Before You Watch: Avengers - Doomsday

Essential movies and shows to watch before Doomsday.

Skip the full MCU marathon. This focused watch guide catches you up on the Avengers, the multiverse, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Wakanda, the New Avengers, and the heroes headed toward Marvel’s next massive collision.

14 titles in this list

  1. The Avengers (2012) — Start with the movie that proved Earth’s mightiest heroes could actually work as a team.
  2. Avengers: Infinity War (2018) — The Avengers face a threat bigger than any one hero — and learn what happens when they aren’t united.
  3. Avengers: Endgame (2019) — The end of one Avengers era — and the starting point for almost everything that followed.
  4. Loki (2021) — The MCU stops being one timeline and starts becoming something much more dangerous.
  5. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) — Meet Shang-Chi — and a mysterious power that still feels like it has unfinished business.
  6. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) — Alternate realities collide, and the MCU introduces just how destructive an incursion can become.
  7. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) — Wakanda enters a new era while another hidden civilization finally reveals itself.
  8. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) — Scott and Cassie discover just how strange — and dangerous — the larger multiverse can get.
  9. X-Men (2000) — Meet the mutant heroes who helped launch the modern superhero movie era.
  10. X2 (2003) — The X-Men are forced to fight together when the threat expands beyond mutants versus humans.
  11. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
  12. Captain America: Brave New World (2025) — Sam Wilson steps fully into the Captain America role as the world around the Avengers keeps changing.
  13. Thunderbolts* (2025) — broken group of antiheroes discovers that the world may need a very different kind of Avengers.
  14. The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025) — Meet Marvel’s First Family before their world becomes part of something much bigger.

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