The Marvel Cinematic Universe has never been more complicated. Does the casual fan have any hope of making sense of it as we head towards the inevitable "Doomsday?" Never fear -- we've got you covered. Here's where things stand in the MCU as of 2024, from the very beginning of the universe, all the way up to now.
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00:00:00The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been going strong since 2008, but its story at this point
00:00:05covers thousands of years.
00:00:07Need to catch up on the latest developments?
00:00:09Uh, let's just go through the whole thing.
00:00:12Uh, where to start, um…
00:00:17If you really want to know where things started in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you have
00:00:22to go all the way back, to before the Big Bang.
00:00:25No, really.
00:00:26Before the beginning of the universe, before even the creation of the six singularities
00:00:31that caused the universe to explode into existence, there were the Celestials.
00:00:36Beings of infinite cosmic power, the Celestials, led by Ereshim the Judge, created the original
00:00:42planets, stars, and lifeforms of the infant universe following the Big Bang.
00:00:47Realizing they need help to expand the universe and create more life, the first Celestials
00:00:52seed planets with embryonic Celestials.
00:00:55These new gods would be born once sentient life on each planet rose to a critical juncture,
00:01:01allowing for the emergence of a new Celestial, and resulting in the destruction of that world.
00:01:06To assist in this process, the Celestials genetically engineered deviant monsters to
00:01:11wipe out the apex predators of each world, encouraging sentient life to develop and multiply.
00:01:17Unfortunately, the Celestials miscalculated.
00:01:19The deviants did their job so well, they started hunting down and killing all lifeforms, preventing
00:01:25emergences.
00:01:26To keep them in check, the Celestials created the Eternals, synthetic lifeforms sent to
00:01:31different worlds across the cosmos to kill the deviants and protect the planets' lifeforms.
00:01:37Regarded as gods and superheroes by the populace, the Eternals are unknowingly preparing the
00:01:42planets for their destruction.
00:01:44Following each emergence, the Eternals' memories are wiped so they could be reused on different
00:01:49worlds.
00:01:50Meanwhile, other interesting things are happening throughout the universe.
00:01:53The six singularities that created the cosmos became the Infinity Stones, objects that controlled
00:01:59fundamental forces like time, space, and reality itself.
00:02:03They were then scattered across the universe, popping up here and there and awaiting the
00:02:07eventual arrival of a giant golden oven mitt that would be used by a purple sociopath to
00:02:12kill off half the universe.
00:02:14That of course was billions of years ago, but it's not the only thing to happen in those
00:02:19long eons.
00:02:21Billions of years before we get to the present-day MCU, Ego the living planet comes into existence,
00:02:27gains cosmic awareness, and seeds thousands of worlds with his essence in an attempt to
00:02:32create another Celestial being like himself.
00:02:34But though he may in fact be a god-like figure, in the end he's still essentially just a selfish
00:02:39deadbeat dad.
00:02:40No wonder Peter has issues.
00:02:41Of course I have issues!
00:02:42That's my freakin' father!
00:02:48While Ego considers most of his early attempts at offspring failures, and kills them out
00:02:52of disappointment, he does keep at least one of his kids around, the insect-like woman
00:02:57Mantis, whose empathic abilities help Ego sleep.
00:03:01As far as heroes and villains of Earth are concerned, the MCU doesn't start with Tony
00:03:06Stark getting kidnapped in 2008, Carol Danvers being taken to Hala in the 90s, or even with
00:03:11Steve Rogers volunteering for the Super Soldier program in the 40s.
00:03:16The actual beginning happened in 5000 BC, when ten immortal Eternals, Cersei, Icarus,
00:03:23Ajak, Kingo, Spryte, Fastos, Makkari, Thena, Druig, and Gilgamesh arrived on Earth to take
00:03:31out the deviants on our planet.
00:03:33For thousands of years, the Eternals protected emerging humankind, largely through epic super
00:03:39battles with giant monsters.
00:03:41By 1521, the Eternals finally manage to defeat all the deviants on Earth, or so they think.
00:03:48Lacking any real direction now that their main reason for coming to the planet is gone,
00:03:52they scatter and get jobs as teachers, Bollywood film stars, and South American cult leaders.
00:03:59Since the Celestials have instructed the Eternals not to interfere in humanity unless deviants
00:04:04were involved, other god-like beings get the chance to descend onto Earth and have their
00:04:09time to shine.
00:04:10These include the Asgardians, vastly powerful alien beings who visit our planet many times
00:04:16and give rise to Norse mythology.
00:04:18Still, the most exciting stuff those guys were up to happens off-world in the realm
00:04:22of Asgard.
00:04:23This mythological timescale begins millennia ago, as we find out in Thor the Dark World,
00:04:29when the dark elf Malekith the Accursed lays siege to Asgard using a weapon known as the
00:04:35Aether, actually an infinity stone that controls reality, to revert the universe to a state
00:04:41of perpetual darkness.
00:04:43Malekith is fought off by Bor, the father of Odin.
00:04:46In 2988 BC, Bor vanquishes Malekith, which turns out to be a temporary solution, causing
00:04:53the dark elves to go into a state of hibernation for the next 5,000 years.
00:04:57Bor then buries the Aether on a distant world.
00:05:01While we don't know exactly when it happens, the next chronological event that we see from
00:05:06our characters is Odin's conquest of the Nine Realms alongside his first child, Hela, Goddess
00:05:12of Death.
00:05:13During this era, the magic warhammer Mjolnir is forged in the heart of a dying star and
00:05:19used by Hela.
00:05:20Thanks to her bloodthirsty ruthlessness and ambition, Odin turns against her, and in the
00:05:25battle that follows, Hela slaughters the Valkyrior.
00:05:28The sole surviving Valkyrie flees from Asgard, spending the next few thousand years drunk
00:05:33and depressed.
00:05:34Eventually, she winds up on Sakaar, a cosmic garbage dump that an immortal being called
00:05:39the Grand Master builds into an interstellar gladiatorial arena.
00:05:44Hela is then imprisoned in another dimension by Odin, who covers up all traces of her existence.
00:05:50Sometime after that, but still far enough back that people were writing about it in
00:05:54the 13th century, Odin and Frigga have a son, Thor.
00:05:59Shortly thereafter, Odin slays the frost giant Lalfrey, and adopts his son Loki as his own.
00:06:05Not too long after this, during their youth, Loki turns into a snake because he knows Thor
00:06:10loves snakes and then tries to stab him.
00:06:13In one universe, he manages to succeed.
00:06:15What was your next event, your majesty?
00:06:18I killed Thor.
00:06:20Also, millions of years before the present day, two meteors made out of the supermetal
00:06:25Vibranium strike the Earth.
00:06:27One meteor lands in Africa, drastically affecting the surrounding area.
00:06:32Much, much later, this area becomes the country of Wakanda, when a warrior shaman receives
00:06:37a vision from the goddess Bast, ingests a Vibranium-altered heart-shaped herb that grants
00:06:43him great powers, and founds a dynasty of warrior kings known as the Black Panthers.
00:06:49The Wakandans become secretive and isolationist, remaining unconquered throughout history and
00:06:54using the Vibranium to create fantastic technology, away from the eyes of the outside world.
00:07:00The second meteor crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near the Yucatan.
00:07:05It mutates the undersea plant life, imbuing many species with mutagenic properties.
00:07:10In 1571, a Yucatan Mayan tribe dying of the smallpox virus introduced by the Spanish colonizers
00:07:17came across one of these Vibranium-altered plants, which mutated them into a water-breathing
00:07:23people.
00:07:24The tribe migrated to the Puerto Rico trench and built the underwater kingdom of Telocan.
00:07:29Using the rich deposits of Vibranium beneath the sea, one Telocanal woman is pregnant when
00:07:34the plant mutates her, causing her to give birth to a mutant child.
00:07:39Born with winged feet, superhuman strength, and a very long lifespan, the child develops
00:07:44a hatred for surface dwellers when he sees a plantation owner abuse his Mayan slaves.
00:07:49After the Telocan boy orders his people to burn down the plantation, a dying priest calls
00:07:55the young mutant El Niño Sin Amor, the Child Without Love, which the boy adopts as his
00:08:01new name, Namor.
00:08:04Namor rules over his kingdom for centuries and becomes known as Kukulkan, or the Feathered
00:08:10Serpent God, by his people.
00:08:13Over 5,000 years before the present day, a faction of the militaristic alien race called
00:08:18the Kree arrives on Earth and conducts experiments on humans, creating the early Inhumans.
00:08:24One of these Inhumans, known as Hive, drives the Kree from the Earth and establishes a
00:08:29cult of personality that regards him as a god.
00:08:32After being banished, his followers work to restore him while destabilizing Earth's society.
00:08:38Over time, this society becomes the terrorist organization Hydra.
00:08:43Moving to just about 1,000 years before the present day, the warlord Shu-Win-Wu makes
00:08:48a fantastic discovery of his own when he comes across ten otherworldly rings that grant him
00:08:53immortality and the strength of a god.
00:08:56Using the rings to establish his Ten Rings criminal organization, Win-Wu conquers kingdoms
00:09:02and topples governments, amassing an incredible power structure that influences the direction
00:09:07of the world.
00:09:09Over in Eastern Europe, the demonic entity Chiton writes a set of spells in a structure
00:09:13at the top of Mount Wondegore.
00:09:16The original text is then copied into a more portable book, the Darkhold, that falls into
00:09:21the hands of several dark magic users, including the witch Morgan Le Fay.
00:09:26Elsewhere, a Celtic woman trains in the mystic arts to protect the Earth against magical
00:09:30threats.
00:09:31After drawing power from the Dark Dimension, she becomes functionally immortal and takes
00:09:36on the name, the Ancient One.
00:09:38Meanwhile, the United States has been having its own issues with magic for many years prior
00:09:43to the modern era.
00:09:45We know Agatha Harkness was around during the Salem Witch Trials in the late 1600s,
00:09:50but as seen on Agatha All Along, she causes trouble for centuries after.
00:09:54At some point, she gives birth to her son, Nicholas Scratch, who hums the tune to The
00:09:59Ballad of the Witch's Road around the 1750s.
00:10:03Part of the mythical Witch's Road begins to spread, even though it sprung from a child's
00:10:07imagination.
00:10:09After Nicholas' death, Agatha tricks numerous witches to pursue the Witch's Road, inevitably
00:10:14attacking her when their chant is unsuccessful.
00:10:17She uses this ruse to obtain their powers until one fateful day when a door to the road
00:10:21actually manifests.
00:10:24In 1693, the witch Agatha Harkness escapes being burned at the stake by her mother and
00:10:30a bunch of other witches who aren't happy with her practice of dark magic.
00:10:33She drains their life energies and gets her hands on the Darkhold before disappearing
00:10:37to get into all sorts of trouble before she pops up again in the present day.
00:10:42Jumping ahead to 1942, a Nazi officer known as Johann Schmidt experiments on himself with
00:10:47an early version of Dr. Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Serum, gaining both a physically
00:10:53perfect body and a decidedly redder complexion.
00:10:57Now calling himself the Red Skull, he takes charge of a splinter group called the Hydra.
00:11:02With the discovery of one of the Infinity Stones in the form of the Tesseract, he creates
00:11:06a technologically advanced army of his own.
00:11:09That same year, Steve Rogers volunteers for the Strategic Scientific Reserves' attempt
00:11:14at creating a super soldier using a technique created by Dr. Erskine.
00:11:19The project works, giving Steve the body of a hunky Chris Evans.
00:11:23After the experiment, Erskine is assassinated, and his research is lost.
00:11:27Rather than risking their only super soldier by sending him to fight in the war, the SSR
00:11:32gives Steve the codename Captain America, and uses him primarily as a spokesman to sell
00:11:37war bonds and USO shows set to an extremely catchy song.
00:11:42Eventually, Steve goes AWOL to rescue his best friend Bucky Barnes and becomes an active
00:11:47soldier in the war, working with tech genius industrialist Howard Stark.
00:11:52He ends up falling in love with SSR agent Peggy Carter and leading a strike team called
00:11:56the Howling Commandos.
00:11:57On one of their missions, Bucky falls from a train into a ravine, seemingly to his death.
00:12:03However, Bucky is actually taken into custody by the Soviet Army, given cybernetic enhancements,
00:12:08and brainwashed into becoming a super assassin, codenamed Winter Soldier.
00:12:13After attempting to use the Tesseract, the Red Skull is sucked into a wormhole, becoming
00:12:18the second person in Captain America the First Avenger to survive an apparent death.
00:12:23In reality, he winds up on the distant planet Vormir, serving as a sort of spectral guardian
00:12:29for the Soul Stone.
00:12:30As for Steve, he crashes a bomber jet into the Arctic to keep HYDRA from destroying New
00:12:35York.
00:12:36He is also presumed dead, but he survives, frozen in suspended animation for the next
00:12:4066 years.
00:12:42Geez, doesn't anyone who dies in this movie actually die?
00:12:46You ready to follow Captain America into the jaws of death?
00:12:49Hell no.
00:12:50While things are pretty quiet for the MCU between 1945 and 1995, there are a few notable
00:12:57exceptions.
00:12:58Peggy Carter continues to work for the SSR, first in New York in 1946, and then in Los
00:13:04Angeles alongside Howard Stark in 1947.
00:13:07Although HYDRA is believed to have been destroyed, it actually secretly infiltrates the U.S.
00:13:14quietly influencing historical events.
00:13:17Around this time, the Soviet Union produces the first graduates of its brutal Red Room
00:13:21Facility, where orphaned girls are trained as spies and assassins, codenamed Black Widows.
00:13:27During the 1950s, Korean War veteran Isaiah Bradley and several other African-American
00:13:33soldiers are unknowingly subjected to a new version of the super-soldier serum.
00:13:39Isaiah gains superhuman abilities and is sent on secret missions, including one where he
00:13:43battles a still-brainwashed Bucky Barnes and learns his identity.
00:13:48Isaiah subsequently goes AWOL to save his fellow soldiers from a POW camp.
00:13:52In the aftermath, all the soldiers except Isaiah die from the serum's side effects.
00:13:58Isaiah is imprisoned for 30 years so CIA and HYDRA scientists can experiment on him and
00:14:03try to replicate the serum in his blood.
00:14:06Eventually, a nurse takes pity on Isaiah and has him declared dead, allowing Isaiah
00:14:11to return to Baltimore, Maryland and live with his family.
00:14:14Sometime after this, presumably around 1948 or 49, Steve Rogers travels back in time from
00:14:212023 to reunite with Peggy.
00:14:24She continues to work in military intelligence for the next few decades with Stark, whose
00:14:28defense contracts turn Stark Industries into the world's leading arms manufacturer.
00:14:33By 1970, both of them are working out of SSR headquarters at Camp Lehigh, along with
00:14:38a few other notable figures.
00:14:40Arhem Zola, who worked with the Red Skull back in the 40s, is stationed here, and although
00:14:44his body dies in the 70s, his brain is transferred into a computer databank that continues HYDRA's
00:14:50infiltration of the government.
00:14:53Also, Hank Pym is working here, assisted by Bill Foster in his experiments with the size-changing
00:14:58Pym particles that will allow him and his wife Janet Van Dyne to become the original
00:15:03Ant-Man and Wasp.
00:15:05Between the 70s and the 90s, several small but key events happen throughout the MCU.
00:15:11In 1974, Howard Stark launches the Stark Expo, displaying the city of the future, powered
00:15:17by a clean-energy arc reactor that's about the size of a house.
00:15:21For some reason, he also hides the structure of a new element in the arrangement of the
00:15:25buildings, which is the kind of science it pays to not think too hard about.
00:15:30Congratulations, sir.
00:15:31You have created a new element.
00:15:35In 1980, Ego comes to Earth, winning the heart of Meredith Quill.
00:15:40Nine months later, their son, Peter Quill, is born.
00:15:44In 1987, Janet Van Dyne is lost in the Quantum Realm, after she and Hank Pym attempt to stop
00:15:50a rogue Soviet missile targeting the United States.
00:15:53In 1988, Meredith Quill dies from brain cancer, intentionally caused by Ego, leaving her son
00:16:00a mixtape of classic rock favorites.
00:16:02Peter is then abducted by a band of outer space outlaws called the Ravagers.
00:16:07Their leader, Yondu, then raises Peter as a son.
00:16:10To keep up appearances, Yondu treats Peter harshly in front of the Ravagers, but shows
00:16:15the boy great affection privately, even giving Peter a pair of laser pistols as a Christmas
00:16:20gift and teaching him valuable survival skills.
00:16:24In 1987, Janet Van Dyne and Hank Pym attempt to stop a rogue Soviet missile targeting the
00:16:29United States.
00:16:31To destroy the missile, Janet intentionally shuts off her size-changing regulator and
00:16:36shrinks through the missile's molecules.
00:16:39She continues shrinking right into the subatomic Quantum Realm, devastating both her husband
00:16:45and her young daughter, Hope.
00:16:47Pym spends the next several years studying the Quantum Realm, unintentionally estranging
00:16:52himself from his daughter.
00:16:53By 1989, Pym resigns from the SSR, now renamed the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement,
00:17:01and Logistics Division, after finding out that they intend to use his Pym particles
00:17:05to create weapons.
00:17:06Also that year, Air Force Captain Carol Danvers, who uses the callsign Avenger during her flights,
00:17:13volunteers for a test flight of a light-speed engine created by scientist Wendy Lawson.
00:17:18Lawson turns out to be one of the Kree, a militaristic alien race constantly at war
00:17:23with the shape-shifting Skrulls, and her engine is powered by the Tesseract.
00:17:28When they're shot down, Carol's body is overloaded with the Tesseract's energy, giving her incredible
00:17:33powers and also wiping her memory.
00:17:35A Kree soldier named Yon-Rogg abducts her and takes her back to the Kree homeworld of
00:17:40Hala, where she is made to believe that she's actually a Kree named Veers, fighting alongside
00:17:46them as a member of the Kree Starforce.
00:17:49While all of this is happening on Earth, things continue to develop in space.
00:17:53Thanos, an incredibly powerful alien from the planet Titan who's obsessed with balance,
00:17:59begins to seek out the Infinity Stones.
00:18:01Along the way, he lays waste to half of the population of entire planets, occasionally
00:18:06taking young survivors and training them as soldiers.
00:18:09Assuming that most of the more humanoid characters are the same age as the people portraying
00:18:14them, then his two most notable adoptions happen in the late 80s or early 90s.
00:18:19Gamora is taken in as a young girl, after Thanos kills half of the population of her
00:18:24home planet.
00:18:25Throughout her childhood, Thanos pits her against her adopted sister, Nebula.
00:18:30Every time they spar, Gamora wins, and Thanos systematically replaces pieces of Nebula's
00:18:35body with cybernetic parts in order to make her a more efficient killer.
00:18:40This creates a lot of resentment in Nebula, not only against Thanos but also toward Gamora,
00:18:45which will greatly affect their later relationship.
00:18:49Elsewhere in the galaxy, a geneticist known as the High Evolutionary starts Orgocorp,
00:18:54an intergalactic company that produces bioengineered products to benefit all life.
00:18:59However, Orgocorp is actually a front to fund the High Evolutionary's illegal genetic experiments
00:19:05and allow him to create his vision of a perfect society.
00:19:09His experiments result in the Sovereign, a highly advanced, golden-skinned race, and
00:19:15the Humanimals, intelligent humanoid animals.
00:19:18While many of the High Evolutionary's creations consider him a god, the High Evolutionary
00:19:23sees them as disposable experiments and regularly destroys entire planets when his subjects
00:19:28don't live up to his expectations.
00:19:30One of the High Evolutionary's experiments is Subject-89P13, a cybernetically enhanced
00:19:37raccoon with a genius intellect who renames himself Rocket.
00:19:41Believing the High Evolutionary will take him and his fellow experiments, Lila, Teefs,
00:19:46and Floor, to live in peace on a new planet, Rocket helps him with his experiments.
00:19:50However, when the High Evolutionary kills his friends, a devastated Rocket mauls the
00:19:55High Evolutionary's face and escapes.
00:19:57He becomes a bounty hunter and adopts a bitter, cynical attitude to help him deal with his
00:20:02trauma.
00:20:03Meanwhile, in the Quantum Realm, a stranded Janet Van Dyne comes across another castaway,
00:20:08an exiled variant of Nathaniel Richards named Kang the Conqueror.
00:20:12Initially believing Kang to be benevolent, Janet helps him rebuild his damaged Multiversal
00:20:18Power Core so they can escape the realm.
00:20:20However, when she realizes what a monster Kang really is, she enlarges the Power Core
00:20:25so it can't be used, trapping them both in their subatomic prison.
00:20:30Unfortunately, Kang is still able to charge his armor and use its power to create the
00:20:34city of Axia, the capital of his fascist empire.
00:20:38Feeling responsible, Janet joins a resistance movement against Kang.
00:20:43In 1991, the Soviet government sends the Winter Soldier to assassinate Howard and Maria Stark.
00:20:49This will have massive ramifications later on, but the immediate effect is that their
00:20:53brilliant slacker son, Tony Stark, is left in charge of Stark Industries, along with
00:20:58Obadiah Stane as CEO.
00:21:01They continue to manufacture weapons using Tony's increasingly deadly designs, selling
00:21:06them to all sides of virtually every global conflict, with Obadiah in particular making
00:21:12a profit from secret arms deals with terrorist groups.
00:21:15In 1992, King T'Chaka of Wakanda goes to Oakland, California to investigate arms deals involving
00:21:22stolen vibranium.
00:21:24The culprit is his brother, N'Jobu, who is killed in the altercation.
00:21:28N'Jobu's son, Eric, is a witness to the whole thing, and grows up craving revenge.
00:21:33He joins the Navy SEALs and becomes part of a CIA black ops unit, killing hundreds of
00:21:38people around the world.
00:21:40Around the same time, 9-year-old Matt Murdock is blinded by a drum of toxic waste while
00:21:45trying to save a man from being hit by a truck.
00:21:48The chemicals heighten his other senses to superhuman levels, allowing him to move and
00:21:53fight better than before.
00:21:55After his father is killed by mobsters, an orphaned Matt is mentored by the blind warrior
00:22:00Stick, who trains him to use his senses as weapons.
00:22:03Stick later abandons the boy, but Matt continues training and studying, eventually becoming
00:22:09both a gifted fighter and law student.
00:22:11Meanwhile, Russian super-soldier Alexey Shostakov and Black Widow weapons designer Malina Vostokov
00:22:18go deep undercover in Ohio, posing as an all-American family with their so-called daughters, 7-year-old
00:22:24Natasha Romanoff and 3-year-old Yelena Belova.
00:22:27While Alexey and Malina work to steal a S.H.I.E.L.D., or actually Hydra, project focused on free
00:22:33will and mind control, Natasha and Yelena experience some semblance of a normal childhood.
00:22:38By 1995, however, the mission is complete, and the family flees to Cuba.
00:22:43However, once they arrive, they are split apart, and Natasha and Yelena return to the
00:22:48Red Room, where they continue their Black Widow training-slash-torture sessions.
00:22:53Also in 1995, Carol Danvers, still without her memories of Earth, returns to her home
00:22:58planet after escaping from the Skrulls.
00:23:01She teams up with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Nick Fury and Phil Coulson to stop the Skrulls
00:23:06from invading Earth, only to learn that they're not actually the bad guys.
00:23:10Instead, it's the Kree that are the problem, with Yon-Rogg and Ronan the Accuser en route
00:23:15in search of the Infinity Stones that will end their war of conquest once and for all.
00:23:21Carol, taking the name Captain Marvel, fights them off and saves a bunch of Skrull refugees.
00:23:27In the process, an alien cat scratches Nick Fury's left eye, blinding it and causing him
00:23:32to sport a fashionable eyepatch.
00:23:34Before she journeys back into space to aid the Skrulls, Carol gives Fury a pager that
00:23:39can summon her in case of a dire emergency.
00:23:42Inspired by Carol and her original call sign, Fury lays the groundwork for the Avengers
00:23:47Initiative, a program designed to create a team of superpowered heroes to deal with large-scale
00:23:53threats like alien invasions.
00:23:55In 1996, Wenwu, having used his Ten Rings organization to secretly conquer or influence
00:24:01practically everything on Earth, turns his attention to the mystical realm of Talo.
00:24:06After finding a magical forest near the village entrance, he meets and falls in love with
00:24:10the village guardian, Ying Li.
00:24:13The two marry and have two children, Shang-Chi and Shao Ling.
00:24:17For a time, Wenwu reforms, but when his wife is killed by his rivals, he decides to recreate
00:24:22the Ten Rings and train his son, Shang-Chi, to be a living weapon.
00:24:27Around this same time in Chicago, Illinois, a young Mark Spector and his little brother
00:24:31Randall are exploring a cave when it suddenly floods, drowning Randall.
00:24:36Mark's mother Wendy blames him for the accident, and a traumatized Mark manifests the alternate
00:24:41personality of Stephen Grant to help him cope with his mother's verbal and physical abuse.
00:24:47In 1999, Tony Stark meets bioengineers Maya Henson and Aldrich Killian at a conference
00:24:53in Bern, Switzerland.
00:24:55He's very rude to Aldrich, who remembers that as a sore point for about 14 years.
00:25:00Throughout all this, HYDRA continues its secret infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. and all levels
00:25:05of the United States government.
00:25:08All that brings us to 2008 and Iron Man, the movie that launched the MCU.
00:25:13Almost everything from here on plays out in chronological order, in the years the movies
00:25:17were actually released.
00:25:19Almost.
00:25:20In 2008, Tony Stark is demonstrating his newest weapons in the Middle East when he's kidnapped
00:25:25by a terrorist organization called the Ten Rings, in what will eventually be revealed
00:25:30as a plot by Stane to get Tony out of the picture.
00:25:34While he's imprisoned, the terrorists force him and another captive, Dr. Ho Yinsen, who
00:25:39was also at that fateful 1999 convention in Bern, not that Tony noticed, to make weapons
00:25:44for them.
00:25:45Instead, Tony is able to recreate a miniaturized version of his father's arc reactor, using
00:25:51it to stabilize a piece of shrapnel that's lodged near his heart.
00:25:55The reactor also powers the Iron Man, a suit of weaponized armor built from scrap which
00:26:01allows Tony to escape after Yinsen's death.
00:26:04Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave, with a bunch of scraps!"
00:26:11He returns to America, eats a cheeseburger, refines his design, and wipes out the Ten
00:26:16Rings — the ones in the Middle East, at least — in a brutally effective display
00:26:20of the Iron Man's weapons.
00:26:22He also defeats Stane, who attempts to kill Tony and create his own massive suit of powered
00:26:27armor.
00:26:28Tony then publicly reveals his identity as Iron Man, causing Nick Fury to approach him
00:26:33about the Avengers' initiative.
00:26:35Around the same time as Tony's capture, Dr. Bruce Banner, whose seven PhDs apparently
00:26:40include physics and biological engineering, is working on recreating the super-soldier
00:26:45program.
00:26:46Instead of Erskine's Vita-Rays, he uses gamma radiation, testing it on himself and turning
00:26:52himself into a rampaging, green, monstrous Hulk whenever he gets angry.
00:26:57After the Hulk inadvertently injures Banner's girlfriend, Betty Ross, he attempts to go
00:27:02underground, but returns to America in search of a cure for his condition.
00:27:06He winds up dealing with a scientist named Samuel Stearns, who wants to recreate the
00:27:11Hulk, and a soldier called Emil Blonsky, who turns himself into a similarly hulking monster
00:27:17called the Abomination.
00:27:19Ultimately, the Hulk defeats the Abomination, who's sent to prison, and Stearns absorbs
00:27:24some of Banner's blood, causing his brain to mutate.
00:27:28Banner then goes back into hiding, and starts learning how to control his transformations.
00:27:33Also around this time, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, is tasked with
00:27:38finding and eliminating Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow.
00:27:42Barton tracks down Natasha to her safehouse in Budapest, but feels Natasha wants out of
00:27:46the Red Room, so he lets her live.
00:27:49S.H.I.E.L.D. decides to let Natasha defect to their side, but requires her to kill her
00:27:53overseer General Dreykov first.
00:27:57Natasha and Clint rig a five-story building with bombs and lure the Red Room's mastermind
00:28:01into the kill zone, but Dreykov's young daughter Antonia also gets caught in the explosion.
00:28:07While disturbed by the additional red in her ledger, Natasha nevertheless begins working
00:28:12for S.H.I.E.L.D.
00:28:14Six months after revealing his identity publicly, Tony Stark is called to testify before Congress.
00:28:20Since they are justifiably concerned about a private citizen building a suit of armor
00:28:24that can vaporize a tank, to create their own version, they turn to rival weapons manufacturer
00:28:30Justin Hammer.
00:28:31After Tony's friend, Colonel James Rhodes, delivers a prototype Iron Man suit, Hammer
00:28:36and Russian scientist Ivan Venko reverse-engineer them into an army of drones.
00:28:42Stark also gets a new personal assistant, an undercover Natasha, going by the name Natalie.
00:28:48I want one.
00:28:49No.
00:28:50Stark and Rhodes, equipped with his own militarized suit of armor codenamed War Machine, defeat
00:28:55Venko and Hammer.
00:28:57Over at the Ten Rings compound, a now 14-year-old Shang-Chi has become the master of kung fu,
00:29:03having been taught every possible way to kill a man over the last seven years.
00:29:07Assigned to assassinate the man responsible for his mother's murder, Shang-Chi completes
00:29:12his mission but is badly traumatized.
00:29:15Unwilling to return to his father, Shang-Chi cleverly adopts the name Sean and starts going
00:29:20to high school in San Francisco.
00:29:22There he meets his best friend Katie, a skilled driver.
00:29:25Meanwhile, a now-adult Mark Spector leaves home to join the United States Marine Corps,
00:29:31but gets discharged because of his dissociative identity disorder.
00:29:34With few options, Mark becomes a mercenary and works for his former commanding officer
00:29:39Raoul Bushman.
00:29:40In addition to doing some jobs for the CIA, Mark is ordered by Bushman to execute some
00:29:45archaeologists at an Egyptian dig site.
00:29:48Instead, Mark tries to save the scientists, but gets shot.
00:29:52Dying, Spector is approached by the Egyptian god of the moon, Khonshu, who offers to save
00:29:57Spector if he will become his avatar and punish evildoers on Earth.
00:30:01Seeing himself as little more than a killer thanks to his childhood abuse, Spector agrees
00:30:06and is transformed into the supernatural vigilante Moon Knight.
00:30:10While all this is happening on Earth, there's other stuff going on in the Golden Realm
00:30:14of Asgard.
00:30:16Loki tricks Thor into antagonizing the frost giants of Jotunheim against Odin's orders.
00:30:21As a consequence, Odin exiles Thor to Earth and enchants his hammer, Mjolnir, so that
00:30:27only someone worthy of Thor's power can lift it.
00:30:30It lands in New Mexico, where Agent Coulson discovers it.
00:30:34After a bunch of hicks try to yank it out of the ground with pickup trucks, S.H.I.E.L.D.
00:30:38constructs a temporary facility around it.
00:30:40Thor eventually proves himself worthy, regains his hammer, and stops Loki from staging a
00:30:45coup in Asgard.
00:30:47In 2011, a team of Russian oil drillers discovers the crashed Hydra plane in the Arctic and
00:30:52alerts S.H.I.E.L.D.
00:30:54Captain America is thought out and revived, and after realizing he's in the 21st century,
00:30:59he joins up with Nick Fury's Avengers Initiative.
00:31:02It turns out he was just in time.
00:31:05In 2012, Loki, last seen adrift in space after his failed coup in Asgard, is enlisted
00:31:11by Thanos to recover the Tesseract from Earth, with his recent brief visit to the planet
00:31:16being seen by the Mad Titan as relevant employment experience.
00:31:20In exchange, Thanos gives him control of the Chitauri, a massive army of hive-minded destroyers,
00:31:26and a scepter containing the Mind Stone, another of the Infinity Stones.
00:31:31Using these weapons, Loki lets himself be captured by S.H.I.E.L.D., incites a riot,
00:31:35and stabs poor Phil Coulson in the back.
00:31:38But don't worry, he gets better.
00:31:40The ensuing ruckus provides the superheroes with a reason to come together.
00:31:44The result is the Battle of New York, in which the Avengers — Captain America, Iron Man,
00:31:49Thor, Black Widow, Hulk, and Hawkeye — are gathered for the first time as a team.
00:31:54The good guys win after Loki is smashed against the ground five or six times, but the battle
00:31:59is not without its consequences.
00:32:01Unlike in the real world, where it's pretty nice these days, the MCU's version of Hell's
00:32:05Kitchen takes a lot of damage and winds up being a center of corruption and graft as
00:32:10it's rebuilt.
00:32:12This injustice leads blind lawyer Matt Murdock to take on the identity of Daredevil to fight
00:32:17against criminal kingpin Wilson Fisk, and eventually team up with other super-powered
00:32:22street-level crime fighters — Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and kinda-sorta-the-Punisher
00:32:29on Netflix.
00:32:30The reconstruction of New York is mostly handled by the newly formed Department of Damage Control,
00:32:36who take over the lucrative contract and leave construction foreman Adrian Toombs in bitter,
00:32:42and in possession of advanced alien technology.
00:32:45Toombs builds his own underground criminal enterprise, selling reverse-engineered Chitauri
00:32:50weapons on the black market.
00:32:52While the Battle of New York comes with its fair share of trauma, it also leaves some
00:32:56people inspired.
00:32:57After seeing Clint Barton unknowingly saving her life while battling aliens with a bow
00:33:01and arrow, 10-year-old Kate Bishop decides to take up archery and learn martial arts
00:33:06in an attempt to protect her family against future threats.
00:33:10She turns out to be a gifted, if extremely reckless, prodigy who often damages public
00:33:15property with her trick shots.
00:33:17In 2013, Tony Stark in particular is overwhelmed by the concept of his universe suddenly expanding
00:33:23to include gods, aliens, and other unknowable cosmic forces.
00:33:28He deals with post-traumatic stress, which unfortunately coincides with the return of
00:33:33Aldrich Killian.
00:33:34Killian has been experimenting with Maya Hansen's regenerative extremist treatment, which has
00:33:39the unfortunate tendency to cause its subjects to explode.
00:33:43To cover his operations, Killian appropriates Wenwu's Ten Rings and creates a fictional
00:33:48terrorist based on Wenwu called the Mandarin, hiring an actor named Trevor Slattery to play
00:33:54him in threatening videos.
00:33:56The plot is uncovered and stopped by Tony and Rhodey.
00:33:59I wouldn't go in there for 20 minutes.
00:34:04In the aftermath, Killian is killed by Pepper Potts, and Slattery gets sent to federal prison,
00:34:09where he's later abducted by the real Ten Rings for impersonating Wenwu.
00:34:14Although Wenwu is intent on killing this strange man who named himself after a chicken
00:34:18dish, he has a change of heart after seeing how good Slattery is at performing Shakespeare
00:34:23and decides to make him his jester.
00:34:26Around this time, Phil Coulson resurfaces and begins recruiting some additional members
00:34:30into his own Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
00:34:33They have their own adventures, including many involving the Inhumans and Ghost Rider,
00:34:37but like the good secret agents they are, a lot of this flies beneath the radar of most
00:34:42major MCU events.
00:34:44Oh, also Malekith comes back and Thor fights him, and Loki becomes the latest in a long
00:34:49line of presumed deaths that actually aren't.
00:34:52He stashes Odin in a retirement home in New York, and then takes his identity, ruling
00:34:57over Asgard and putting on critically acclaimed plays.
00:35:00I'm sorry about that thing with the Tesseract.
00:35:03I just couldn't help myself.
00:35:05I know.
00:35:06I'm a trickster.
00:35:07Yes.
00:35:08In 2014, Hydra's decades-long plot to infiltrate and take over America is finally discovered
00:35:14by Captain America and Black Widow, who also learn that the Winter Soldier is a brainwashed
00:35:19Bucky Barnes.
00:35:20While Cap fights to restore his best friend's memories, the Hydra plot is exposed, and in
00:35:25the aftermath, S.H.I.E.L.D. collapses, leaving the Avengers without the oversight and support
00:35:30of the larger organization.
00:35:32That power vacuum leads directly to Tony Stark and Bruce Banner attempting to create an artificial
00:35:38intelligence that would help protect the world.
00:35:40Unfortunately, they goof that plan up big time, instead creating a genocidal robot named
00:35:45Ultron who winds up destroying an entire city, resulting in the breakup of the country Sokovia.
00:35:52Immediately after the battle, the Hulk hijacks a Quinjet and blasts off to space, eventually
00:35:57landing on Sakaar.
00:35:59Hoping for an ally against Ultron, Tony and Bruce combine the Mind Stone, a synthesized
00:36:04body created by Ultron, and Tony's onboard AI, Jarvis, into a much more heroic AI called
00:36:10the Vision.
00:36:11Also, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, two definitely-not-mutants, join the team.
00:36:16Speedster Quicksilver immediately dies, partly from bullets but mostly because Disney and
00:36:21Fox were having a problem figuring out the characters' film rights.
00:36:24The destruction in Sokovia also kills the family of Helmut Zemo, who then dedicates
00:36:29his life to revenge.
00:36:31While all that's going on, Peter Quill is out in space on a job to steal a valuable
00:36:35orb, which, unbeknownst to him, contains the Infinity Stone known as the Power Stone.
00:36:41That puts him in the sights of both Ronan the Accuser, who's been looking for another
00:36:45Infinity Stone since 1995, and Thanos, who sends Gamora after him.
00:36:51Quill and Gamora wind up running across Drax, a very literal warrior whose family was killed
00:36:57by Thanos, Rocket, the cybernetically enhanced raccoon, and Groot, a tree.
00:37:03After being imprisoned together, the five of them stage a jailbreak, defeat Ronan in
00:37:07a dance-off, recover the Power Stone with the help of their real power, which is friendship.
00:37:13During the adventure, Groot dies, leaving behind a baby Groot sapling, and the group
00:37:18christens themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy.
00:37:21They turn the Power Stone over to the Nova Corps, a bunch of space cops on the planet
00:37:25Xandar.
00:37:26Shortly thereafter, Thanos attacks Xandar and recovers it for himself.
00:37:31In 2015, an electrical engineer named Scott Lang gets out of prison and stumbles onto
00:37:36Hank Pym's old, size-changing equipment.
00:37:40Under the guidance of Pym and his daughter Hope, Lang becomes the second Ant-Man, and
00:37:45helps to keep the Pym particles from falling into the hands of evil arms dealer Darren
00:37:49Cross.
00:37:50When Darren dons his own size-changing suit and becomes the villainous Yellowjacket, Lang
00:37:55goes subatomic and damages Yellowjacket's suit so badly that the bad guy seemingly shrinks
00:38:01into oblivion.
00:38:03Actually, Cross journeys to the Quantum Realm, where he's found by Kang and rebuilt as MODOK,
00:38:08the mechanized organism designed only for killing.
00:38:11More importantly, it's likely somewhere around this time that a kid named Peter Parker is
00:38:16bitten by a radioactive spider, tries to capitalize on his powers by becoming famous as Spider-Man,
00:38:22and fails to stop a robber that later kills his Uncle Ben.
00:38:25None of this is actually covered in the MCU, but you might have seen five other movies
00:38:29about it.
00:38:30The following year sees Helmut Zemo's plan to destroy the Avengers reach its fruition.
00:38:35As the world responds to the destruction of Sokovia by trying to install new governmental
00:38:40oversight over the Avengers, Zemo furthers a wedge between Captain America and Iron Man
00:38:46by revealing that Bucky was the one who killed Tony Stark's parents.
00:38:50He also frames Bucky for the assassination of King T'Chaka of Wakanda, leaving the king's
00:38:55son T'Challa to take over leadership of the country, not to mention the identity and powers
00:39:01of the Black Panther.
00:39:02The end result of all of this is that the Avengers break up, the ones loyal to Cap go
00:39:06underground, and T'Challa refuses to give Zemo the death he desires.
00:39:12Bucky also gets safe refuge and treatment in Wakanda after T'Challa realizes they were
00:39:17all being manipulated by Zemo.
00:39:19Fleeing the U.S. after the rest of Cap's team is imprisoned, Natasha Romanoff spends some
00:39:24time in Norway watching James Bond films.
00:39:27Unfortunately, her vacation is cut short when she's attacked by Taskmaster, an assassin
00:39:32who can mimic any fighting style.
00:39:34Later, she discovers Taskmaster is the brainwashed daughter of a still-alive General Dreykov,
00:39:41who has restarted a crueler version of the Red Room that brainwashes new Black Widows
00:39:46and robs them of free will.
00:39:47One of those Black Widows turns out to be Natasha's sister, Yelena.
00:39:52Freed of her programming by another Widow, Yelena sends the brainwashing antidote to
00:39:56Natasha, drawing her into the fight.
00:39:59Together, Yelena and Natasha work to reunite with their former parents, Alexei and Melina,
00:40:04and really kill Dreykov this time.
00:40:06Although the dysfunctional Deep Cover family has more than its share of issues, they manage
00:40:10to pull together and take down the Red Room.
00:40:13In the end, Yelena gets to work liberating Black Widows around the world while Natasha
00:40:18goes to break her other family, the Avengers, out of jail.
00:40:22While all this is going on, Dr. Stephen Strange, who lost the fine motor control in his hands
00:40:27after a car accident, seeks out the Ancient One and trains to become a master of the mystic
00:40:32arts.
00:40:33He stops an invasion by Dormammu, a demonic force from the Dark Dimension, by using the
00:40:38Time Stone to trap Dormammu in a time loop where the entity kills Strange over and over
00:40:43again until the cosmic villain gets annoyed enough to leave Earth alone.
00:40:48Meanwhile, the Guardians of the Galaxy encounter Ego and Peter Quill's half-sister, Mantis.
00:40:53Ego reveals that Peter is his son and the heir to his power, but when he tries to manipulate
00:40:58him into conquering the entire galaxy, Mantis teams up with the Guardians to kill the living
00:41:03planet.
00:41:04The Guardians also incur the wrath of the Sovereign after Rocket steals some of their
00:41:08batteries for absolutely no reason.
00:41:11In retaliation, their leader, Aisha, decides to create a more powerful Sovereign named
00:41:16Adam to go after the Guardians.
00:41:19In the absence of the Avengers, Tony Stark begins to mentor Peter Parker.
00:41:23As Spider-Man, Peter tries to deal with the evil arms dealer known as the Vulture, a.k.a.
00:41:28Adrian Toomes, who turns out to be his homecoming date's dad.
00:41:32The Vulture is defeated, arrested, and sent to prison, but not before he and several of
00:41:36Peter's classmates figure out Spider-Man's real identity.
00:41:40Also, Tony Stark finally proposes to Pepper Potts.
00:41:43Lest you think Peter is the only super-powered teenager in the MCU, over in New Orleans,
00:41:49teenagers Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson acquire powers of light and darkness and become the
00:41:53Vigilantes' Cloak and Dagger.
00:41:55Meanwhile, on the West Coast, privileged teenager Alex Wilder and his friends learn their parents
00:42:00are all supervillains who control a powerful criminal organization called the Pride.
00:42:06The kids go on the run, learn many of them have superpowers or connections to advanced
00:42:10technology, and even run afoul of dangerous artifacts like the Darkhold.
00:42:15Sadly, it looks like Peter won't be meeting any of these young heroes, as their worlds
00:42:19are only slightly connected to the MCU.
00:42:21Meanwhile, Mark Spector marries Leila El Fouly, the daughter of one of the archaeologists
00:42:26he failed to save the night he became Moon Knight.
00:42:29The two go on many adventures together, but when Spector learns Khonshu may use Leila
00:42:33as his new avatar, he sends divorce papers to her, hoping to create some distance between
00:42:38them and keep her safe.
00:42:40In Asgard, Thor returns from two years of looking for Infinity Stones in various realms
00:42:45only to discover Loki's been posing as Odin this entire time.
00:42:49When Thor and Loki find the real Odin, he's at the end of his life, and his death allows
00:42:54Hela to escape her millennia of imprisonment.
00:42:57She destroys Mjolnir, blasts the two brothers into space, and takes over Asgard.
00:43:02Thor winds up on Sakaar, where he recruits Hulk and Valkyrie for a mission to overthrow
00:43:07Hela, which goes about as well as it can for a plan that ends with the complete destruction
00:43:11of Asgard via a fire giant.
00:43:14In Wakanda, T'Challa's rule is challenged by his cousin Erik Killmonger, who teams up
00:43:19with evil arms dealer Ulysses Klaue and then betrays him in order to gain favor with Wakandans
00:43:24who know Klaue as a vibranium smuggler.
00:43:27Erik nearly kills T'Challa, usurps his position as the Black Panther, and destroys all of
00:43:33Wakanda's heart-shaped herbs to secure his power base.
00:43:37After being presumed dead, T'Challa returns, and, aided by Nakia, Okoye, and Shuri, regains
00:43:42control of his country.
00:43:44Later, he secretly fathers a son with Nakia, who decides to raise her child in Haiti, away
00:43:49from the Black Panther's enemies.
00:43:52After six years of waiting around, Thanos decides to personally seek out the Infinity
00:43:56Stones, and the results are devastating.
00:43:59He kills Loki, sacrifices his daughter Gamora to get the Soul Stone, and nearly obliterates
00:44:04the last surviving Asgardians.
00:44:07As he goes after the remaining stones, things get so desperate that the whole Avengers crew
00:44:11need to get back together to sort it out, except Hawkeye and Ant-Man, who are under
00:44:15house arrest for violating the Sokovia Accords.
00:44:18They don't do so well.
00:44:19Despite fighting on two fronts with one small team in space and a massive force on Earth,
00:44:24Thanos gathers the stones, snaps his fingers, and kills half the lifeforms in the universe,
00:44:30dissolving them into dust.
00:44:32Before he dissolves, Nick Fury uses the Space Pager to alert Captain Marvel that Earth needs
00:44:37her help.
00:44:38A month later, Captain Marvel and the surviving Avengers track Thanos down in space, only
00:44:43to find out that he's destroyed the stones and, with them, any chance of bringing back
00:44:48the dead half of the universe.
00:44:50Thor beheads Thanos, and the Avengers return home.
00:44:54Ant-Man and his friends miss all of these events due to their involvement in a relatively
00:44:58self-contained heist movie.
00:45:00Alongside Scott Lang and the new Wasp, Hope Van Dyne, Hank Pym suits up and explores the
00:45:05Quantum Realm in order to save the original Wasp, Janet.
00:45:08Meanwhile, the team fends off repeated attacks from a mysterious, super-powered being known
00:45:13as Ghost.
00:45:14Later, Lang explores the Quantum Realm just as Thanos' snap turns Hank Pym and both Van
00:45:20Dyne women into dust, trapping Ant-Man in the subatomic realm.
00:45:24While he's there, five years go by, during which the heroes deal with the horrific trauma
00:45:29in various ways.
00:45:31Notably, Tony Stark and Pepper Potts have a daughter named Morgan, Banner merges his
00:45:36brain with the Hulk, and Thor becomes an overweight gamer after helping to found New Asgard in
00:45:41Norway.
00:45:43Hawkeye loses his entire family in the snap, causing him to go rogue.
00:45:46He adopts a new hairstyle and anti-hero identity as the merciless Ronin, who hunts down and
00:45:52ruthlessly kills criminals around the world.
00:45:55One of these criminals is William Lopez, the father of fighting prodigy Maya.
00:45:59After seeing her dad die, Maya swears vengeance on Ronin, not knowing that her dad's boss,
00:46:05Kingpin, wanted William dead.
00:46:08After Ant-Man returns from the Quantum Realm, where for him only a few hours have passed,
00:46:13the heroes realize that the solution to the problem is, of course, time travel.
00:46:17With the help of Iron Man, Rocket, a reformed Nebula, and the now-smart Hulk, the heroes
00:46:23travel back to various key points in the timeline, including 1970, 2012, and 2014, to gather
00:46:29up the Infinity Stones of those eras, along with Mjolnir, circa 2013.
00:46:34Unfortunately, the Avengers also inadvertently bring the Thanos of 2014 forward to 2023,
00:46:40along with all of his minions.
00:46:42This includes an alternate Gamora, with no memory of her time with the Guardians.
00:46:46Fortunately, the Hulk uses a rebuilt Infinity Gauntlet to wish everyone back to life, and
00:46:51virtually every hero in the entire MCU takes Thanos on at once.
00:46:56The final blow is dealt by Iron Man, who dies on the battlefield.
00:47:00After gathering for a funeral, Steve Rogers hops into the time stream to return everything
00:47:06to where it should be.
00:47:07Returning after living a full life with Peggy Carter in an alternate past to bequeath his
00:47:12shield to Sam Wilson, naming him the new Captain America.
00:47:17Outside of the mainstream MCU, the version of Loki that the Avengers freed from an alternate
00:47:212012 in Avengers Endgame ends up in the Gobi Desert, where he immediately begins fulfilling
00:47:27his glorious purpose by trying to conquer the world again.
00:47:30Instead, he gets picked up by the Time Variance Authority, or TVA, a time police force tasked
00:47:36with hunting down rogue variants like Loki and destroying alternate timelines before
00:47:41they can branch out too far from their sacred timeline.
00:47:45Loki gets paired with Mobius, a sympathetic TVA agent who recruits the trickster god
00:47:50into the agency to help find their latest target, another Loki variant.
00:47:54This isn't about you."
00:47:57This variant turns out to be a female version of Loki called Sylvie, who restarts the multiverse,
00:48:03allowing a bunch of rogue timelines to emerge from history.
00:48:07Loki teams up with Sylvie and discovers the TVA is made up of variants forcibly recruited
00:48:12into the organization to prune rogue timelines and prevent really evil versions of the TVA's
00:48:18mysterious leader, another variant of Kang, from destroying everything.
00:48:22While offered a chance to let this deception persist, Sylvie instead murders the mastermind,
00:48:28letting the multiverse run wild.
00:48:30While this may lead to the destruction of reality, it makes one cosmic being's life
00:48:34more interesting.
00:48:36The godlike voyeur the Watcher observes realities in which Peggy Carter receives the super-soldier
00:48:41syrup, Doctor Strange destroys his universe, and Thor becomes a party animal.
00:48:47Ultimately, the Watcher is forced to evolve from observer to doer when a variant Ultron
00:48:52threatens to destroy all sentient life in the multiverse.
00:48:55Assembling his own guardians of the multiverse team, the Watcher manipulates events so the
00:49:00alternate realities can continue to coexist.
00:49:04Sometime after the multiverse was recreated, a young girl named America Chavez develops
00:49:09the ability to travel through alternate realities.
00:49:12Unable to control her power, she accidentally sends her parents to an unknown world before
00:49:17slipping through multiple parallel universes herself.
00:49:20Along the way, she makes friends, usually with variants of Doctor Strange.
00:49:25In the mainstream MCU, the effects of Hulk's reverse snap are being felt on both a cosmic
00:49:30and street level.
00:49:31People like Yelena Belova and Monica Rambeau snap back to existence, only to discover that
00:49:36five years have passed and their loved ones are now gone.
00:49:40Re-establishing their lives proves difficult, since different people live in their homes
00:49:44and billions are still legally dead.
00:49:46While support networks form, entire nations are also forcing out recent immigrants due
00:49:51to the sudden rise in population.
00:49:54Believing life was better during the blip when half of all life was gone, some people
00:49:58react to these changes violently.
00:50:00Anarchist Carly Morgenthau forms a terrorist group, the Flag Smashers, to attack governments
00:50:05threatening her one-world vision, and even augments her team with a new version of the
00:50:10Super Soldier Serum.
00:50:11This puts her in the sights of Sam Wilson, who rejects Steve Rogers' request that he
00:50:16become the new Captain America.
00:50:18After working with Bucky Barnes and seeing how Steve's legacy can be tarnished by unworthy
00:50:23successors like the dangerously unhinged John Walker, Sam takes on the mantle of Captain
00:50:28America and stops the Flag Smashers.
00:50:31Taking advantage of the global chaos and recent superpowered debuts, a mysterious woman named
00:50:37Valentina Allegra de Fontaine begins recruiting enhanced individuals, including Yelena Belova
00:50:43and John Walker, for an unknown project.
00:50:46Meanwhile, Peggy Carter's niece Sharon, a former S.H.I.E.L.D.
00:50:49agent, goes rogue and begins selling U.S. government weapons to terrorists as the power
00:50:54broker of the island nation of Medripoor.
00:50:58Sam also meets an elderly Isaiah Bradley and learns his history.
00:51:01Although Isaiah is skeptical about the idea of a black Captain America, Sam arranges for
00:51:06an exhibit of Isaiah's service to be displayed at the Smithsonian so everyone will know about
00:51:11the United States' first African-American Super Soldier.
00:51:15The sudden rise in sentient life on Earth also jumpstarts the Emergence, which threatens
00:51:20to destroy the entire planet when a new celestial is born.
00:51:23Alerted by the cosmic event and a few remaining deviants, the Eternals reunite, where before
00:51:29they have always stood by and allowed planets to be destroyed, a few now have enough love
00:51:34for humanity to try and save the Earth.
00:51:37Cersei draws enough power from her teammates to halt the birth of the celestial Tiamat,
00:51:41and the celestial Ereshim uses the Eternals' memories to determine if Earth should be spared.
00:51:47In Europe, Peter Parker attempts to have a vacation free of Spider-Man.
00:51:51Unfortunately, this becomes impossible when Nick Fury — actually, the shapeshifting
00:51:56Skrull Talos, who is covering for Fury while he's on vacation in space — recruits Spider-Man
00:52:02to help Mysterio, a man claiming to be from an alternate universe, to save the world from
00:52:06dangerous elemental beings.
00:52:09Except it's all a lie.
00:52:10Mysterio is just Quentin Beck, a disgruntled ex-Stark employee who uses Peter to get his
00:52:16hands on a pair of Stark-tech sunglasses that can control an army of weaponized drones.
00:52:22Spider-Man gets to drop on Mysterio's illusions to keep him from killing thousands of people,
00:52:27but in a final act of spite, Mysterio exposes Peter's secret identity to the world.
00:52:33Meanwhile, former assassin-turned-car valet Shang-Chi, currently going by Shang, learns
00:52:38his father is gunning for him when Ten Rings agents steal the jade pendant his mother left
00:52:43him.
00:52:44After making up with his sister, Shang-Chi finally addresses his issues with his father
00:52:48by traveling to Talos and stopping Wenwu from unleashing the soul-sucking monster known
00:52:53as the Dweller in Darkness on the world.
00:52:56Before dying to save his son, Wenwu grants Shang-Chi the Ten Rings, which begin sending
00:53:01signals out into the universe.
00:53:04While all this is going on, one rogue Avenger is unknowingly creating her own brand of chaos
00:53:10in the small town of Westview, New Jersey.
00:53:13Unable to cope with the loss of Vision, who Thanos kills by ripping the Mind Stone out
00:53:17of his head, Wanda Maximoff manifests powerful, reality-warping abilities.
00:53:22Drawing from her childhood love of American sitcoms, Wanda warps Westview into an idyllic
00:53:27town where she lives a suburban life with a new version of Vision.
00:53:31She even gives birth to twin boys who quickly mature in a single episode.
00:53:36To maintain this illusion, Wanda inadvertently mind-controls the real-life citizens of Westview
00:53:41into becoming her personal puppets.
00:53:43Her activities attract the attention of the new intelligence agency SWORD and Agatha Harkness.
00:53:49While Wanda eventually comes to her senses and tries to free Westview, Agatha goads Wanda
00:53:55into a battle.
00:53:56Wanda comes out on top, however, and although she has to sacrifice her happy life with her
00:54:00husband and children, she embraces her new role as the Scarlet Witch.
00:54:05She also takes Agatha's Darkhold and starts dreaming of alternate realities where her
00:54:09sons are still alive.
00:54:11But maybe Wanda just needed to hold out a little longer rather than immediately resort
00:54:16to the Darkhold.
00:54:17Her two boys, Billy and Tommy, don't go away forever when the Hex disappears.
00:54:22William Kaplan dies in a car crash just as the Hex is vanishing.
00:54:26This allows Billy Maximoff to enter his body and take over his life, existing there for
00:54:30several years.
00:54:31He tracks down Agatha to allow him to travel the Witch's Road, which should give him what
00:54:36he wants most.
00:54:37That involves locating a suitable vessel for Tommy's spirit, which they eventually find.
00:54:43Wanda's reality-warping abilities also permanently alter one woman, SWORD agent Captain Monica
00:54:49Rambeau.
00:54:50The adult daughter of Carol Danvers' best friend Maria, Monica attempts to help Wanda
00:54:55with her grief and is exposed multiple times to Wanda's Hex energies.
00:55:00This rewrites Monica's cells, giving her the power to absorb energy and become intangible.
00:55:06After hearing of her performance in Westview, Nick Fury sends a Skrull to ask Monica to
00:55:10join him on a mission in outer space.
00:55:13With his secret identity now exposed, Peter turns to Doctor Strange, hoping the sorcerer
00:55:18can snap his fingers and wish his problems away.
00:55:21Instead, Strange offers to cast a spell to make the world forget Peter Parker is Spider-Man.
00:55:27It seems like an ideal solution, until Peter keeps asking Strange to rewrite the spell,
00:55:32creating multiple fractures in the multiverse and drawing in people who know Peter Parker
00:55:36is Spider-Man.
00:55:37Soon, Spider-Man villains from different cinematic universes, including Doctor Octopus, Sandman,
00:55:43the Lizard, and Electro, begin slipping into the MCU.
00:55:47However, the worst new arrival is the Green Goblin, who kills Peter's Aunt May.
00:55:52Distraught, Peter receives help from an unexpected source, two multiverse Peter Parkers who look
00:55:57a lot like Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire.
00:56:00Together, the Spider-Men concoct some creative cures for their enemies and depower their
00:56:05shared rogues' gallery.
00:56:07But just as things seem to be looking up, the multiverse begins to fracture.
00:56:11Peter does the responsible thing by asking Strange to make the whole world forget Peter
00:56:15Parker and prevent the villains from coming through.
00:56:18This essentially makes Peter a non-entity in the MCU, cuts him off from his support
00:56:22network of heroes and friends, and sets him up for a brand new trilogy of solo Spider-Man
00:56:27films.
00:56:28Oh, and Strange's spell also strands the Vulture in Sony's universe while Sony's Venom briefly
00:56:33pops up in the MCU.
00:56:35Instead of fighting Spider-Man, he spends his entire visit getting drunk in a Mexican
00:56:39bar and accidentally gives birth to a new symbiote whom he unknowingly abandons in the
00:56:44MCU.
00:56:45However, not all heroes need to be alone for the holidays.
00:56:48After a now-22-year-old Kate Bishop crashes an underground New York auction and steals
00:56:53Clint Barton's former Ronin outfit, she draws a lot of unwanted and potentially lethal attention
00:56:59to herself from the tracksuit mafia and Kingpin.
00:57:02Fortunately, Hawkeye is in town with his family to see the embarrassingly catchy Rogers the
00:57:07Musical.
00:57:08Initially hoping to retrieve his Ronin suit and keep Kate out of trouble, Clint ends up
00:57:13mentoring Kate as they go up against Maya Lopez, aka Echo, Yelena Belova, and Kingpin.
00:57:20After bonding with Clint over their shared trauma and showing she's really good at shooting
00:57:24people with trick arrows, Kate looks like she'll be taking over the mantle of Hawkeye
00:57:28and joining the MCU's ever-expanding roster of new superheroes.
00:57:32A now-teenaged America Chavez is pursued by demonic agents that kill a variant Dr. Strange.
00:57:39America and Strange's corpse accidentally slip into the mainstream Marvel Universe.
00:57:44Our Dr. Strange discovers that Wanda Maximoff, now corrupted by the Darkhold, wants to steal
00:57:50America's multiverse-traveling powers so she can live in a world where her twin sons are
00:57:54alive.
00:57:55When Strange and the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj stand in her way, Wanda murders the sorcerers,
00:58:01forcing America and Strange to flee to Earth-838.
00:58:05There, Strange is arrested by this universe's Illuminati, a secret society that includes
00:58:10alternate versions of Baron Mordo, Black Bolt, Captain Carter, Captain Marvel, Professor
00:58:16Charles Xavier, and Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four.
00:58:19Believing Strange to be the real threat to the multiverse, the Illuminati fail to heed
00:58:24Strange's warnings of the Scarlet Witch.
00:58:27This becomes their undoing when Wanda travels to Earth-838 by possessing the body of her
00:58:32alternate self and slaughters the Illuminati.
00:58:35She then banishes Strange to another alternate world, where Strange learns his variant is
00:58:39an arrogant jerk who brought about the end of his universe.
00:58:43Using this world's Darkhold, Strange possesses the body of the dead Dr. Strange variant on
00:58:48his homeworld and battles Wanda.
00:58:50Fortunately, America is able to get Wanda to see the error of her ways by taking her
00:58:55back to Earth-838, where her sons are horrified by how evil she's become.
00:59:00Filled with remorse, Wanda collapses the structure on Mount Wundagore and destroys
00:59:04the Darkhold in all realities before seemingly killing herself.
00:59:08Sometime later, Strange, now sporting a third eye thanks to his use of the Darkhold, encounters
00:59:13the Dark Dimension's sorceress Clea, who tells him he started an incursion in her home reality.
00:59:20Strange and Clea then leap into the Dark Dimension, indicating that as the Marvel Cinematic Universe
00:59:25continues to expand, we won't be dealing with just one universe, but several.
00:59:31Across the pond in London, mild-mannered gift shop employee Stephen Grant suffers from regular
00:59:35blackouts and discovers he's an alternate personality of Mark Spector, the Moon Knight.
00:59:41After Mark suffers a breakdown following the death of his mother, Stephen takes over their
00:59:44body and gets a job at the National Art Gallery.
00:59:47Despite being mistreated by his co-workers, Stephen maintains his positive outlook and
00:59:52tries to live a peaceful life.
00:59:53His life is thrown into chaos when Arthur Harrow, a former avatar of Khonshu, resurfaces
00:59:59as the new avatar of Amit, the Egyptian goddess of divine retribution.
01:00:03Hoping to preemptively stop all evil by destroying everyone before they get a chance to perform
01:00:09a wicked act, Harrow and his cult free Amit and send people to their deaths before their
01:00:14time.
01:00:15To stop him, Stephen and Mark team up with Layla, who acquires superpowers of her own
01:00:20by becoming the avatar of the goddess Tawerit, and manage to imprison Amit in Harrow's mortal
01:00:25form.
01:00:26Although Stephen manages to broker a deal with Khonshu to release Mark and him from
01:00:30the Moon God's service, he doesn't realize that Mark has a third personality, the homicidal
01:00:35Jake Lockley, who's still killing people for Khonshu.
01:00:40After months of adventuring with the Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor has recovered from the
01:00:44crippling depression for failing to prevent Thanos' snap.
01:00:47He learns the terrifying Gorr the God Butcher has been slaughtering gods across the cosmos
01:00:52with his ultra-powerful Necrosword.
01:00:55With the help of King Valkyrie and the new female Thor, revealed to be Thor's ex-girlfriend
01:00:59Jane Foster, Thor defeats Gorr, but not without cost.
01:01:03Foster dies and travels to the Norse afterlife of Valhalla.
01:01:07Following her wishes, Thor takes in Gorr's superpowered daughter, who goes by the name
01:01:11Love.
01:01:13Thor's actions have earned him new mortal enemies in the Greek god Zeus and his son
01:01:18Hercules, who vow revenge on Thor and the rest of Earth's heroes.
01:01:22In New Jersey, a Young Adventures superfan named Kamala Khan finds herself in a generations-old
01:01:28feud between an organization of Pakistani protectors known as the Order of the Red Daggers
01:01:33and a group of interdimensional invaders known as the Clandestines.
01:01:37Kamala discovers that she is a descendant of the Clandestines, and therefore a superpowered
01:01:43mutant hybrid.
01:01:44With the help of her friends, and through a series of trials that allow her to master
01:01:47her newfound powers, Kamala expels the invading Clandestines and saves Earth, in the process
01:01:53settling on the moniker Ms. Marvel.
01:01:55Meanwhile, the superhero community continues to grow.
01:01:59After a car accident causes attorney Jennifer Walters to absorb the gamma-irradiated blood
01:02:04of her cousin Bruce Banner, she becomes a Hulk herself.
01:02:07Instead of fighting crime through vigilantism, Walters elects to use her new insider perspective
01:02:12to represent superbeings in court.
01:02:14Who the hell are you?
01:02:16Jennifer Walters, attorney at law."
01:02:19Working with the law firm of GLK&H in Los Angeles, She-Hulk handles cases involving
01:02:24the Abomination, Wong, Titania, and more.
01:02:28Five months after the events of Hawkeye, Echo is now on the right side of the law.
01:02:33She returns to her hometown in Oklahoma to connect with her past and right some wrongs,
01:02:37but she's followed there by Wilson Fisk, who practically raised her as a young girl.
01:02:42She's always been formidable in hand-to-hand combat, but by the end of Echo, she gains
01:02:46healing abilities and uses them to access Kingpin's past trauma to help him move on.
01:02:52This gives Echo some much-needed closure.
01:02:54Fisk also sees a news report about New York City's mayoral race, and it's clear that he
01:02:58has political aspirations for the future.
01:03:02In Wakanda, King T'Challa contracts a mysterious disease and becomes terminally ill.
01:03:08Henry attempts to save his life by constructing an artificial heart-shaped herb to replace
01:03:12the ones Eric Killmonger destroyed.
01:03:15However, she doesn't have enough time, and T'Challa dies.
01:03:19Over in Cambridge, Massachusetts, teen prodigy Riri Williams runs a private business doing
01:03:24her classmates' homework for money.
01:03:26She uses the cash to fund her own private projects, including an Iron Man-style armored
01:03:32suit.
01:03:33One of her designs, a vibranium detector she created for her metallurgy class, is appropriated
01:03:37by the CIA, which uses it to seek out vibranium deposits on Earth.
01:03:42Unfortunately, this allows them to uncover the underwater kingdom of Telokon, placing
01:03:47the United States in conflict with Namor's people.
01:03:51Namor approaches Queen Ramanda and Shuri in Wakanda and shows them the vibranium detector,
01:03:56telling them he wants the scientist who built it.
01:03:59Concerned, Shuri and Okoye travel to MIT to warn Riri, but both Riri and Shuri are then
01:04:05taken prisoner by the Telokon'il.
01:04:08Namor proposes an alliance between Wakanda and Telokon, but when Shuri and Riri escape,
01:04:13Namor attacks Wakanda and Queen Ramanda is killed.
01:04:17Using a Telokon plant to recreate the heart-shaped herb, Shuri becomes the new Black Panther
01:04:22and leads Wakanda against the attacking forces.
01:04:24"'Vengeance has consumed us.
01:04:27We cannot let it consume our people."
01:04:30Although she craves vengeance, she chooses to show Namor mercy and establish a peaceful
01:04:34alliance between their two nations.
01:04:37In the aftermath, Shuri is able to let go of her guilt over her brother's death and
01:04:41is introduced to Nakia's son Tucson, or as the Wakandans will come to know him, Prince
01:04:47T'Challa.
01:04:48Back on Earth, Scott Lang attempts to retire from superheroics while promoting his memoir
01:04:52Look Out for the Little Guy.
01:04:54This upsets his daughter Cassie, who feels the world still needs heroes.
01:04:58She invents a quantum satellite, which can send signals to the quantum realm and learn
01:05:02if people in the subatomic world need help.
01:05:05While testing it, the signal gets hijacked and Scott, Cassie, Hank, Janet, and Hope are
01:05:11sucked through a portal into the quantum realm.
01:05:14In the quantum realm, Janet comes face-to-face with her past when she learns Kang has turned
01:05:18the realm into his totalitarian kingdom.
01:05:21Scott and Cassie are captured by the Ruler and reunite with Darren Cross, now Kang's
01:05:26delusional minion, MODOK.
01:05:28After Kang forces Ant-Man to steal back his power core so he can exit the quantum realm,
01:05:33Cassie escapes and teams up with a group of rebels to lead an uprising against the evil
01:05:37tyrant.
01:05:38They're aided by Janet, Hope, Hank, a reformed MODOK, and Hank's team of hyper-evolved ants.
01:05:45In the end, Hope helps Scott destroy both the power core and Kang before they return
01:05:49to Earth.
01:05:50However, this isn't the end of Kang, as variants are now emerging from all over the multiverse.
01:05:56Set in space, Peter Quill is in a deep depression after losing Gamora and seeing her alternate
01:06:01variant depart for places unknown.
01:06:04Wanting to help her brother with his grief, Mantis teams up with Drax to travel to Earth
01:06:08and get Peter a special Christmas gift.
01:06:11Footloose actor Kevin Bacon.
01:06:13While Star-Lord is horrified by the kidnapping, Bacon chooses to celebrate Christmas with
01:06:17the Guardians after hearing how his films inspired Peter to save the universe by dancing.
01:06:22Mantis later tells Peter of their shared parentage, reminding him that he still has
01:06:26family in the stars.
01:06:28Things take a darker turn when the Sovereign's new creation Adam Warlock attacks Nowhere
01:06:33and critically injures Rocket.
01:06:34After learning the High Evolutionary installed a kill switch in Rocket's cybernetic implants
01:06:39to stop anyone from treating him, the team travels to the High Evolutionary's planet
01:06:44Counter-Earth to save their friend.
01:06:46In the process, they reunite with Gamora, who has joined the Ravagers.
01:06:50Together, the Guardians of the Galaxy save Rocket and defeat the High Evolutionary.
01:06:54In the aftermath, Peter returns to Earth to be with his grandfather, Gamora goes back
01:06:59to the Ravagers, Mantis embarks on a voyage of self-discovery, and Drax and Nebula turn
01:07:04Nowhere into a sanctuary for displaced people and races.
01:07:07This leaves Rocket, now the captain of the Guardians, to build a new team consisting
01:07:12of an adult Groot, the Ravager Kraglin, Cosmo the Space Dog, High Evolutionary experiment
01:07:18Phyla, and a reformed Adam Warlock.
01:07:20It probably goes without saying that killing an all-powerful entity responsible for maintaining
01:07:25the Sacred Timeline results in some complications for the Time Variance Authority.
01:07:31For starters, Loki begins time-slipping throughout Loki Season 2, a power he learns to control
01:07:37to bring peace back to the timeline.
01:07:39Through this, Loki becomes a god of time, with himself at the center of a new multiverse,
01:07:44away from all of his newfound friends.
01:07:47And the TVA has its work cut out for it with a new objective in mind maintaining this multiverse.
01:07:52The TVA now knows to monitor all Kang variants, and Hunter B-15 gets a promotion as one of
01:07:58the TVA's leaders, overseeing a new era where the TVA no longer prunes branching realities.
01:08:04Of course, change isn't always easy for everyone.
01:08:07Some TVA workers, notably Mr. Paradox, want to continue pruning to keep the Sacred Timeline
01:08:12in check.
01:08:13Paradox brings Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool, from an alternate universe into the TVA to
01:08:19bring him into the MCU proper, only it's at the expense of his original reality getting
01:08:24destroyed.
01:08:25Wade isn't a fan of that, so he grabs Wolverine from yet another timeline to help him in his
01:08:29crusade to stop Paradox.
01:08:31Ultimately, Deadpool and Wolverine succeed, and although they both remain in Deadpool's
01:08:36universe for the time being, B-15 makes it clear the TVA may call on them to protect
01:08:41the multiverse.
01:08:42I'd rest up.
01:08:43I have a feeling your work is only just getting started.
01:08:47Till your dying day."
01:08:50Returning to Earth in the mainline MCU timeline, the cogs for future conflicts are slowly turning.
01:08:55Over the course of decades, Skrulls have infiltrated various power structures across the planet.
01:09:01This all comes to a head in 2025, when Gravik unleashes his plan to acquire the powers of
01:09:06various superheroes to make himself the most powerful being on the planet.
01:09:10Gaia acquires the same harvest to get on his level and, in one final battle, ultimately
01:09:15kills Gravik, putting an end to his plans.
01:09:19This also results in those powerful humans getting released from their pods, including
01:09:23Rhodey, who's probably been a Skrull for years at this point.
01:09:27Secret Invasion put Nick Fury through the ringer, and he doesn't get much of a vacation,
01:09:31as the series ends with him heading into space.
01:09:34This puts him on a collision course with Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan in
01:09:39late 2025, or possibly early 2026, given that Disney Plus has Secret Invasion after
01:09:45the Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special in its chronology.
01:09:49The trio's powers become intertwined, causing them to swap places when they use said powers.
01:09:54They learn to work together to stop Darbin from taking resources from other planets to
01:09:58rebuild the Kree homeworld, Hala.
01:10:00They stop her, but as a result, Monica winds up in another timeline.
01:10:04Whether this is Deadpool's world or something else remains to be seen, but the X-Men are
01:10:09at least in this one, seeing as she meets Hank McCoy.
01:10:12Monica's displacement is tough on the team, but Kamala is steadfast in building a new
01:10:16group.
01:10:17She seeks out Cape Bishop, and it's clear this is only the beginning of what's bound
01:10:22to be the Young Avengers.
01:10:23Other young heroes are quickly materializing, such as Cassie Lang from Ant-Man and the Wasp
01:10:28at Quantumania, and Eli Bradley from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
01:10:33Agatha all along brought Billy Maximoff, aka Wiccan, from his mother's construct into reality.
01:10:39After forging a path through the Witch's Road, he gains greater control of his abilities.
01:10:44Along with Agatha's ghost, they set out to find his brother, Tommy, who's destined to
01:10:48become Speed.
01:10:49It shouldn't be long until the Young Avengers come together properly, and that's just one
01:10:53of the many Marvel teams we've been dying to see enter the MCU.