The Avengers naturally continues the themes and character arcs seen in Thor (2011). Coulson and Hawkeye both play important roles in this one. Giving audiences an introduction to Asgard, Thor focuses on events in the alternate realm while still developing S.H.E.I.L.D.’s storyline. 5) The Incredible Hulk (2008)Īccording to Marvel’s timeline, The Incredible Hulk, which reveals Bruce Banner’s origin story, takes place at the same time as Iron Man 2, but the post-credits sequence shows Stark having a ‘consultant’ role with S.H.E.I.L.D.-which is why it made better sense at number five instead of four on our viewing order. 4) Iron Man 2 (2010)Ĭontinuing with Howard Stark’s legacy to tie the narrative threads together, Iron Man 2 dives deep into the functioning of the fictional agency, featuring Nick Fury in a more significant role to get the audiences to know him better. This feature also lets viewers in on the modern-day iteration of S.H.E.I.L.D. By the time you watch this, you’ll already know who Howard Stark is because of The First Avenger, and thus will be better placed to get introduced to his son (who is sure to become one of your most loved Marvel characters), Tony Stark. Though Iron Man was technically the first (released) MCU movie, chronologically it fits better at spot number three. It also sets up the Kree, an alien race that is later seen in Guardians of the Galaxy. 2) Captain Marvel (2019)Īnother origin story, Captain Marvel takes us to the mid-90s to focus on an important stage of Nick Fury’s career, and an update of S.H.E.I.L.D.’s priorities-the establishment of the Avengers Initiative. We spotted the first Infinity Stone here-the Tesseract (Space Stone) was hidden on Earth for centuries, in a church in Tonsberg, Norway, before Red Skull (the film’s antagonist) stole it in 1942. Something of an introduction to MCU, Captain America: The First Avenger is set largely in the 1940s, and acquaints viewers with the SSR, which later goes on to become S.H.E.I.L.D. 1) Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) I mean how do we as human beings in the real world stop people who do bad things? Do we show how strong we are and beat them up? Or do we try to show them the error in their ways to make them do better? If you want to watch a movie where the hero defeats the villain by killing them or showing their more powerful physically, watch a Kaiju movie.Looking forward to watching all the Marvel movies in order but don’t know where to begin? Skip the order of release-it’ll probably leave you confused by flitting you across timelines-and follow the chronological timeline for the best viewing order. In that way, America and Strange "defeated" her. The movie showed us that Wanda isn't invincible because once she realized what she had done, she no longer decided to kill Chavez to reach her children. And America wasn't even powerful enough to physically defeat her, so she used the power she did have to show the error in Wanda's ways. Strange knew he wasn't powerful enough to defeat Wanda, because she possesses chaos magic, and the corpse he was dream walking in was simply not capable of defeating Wanda, but he knew America had untapped potential and could. In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor defeated Hela by unleashing Surtur, who killed her, because he knew he wasn't powerful enough to defeat her, so he used his wits to defeat her. I mean, how do hero's take down villains that are stronger than them? They don't just magically become more powerful in the final act and use their powers to defeat the villain, that's just bad writing, it makes more sense for them to show the villain the error in their ways or to heal them emotionally using their experiences and wit. In fact, while action can still move the plot forward and have emotion, isn't it more heroic to show a villain the error in their ways than just killing or imprisoning them? Strange taking down Wanda in a final battle by killing her, which is what I presume you mean by being defeated in the traditional sense, just tells the audience that he is no better than her, Wanda killed many people in MOM, and sure, often times in superhero movies the protagonist defeats the villain by killing them or fighting them, but Strange knew Wanda isn't initially a morally corrupt person in the way that Hela or Thanos was, and that she was under the Darkhold's influence, and he and America "defeated" her by showing her that the Darkhold had made her a monster, and a departure from the person she sought out to be, with being a loving mother. There is more than one way to convey that a character's supposed 'invincibility' has limits than just showing that they are not powerful enough to take down the hero in a fight at the end of the story.
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