This document provides a summary of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies organized by phase. It details the plot of each movie, how the Infinity Stones are introduced, and sets up future installments. The MCU brings together characters from Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers, and other franchises into one shared universe centered around the Infinity Stones and the villain Thanos.

1. MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
Everything we know so far
WHATEVER IT TAKES!
Made by
Akash Chadha

2. INDEX
• Summary of all the movies in MCU chronology right from “Captain America – The
first Avenger” to “Infinity War”
• Timeline of Infinity Stones
• General Things

3. ALL THE MOVIES OF MCU AND THE 4
PHASES
• Phase 1 [Iron Man (2008), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010) ,Thor (2011),Captain America: The
First Avenger (2011), Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)]
• Phase 2 [Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014),
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Ant-Man (2015)]
• Phase 3 [Captain America: Civil War (2016), Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
(2017), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity
War (2018), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Captain Marvel (2019), Avengers: Endgame (2019)]
• Phase 4 [Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (TBD 2020), Black Panther
2, Doctor Strange 2, Black Widow]

4. PHASE 1 / CAPTAIN AMERICA – THE FIRST
AVENGER (1950ISH)
• Introduction of the Tessaract (Space Stone)
• Meet Steve Rogers and James Buchanan Barnes
• How Steve Rogers becomes Captain America
• Bucky dies by falling of a train
• Captain America confronts Red Skull, Arnim Zola
and HYDRA
• Red skull dies (for now)
• Captain America lands the plane in ice
• Howard Stark fishes the tesseract out of the ocean
and project PEGASUS is formed
• Captain America meets Nick Fury
Post-credit scene: Cap gets his first S.H.I.E.L.D. assignment
(advanced clip from The Avengers)
Important line “I can do this all day”

5. PHASE 3/ CAPTAIN MARVEL (1990ISH)
• Captain marvel introduced as “Vers” as a Kree warioir which calls
themselves as the “Noble Warrior Heros”
• Vers keeps on having flashback of a previous life, while the Supreme
Intelligence, the artificial intelligence that rules the Kree, urges her to
keep her emotions in check.
• Vers travels to Earth and some Skurlls (A race of shape shifting creatrures)
follow her to Earth
• Vers along with Nick Fury travel to PEGASUS
• They discover Vers was a pilot presumed to have died in 1989 while
testing an experimental jet engine designed by Dr. Wendy Lawson,
whom Vers recognizes as the woman from her nightmares
• Vers is actually “Carol Danvers” an Airforce pilot
• Dr. Wendy Lawson was working on a experimental jet engine powered from
the tesseract
• Destroying the engine herself, Danvers absorbed the energy from the
ensuing explosion, gaining powers but losing her memory.
• Captain Marvel unleashes her full potential after finally accepting her emotions,
while Goose (a Flirkin) swallows the tesseract.
Post Credit Scene
Goose spits the tesseract out of Fury’s Table

6. PHASE – 1/ IRON MAN (2008)
• Meet Tony Stark
• Tony designs Mark 1 with a prototype arc reactor
in a cave (Main Arc reactor designed by Howard
stark with the help of the tesseract during project
PEGASUS)
• Tony’s change of heart
• Tony and pepper love beings
• Tony introduces to Rhody to the world of iron man
• Tony confesses to the world that he is Iron Man
Post Credit Scene
Nick Fury Introduces S.H.I.E.L.D to Tony Stark

7. PHASE 1/ THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008)
• Meet Bruce Banner
• Confrontation with “the Other Guy”
• Conflicts with Ross
• No reference to Infinity Stones
Post-credit scene: Ross discusses S.H.I.E.L.D. with Tony Stark

8. PHASE 1/ IRON MAN – 2 (2010)
• Tony gets to the heart of the matter
• Tony’s and Pepper’s personal and professional relationship changes
• Tony and Rhodey become friends in deed
• Tony completes the research of the his father during Project PEGASUS
• Tony learns that Natasha is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent
• Tony declared unsuited for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Avenger Initiative
Post-credit scene: Phil Coulson reports finding hammer in desert 11

9. PHASE – 1/ THOR (2011)
• Meet Thor Odinson, Odin borson, and Loki
• Thor declares fight against the frost giants
• Thor gets banished to Midgard A.k.a Earth
• Thor Meets Jane Foster and Erik Selvig
• Romance begins between Thor and Jane
• Thor earns his hammer back
• Loki “dies”
Post-credit scene: Selvig meets Nick Fury, Loki’s still a trickster
Imporatnat line
“Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor”

10. PHASE 1/ THE AVENGERS (2012)
• Loki, who isn’t dead, uses staff holding Mind Stone to control
Hawkeye and Selvig and steals Tessaract (Space Stone)
• The Avengers gather
• This Helicarrier isn't big enough
• disagreement on phase 2
• Battle in New York with the Chitauri
• Tessaract taken to Asgard for safekeeping
Post-credit scene: Thanos learns that the battle for Earth was lost
Important lines
• Avengers assemble
• You defy us; you defy him. he who put the sceptre in your hand

11. PHASE 2 / IRON MAN 3
• Tony’s bad attack of nerves
• Tony’s Mailbu house gets destroyed.
• Hot Pepper
• House party protocol ; Clean Slate Protocol *sad reacts only*
• Tony undergoes a surgery and removes the shrapnel from his
body
Post-credit scene: Tony tells Banner all of his troubles

12. PHASE 2/ THOR- THE DARK WORLD
• Thor misses Jane, who finds Aether (Reality Stone)
• Death and destruction on Asgard, Thor’s mother (Frigga) is killed
• Thor Frees Loki and, with Jane, confronts Malekith, Loki dies (again)
• Thor, Jane play tag with Malekith on Earth
• Odin gives Thor blessing to return to Jane
• Loki = Odin
Post-credit scene: (1) The Aether is given to the Collector for safekeeping;
(2) Thor returns to Jane

13. PHASE 2 / CAPTAIN AMERICA – THE
WINTER SOLDIER
• Cap Meets Sam
• Nick Fury attacked by Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes after he fell
• Of the train)
• Nick Fury dies
• Cap, Nat and Sam learn about HYDRA plan (Project Insight)
• Cap faces an old friend
• Nat outs HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. is destroyed
Post-credit scene:
(1) HYDRA scientists have Loki’s staff, see Maximoff Twins for the first time
(2) Bucky visits Cap museum exhibit to help regain memory
Important lines
“on you left”
“I am with you till the end of the line”

14. PHASE 2 / GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
• Quill steals an orb (Power Stone) everyone wants
• Quill, Gamora, Rocket and Groot jailed on Xandar
• Escape to Knowhere to sell orb
• Collector explains the Infinity Stones
• Ronan gets the stone and attacks Xandar; GOTG, Ravagers and
Nova Corps defeat Ronan and his army
• Guardians Leave Infinity Stone with Xandar’s Nova Corps
• Peter Quill (star lord) is only half terrain (earthling)
Post-credit scene: Collector and Howard the Duck sit in storeroom remains

15. PHASE 3 / GOTG 2
• Quill meets his biological father and learns his unique nature
• Ego was the living celestial and was a living planet
• His sole aim was his expansion project. He order the
the ravegers to kidnap quill in GOTG 1 and bring him to Ego
• Quill and the Guardians destroy Ego, and Yondu sacrifices himself
to save Quill
Post-credit scene:
(1) Yondu’s former colleagues reunite;
(2) Sovereign leader Ayesha creates a being to take on the Guardians and says that she shall call him “Adam”
*direct reference to Adam Warlock*

16. PHASE 2 / AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON
• Avengers attack HYDRA base to retrieve Loki’s staff and its Mind Stone
• Ultron is born. Captain America was the only avenger to
slight lift Thor’s Hammer
• Ultron and Twins confront Avengers
• Hawkeye’s hideout full of surprises
• Ultron acquires Wakandan vibranium for rebuilding his perfect self
• Vision is created using the Mind Stone
• Avengers and friends destroy Ultron at Sokovia
• Hulk disappears and New Avengers begin training
Post-credit scene: Thanos takes up the gauntlet and says “Fine. I will do it myself”

17. PHASE 2 / ANT - MAN
• Pym takes his particle and quits S.H.I.E.L.D. After “stealing” Ant-Man suit, Scott
connects with Pym, begins training with Hope
• They learn about the truth of how hope’s mom died
• With Luis’ and Ants’ help, Scott stops Yellow jacket sale to HYDRA
• Ant-Man, Yellow jacket Battle in the bedroom
• Casual references to Quantum Realm
Post-credit scene:
1.Cap and Sam talk about need for help (advance scene from Civil War)
2. Wasp is teased

18. PHASE 3 / CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR
• Cap and team kills Crossbones with major casualities
• The Berlin Meeting
• Avengers split over “Sokovia Accords”
• T’Challa and the world are after Bucky as accused assassin
• Major confrontation between Avengers and introduction of Spiderman
• Cap, Bucky, Tony, and T’Challa chase real assassin
• Tony learns Bucky’s role in his parents’ deaths and fights Bucky and Cap
• Cap breaks his team out of prison after sending a
message of recollection to Tony
Post-credit scene:
(1) Cap has taken Bucky to Wakanda for treatment and warns T’Challa that others would be after Bucky;
(2) Peter Parker discovers a feature on his new Spidey suit

19. PHASE 3 / DOCTOR STRANGE
• Famed surgeon Steven Strange, whose hands get severely damaged in a car accident.
• Reaches kamartaj
• Studies the mystical arts with The Ancient One and Mordo and learns about the
various realms in the universise along with the dark dimension and a bit of
quantum realm
• Strange learns of the Time Stone and uses it to help defeat Dormammu and Kaecilius
• Mordo, disillusioned by learning the Ancient One’s secret and by Strange’s
actions, leaves to find his own path
• Strange becomes the protector of the New York sanctum
Post-credit scene:
(1) Strange and Thor talk about Loki and the search for a missing Odin
(2) Mordo confronts another sorcerer

20. PHASE 3 / SPIDERMAN HOMECOMING
• After New York attacks Damage control helps
clear the streets of new York
• Toomes(Vulture) Steals the Chituari power cores to make weapons
• Peter’s challenge to balance his life as a teenage
with his secret life as Spider-Man
• While he proves himself to Tony Stark, his conflict with
Toomes/Vulture comes with consequences
Post-credits scene:
(1) Toomes encounters another prisoner who wants revenge against Spider-Man
(2) (2) Cap does one more inspirational ad

21. PHASE 3/ THOR RAGNAROK
• Satur is introduced and Thor defeats him and takes in crown back to Asgard
• Loki again gets caught being a trickster
• Loki and Thor reach earth and and with the help of Dr.Strange find Odin
• Odin’s death has consequences and Hela (the Goddess of death is freed)
• Hela destroys Thor’s Hammer (mijolner)
• Thor fights Hulk and befriends Valkyrie
• Thor unleashes Ragnarok and surtur defeats Hela and destroys Asgard
Post-credit scene:
(1) Just as Thor and Loki are thinking positively about returning to Earth, their ship
(2) encounters another far bigger ship;
(2) Grandmaster engages revolutionaries
Important lines
“Get help”; “are you the god of hammers”; “Asgard is not a place, its people”

22. PHASE 3/ BLACK PANTHER
• Newly acclaimed ruler of Wakanda, T’Challa discovers the
consequences of actions his father took decades earlier
• With the help of his sister, ex-lover, mother, the leader of the Jabari
trible (M’Baaku), and a CIA agent, T’Challa regains his throne and learns that
the centuries of Wakanda’s seclusion must end
Post-credit scene:
(1) T’Challa introduces the real Wakanda to the world
(2) Shuri talks to a recovering Bucky

23. PHASE 3/ ANT MAN AND THE WASP
• Janet van Dyne shrinks between the molecules of a Soviet nuclear missile,
disabling it but entering the microscopic Quantum Realm.
• Scott Lang on house arrest learns magic tricks/ card tricks
Lang has a dream about Hope’s mother and their childhood
• Build a Quantum tunnel to rescues Janet from the Quantum Realm
• Enter Wasp and her suit that can fly and shoot blasters and obviously shrink
• Enter Ghost who can phase through objects
• Ghost = Ava Starr
• They get the exact location of Janet and have only 1 shot at getting to her
• Jannet upon returning gives some of her energy to Ava which helps in
Stabilizing her state
Post credit scene
Lang enters the quantum realm to gather quantum particles, but I s unable to return because everyone on
The other end of tunnel have turned into ash, and Ant man is stuck in the quantum realm

24. • Watch Avengers Infinity War because the whole movie is important

25. INFINITY STONES
• At the dawn of the universe there was nothing
• Space stone – tesseract – Odin's vault – Midgard (earth) – red skull – ocean- fished out
by Howard stark – Marvell – SHEILD – Loki –Odin's vault – Loki – Thanos
• Time stone – Eyes of agamoto – kamartaj library (The Ancient one) - Dr Strange- Thanos
• Power stone – Orb – Star Lord – Collector- Ronin- GOTG – Nova Crops (Xandar) –
Thanos
• Reality Stone – Malekith (Dark elves) – Hidden by Bor ( father of odin/ grandfather of
thor) – found by Jean – Asgard – Maliketh (convergence) – Asgaurd – Collector - Thanos
• Soul Stone – Vormier – Gamora killed (A soul for a soul) – Thanos
• Mind Stone – Thanos – Loki Scepter – HYDRA (Maximoff Twins) - Tony/Bruce – Ultron –
Vision – Thanos (After killing Vision)

26. GENERAL THINGS
• Infinity Stones are the most powerful
• No individual can sustain the power of the stones and will die for sure
• Celestials wielded these stones earlier
• Infinity gauntlet is the sole weapon that can stablely harness the power of each
stones
• It was made by Etri the dwarf and they live at Nevledier where the most amazing
weapons are made throughout the universe.
• Red skull was teleported to Vormier in the first avenger by the Space stone to be the
guardian of the soul stone