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, and with the exception of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, each film's Blu-ray release has included a short film called a Marvel One-Shot.

Several tie-in comics have also been released. For example, 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)
 * Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (unreleased/primary filming completed)

Phase Three

 * Ant-Man (2015) (unreleased/filming)
 * Captain America 3 (2016) (unreleased/development)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (2017) (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
 * The Defenders

Comics

 * Iron Man: The Price of Doing Business (2008)
 * Iron Man: Fast Friends (2008)
 * Iron Man: Security Measures (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files (2008)
 * Nick Fury: Spies Like Us (2008)
 * Iron Man: I Am Iron Man! (2010)
 * Iron Man 2: Public Identity (2010)
 * Iron Man 2: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2010)
 * Iron Man: Limited Edition (2010) (no official title)
 * Iron Man 2: Fist of Iron (2010)
 * Iron Man 2: Security Breach (2010)
 * Iron Man Royal Purple Custom Comic (2010)
 * Iron Man: Will Online Evils Prevail? (2010)
 * Captain America: First Vengeance (2011)
 * Captain America: Evil Lurks Everywhere (2011)
 * Thor, The Mighty Avenger (2011)
 * Captain America & Thor: Avengers! (2011)
 * The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week (2012)
 * The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII (2012)
 * The Avengers: The Avengers Initiative (2012)
 * The Avengers: Black Widow Strikes (2012)
 * Iron Man 3 Prelude (2012)
 * Iron Man: The Coming of the Melter (2013)
 * Thor: The Dark World Prelude (2013)
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier Infinite Comic (2014)
 * Captain America: Homecoming (2014)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy Prequel Infinite Comic (2014)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude (2014)
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Chase (2014)

​Undeveloped Movies

 * Alien Legion
 * Black Panther
 * Black Widow
 * Blade
 * Gargoyle
 * Ghost Rider
 * Hawkeye
 * Iron Man 4
 * Ka-Zar
 * Loki
 * Longshot
 * Morbius
 * Mort the Dead Teenager
 * Ms. Marvel
 * Nick Fury
 * Nighthawk
 * Power Pack
 * Prime
 * Runaways
 * The Incredible Hulk 2
 * The Inhumans
 * The Punisher
 * 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)
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier - The Official Game (2014)

Artbooks

 * Iron Man: The Art of Iron Man the Movie (2008)
 * Iron Man: The Art of Iron Man 2 (2010)
 * Thor: The Art of Thor the Movie (2011)
 * Captain America: The Art of Captain America - The First Avenger (2011)
 * The Avengers: The Art of Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
 * Iron Man 3: The Art of the Movie (2013)
 * Thor: The Dark World - The Art of the Movie (2013)
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier: The Art of the Movie (2014)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy: The Art of the Movie (2014)
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season One Declassified Slipcase (2014)

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 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 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)
 * 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)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger (junior novelization) (2011)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger: Movie Storybook (2011)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger: America's Secret Weapon (2011)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger: The Hydra Files (2011)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger: Operation: Super-Soldier (2011)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger: The Great Escape (2011)
 * The Avengers: The Avengers Assemble (2012)
 * The Avengers: Movie Storybook (2012)
 * The Avengers: Battle Against Loki (2012)
 * The Avengers: The S.H.I.E.L.D. Files (2012)
 * The Avengers: Reusable Sticker Book (2012)

Trivia

 * So far, the ten films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have grossed $6,379,622,804 worldwide.
 * The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the 2nd highest-grossing franchise, behind .
 * 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, 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 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 and  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 lay with Marvel Studios currently but due to 'older contracts with other parties' it seems they cannot use them yet.
 * The cinematic rights to Man-Thing lay with Lionsgate and thus he cannot be used in the MCU at the current moment.