Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 1 to 6

The American superhero franchise known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is created by Marvel Studios. Superhero movies are a specialty of Marvel Studios. These franchise’s movies are being produced by MCU in stages (Phase 1-6). It features science fiction films and superheroes who save the planet. Its movies borrow its plot and characters from American comic books produced by Marvel Comics.

Marvel Studios makes its movies available in phases. Infinity Saga, whereas phases 4, 5, and 6 are referred to as the Multiverse Saga. Let’s discuss Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) phase 5 and phase 6 but first Let’s have a look at first 4 phases which has been released.

Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 1 Movies

It started in 2008 with the release of the Iron Man film and ended in 2012 with The Avengers. Every film Kevin Feige has produced up to this point. This period saw the production of a total of 6 films, with a budget of $1 billion overall and a box office haul of $3.813 billion. Phase 1 includes a list of 6 films.

1. Iron Man (May 2, 2008), Director – Jon Favreau

2. The Incredible Hulk (June 13, 2008), which was directed by Louis Leterrier.
3. Iron Man 2 (May 7, 2010) directed by Jon Favreau.
4. Kevin Feige and Kenneth Branagh’s Thor, which released on May 6, 2011.
5. Joe Johnston and Kevin Feige’s Captain America: The First Avenger, which was released on July 22, 2011.
6. The Avengers (May 4, 2012) directed by Joss Whedon and produced by Kevin Feige.

Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 2 Movies

It began in 2013 with the Iron Man 3 movie and ended in 2015 with Ant-Man Movie. Total 6 movie had been made in this phase and the total budget of this phase was 1.179 billion $ and the box office collection was 5.269 billion $. There are 6 movies in MCU phase 2.

1. Iron Man 3 (May 3, 2013) directed by Shane Black and produced by Kevin Feige.
2. Thor the dark world (Nov 8, 2013) directed by Alan Taylor and produced by Kevin Feige.
3. Captain America: the winter soldier (Apr 4, 2014) directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and produced by Kevin Feige.
4. Guardians of the Galaxy ( Aug 1, 2014) directed by James Gunn and produced by Kevin Feige.
5. Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1, 20150 directed by Joss Whedond and produced by Kevin Feige.
6. Ant-Man (July 17, 2015) directed by Peyton Reed and produced by Kevin Feige.

Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 3 Movies

It began in 2016 with the movie of Captain America Civil War and ended in 2019 with the movie of Spider Man: Far from home. The total budget of this phase was 2.294 $ – 2.403 $ billion and the total box office collection was 13.505 billion $. There are total 11 movies in this phase.

1. Captain America Civil War (May 6, 2016) directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and produced by Kevin Feige.
2. Doctor strange (Nov 4, 2016) directed by Scott Derrickson and produced by Kevin Feige.
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 (May 5, 2017) directed by James Gunn and produced by Kevin Fiege.
4. Spider-Man: Homcoming (July 7, 2017) directed by Jon Watts and produced by Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal.
5. Thor Ragnarok (Nov 3, 2017) directed by Taika Waititi and produced by Kevin Feige.
6. Black Panther (Feb 16, 2018) directed by Rayan Coogler and produced by Kevin Feige.
7. Avengers: Infinity War (Apr 27, 2018) directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and produced by Kevin Feige.
8. Ant-Man and the Wasp (July 6, 2018) directed by Peyton Reed and produced by Kevin Feige and Stephen Broussard.
9. Captain Marvel (March 8, 2019) directed by Anna Boder and Ryan Fleck and produced by Kevin Feige.
10. Avengers: Endgame (Apr 26, 2019) directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and produced by Kevin Feige.
11. Spider-Man: Far From Home (July 2, 2019) directed by Jon Watts and produced by Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal.

Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 4 Movies In Order

It began in 2021 with the movie of Black Widow and ended in 2022 with the movie of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. There are total 7 movies in this phase and 9 series along with 2 special shows.

Details of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 4 Movies and Series

1. Wanda Vision

It was the first television series of MCU. It began in 15 Jan, 2021 and end in 5 March, 2021. The No. of episodes was 9 in this series. It is an American franchise web series that produced by Marvel studios. Created by Jac Schaeffer. It is part of Marvel cinematic univerce.it is a magical series and filled with full of magic. It is produced by Chuck Hayward and it is directed by Matt Shakman.

Cast and Characters of Wanda Vision

Elizabeth Olsen plays the role of Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet witch in this series and Paul Bettany plays the role of Vision in this series. They are play role as a couple in this show. They are the main lead character of this series. Debra Jo Rupp, Fred Melamed, Katheyn Hahn, Teyonah Parris, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, Evan Peters, are the other character that was play other and different types of roles.

Story of Wanda Vision

It is a full of magical shows. It is an American franchise that produced by Marvel studios. Wanda and vision is the couple in this show and they are loves each other very much. After End game that was a movie and all Avengers was trying to defeat Thanos who wanted to finish half of the population of earth and unfortunately he succeeded but all of the Avengers recover population, but Wanda lost vision in this war.

Wanda is suffering from mental illness because of this all situation. She lost his brother in the time of Avengers age of Ultron and lost his love one vision in the war of end game. Now Wanda wants to happily life with his love vision and she create a imagination life with vision. Wanda create a imagination word there they are live happily. They are very happy with each other. There are 9 episodes in this series and each one series talk about his life that how they are live with each other happily and enjoy their life. She gets pregnant and born their children with create imagination. It is a black and white series. Wanda does all these things with magical power.

2. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

It is the second series of MCU and the part of marvel cinematic universe produced by Marvel studios. It is created by Malcolm Spellman. Based on Marvel comic and its characters. It began in 19 March, 2021 and end in 23 April 2021. Directed by Kari Skogland and produced by Ariekka Blejer, Dawn Kamoche. It is a superhero series. The No. of episodes is 6 in this series.

Cast and Character of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

Sebastian Stan plays the role of Bucky Barnes as winter soldier and Anthony Mackie plays the role of Sam Wilson as Falcon as captain America. Wyatt Russell plays the role of John Walker as captain America as U.S Agent. Erin Kellyman, Danny Ramirej, Georges St-pierre, Adepero Oduye, Don Cheadle, Daniel Bruhl, Emily vancam, Florence Kasumba, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, these all are play different types of roles in this series. Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie plays the main role in this series.

Story of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

It is a superhero based series. in the end of movie end game, Chris Evans who had play the role of Captain America gave his shield Anthony Mackie for Captain America post. After it Sam Wilson doesn’t accept this shield and gave it in the government hand. There are lots of fight seen in this series and it shows how difficulties faces after gone of Chris evans as Steve Roggers as Captain America.

After abandonment Captain America’s post by Sam Wilson, the government gave it John Walker for Captain America post. After take this position John Walker shows his attitude and anger and wrong behavior because of captain America’s power. One day in this show John Walker’s friend goes died and John Walker murdered someone. Due to this incident, government had revoke this post from John Walker and in the last episode shows the new Captain America as Sam Wilson.

3. Loki Season 1 (Series)

It was based on science fiction, began in 9 June, 2021 and end in 14 July, 2021. It is a time travel story. There are 6 episodes in this series. it is directed by Kate Herron and produced by Michael Waldron. It is based on Marvel comic stories. It is an American franchise series.

Cast and Character of Loki Season 1

Tom Hiddleston plays the role of Loki. Loki is the main lead character of this series. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Tara Strong, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, Sash Lane, Jack Veal, Deobia Oparei, Richard E. Grant, Jonathan Majors, these are the other characters in this series. 

Story of Loki Season 1

It was a science fiction series and time travel related also. After the battle of New York in 2012 where Loki want to flee away with Tesseract but he reached in front of the TVA judge as a variant. TVA means Time Variance Authority who reset the timeline and punished those people who breaking the rules of time and do time travel. They punish because they believe that if someone broke rules then it will danger for people and will open multiple Universes.

Loki tries to explain his situation and with blaming Avengers for it but no one accept it and show lots of difficulties in front of Loki with TVA in this series. One day he meets with Sylvie and they work together and share their stories with each other and then Loki realized that he loves Sylvie. Sylvie wants to destroy TVA because she believes that TVA is fraud. In the last episode they meet with He Who Remains who manage these all things and in last Sylvie kills He who remains and a mysterious situation shows in credit seen.

4. Black Widow

it was produced by Marvel studios, part of Marvel cinematic universe, Released on 9 July, 2021. Directed by Cate Shortland and produced by Kevin Feige. This was the first movie of MCU phase four. It shows past of Natasha.

Cast and Character of Black Widow

Scarlett Johansson played the role of Natasha Romanoff as Black Widow. Florence Pugh, David Harbour, O-t Fagbenle, Olga Kurylenko, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, Rachel Weisz, these are the other character of this movie.

Story of Black Widow

Black widow is a spy based movie where the movie shows firstly past of Natasha.  Natasha is a very brave girl in childhood and she loves her sister but she doesn’t love her parents. After 21 years it shows that Natasha quite the Sokovia Accords and flew away and live a normal life. After it she faces problem, meet villains and fight them.

5. What if? (Series)

It is an animated series. it is an American franchise series and it is based on Marvel comic. Produced by Marvel studios. It is created by A.C Bradley and Directed by Bryan Andrews and produced by Carrie Wassenaar. It began in 11 Aug, 2021 and end in 6 Oct, 2021. There are 9 episodes in this series.

Cast and Character

Chadwick Boseman, Hayley Atwell, Jeffrey Wright, Karen Gillan, Michael Rooker, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Dominic Cooper, Michael B. Jordan, Sebasstian Stan, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Neal Mcdonough, Taika Waititi, Benedict, Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Bettany, Paul Rudd, Mcheal Douglas, Jeff Goldblum.

Story

It is an Animated series. it is a different universe story. In this show there are different-different universe.

6. Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings

It is an American superhero movie, based on Marvel comic that produced by Marvel studios. It is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and produced by Kevin Feige and Jonathan Schwartz and released on 3 Sep, 2021. The budget of this movie was 150-200 million $ and the box office collection was 432 million $.

Cast and Character

Simu Liu plays the role of Xu Shang-chi as/Shaun. Awkwafina plays the role of katy. Katy is the best friend of Shang-chi. Meng’er Zhang plays the role of Shang-chi’s younger sister as xu xialing. Fala Chen plays role of Ying Li, she is the mother of Shang-chi. Benedict Wong plays the role of Wong, he is the Master of the Mystic Arts. Tony Leung plays the role of Xu Wenwu, he is the father of shang-chi and Xialing and he is leader of the ten rings.

Story

It is the story of ten rings. It is a superhero movie. Marvel introduces his new superhero in this movie. Shang-chi has been trained since his childhood in this movie. Shan-chi and his best friend katy work together as a valet in America. One day they are travel in the bus and someone attack on them. Both are fighting together and suddenly he realized that he has a superpower and then he decide that he will find about ten rings and want to know about his past.

7. Eternals

It is an American superhero movie that is based on Marvel comics. Produced by Marvel studios and Directed by Chloe Zhao and produced by Kevin Feige and Nate Moore. It was the story about emergence. Movie released on 5 Nov, 2021. The budget of this movie was 200 million $ and the box office collection was 402.1 million $.

Cast and Character

Gemma Chan plays the role of Sersi. She had a power of manipulation and transformation of matter through physical contact. Richard Madden plays the role of Ikaris  and he had power of fly. Kumail Nanjiani plays the role of Kingo and he can project cosmic energy projectiles from his hands. Lia Mchugh plays the role of Sprite and she had power of illusions. Brian Tyree Henry plays the role of Phastos and she had power of invent weapons and technology. Lauren Ridloff plays the role of Makkari and she had the power of superhuman speed. Barry Keoghan plays the role of Druig and he can manipulate the other’s mind. Don Lee plays the role of Gilgamesh and he was the strongest Eternal.

Story

Eternals was the movie which is just after of end game movie. When Avengers recover half population of earth again then many problems arise.it is the story of ancient and deviants. The protectors of humans who were live on earth from long time are Eternals. They had sent for emergence on earth due to over population and people suffering from many problems by their god. They believe that there are many problems that people faces so it can be solve with emergence. Emergence means destroy of whole earth and then starting a new life in another planet from starting point but after sometime everyone realize that this is wrong and they don’t want to do this. One of the Eternals cheated the all Eternals for doing this and fighting with all each other. At the last eternals saves the earth.

8. Hawkeye

It is an American series that is created by Jonathan Fla. It is based on Marvel comics. The budget of this series was 150 million $.  There are total 6 episodes in this series, it began in 24 Nov and end in 22 Dec 2021.

Cast and Character

Jeremy Renner plays the role of Clint Barton as Hawkeye. Hailee Steinfeld plays the role of Kate Bishop. Tony Dalton plays the role of Jack Duquesne. Fra fee plays the role of Kazimierz. Brian darcy james plays the role of Derek Bishop. Aleks Paunovic, Piotr Adamczyk, Linda Cardellini, Simon Callow, Vera farmiga, Alaqua cox, Zahn Mcclarnon, Florence Pugh, Vincent D’Onofrio, these are the other characters in this series.

Story

 It is an American franchise series that is based on Marvel comic. After the Avengers: endgame event in that was a Christmas occasion. And all are wants to spend their time with their family in holiday.

9. Spider-Man No Way Home

It is an American Superhero movie based on Marvel comics. Directed by Jon Watts and produced by Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal. It released on 17 Dec, 2021. The budget of this movie was 200 million $ and the box ofiice collection was 1.922 billion $.

Cast and Character

Tom Holland plays the role of Peter Parker as spider man. Zendaya plays the role of Michelle, she was girlfriend of spider man. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the role of Stephen strange. Jacob Batalon plays the role of Ned Leeds as best friend of spider man. Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, these are the other characters of this movie.

Story

In this movie everyone had knew the truth that peter parker is Spider-Man and because of this, peter goes to doctor strange and asks him to do something so that everyone forgets that peter parker is spider man. But when doctor strange was doing it, peter interrupts him and as a result, the door of multiverse opens and peter parker’s old enemies from different multiverse come back and everyone fight with each other. Due the opening of the multiverse, two different versions of peter parker also come into this movie. In the end, when doctor strange was closing the door of multiverse, he tells peter that everyone will forget him, and peter agrees. After it, peter’s girlfriend MJ and his friends also forget that peter is their friend.

10. Moon Light (Series)

It is an American series. it is created by Jeremy Slater, based on Marvel comic. Produced by Peter Cameron. It began in 30 March, 2022 and end in 4 May, 2022. There are total 6 episodes in this series.

Cast and Character

Oscar Isaac plays the role of Marc Spector, Moon knight, Steven Grant, Mr. knight and Jake Lockley. May Calamawy plays the role of Layla El-faouly and she is moon knight’s wife. Karim El Hakin and F. Murray Abraham plays the role of Khonshu and he is a Egyptian moon god. Ethan Hawke, Khalid Abdalla, Gaspard Ulliel, Fernanda Andrade, these are the other characters of this series.

Story

Moon knight is known for his multiple personalities and it is result of dissociative identity disorder. He uses different personality to gather information and fight crime in different ways. Moon knight with criminals and protect innocent. Moon knight has faced numerous foes, including his nemesis Bushman, Who left him for dead in the desert, and the villainous group known as the secret Empire.

11. Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness

It is an American superhero movie, based on Marvel comic. Produced by Kevin Feige and directed by Sam Raimi. It released on 6 May, 2022. The budget of this movie was 172-200 million $ and the box office collection was 955.8 million $.

Cast and Character

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the role of Stephen Strange who was a neurosurgeon and became a Master of the Mystic Arts. Elizabeth Olsen plays the role of Wanda as Scarlet witch. Chiwetel Ejiofor lays the role of Kari Mordo.Benedict Wong, Xochiti Gomez, Michael Stuhlbarg, Rachel Mcadams, these are the other character of this movie.

Story

In this movie, sees Stephen strange, the sorcerer supreme, fight with wanda maximoff. As they journey through the multiverse, she wants to live with her children in other multiverse. Wanda does dark magic and go through this magic in multiverse.

12. Ms. Marvel (Series)

It is an American series. it is created by Bisha K. Ali. It began in 8 June, 2022 and end in 13 July, 2022. There are total 6 episodes in this series.

Cast and Character

Iman Vellani plays the role of Kamala khan as Ms. Marvel. Matt Lintz plays the role of Bruni Cattelli and he is the best friend of Kamala. Yasmeen Fletcher plays the role of Nakia Bahadir and she is the close friend of Kamala. Zenobia Shroff plays the role of Muneeba Khan and she is the mother of Kamala. Mohan Kapur plays the role of Yusuf Khan and he is the father of Kamala. Azhar Usman, Rish Shah, Arian Moayed, Alysia Reiner, Laith Nakli, Nimra Bucha, Samina Ahmad, Fawad khan, Mehwish Hayat, Farhan Akhtar, Aramis knight, these are the other characters of this series.

Story

It is a story of a Pakishtani muslim girl. She has a power and she balances her superhero duties with her responsibilities as a student and daughter. She fight against various villains, the kaboom corporation and hydra. For find her identity and her past, she goes to Pakishtan and meet her grandmother and she tell about kamala grandmother’s  story.

13. Thor: Love and Thunder

It is an American superhero movie,Directed by Taika Waititi and produced by Kevin Feige and Brad Winderbaum. It released on 8 July, 2022. The budget of this movie was 250 million $ and the box office collection was 761 million $.

Cast and Character

Chris Hemsworth, Christian, Tessa Thompson, Jaimie Alexander, Taika Waititi, Russell Crowe, Natalie Portman.

Story

in this movie, after the events of Avengers: Endgame, where Thor lrft the Asgardian throne to valjyrie and went on a journey of self-discovery. He now returns to Asgard and finds out that Jane Foster has been diagnosed with cancer. While he tries to help her, he also discovers that Gorr the god Butcher is on a mission to kill all the gods in the universe. With the help of Valkyrie, thor decides to learn up with Jane foster, who will become the Mighty Thor after picking up Mjolnir. Together, they will have to stop Gorr and save the universe.

14. I am Groot (Short Series)

It is a short animated series. it is an American franchise series. it released on 10 Aug, 2022. There are 5 total No. of episodes in this series. it is a short story about Groot and shows its important in life.

15. She Hulk: Attorney at Law

it is an American series. it is created by Jessica Gao. It is based on Marvel comics. There re total 9 episodes in this series. it began in 18 Aug and end in 13 Oct, 2022. It is a story of Hulk that is a girl and she is a sister of Hulk.

Cast and Character

Tatiana Maslany, Jameela Jamil, Ginger Gonzaga, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Segarra, Mark Linn-Baker, Tim Roth, Megan Thee Stallion, Benedict Wong, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Jon Bass, Rhys Ciro, Griffin Matthews, Patti Harrison, Charlie Cox.

Story

In this series, Jennifer required an emergency blood transfusion, and Bruce banner gives his blood to Jennifer. As a result of the transfusion, Jennifer gained Hulk- like powers, but she retained her intelligence and personality. Bruce learned to Jennifer control her powers and decided to use to fight for justice. She became a superhero and continued he career as a lawyer.

16. WareWolf by Night (Special Show)

It is a special horror series of Marvel, Directed by Michael Giacchino. Produced by Leean Stonebtraker, It released on 7 Oct, 2022.

Cast and Character

Gael Garcia, Laura Donnelly, Harriet Sansom.

Story

in this show a young man who inherited a family curse that transforms him into a Werewolf every full moon. It begins with Jack Russell living a relatively normal life but he soon discovers his family’s dark secret when he transforms into a werewolf for the first time. Jack struggles to come to terms with his new identity and the challenges that come with it, including being hunters called the committee.

17. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

It is an American superhero movie, based on Marvel comics and Directed by Ryan Coogler. This is a tribute movie for Chadwick boseman. It released on 11 Nov, 2022. The budget of this movie was 250 million $ and the box office collection was 855.2 million $.

Cast and Character

Letitia Wright plays the role of Shuri. Lupita Nyongo, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Florence Kasumba, Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett.

Story

In the movie, the king of wakanda, T’challa, takes on the mantle of the black panther after the death of his father. T’challa must protest his people and the country’s valuable resource vibranium from an outsider named killmonger who seeks to take over the throne and use wakanda’s vibranium. After death of chadwick boseman as black panther then shuri is made into a black panther and then she fights against her enemies.

18. Guardian of The Galaxy: Holiday Special (Special Show)

It is an American special show, Directed by James Gunn based on Marvel Comic. Released on 25 Nov, 2022, It is a movie of superhero team.

Cast and Character

Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Sean Gunn, Michael Rooker, Kevin Bacon.

What’s Next? Future Plans of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)

Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 5 and Phase 6

1. Echo (series)
2. Loki season 2 (series)
3. The Marvels (movie)
4. Ironheart (series)
5. Agatha: conven of chaos (series)
6. X-man 97 (animated series)
7. Captain America: new world order (series)
8. Daredevil: born again (series)
9. Thunderbolts (movie)
10. Deadpool 3 ( movie)
11. Spider-man: freshman year (animated series)
12. Marvel Zombies
13. Avengers: the kang dynasty (movie)
14. Fantastic four (movie)
15. Avengers: secret wars (movie)
16. Shang-chi 2 (movie)
17. Armor wars (movie)
18. Blade (movie)
19. Spider-man 4 (movie)
20. What if? Season 3 (animated series)
21. X-man 97 season 2 (series0
22. Wonder man (tv show)
23. Okoye series (series)

Phase 5 of MCU has started and People have a lot of expectations from this as phase 4 couldn’t create charm like previous phases. As Multiverse Saga is becoming bigger and bigger with new release of phase 5 first movie Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum, It will be interesting to see how phase 5 and 6 will perform. Phase 6 will be start from release of Deadpool 3 and duration of this phase will be 2024-2026. Stay with us for further updates.