terrarium/marquee
In-universe watch order
The Marquee
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, watched in the order the story actually happens — not the order the films came out.
Release order and story order in the MCU split apart almost immediately: the saga's earliest chapter, set in the middle of the Second World War, reached theatres years after its own in-universe descendants. The Marquee re-runs the whole thing on a different clock — one chapter per film, in the order the events actually unfold inside the fiction, each paired with an original illustration rather than a promotional still.
This is a running project, not a finished one. It opens with the first five chapters of that timeline; more will be added as the run continues.
- 1.
Captain America: The First Avenger
A Brooklyn kid, a wartime laboratory, and the earliest chapter of the whole saga.
- 2.
Captain Marvel
A photon blast, a nineties Blockbuster, and a war that started long before anyone on Earth noticed.
- 3.
Iron Man
A cave, a captor's workshop, and the exact moment a weapons dealer decides to make something else instead.
- 4.
Iron Man 2
A public expo, a poisoned birthright, and the cost of turning a secret into a headline.
- 5.
The Incredible Hulk
A fugitive scientist, a rain-soaked city, and a rage he can't afford to let out.