (2012)
 * The Avengers: Assemble! (2012)
 * The Avengers: The Return of the First Avenger (2012)
 * The Avengers Reusable Sticker Book (2012)
 * The Avengers Assemble! The Elite Superhero Group (2012)
 * The Avengers: The Art of Marvel's The Avengers (2012)

Stories unknown if set in the universe

 * Iron Man: The Price of Doing Business (2008)

Trivia

 * So far, the nine films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have grossed $6,257,875,540 worldwide.
 * The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the 2nd highest-grossing franchise, behind Harry Potter.
 * Due to financial difficulties Marvel faced in the past, they had to sell the film rights to several of their comic book characters. Some of these sales are still in effect today, and thus the characters cannot be used in the MCU.
 * Due to Fox owning the rights to the X-Men franchise, the X-Men films take place in a different universe to the MCU. Fox also owns the rights to the Fantastic Four film series.
 * However, if Fox does not begin filming within seven years after the last Fantastic Four film was released (June 2007), the rights will revert back to Marvel Studios/Disney. While a reboot is currently in production, Fox is losing time to shoot it.
 * Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch fall under both companies rights, as they are mutants by origin but are heavily associated with The Avengers. Both companies have certain limitations however.
 * Fox cannot make any reference to the Twins involvement with the Avengers.
 * Marvel cannot make any reference to the Twins being mutants, the children of Magneto, or their association with the X-Men.
 * Similarly Spider-Man's film rights are owned by Sony, and both the Sam Raimi series and The Amazing Spider-Man series are also set separate from the MCU.
 * There is an element of cooperation between Sony and Disney and even gave permission for Disney to use the OsCorp Building for a background cameo in The Avengers, however due to budget and time constraints the idea was abandoned.
 * Further more, Andrew Garfield, the actor who plays Spider-Man, has expressed interest in appearing in an Avengers sequel.
 * The cinematic rights to Namor lay with Universal Studios and thus he cannot be used in the MCU at the current moment. The Hollywood Reporter's Borys Kit stated in May 2014 that Marvel now has the rights for Namor. It was confirmed that Marvel, not Universal now has the Namor film rights.
 * The cinematic rights to Man-Thing lay with Lionsgate and thus he cannot be used in the MCU at the current moment.