THE MULTIVERSE SAGA · A HERO’S JOURNEY IN RECAP

MCU Timeline: Endgame → Doomsday

Every Marvel movie, Disney+ show and special from the reversal of the Snap to the coming incursion — broken down by episode, with citations for every event.

42 entries 18 films 21 shows 66 sources

2023

The Snap is reversed

Movie Earth-616 Phase 3 Must Watch

Avengers: Endgame

Release
Release: Apr 26, 2019 · In-universe: Oct 2023
In universe
Battle of Earth — day zero for everything after this timeline

The Avengers reverse the Snap, defeat Thanos for good, and set the world’s clock ticking again — while Iron Man, Black Widow and Vision pay the ultimate price.

The Quantum Realm heist (2023 present): Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Scott Lang and Bruce Banner agree on a time-travel plan to collect the Infinity Stones.

Time heists revisit 2012 New York, 2013 Asgard, 2014 Morag & Vormir, and 1970 Camp Lehigh — where Tony meets his father and Steve glimpses Peggy. Loki escapes with the Tesseract in 2012 (creating the Loki branch).

Hulk snaps everyone back; Thanos (from 2014) attacks the compound. The Battle of Earth: all restored heroes + Captain Marvel + Doctor Strange + Wakanda assemble and win.

Iron Man sacrifices himself using the Stones. Steve returns the Stones and stays in the past to grow old with Peggy, passing the shield to Sam Wilson. Finale sets every Phase 4–6 thread.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 4 Must Watch

WandaVision

Release
Release: Jan 15 – Mar 5, 2021 · In-universe: late 2023
In universe
Three weeks after Endgame

Wanda creates a sitcom reality in Westview, New Jersey, to live out a family life with a Vision she built from grief — unleashing the Hex and drawing Agatha Harkness’ attention.

Sources (3)
TV Series TVA / Out of Time Phase 4 Must Watch

Loki — Season 1

Release
Release: Jun 9 – Jul 14, 2021 · In-universe: outside linear time
In universe
Picks up from Endgame’s 2012 branch, but exists outside the Sacred Timeline

The 2012 variant Loki is detained by the TVA for the crime of “nexus event,” and discovers the true origin of the Sacred Timeline and the Kang variants to come.

Sources (2)
Animated Series Animated Multiverse Phase 6

Marvel Zombies

Release
Release: May 5, 2025 · In-universe: 2023 alternate reality
In universe
Five years after the What If…? Zombies! episode

The world of “What If… Zombies?!” follows the survivors of that reality’s infected Avengers outbreak.

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2024

A world after the Snap

Movie Earth-616 Phase 4

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Release
Release: Sep 3, 2021 · In-universe: early Apr 2024
In universe
Days before the Qingming festival — just before FATWS

Shaun/Shang-Chi, a valet by day, is drawn back into his father Wenwu’s ancient Ten Rings empire and the battle for the mystical land of Ta-Lo.

Duel of the Rings: Shang-Chi and Xialing face their father, who uses the rings to free the eldritch Dweller-in-Darkness.

Shang-Chi becomes the new Ten Rings bearer. Post-credits: Wong, Captain Marvel and a Bruce Banner hologram discuss the rings’ origin beacon pointing into space.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 4

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Release
Release: Mar 19 – Apr 23, 2021 · In-universe: summer 2024
In universe
Six months after Endgame

Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes contend with the flag-smashing Flag-Smashers and the government-chosen new Captain America, John Walker, while Sam wrestles with the shield’s legacy.

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Movie Earth-616 Phase 4

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Release
Release: Jul 2, 2019 · In-universe: Summer 2024
In universe
≈8 months after Endgame

Peter Parker’s European school trip is interrupted by the Elementals and Mysterio — and ends with global chaos, a dead mentor, and a new threat pinning Spider-Man to the multiverse’s doorstep.

Mysterio (Quentin Beck) claims the Elementals come from a parallel dimension and defeats the Fire Elemental in Venice and London.

Post-credits: J. Jonah Jameson outs Peter’s secret identity, showing doctored Mysterio footage blaming Spidey for the London attack.

It is revealed Mysterio faked everything; Peter crushes his illusion fleet. The film is the immediate predecessor to No Way Home.

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Movie Earth-616 Phase 4

Eternals

Release
Release: Nov 5, 2021 · In-universe: ≈2025
In universe
Planet-wide aftermath that Brave New World finally addresses

Ten immortal Eternals reunite after the Emergence — the birth of a Celestial from within Earth — is stopped mid-way, leaving the god Tiamut’s frozen body jutting out of the ocean.

Sersi, Phastos and others turn Tiamut to marble mid-emergence; Ikaris flies into the sun; the rest split up. Arishem the Judge arrives to judge humanity.

Post-credits: Starfox and Pip show up; the Eternals are abducted by Arishem for judgment — a thread resumed in Captain America: Brave New World’s Celestial Island.

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Movie Earth-616 Phase 4 Must Watch

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Release
Release: Dec 17, 2021 · In-universe: late 2024
In universe
Immediately after Far From Home

Peter asks Doctor Strange to erase the world’s knowledge of his identity, but the botched spell collapses the walls between universes and drags in five villains from other realities — and two other Spider-Men.

Doc Ock, Green Goblin, Electro, Lizard and Sandman cross over; Peter fails to cure them and Goblin kills Aunt May.

Peter, with Tobey and Andrew’s Spider-Men, cures the villains; a second Strange spell erases Peter from everyone’s memory — MJ and Ned forget him.

Peter fully steps into a solo, secret-identity-free life in New York — setting up Brand New Day.

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Movie Earth-616 Phase 4 Must Watch

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Release
Release: May 6, 2022 · In-universe: ≈2025
In universe
After No Way Home and WandaVision

Dream-walker America Chavez and Stephen Strange race through collapsing realities (Earth-838’s Illuminati) as Wanda Maximoff, corrupted by the Darkhold, hunts the girl who can traverse the multiverse.

Wanda, finally free of grief but corrupted, kills the Illuminati (including one Mister Fantastic) to seize America’s power.

Strange uses the Darkhold against her; Wanda destroys Mount Wundagore, freeing herself of the book’s influence.

Post-credits: Clea opens a portal and recruits Strange for the coming Incursion in the Dark Dimension.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 4

Hawkeye

Release
Release: Nov 24 – Dec 22, 2021 · In-universe: Dec 2024 (Christmas)
In universe
One year after Endgame

Clint Barton faces his Ronin past while mentoring new archer Kate Bishop, tangling with the Tracksuit Mafia, Echo, and a Christmas Carousel plot by a returned Kingpin.

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Movie Earth-10005 Phase 5 Must Watch

Deadpool & Wolverine

Release
Release: Jul 26, 2024 · In-universe: 2024 (Earth-10005 + the Void)
In universe
Multiverse side-story; after Loki S2 (TVA rules applied)

Deadpool is recruited by the TVA to save his dying timeline. He pulls an alternate Wolverine (Earth-10005’s Logan) out of retirement, and together they survive the Void, Cassandra Nova, and paradox.

The TVA (post-God-of-Stories iteration) prunes Deadpool’s world; his anchor-being Wolverine died, collapsing the timeline.

In the Void, they team with a mutant resistance (Blade, Elektra, Gambit, X-23, Sabretooth) and defeat Cassandra Nova and Paradox, saving 10005.

Key lore: anchor-beings and the post-Loki S2 TVA; Deadpool teases joining the main universe at the end.

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Animated Series Animated Multiverse Phase 4

What If…? — Season 1

Release
Release: Aug 11 – Oct 6, 2021
In universe
Alternate universes; after Loki S1’s finale

The Watcher stops watching and intervenes, tying together nine alternate timelines — from Captain Carter to a universe-swallowing Ultron — and launches the Guardians of the Multiverse.

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2025

New heroes announce themselves

TV Series Earth-616 Phase 4

Moon Knight

Release
Release: Mar 30 – May 4, 2022 · In-universe: early 2025
In universe
After Hawkeye

Steven Grant and Marc Spector share one body and battle the Egyptian god-demon Ammit’s cult, while Khonshu manipulates his avatar.

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Movie Earth-616 Phase 4

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Release
Release: Nov 11, 2022 · In-universe: ≈2025
In universe
After NWH and Eternals

Wakanda grieves King T’Challa and resists the submerged Talokan kingdom of Namor, who offers an alliance against the surface world. Shuri becomes the new Black Panther.

Shuri takes the herb and defeats Namor, ending the war.

The film introduces Riri Williams / Ironheart; post-credits: T’Challa’s son Toussaint is revealed.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 5

Echo

Release
Release: Jan 10, 2024 · In-universe: May 2025
In universe
Five months after Hawkeye; launched under Marvel Spotlight

Maya Lopez, deaf Choctaw antihero from Hawkeye, returns to her hometown and confronts the Kingpin, finding her ancestral power.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 4

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

Release
Release: Aug 18 – Oct 13, 2022 · In-universe: ≈2025
In universe
After Shang-Chi and others; a “relatively short” time post-Shang-Chi

Jennifer Walters, a hotshot attorney, learns to live as She-Hulk, defending superhuman clients, romancing a reanimated abomination, and meta-breaking through her own show’s fourth wall.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 4

Ms. Marvel

Release
Release: Jun 8 – Jul 13, 2022 · In-universe: ≈2025
In universe
After Moon Knight; directly ties to The Marvels

Kamala Khan’s bangle gives her light-construct powers rooted in the Noor dimension of the Djinn — and confirms her as the MCU’s first mutant.

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Movie Earth-616 Phase 4

Thor: Love and Thunder

Release
Release: Jul 8, 2022 · In-universe: ≈2025
In universe
After Endgame; “a few weeks” after Thor joins the Guardians

Gorr the God Butcher targets all gods. Ex-girlfriend Jane Foster wields Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor; in the end Thor becomes a father and helps Gods of Might stand together.

Jane dies after her final battle as the Mighty Thor; she finds peace in the afterlife.

Gorr’s final wish sows the next generation of gods; Zeus kidnaps his own then is taken by Hercules who swears revenge on Thor.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 5

Ironheart

Release
Release: Jun 24 – Jul 3, 2025 · In-universe: ≈2025–2026
In universe
A short time after Wakanda Forever; Chicago-set

Riri Williams builds her own Iron Man-tier suit in Chicago and collides with Parker Robbins (The Hood) — whose demonic cloak came from a literal deal with Mephisto (Sacha Baron Cohen).

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Special Earth-616 Phase 4

Werewolf by Night

Release
Release: Oct 7, 2022 · In-universe: unspecified
In universe
Canon, but deliberately undated

A black-and-white horror special: monster hunters gather for the Bloodstone, and Jack Russell quietly triggers his werewolf curse to protect a fellow hunter.

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Special Earth-616 Phase 4

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

Release
Release: Nov 25, 2022 · In-universe: Dec 2025
In universe
Between Love and Thunder and Vol. 3

The Guardians kidnap Kevin Bacon to cheer up a depressed Star-Lord — a comedic interlude setting up Vol. 3.

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Animated Series Animated Multiverse Phase 5

What If…? — Season 2

Release
Release: Dec 22 – Dec 30, 2023
In universe
Alternate universes

Nine new branches of Marvel history, capped by the introduction of the Storm of the Multiverse and a full Avengers of the Multiverse to face the Hela-rific snowstorm.

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Animated Series Animated Multiverse Phase 6

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

Release
Release: Jan 29 – Feb 19, 2025 · In-universe: outside the Sacred Timeline
In universe
Set around Civil War-era Spider-Man events in an alternate branch

An animated Spider-Man origin set in an alternate branch of the multiverse, where Peter is mentored by Norman Osborn rather than Tony Stark and faces Doctor Octopus as an early ally.

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2026

The Multiverse Saga builds to Doomsday

Movie Earth-616 Phase 5

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Release
Release: Feb 17, 2023 · In-universe: ≈2026
In universe
Post-Endgame’s “present day”

The Langs are pulled into the Quantum Realm, where a stranded time-traveler — Kang the Conqueror — demands their help to escape so he can take back the multiverse.

Kang (Jonathan Majors), exiled for his previous multiversal war, manipulates Scott Lang to steal Pym tech.

Scott defeats Kang using an army of ants; he and Cassie escape, but Kang’s power remains in the Quantum Realm.

Opening credits + post-credits: The Council of Kangs (Immortus, Rama-Tut, Centurion) convenes, terrified of Earth-616’s meddling — the deleted Kang Dynasty thread that Loki S2 and Doomsday will resolve differently.

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Movie Earth-616 Phase 5

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Release
Release: May 5, 2023 · In-universe: ≈2026
In universe
After the Holiday Special

Rocket’s traumatic origin is laid bare when the High Evolutionary deploys him to Orion’s Belt — an emotional send-off as the original Guardians disband.

The team assaults the High Evolutionary’s ship, rescues millions of animal subjects, and Rocket defeats his creator.

Ending: Rocket leads a new Guardians lineup; Star-Lord returns to Earth — where he is hinted to reunite with Gamora and get an armada.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 5 Must Watch

Secret Invasion

Release
Release: Jun 21 – Jul 26, 2023 · In-universe: ≈2026
In universe
30 years after Captain Marvel; before The Marvels

Skrulls impersonating world leaders, lead by a resentful Gravik, nearly spark World War III. Nick Fury, Talos and G’iah stop him — but Fury accidentally leaves Earth to the Skrulls.

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Movie Earth-616 Phase 5 Must Watch

The Marvels

Release
Release: Nov 10, 2023 · In-universe: ≈2026
In universe
After Secret Invasion & Ms. Marvel

Carol Danvers, Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau’s light-powers get entangled, forcing them to unite against Kree revolutionary Dar-Benn — ending with Monica stranded in the X-Men universe.

Dar-Benn’s collapse of a jump point threatens Hala; Monica channels her energy to seal the breach and is lost through the wormhole.

Pre-credits + mid-credits: Ms. Marvel recruits Kate Bishop (Young Avengers setup); Monica wakes in the X-Men universe, met by Beast (Kelsey Grammer) and Binary.

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TV Series TVA / Out of Time Phase 5 Must Watch

Loki — Season 2

Release
Release: Oct 5 – Nov 9, 2023 · In-universe: outside linear time
In universe
Immediately after Loki S1; ends with Doomsday’s premise (Loki = God of Stories)

Loki time-slips uncontrollably as the TVA’s Temporal Loom fails, and ultimately he makes the ultimate sacrifice — replacing the Loom and Yggdrasill threats by becoming the God of Stories.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 5 Must Watch

Agatha All Along

Release
Release: Sep 18 – Oct 30, 2024 · In-universe: ≈2026
In universe
Three years after WandaVision

Down-and-out Agatha Harkness assembles a coven to walk the Witches’ Road as her magic and her wit are tested, while Billy (Wanda’s “son”) tries to find his missing body.

Sources (2)
Animated Series Animated Multiverse Phase 5

What If…? — Season 3

Release
Release: Dec 22 – Dec 30, 2024
In universe
Alternate universes

The finale season of Marvel’s anthology, climaxing with the Fall of the Multiverse — a Captain Carter Promise and an apocalypse machine centered on a new Uatu with great power.

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Movie Earth-616 Phase 6

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Release
Release: Jul 31, 2026 · In-universe: 2028 (4 years after NWH)
In universe
Four years after No Way Home; the latest entry before Doomsday

A grown, secret-identity-free Peter Parker navigates life with all multiversal memory of him erased, while the road to Doomsday begins.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the midpoint title between No Way Home’s ending and the incursion event of Doomsday — placing Peter firmly in the path of the multiversal war.

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Movie Earth-828 Phase 6 Must Watch

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Release
Release: Jul 25, 2025 · In-universe: Earth-828, 1964
In universe
A parallel 1960s; ends with the team fleeing to Earth-616

Marvel’s First Family of another 1960s timelines fights the world-eater Galactus — and, grappling with a reality-destroying incursion, sets course for the primary MCU in the post-credits found in Thunderbolts*.

Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben battle Galactus for their solar system on Earth-828, a retro-futuristic 1960s.

The film’s teases (Doom’s arrival in the FF’s living room) and the Thunderbolts* stinger show the ship entering 616’s orbit.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 6 Must Watch Upcoming

VisionQuest

Release
Release: Oct 14, 2026 · upcoming
In universe
After WandaVision; questions the Hex-built Vision

The White-Vision series: a Vision seeks to rebuild his humanity, teaming up with Viv in a solo arc that finally pays off WandaVision’s rebuilt android.

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2027

Doom’s world approaches

Movie Earth-616 Phase 5 Must Watch

Captain America: Brave New World

Release
Release: Feb 14, 2025 · In-universe: late 2026 – early 2027
In universe
≈2 years after FATWS; Sam’s first Captain America film

Sam Wilson uncovers a conspiracy by The Leader (Samuel Sterns) that turns President Ross into the Red Hulk, and global powers clash over adamantium mined from the Celestial’s corpse.

The Leader’s mind-control triggers an assassination attempt on Ross; the serpent Society steals a Japanese adamantium sample.

Red Hulk vs Captain America in Washington — Sam talks Ross down; Ross resigns and is imprisoned; adamantium becomes the Ross-Ozaki shared treaty.

Post-credits: The Leader warns Sam that Earth is not the only world — “The others are coming,” explicitly teeing up Doomsday and Secret Wars.

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Movie Earth-616 Phase 5 Must Watch

Thunderbolts*

Release
Release: May 2, 2025 · In-universe: ≈2027
In universe
After Brave New World; 14 months later filmed post-credits

Valentina Allegra de Fontaine’s anti-heroes are secretly meant to be wiped out, but they unite to stop The Sentry’s Void from erasing New York — and get rebranded “The New Avengers.”

Val sets Yelena, Bucky, Red Guardian, Ghost, John Walker and Taskmaster against each other; Taskmaster dies.

They discover Bob/Sentry; Val’s kill-switch wakes The Void, which blankets NYC in a realm of worst memories. The team redeems Bob and ends it.

Val publicly pivots and introduces them as The New Avengers (the asterisk).

Post-credits (14 months later): Sam Wilson is suing over the Avengers name; the New Avengers track an extra-dimensional ship with a giant “4″ — the Fantastic Four arriving on Earth-616.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 5

Daredevil: Born Again

Release
Release: Mar 4 – Apr 22, 2025 (S1) · In-universe: prologue late 2025, then 2026–2027
In universe
After Echo (Kingpin in NYC)

Matt Murdock rebuilds his law practice while Fisk ascends to become New York’s mayor, corrupting the city — a long-awaited return for the Netflix-era heroes.

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TV Series Earth-616 Phase 6

Wonder Man

Release
Release: Jan 27, 2026 · In-universe: late 2025 – mid 2027
In universe
A Hollywood-set myth story

Actor Simon Williams, hiding power that scorches, lands the lead in the Wonder Man reboot, tangled with Trevor Slattery and the Department of Damage Control — ending with him flying.

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Special Earth-616 Phase 6

The Punisher: One Last Kill

Release
Release: coming 2027
In universe
Concurrent with Daredevil: Born Again S2

A Punisher special set alongside Born Again S2 as the street-level saga continues.

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2028

Doomsday

Movie Multiversal Phase 6 Must Watch Upcoming

Avengers: Doomsday

Release
Release: Dec 18, 2026 · upcoming
In universe
≈2028 — 14 months after Thunderbolts*’s post-credits

The Multiverse Saga’s capstone: heroes from three universes collide — Earth-616’s New Avengers/Captain America’s team, Earth-828’s Fantastic Four and Earth-10005’s X-Men — under the shadow of Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom.

What the trailer (Jul 20, 2026) confirms

Doom warns of an incursion; Thor rallies Avengers/Fantastic Four/New Avengers at Avengers Tower; X-Men vs Avengers fight in the ruins of Xavier’s School; Wakanda + Talokan tensions; Doom casually blocks Stormbreaker with his fingers.

The button

Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) returns — explicitly wielding Mjölnir — as the team prepares for the existential threat.

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Movie Multiversal Phase 6 Must Watch Upcoming

Avengers: Secret Wars

Release
Release: Dec 17, 2027 · upcoming
In universe
Direct sequel to Doomsday

The Multiverse Saga conclave that resolves the incursion, uniting heroes from every reality Marvel has touched — and expected to reset/reformat the franchise as comics’ Secret Wars did.

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