Have you guys ever taken a break from the MCU or have you been watching it consistently since the beginning?

From the beginning, and have watched all shows and movies as they were released. NGL, most of phase 4, including TV, have been a chore to watch. It’s not superhero fatigue for me but rather just poor writing and storytelling for the most part.

Yes

I used to be consistent up until after The Marvels (which I did like!!) I started falling off. I think the first one I didn't see was Echo and after that it's been here and there passively. I didn't finish ironheart or what if.

I’ve been all in since Iron Man. Only one project made me question if I should tap out (Secret Invasion). But I’ve enjoyed the journey of it and look forward to what’s ahead.

Been consistent since the beginning.

All of AoS and the netflix series but I opted out of the "extra" shows that were done by Marvel Television after I found Cloak and Dagger to be just ok. I was 99.9999% sure those were never going to come back into the MCU so I didn't really miss anything among the overall narrative.

Gone to see every single movie in theaters (Shout out to the time i got covid after seeing Spider-Man: No Way Home) and watched every Disney+ project ASAP. It's been a very enjoyable 17 years.

It's been on loop since iron man.

I'm tired.

Mostly consistently. The only thing I haven't finished is Ironheart. I'm just not crazy on her character.

I’ve watched it all but I also am an active comic reader so not a surprise there.

Phase Wunners Assemble!

Never really had to "take a break" but don't get around to watching new releases anywhere near as fast these days. Still haven't finished Ironheart.

I watch them on Disney+ now if I have nothing better to do. Didn’t finish Daredevil Born Again and did Fantastic 4 First Steps over three sessions…

I mean, when its 3 months or more between items, are people really not taking a break?

I haven’t missed a theatrical release, but there are series I still need to catch up on

I've taken a couple of breaks, no real reason tbh.
But honestly I've been having fun with the new stuff and revisiting the older stuff too.
Except Secret Invasion. Not in this house.

Took a break after Endgame and resumed when GotG 3 released. Now with Doomsday/Secretwars on the horizon, I’m in the loop.

I watched everything released up through Hawkeye.

Then I started picking and choosing what I'll watch, some of it isn't worth the investment.

Watch more religiously at the beginning but focus on stuff I like then get to the rest.

Yea when them tv shows was coming out echo and she hulk era

My brother and I just got into it last year, we are still new to it lol. We're trying to finish catching up before BND!

I've seen all the movies and a few shows, but I haven't made a point to watch all the shows and animated series.

Was watching consistently from 2008 through to 2019 and then took a break bc I didn't have a Disney+ subscription and didn't much want to buy one just to keep up with the MCU. In 2022 my mum got a free account due to some banking promotion, and I picked it up back then and haven't missed anything since.

I didn't tap out due to lack of interest, more so that I didn't want to give Disney my money for their streaming service I have no interest in outside of the MCU.

Been watching since the start haven't missed a thing

I’ve seen all of the movies, but missed most of the shows.

I started around 2012 and have since watched everything. By everything, I am including every movie, every show (pre-disney+ and all), all the animated ones (as in what if, yfnsp etc.) and am currently going through the tie-in comics.

Am I tired? Not really. Bring me Wonder Man NOW!!!

I’ve been there on day 1 for all the content since phase 1. I don’t plan on changing that.

I'm not as invested as some of you guys but I'm always down to watch anything MCU related. I haven't watched everything though. Far from it actually.

I took a break after S1 of Loki (with the exception of GOTG 3), then hopped back on starting with Born Again

Yeah I basically stopped consuming post end game. I consider myself a casual fan though. Since then I’ve seen Wandavision, Loki S1, and FATWS, Shang Chi, Eternals, Far from Home, No Way Home, Thor 4, Deadpool & Wolverine, and maybe a few others I’m forgetting. But far from even half of the content they’ve released since endgame. I’d call it a mixture of being a casual enjoyer and super hero fatigue. Though recently my roommates and I decided to restart the MCU, beginning with Incredible Hulk (which I’d never seen before!)

They're TV shows and movies. I watch them. I don't have to work for it. Mostly I sit there. I don't find the releases are so regular that I'm inundated by them. I still enjoy it all.

In the beginning i was just watching ironman and avengers. When civil war came out i watched the other guys in preparation and I’ve watched on release since

Down since day 1

6 of one, half dozen of the other

I started watching it later consistently (maybe around Thor Ragnarok I started going to the theaters to see all the movie releases, watching all the shows as they came out).

Then in the last few years been doing a mega rewatch of almost all marvel content I could find since the 1980s, cartoons, movies, tv shows… some great stuff in there, and some hilariously bad stuff in there, as well as stuff i appreciate but isn’t for me.

On a break now. Secret Invasion was a big disappointment, the 3rd Guardians looked like an emotional tornado that I just do not have the bandwidth for, and as much as I love Pedro Pascal, I have always hated the Fantastic Four.

Mostly consistent. There are a couple of Disney+ shows that I have not watched yet, but I plan to.

I was there from the beginning

I have been watching since the beginning when it's being released.

Watched it all apart from the kids shows, Ironheart, and the Netflix stuff.

Watched all the movies in the cinema apart from The Marvels.

Watched it all from the beginning but like a lot of people in my opinion after endgame it’s just not the same. Sure there were some gems but mostly it’s been - ironically - very little multiverse in the multiverse saga 🤣

Since day 1 baby!

OG saw Iron Man and Capt 1 in theater, watched hulk a year later, prior to avengers when I heard it was semi connected.

Watched all the Netflix stuff day 1, and same as Agent of shield. Never and won't watch the inhuman show and runaways.
But I've been a OG

All gas, no ‘breaks’!

Watch the movies day one on release. The shows being hit and miss and about characters I'm not interested in I just leave and usually they catch you up in the movie anyway like the marvels and Ms marvel.

Consistently, I do not care.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been a significant part of my life, through both favorable and challenging periods. Therefore, I am not inclined to abandon it during what some perceive as its "bad times."

After Endgame, I watched 'What if?' 'Loki' 'WandaVision' 'Through the Multiverse' & 'Falcon & Winter Soldier' but they had so many shows and movies it was hard to keep up. Plus the overall energy of the fan base died, so I lost momentum.

I've seen every single MCU film, but I haven't watched everything. I skipped Agatha All Along, Ironheart, and a few other shows that I'm not remembering, Part of it might be fatigue, but I think a bigger part of it may be due to the fact that some of these shows just don't appeal to me on any level whatsoever. Wonder Man is coming out and I have zero interest in seeing that either, despite liking the lead actor.

I've watched it all. Once Endgame happened, I really wished Disney/Marvel has stepped away from it all for a couple of years to properly plan out the next phases. With Covid, I thought *'Great! They'll have time to really plan it out!'*

Unfortunately, that didn't really happen and they were already spinning their wheels with the new content for Disney+

It is what it is. I'm happy it's still around and I'll be equally happy when it all comes to an end.

Been there since the beginning and will stick with till the end of the line

I am always counting down the hours foe any new MCU content. even the ones that aren't getting any positive buzz

I’ve seen every movie in the theater. The only shows I haven’t watched right away were Eyes of Wakanda (watched a couple of weeks later and wish I just hadn’t watched it) and Zombies (no intention of ever watching).

I've been falling off gradually. I stopped watching the movies on opening weekend after Love and Thunder and I still haven't seen Thunderbolts. Secret Invasion was the last Disney+ show I watched. I'm not particularly looking forward to Doomsday because I didn't like most of the Fox X-Men movies.

Tbh i didn’t care about it until infinity war came out

Genuinely haven't watched anything post-Phase 4 that wasn't Thunderbolts or Fantastic 4

And I remember dropping all the Marvel series as a whole when What If? S2 came out

Haven’t seen Echo nor Secret Invasion

Since Endgame, I’ve only seen 2 MCU movies in theatres. I watched a couple other movies on Disney Plus but there’s still plenty of Phase 4 movies I haven’t seen.

I watched WandaVision and Loki, but skipped every other Disney Plus show.

Unfortunately I don’t feel a huge desire to watch them all anymore. I watched Fantastic Four the other day and it was decent but I didn’t regret not seeing it in theatres.

Post-Endgame MCU just doesn’t blow me away at all.

The only stuff I skipped were some of the OG shows. Cloak and dagger, agent carter and runaways.

I reckon they shouldnt of jumped 5 years post infinity war. Either take a break or have a whole phase dedicated to storys told between infinity war and endgame

I watch all the movies, but skipped a few TV shows. Honestly, while it got increasingly inconsistent, I can't say I'm tired of it. To me, the bad is not outweighing the good yet. It does help skipping a few things that I'm not interested in.

Haven't missed a minute of it since 2008! I remember the sheer excitement at the thought of a shared universe when Fury showed up at the end of Iron Man.

I am so far behind.

To answer my own question...I've watched phase 1 to 3 consistently and even watched all the Netflix shows and some episodes of agents of shield.

But once they started introducing TV shows connected to the movies and you basically had to watch the shows to understand the movies it started to feel like extra work so I tuned out for a while and then when ant man 3 and love and thunder came out on Disney plus I was so disappointed and I tuned out again.

Now I've watched thunderbolts and fantastic four and with Doomsday and Brand new Day coming next year I'm hoping peak Marvel will return.

After endgame I was very invested, watching moonight, the movies, secret invasion, and even she hulk.

But then I took a break. I think I only saw the main movies, I practically completely stop watching the series.

I watched enthusiastically through Endgame and hung in for a while afterwards. Quabtummania was the first movie I skipped entirely and I’ve seen almost nothing since. None of the new characters grabbed me the way the originals did, there’s no sense of forward momentum and “look at this fan service casting/wacky alternate version of a character you know” multiverse schtick was old from the second it was introduced. 

I am taking a break right now because I had a baby and can’t watch movies whenever I want anymore, but also because I couldn’t get into any of the shows after Loki. Too much work to follow all of the references and lore and multi-verse crap. I watch just enough to not be lost during the next movie.

I mean… I took a “break” in 2024 when the only thing to come out was Deadpool & Wolverine which was the *least* connected to the MCU.

But no, otherwise, I’ve been watching, just with various levels of excitement.

2026 will be THEE year tho cause I am hyped for Spider-Man and Doomsday, and then it only goes up with Secret Wars, then X-Men!

Consistently since '08, just skipped Defenders, Iron Fist, and didn't finish Luke Cage so far. Got pretty far along with Jessica Jones but not the end.

As a black dude myself Luke Cage feels like it's really either love it or barely tolerate it. It's constant homage to black things but it's all clearly made in a board room. Ironheart did it better.


Only the last couple of movies (F4, Thunderbolts) have I not actively seen in theaters, and 80% of that is just budget and timing.


99% sure I'm going to be 5 for 5 in the theaters for the next movies.

I stopped watching the TV stuff after she hulk

Ive literally watched everything. All of the movies, shows, one offs, and animated shorts and miniseries. Not ever gonna stop.

Been here since the beginning, still enjoying it.

I’ve only really been let down by Secret Invasion, and Inhumans did nothing but frustrate me. Other than that I think the rest has at least been enjoyable. Clear dip in writing around Phase 4, you can kind of tell how spread thin they must have been with all the new introductions and how vast the story has reached in terms of the multiverse, not to mention pivoting away from their big bad right after his grand introduction may have bogged them down even more. The big picture stuff maybe dipped because of that, but IMO the stories were still nice.

From Ultron through Far From Home I saw every Marvel movie in theaters. Once the Infinity Saga ended I was kind of looking forward to being able to skip some movies when they released but then the pandemic changed movie theater going entirely and the movies kind of started losing quality so I’ve missed more than I’ve seen since 2021.

Movies I’ve seen in theaters since 2021

No Way Home

Multiverse of Madness

Black Panther 2

Ant-Man 3

Deadpool and Wolverine

Thunderbolts

Fantastic Four

I find that even a bad Marvel is better than most content coming out these days... But Secret Invasion was a mess... Like, lowest point yet... But only things I haven't watched are the side shows like Cloak and Daggers, Legion, Runaways, etc... I haven't finished Agents of Shield, barely started season 2, but will get to it. Was annoyed when I realized it wasn't cannon anymore, but now everything is cannon, in a way, with the multiverse? Which I like. Better than dismissing everything, but shouldn't overstrech the multiverse stuff, wrap it up a little...
I'm just sad when they put out something "unpolished", you can tell they were told "MORE CONTENT" at some point and that was a bad idea... Lets hope they fix it, I could watch marvel until I'm 90!

I don't watch the shows but have been watching the movies pretty consistently in theaters. The only one I missed in theaters was thor 4 but that was just because by the time I had time to see it, it was going to be on Disney plus a few weeks later so I just waited instead.

I have watched most of it, to mixed results. Overall, I would say I enjoy the MCU. There have been four or five really excellent movies, a bunch of good-but-not-special movies and shows, and a couple stinkers.

No im obsessed and I love it

Since the beginning but there r a few shows I didn’t finish cause I lost interest and still have not seen love and thunder.

Watched it all, loved most of it, looking forward to what comes next. Hopefully them paring back the sheer volume of content will yield quality.

I've given up on a lot of the shows after Loki season 2, but never missed a movie.

Lately I only catch it on streaming. I haven't been to the theaters for an MCU movie since D+W, and before that GoG3. Prior to that I saw every single one in theaters. So far FF is the only one I regret not going for, and even then not that much. Part of the appeal is seeing it on the big screen and I regret missing that, but part of it is also seeing it while everyone else is talking about it, and that's not a big deal to me anymore.

I've kind of given up on the shows too. Hawkeye is the last one I watched as it came out. I have seen every other one except Ironheart. Most of them were okay at best. So I'm still mostly caught up, but losing interest.

And yes, before that I saw everything. Every season of Agents of Shield, Runaways, Cloak and Dagger, Inhumans, Agent Carter, Helstrom.

The only thing I haven’t watched is Werewolf by Night. I devoured everything else.

I watch the movies and skip the shows. I have taken breaks. The movies are like 2 hours and come out months apart. Most of my time is spent not watching marvel movies. Actually it’s a very small amount of my time that I am watching the mcu. Like way less than 1%

My last name is Marvel. So, there's that.

I kinda started skipping stuff after Spider-Man: Far From Home if I didn't feel interested enough to watch when they came out.

I think from Phase 4 onwards I only watched Spider-Man: No Way Home, Shang-Chi, She-Hulk, The Marvels, Deadpool and Wolverine, and Daredevil: Born Again. I'll probably catch up on everything I missed eventually.

Ummmmmm aren't we on a break now

I didn't know about the MCU having started, back in the day. I liked Iron Man, but didn't understand it was part of a bigger thing.

Then I noticed more and more movies coming out, and was like huh. And it wasn't until the first Avengers movie that I realized I had to watch everything and in a certain order, and that there were little scenes in the credits.

After that, I tried watching all the movies. But same thing happened with the shows, at one point. I didn't think they'd be part of the MCU, so I skipped them. Then I realized I had to watch them.

I kind of liked not being on top of everything, because there was always something to watch.

I *think* I'm finally up to date?

I've been out since after End Game. I lost interest. I've seen a few things but it just isn't as important to me now.

Currently not watching it now. After the Loki show my investment fell off a cliff and subsequent installments have not salvaged my interest, with possibly the sole exception of Spiderman. Endgame wrapped up the saga in a climatic, if very messy and tattered bow. I only really care to watch reviews or reactions of new content out of morbid curiosity.

I’ve stayed consistent and just keep looking forward to the world building and story building. When they got away from that a little bit during the recent phase, it wasn’t as enticing. I am looking forward to what’s to come though!

I've been watching the movies but lately I've been disinterested in the shows. Haven't watched one since Secret Invasion

I’ve kind of been on a break since end game

Was all in until Multiverse of Madness, after that, for me, the quality went down. Nowadays I watch the new movies on Disney+ after hearing that they’re alright. Definitely have skipped a few movies these last few years.

Not as hyped for the upcoming Avengers movies (yet), perhaps that will come with time.

Unintentional break, Disney Plus shows ruined the whole continuity for me. I don’t have Disney plus, therefore skipped some of the movies at the theater

Since Iron Man every single piece of media

Watched everything up till endgame, after that probably the only ones that had good audience reviews including the shows. Post endgame: Loki, the spiderman movies (including the animated ones) and multiverse of madness would be some of the my favorites.

On a side note, it's not just about marvel, in general we just have so much content to consume now and good stuff coming out all the time. You really have to choose what to watch being employed :(

I used to go to the midnight cinema screenings as a tradition when I was in my teens/at uni. Since endgame I’ve not really done many in the cinema. I’ve streamed most of them as and when I feel like it. Still haven’t watched Agatha all along and I think there’s a couple more I haven’t seen.

The truth is an MCU film used to feel like a massive occasion. There would be 1 or 2 a year and I had them scheduled into my diary. I’d stay for the after credit teasers. Maybe it’s because I’m older (30 in January) I just don’t feel the same. I know the twists that are coming. I don’t expect dead heroes to stay dead. I don’t expect the villain to win even when it looks like they have.

The best film I’ve seen of the post-endgame stuff is Shang-chi. I did adore spider man no way home and deadpool and wolverine - but D&W aged immediately and feels too overdone.

Shang-chi was a fun romp with some cool martial arts thrown in and a protagonist who was down to earth and somebody I could relate to.

Though fantastic four was brilliant

I was planning in Winter to rewatch the Infinity Saga at least get to Iron Man 3 by Christmas

I’ve watched all of the Infinity Saga and all the stuff in Phase 4. Now I’m selective about what I watch these days, both out of fatigue and their dip in consistent quality. Quantumania was probably the definite start of that.

The only thing I especially looked forward to watching was the Fantastic Four.

If it interests me though, I’ll see it. I watched Thunderbolts because I heard it was great, saw Deadpool and Wolverine and GOTG3 because they earned my faith, came back for Born Again, saw Marvel Zombies out of curiosity along with a few episodes of What If. Also saw Echo.

Only saw Brave New World because my dad asked.

Watched Iron Man through Endgame and I felt like I’ve earned a well deserved break and stopped watching Marvel religiously at that point. It’s like binging LOTR extended editions all at once. Fun experience, but time to watch something different now.

I didn’t realize what it was until I heard about The Incredible Hulk’s after credits scene. Since then, I have seen all the movies in the theaters and watched every show within a month of the last episode’s release.

I haven't seen any of the non Disney tv shows. For Disney, I haven't seen She-Hulk, Ms Marvel, Werewolf or Moon Knight. As for the movies, I think Black Widow and Love and Thunder are the only ones I haven't seen. I still like this franchise but I guess I don't feel the need to see everything anymore. Oh I didn't see Eternals either. 

watched basically none of the tv shows except for a few of the early Phase 4 ones. Seen all the movies except F4; I lowkey am seeing less and less of them in theaters

Just getting back into it after a years-long hiatus. I used to watch every film in theaters but out of the past 4-5 releases I only watched one (Captain America 4) in theaters because I was really bored and the weather was shit.

Honestly the break was really nice because now Idc if a movie/show sucks because I didn’t wait for its release + I no longer feel compelled to finish stuff just for the sake of having seen everything. For example, I DNF’d Agatha All Along about 4 episodes in b/c it just wasn’t for me🤷🏻‍♂️

I started tuning in religiously around 2014 or 2015 when I got into comic books. Watched several movies streaming and was in theaters by the time of Age of Ultron. The only movie I’ve skipped since then was Antman 3, and Tbf I haven’t watched DD Born Again yet. Honestly though I am really disappointed with the way things have gone and the whole FCC/Kimmel debacle makes me wary of supporting Disney.

I've only watched one X-men film and I have yet to watch The Fantastic Four. I need to watch the Daredevil reboot Marvel Zombies and the Wakanda animated thing but I just haven't yet. Most of the rest of it I've seen.

Of course I'm going to see Doomsday but I don't kid myself that I want to watch everything all the time. I tend to watch a lot of the Avengers stuff but the rest I tend to take my time on. If Bucky isn't in it and there's no Captain America then my interest lags sometimes.

Sebastian Stan is my mega crush and I adore him as Bucky. I even watched him as Trump once and that was asking a LOT considering I loathe almost everything GOP or MAGA at this point. It was the only time I've ever begrudgingly hate-watched anything he was in. :P

Mostly I watched Daredevil before because of Vincent D'Onofrio playing Kingpin. That was a no brainer from the moment he was cast. I will watch the reboot but not till next year sometime. I have too much to do video-wise right now. Other stuff to catch up with.

I love my MCU and I eventually get to seeing most of it but there is so much content that's it hard to get to watching it all and watch anything else so I have to take my time on some things. Unless it's Bucky and some version of Cap, Steve or Sam or Thor/Loki related I don't run to watch most things but I do watch them eventually.

I used to be that way about the DCU too but I am not a fan of the direction it's taking and I'm done. They took out every actor I liked and still expected me to show up. I actually did for the new Batman and Superman but unlike a lot of people I just didn't dig the new Superman any more than I dug Pattison's Batman.

Last film I really liked was Aquaman II.

Nuff said on both counts...

I did in 2024. I thought I was gonna come back at least a little more willing to watch, but no. Superhero fatigue is the reason why I took a break, the part where there’s too much (too much in a decade, not too much from the MCu, because we technically get less. No abc or Netflix), but the part where the quality is down is why I still feel fatigued. Superhero fatigue is true in that I had it after Endgame and that was the peak. Honestly, the answer sounds like the MCU has taken too much of a quality drop.

I didn't start watching until 2020. I binge watched the movies for the first time when I was laid off from covid. Now the pace and spacing of the movies feel like an eternity

Skipped the below:

* Eternals
* Ms. Marvel
* Thor 4
* She-Hulk episodes 2-7
* Ant-Man 3
* Secret Invasion episodes 2-
* What If (every episode except s01, the Kate Bishop & Shang Chi on a train episode, Peter Quill attacking the 80's Avengers, and Hela finding the Ten Rings)
* Echo
* Agatha
* Captain America 4
* Ironheart
* Eyes of Wakanda

I have watched it all, except for Ironheart. Lack of free time.

From the start. From the start minus twenty-five + years. I learned to read thanks to comic books in 1977, I was *waiting* for this...

I'm a fan of all of it and can generally find something good in each of the productions, although there are a few that are *not* strong. Unlike the modern zeitgeist I have [mostly] enjoyed everything post-Endgame, I don't seem to share their complaints nor they my critiques.

Been watching this shit since day 1 & I NEVER stopped!

Very consistent. Grew up watching superhero movies and I hope the genre stays mainstream.

Why would I take a break from my favorite franchise that only has content a fee times a year?