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".
Movies
Phase One
- Iron Man (2008)
- The Incredible Hulk (2008)
- Iron Man 2 (2010)
- Thor (2011)
- The Avengers (2012)
Phase Two
- Iron Man 3 (2013)
- Thor: The Dark World (2013)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
- The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Phase Three
- Ant-Man (2015)
- Doctor Strange (TBA)
Direct-to-DVD
- Iron Man and Hulk: Heroes United (2013)
Marvel One-Shots
- Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 (2012)
Comics
- Iron Man: I Am Iron Man! (2010)
- Iron Man 2: Public Identity (2010)
- Fury's Big Week (2012)
- The Avengers: Black Widow Strikes (2012)
- Iron Man 3 Prelude (2013)
- Thor: The Dark World Prelude (2013)
Undeveloped Movies
- Alien Legion
- Gargoyle
- Hawkeye
- Inhumans
- Ka-Zar
- Longshot
- Morbius
- Mort the Dead Teenager
- Power Pack
- Prime
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Sub-Mariner
- Warriors Three
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)
- Iron Man video game (2008)
- Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas (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)
- The Incredible Hulk video game (2008)
- Iron Man: Fast Friends (2008)
- Iron Man: Security Measures (2008)
- The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files (2008)
- The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture (2008)
- Iron Man: The Art of Iron Man the Movie (2008)
- Nick Fury: Spies Like Us (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 2 video game (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: God of Thunder (2011)
- Thor: The Art of Thor the Movie (2011)
- Captain America: The First Avenger Vol 1 11 (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 & Thor!: Avengers (2011)
- Captain America: Super Soldier (2011)
- Captain America: The Art of Captain America - The First Avenger (2011)
- Captain America: Evil Lurks Everywhere (2011)
- Captain America: The First Avenger Vol 1 12 (2011)
- Avengers Assemble (2012)
- 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 Avengers Initiative (2012)
- The Avengers: The Art of Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
- The Avengers: Battle for Earth
Stories unknown if set in the universe
Trivia
- So far, the seven films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have grossed $5,013,678,972 worldwide.
- The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the 3rd highest-grossing franchise. It is only beaten by Harry Potter and James Bond.