Well nerds, I fuckin& #39; did it.

Took me a global pandemic and a damn quarantine, but I did it.

I figured out the precise chronological order of all the MCU movies (so far) BY SCENE.

I& #39;m out of my Goddamn mind. You& #39;re welcome.
Now, a few caveats. Obviously, this only covers the 23 MCU movies so far. No ABC or Netflix TV shows, no shorts, no deleted scenes.

I only counted flashbacks when they could be easily isolated from their respective film& #39;s "present."
There are a few instances where I allowed the movies some creative editing license (like the sequence in Thor: The Dark World when it keeps cutting back-and-forth, heist movie-style, between Thor planning with the Warriors Three, and them executing that plan)...
And admittedly a LOT of this is just my own personal headcanon conjecture, but I& #39;ve double- and triple-checked my work here and to my knowledge, none of this is contradictory.

Enjoy, people as insane as me!
VERY good question...it depends.

Like Smart Hulk says, they& #39;re not undoing the past, they& #39;re creating an all-new timeline, so for the MOST part, the time travel scenes should be watched with the rest of Endgame...with a few scant exceptions. https://twitter.com/GregPacknett/status/1265521187058221056">https://twitter.com/GregPackn...
My rule was, I could only back up the Endgame time travel scenes into their proper "time" in non-redundant instances where a full scene, with a proper beginning, middle and end, was completely unaffected by the future Avengers& #39; time-heist shenanigans. https://twitter.com/GregPacknett/status/1265521187058221056">https://twitter.com/GregPackn...
So, basically only three scenes:
- The first 2014-era scene between Gamora, Nebula and Thanos, up to the moment where Nebula& #39;s synapses start fucking up
- The Avengers telling Hulk to take the stairs
- Hulk yelling "SO MANY STAIRS!" https://twitter.com/GregPacknett/status/1265521187058221056">https://twitter.com/GregPackn...
And actually, y& #39;know what? It occurs to me that by the time I got to Endgame, I was starting to get (relatively) lazy with this. If I REALLY wanted to keep this chronological, I should& #39;ve grouped all the 2012/1970 time heist scenes together, then the 2013 time heist scenes...
...And then all the 2014 time heist scenes.

So here, after a brief skimming through Endgame, is a final screencap, expanding on the triple-digit items. Happy skipping!
And it probably goes without saying, but this chronological list is for SUPERFANS ONLY. If there& #39;s any films in the MCU you haven& #39;t seen yet, I strongly advocate ignoring my list altogether and deferring to how the filmmakers wanted them seen.
BUT, if you& #39;re already a huge superfan who just wants to view them chronologically, by all means enjoy!
And, since this is starting to seriously blow up, if you& #39;re interested in my OTHER stuff, I have a podcast, @efvdpodcast, all about some of the OTHER shit to be found on @disneyplus (currently on pandemic hiatus, but I have nineteen episodes archived) https://escapefromvaultdisney.libsyn.com/ ">https://escapefromvaultdisney.libsyn.com/">...
AND I have a YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/TonyGoldmark">https://www.youtube.com/user/Tony... - where I review movies and theme parks, including several videos about Marvel! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXVC39FA6kPfCQdk1cfdGC-ZJ4oET_nYx">https://www.youtube.com/playlist...
It& #39;s difficult to retain something I never had in the first place. https://twitter.com/Anish008Singh/status/1265527497506070529">https://twitter.com/Anish008S...
If I was to make a Bingo card of reactions to this thread, "Someone should edit this for real!" would be the free space.
Wait, really?

(Checks that scene in Iron Man 2)

HOLY SHIT YOU& #39;RE RIGHT, FUCK! https://twitter.com/susaga_dabeta1/status/1265744424119779330">https://twitter.com/susaga_da...
ALSO, it occurs to me that way too much happens in The Incredible Hulk (the 17-day jump between the incident in Brazil and Banner& #39;s arrival at Culver University, for example) for it to all have happened between the climax of IM2 and that "consultant" scene...
...So I& #39;ll have to move some of the Incredible Hulk stuff earlier.

And speaking of Hulk, THIS has come to my attention: https://twitter.com/Lord_Dragonzord/status/1265787854279434240">https://twitter.com/Lord_Drag...
I just rewatched the opening credits sequence of Incredible Hulk, and damn it, @Lord_Dragonzord is right too. At one point a computer screen says Banner attempted to contact Betty Ross in 2006, which means the incident must have happened before that.
That& #39;s what I get for not paying close-enough attention, I guess.

So, REVISION! Replace #20-44 with all THIS, and move everything below it down six spaces. Thanks for informing me, @susaga_dabeta1 and @Lord_Dragonzord!

Oh and, uh, @timleftwich? Heh heh, funny story...
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