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The Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films produced by Marvel Studios. The films are based on characters that appear in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The franchise also includes television series, short films, digital series, and literature.
- List of Marvel Cinematic Universe Films
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films are a series of...
- Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four
Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a group...
- Phase Five
Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a group...
- List of Marvel Cinematic Universe Television Series
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) television series are...
- Phase Two
Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a group...
- Phase Six
Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a group...
- The Marvels
The Marvels is a 2023 American superhero film based on...
- Phase Three
Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a...
- Marvel Cinematic Universe Tie-In Comics
The Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-in comic books are limited...
- Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One
Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a group...
- List of Marvel Cinematic Universe Films
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman as Timely Comics, and by 1951 had generally become known as Atlas Comics.
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Some of Timely Comics (the 1930s and '40s predecessor to Marvel Comics) characters coexisted in the same world was first established in Marvel Mystery Comics #7 (1940) where Namor was mentioned in Human Torch's story, and vice versa. Later several superheroes (who starred in separate stories in the series up to that point) met each other in a group...
The Marvel Universe is strongly based on the real world. Earth in the Marvel Universe has all the features of the real one: same countries, same personalities (politicians, movie stars, etc.), same historical events (such as World War II), and so on; however, it also contains many other fictional elements: countries such as Wakanda and Latveria (ve...
Multiverse
The Marvel Universe is part of a Multiverse, with various universes coexisting simultaneously, usually without affecting each other directly.[volume & issue needed] Furthermore, each universe has various other dimensions associated with it, and one such group is collectively known as a Reality. Often what is referred to in the comics as a Universe is actually a Reality. According to mythology, the Multiverse has been created by the omnipotent being One-Above-All. Even the Marvel Multiverse, h...
Time
One cannot normally alter the Marvel Universe's history; if a time-traveler should cause an alteration to the established flow of events at some point in the past, a divergent universe will simply "branch out" from the existing timeline, and the time-traveler will still return to his or her unaltered original universe. Those realities can also spawn realities of their own. There exist hundreds, probably thousands of such realities. It is unknown why this happens, though a warp known as the Ne...
Space
While the Marvel Universe is presumably as large as the non-fictional universe comic book readers inhabit, for all intents and purposes the Local Group is the universe; practically all action takes place in it. The Skrull Empire is located in the Andromeda Galaxy, the Kree Empire in the Greater Magellanic Cloud, which is a satellite of the Milky Way galaxy in which Earth, of course, is found, and the Shi´ar Empire is located somewhere between them in one of the smaller galaxies (perhaps the T...
Four role-playing gameshave been set in the Marvel Universe: 1. Marvel Super Heroes (TSR, 1984) 2. Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game (TSR, 1998) 3. Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game (Marvel Comics, 2003) 4. Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (Margaret Weis Productions, 2012)
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films produced by Marvel Studios. The films are based on characters that appear in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The franchise also includes television series, short films, digital series, and literature.
Since 2008, Marvel Studios has released 33 films within the MCU, from Iron Man (2008) to The Marvels (2023); ten television series since 2021, from WandaVision (2021) to Echo (2024); and two television specials: Werewolf by Night (2022) and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022).
The Marvel Cinematic Universe or the MCU is a media franchise created by Marvel Studios and set primarily in a shared universe, with some installments also set in adjacent or branching realities .
