Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 3 is over, and now all eyes have turned to Phase 4 and even the MCU's Phase 5. Avengers: Endgame will perhaps forever stand as the most monumental installment in the franchise, but Spider-Man: Far From Home actually closed out Phase 3. Head here for more on the women of the Marvel universe , from Captain Marvel to the X-Men and everyone in between. Iron Man is very much focused on Tony Stark and his own personal journey to becoming a superhero — and announcing it to the world with those infamous words, I am Iron Man”.

The project is currently in an unclear status, as Sony and Marvel have run into a snag with their partnership, although Holland and Jon Watts are said to be involved in two additional Spider-Man movies regardless of what the future of the Spider-Man film franchise lies.

The biggest myth-arc is the Infinity Stones and Thanos' quest to find it to form The Infinity Gauntlet McGuffins such as the Tesseract (the Cosmic Cube from the comics), the Aether, the Orb, and the Eye of Agamotto are all revealed to be Infinity Stones, while the Mind Gem provides the origins for both Ulton and Vision.

Played straight in most of the films, where the heroes aren't able to stop the start-up phases to the villain's plan. The MCU is Earth-199999; the prime universe most Marvel comics take place in is Earth-616. The first movie to take place post-snap (or blip” as they call it in this film), Far From Home is very much about a MCU without Tony Stark , and what that looks like.

Many characters from Marvel Comics that have been licenced to other studios are invoked Exiled from Continuity As a result, adaptions of storylines that include a character that is off-limits are rewritten to avoid it. For example, Jean Grey does not appear in the conflict between Jessica Jones and Kilgrave, Ultron is made of Vibranium instead of Adamantium (granted some of his bodies in the comics were made of an alloy of the two metals), Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch had a father who is not Magneto (which was the case in the early comics), and so on. This limitation largely applied to the Infinity Saga, prior to Marvel's partnership with Sony and Disney's acquistion of the Fox licenses with the Ms. Marvel company as a whole.

The Avengers spend most of their first movie together arguing, and though friendships form within the larger group (let's hear it for Captain America's most faithful lieutenant, Natasha Romanoff), as a team the Avengers kind of…suck. So far, the released movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have grossed $22,285,909,976 worldwide.