– The Marvel Cinematic Universe –

The story so far...

PHASE 1 Iron Man (2008) The Incredible Hulk (2008) Iron Man 2 (2010)
01 Tony Stark is captured by terrorists and builds an arc reactor to 02 Exposed to gamma radiation, Bruce Banner becomes the 03 Whiplash attacks Stark at a racing event. S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury assigns Black Widow to assess
stay alive. He creates an iron suit to escape and defeats Obadiah Hulk. He fends off the military in pursuit of him and clashes Stark. Iron Man teams up with War Machine to defeat the
Stane, who is responsible for his kidnapping. with the creature known as “The Abomination”. drones of his enemies, Whiplash and Justin Hammer.

The long-awaited Avengers: Endgame, the concluding chapter to Avengers: Infinity War
(2018), opened in theatres yesterday. The Straits Times tracks all previous 21 movies in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a visual marathon.

The Avengers (2012) Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) …He stops Red Skull from dropping bombs on the world’s Thor (2011)
06 Loki, with the aid of a scepter given to him by Thanos, leads an alien invasion 05 Red Skull, head of evil organisation Hydra, gets hold of the Tesseract which capitals and is frozen in the process, only to be discovered 04 Banished to Earth, Thor fails to lift his hammer, Mjolnir. He proves his worth and regains power to
through a portal above New York City and is defeated by the Avengers… contains the Space Stone, while a super serum transforms Steve Rogers into years later by Fury. defeat the Destroyer. To stop his brother Loki, he returns to Asgard to destroy the rainbow bridge.
Captain America…

…Thor returns with Loki and PHASE 2 Iron Man 3 (2013) Thor: The Dark World (2013) Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
the Tesseract to Asgard. 07 Mandarin, a terrorist, destroys Stark’s mansion but is later exposed as a puppet. In the finale, 08 Thor’s love interest, Jane Foster, stumbles onto the Aether, the 09 S.H.I.E.L.D. is inflitrated by Hydra moles while Captain America faces an
Stark battles villain Aldrich Killian and his Extremis followers with his Iron Legion. Reality Stone. Thor partners Loki to stop Malekith the Dark Elf from assassin who turns out to be his friend Bucky. Captain America destroys
using it to destroy the nine realms. Later, the Aether is handed over Hydra’s helicarriers as Bucky starts to recall his past.
to the Collector.

Ant-Man (2015) Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015) …Ultron creates a new body called Vision, but is intercepted by the Avengers. Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014)
12 Ex-convict Scott Lang dons the Ant-Man suit to stop villain Darren Cross from 11 After finding Loki’s scepter in a Hydra base, Stark creates an AI program They join forces to face off against Ultron and his army in Sokovia. 10 Star-Lord finds the Orb which contains the Power Stone. He is captured, but recruits Gamora, Drax, Rocket and
selling the Yellowjacket suit to Hydra and other terrorist groups. called Ultron that goes rogue and decides to wipe out humanity… Groot to break out of prison. The team races to stop alien militant Ronan from using the Orb and leaves it in
the care of Nova Corp.

PHASE 3 Captain America: Civil War (2016) Doctor Strange (2016) Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
13 The Sokovia Accords drive a wedge between Iron Man and Captain America. A showdown ensues. 14 Stephen Strange loses the use of his hands in an accident. He trains under 15 Star-Lord reunites with his father, Ego, a celestial being. But Ego turns out to be 16 Peter Parker plays superhero
Their differences deepen when Stark learns of Bucky’s involvement in his parents’ deaths. The Ancient One and later uses the Time Stone to stop the evil forces of evil. The Guardians manage to destroy him with a bomb. apprentice to Stark…
Kaecilius and Dormammu from fusing the world with the dark dimension.

Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Black Panther (2018) Thor: Ragnarok (2017) …He fails to stop Adrian Toomes, also known as The Vulture,
19 Thanos kills Loki, defeats Thor and Hulk and obtains the Space Stone. He sacrifices his adopted daughter, 18 T’Challa is sworn in as king of Wakanda. His cousin, Killmonger, challenges 17 Odin dies, and Hela returns and destroys Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir. aboard a ferry, but later foils Vulture’s mid-air heist.
Gamora, to gain the Soul Stone. The Avengers and Guardians fail to stop Thanos on planet Titan… and defeats him. T’Challa returns to unite the tribes and defeat Killmonger. Thor is marooned on the planet Sakaar and faces off against
Gladiator Hulk. Asgard is destroyed by Surtur as Thor saves, and
escapes with, the remaining Asgardians.

…Thanos arrives on Earth, rips the Mind Stone off Vision’s head and performs Ant-Man And The Wasp (2018) Captain Marvel (2019) Avengers: Endgame (2019)
The Snap with his gauntlet, wiping out half of the galaxy’s population. 20 Lang teams up with Hope van Dyne, also known as The Wasp, to fight “Ghost”. Hank Pym goes into the 21 Caught in a war between the Krees and the Skrulls, Carol Danvers crash-lands on 22 Can the remaining Avengers find a way to undo Thanos’ Snap?
Quantum Realm to rescue his wife. During Thanos’ Snap, Ant-Man is trapped in the Quantum Realm. Earth and meets Fury. She discovers the life she once had on Earth, how she came
to have her powers and the truth about the Kree-Skrull war.

STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS: BILLY KER, BRYANDT LYN, LEE YU HUI & SIMON ANG