Highway to Doomsday (reorganized watching order for the Multiverse Saga)

I've just introduced my sister to the Infinity Saga (minus Far From Home, I consider that one to be part of the Multiverse Saga). She absolutely loved it, so now we're going to continue, hoping to finish everything before December, just in time for Doomsday. Anyway, since the Phases 4 and 5 films aren't that interconnected and dependant on each other, I came up with the following watching order, just to make it a little easier for my sister. I tried to connect plots and arcs a little better, while alternating between movies and shows and keeping the 2 phase format.

Phase 4:

1. Black Widow - Dealing with the loss of Natasha
2. WandaVision - Dealing with the loss of Vision
3. Spider-Man: Far From Home - Introduction to the concept of a multiverse and Tony's legacy
4. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - Steve's legacy and the Dora Milaje storyline, because of which I'd have the next film be...
5. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
6. Loki (Season 1)
7. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - The Abomination storyline connects nicely to...
8. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law - New Asgard gets mentioned, so the next one is...
9. Thor: Love and Thunder - Continuing the Gods' theme in....
10. Moon Knight
11. Spider-Man: No Way Home - In the final scene, Peter swings over the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, which gets revisited in...
12. Hawkeye - Followed by the other Christmas project...
13. Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special - Followed by the other GotG project...
14. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - To end the phase on a high note

Phase 5:

1. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - This movie gets referenced at the end of...
2. Loki (Season 2) - Because of the TVA...
3. Deadpool and Wolverine
4. Secret Invasion
5. Ms. Marvel - These two previously mentioned series connect to...
6. The Marvels - Let's follow it up with the introduction of another Young Avenger in...
7. Ironheart - Because of the sorcerers...
8. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
9. Werewolf by Night
10. Agatha All Along - These last few projects could all pass as Halloween themed
11. Eternals - Because of Tiamut...
12. Captain America: Brave New World
13. Echo - Because of Kingpin...
14. Daredevil: Born Again
15. Thunderbolts\* - Its second post-credit scene connects directly to...
16. The Fantastic Four: First Steps - One more high note to cap it off

So, if you've spotted any continuity errors or other mistakes, please, point them out and feel free to suggest corrections and improvements. Thanks in advance, guys!

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a_o2026-01-25 19:54

Continuity is not so important as thematic resonance. Solid reasoning for sequences here.

ronrhino132026-01-25 20:51

I thought Falcon and the Winter Soldier took place before Far From Home.

JyconX2026-01-25 22:09

It also took place after Shang-Chi.

Bernd_das_Brot_692026-01-25 22:47

My list surely doesn't fit the official timeline, but that was not what I was going for in the first place. My goal was to create a more coherent and cohesive order, to have the individual stories flow more naturally and to make them easier to digest for someone who is going to watch it all over the course of less than a year.

raisingcuban2026-01-25 23:27

> make them easier to digest for someone

I don’t think there’s anything “difficult to digest” just watching release order. There is nothing complicated about these movies.

Bernd_das_Brot_692026-01-26 00:22

Yeah, I might've used the wrong words there. What I meant to say is that, with everything being better connected, I think that one might have an easier time to make a mental map of the universe, so to speak, and retain more from the stories and characters involved.

For example, Eternals is an early Phase 4 project, as well as a fairly forgettable one. If I showed that movie to my sister now, she'd forget who Tiamut is by the time we got to Brave New World and saw Celestial Island, probably taking away from that film. In a similar way, losing track of such details could make Doomsday less enjoyable.

In other words, I just think that rearranging it all can improve the viewing experience.

CaptHayfever2026-01-26 10:16

It does. This isn't a chronological list.

gusefalito2026-01-25 22:06

I think I'm going to adopt this on my next rewatch. It all flows so naturally. A couple notes:

Has she seen Deadpool, Logan and Deadpool 2? Those are pretty important to Deadpool & Wolverine

What about Daredevil Season 1, Daredevil Season 2, The Defenders and Daredevil Season 3? They are pretty important to Daredevil: Born Again.

Bernd_das_Brot_692026-01-25 22:47

First of all, thanks for the feedback!

As for your notes, she did watch both Deadpool movies, as well as Logan, I even showed her Days of Future Past (as a small intro to the X-Men). Actually, after all of that, we went to see Deadpool & Wolverine in the cinema, which then made her want to check out the rest of the MCU.

Unfortunately, I don't think that we'll have enough time for the Netflix shows, so I might have to just show her some recaps, summarize the important stuff, but we'll see...

gusefalito2026-01-26 02:14

Netflix MCU is 161 episodes long so I don't blame you. Definitely worth checking out Daredevil and The Defenders though. The Punisher and Jessica Jones too if time allows. That's 47 episodes for just DD and TD and another 65 episodes for TP and JJ (112 total).

Yea, definitely not worth it for Doomsday. Although I do think maybe you should wait until after Doomsday to watch Born Again (Seasons 1 and 2), The Punisher Special Presentation and Brand New Day. You'll basically have a whole year to watch the entire Netflix saga (all 161 episodes) before Secret Wars. If you watch one a day starting December 19, 2026 you'll be done by May 28, 2027. At that point, it's just 17 episodes of Born Again, the Punisher's Special Presentation and Brand New Day.

marioxb2026-01-26 15:27

99% sure Brand New Day will tie into Doomsday. And everyone from it will be in Doomsday, it's just a secret for now.

gusefalito2026-01-26 17:12

I still think it's kind of like Ant-Man and the Wasp. That movie took place shortly before Infinity War and then the post-credit scene tied in with its ending leading into Endgame. The original plan was even for Doomsday to come out in May ahead of Brand New Day, just how Infinity War came out ahead of Ant-Man and the Wasp.

Brand New Day will mostly follow up on No Way Home, Punisher Special and maybe Born Again Season 2. It'll be otherwise self-contained and then the post-credit will probably include things like Peter encountering the piece of Symbiote that Eddie left behind at the end of No Way Home and being transported to Battleword (though we might not know it's Battleworld yet). I have a feeling they'll pay homage to the original Secret Wars from the 1980s and have Peter wearing the Symbiote for the first time during this event.

We will see him again in Secret Wars.

Scott_J_Doyle2026-01-26 04:32

I'd skip #4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 from your phase 5 list in favour of Netflix' DD seasons 1, 2 and 3 - just a far better time, and even "Born Again" is highly skippable in comparison.

Getting a serious look at Punisher seems essential considering the new Spidey flick, and DD seasons 1 and 3 are easily top 20 and arguably top 10 Marvel projects.

Emotional-Catch-9712026-01-26 08:04

10 & 12 are understandable considering these projects aren't connected to Doomsday at all but 4,5,6,7 are super important for Doomsday in fact Disney+ has officially listed 6 important Mutiverse Saga projects that lead to Doomsday (Loki both seasons (deep exploration of the concept of Mutiverse), Shang chi, Captain America: brave new world, Wakanda forever, thunderbolts, Fantastic four)

Scott_J_Doyle2026-01-26 11:10

Problem with this is that while Loki and FF are great and Shang Chi and Thunderbolts have a few great scenes, the rest are terrible, especially Secret Invasion, the Marvel's and Ironheart. Seriously the only thing important to Doomsday in any of them is the post credit scene in the Marvel's, but these are unwatchably bad projects full of terrible writing, concepts, production, characters and performances (basically everything that matters).

I'm going to go ahead and add Falcon and Winter Soldier from the Phase 4 list as well - anyone's headcannon from the epilogue of Endgame is going to be better than what we got.

marioxb2026-01-26 15:30

Wrong. The ONLY bad MCU is Secret Invasion. Everything else is great!

Scott_J_Doyle2026-01-26 15:44

I think you are why RLM's "Don't ask questions, just consume product and get excited for next product" line worked so well.

Bernd_das_Brot_692026-01-26 20:33

Genuine question, why do people dislike The Marvels so much? I agree on Ironheart and especially on Secret Invasion, the latter series was just awful, that one's in a tier by itself, at least for me. I'd add Eternals and She-Hulk to the list of underwhelming projects, maybe even Love and Thunder and Quantumania, but I think that everything else was, at the very least, good. Anyway, I never got the hate around The Marvels, maybe that is only because I went to see it with extremely low expectations, due to all the online discourse, but still.

Scott_J_Doyle2026-01-26 20:46

I enjoy Love and Thunder but only from a "this is deliciously campy" perspective - I just realized what I was watching within the first couple minutes and let it take me for a ride. Actually went back to theatres for this one multiple times which puts me in a very small minority of the MCU audience, but it actually got better for me each time - there's some real heart in there, even for a 95% campy flick, most of the humor hit me right, and I could suspend disbelief for many of it's flaws that broke most of it's viewers/reviewers.

Agreed Secret Invasion is likely their worst project, competing only with Inhumans for that title.

Eternals is mostly frustrating with it's one good scene only aggravating things because it proves it could have been amazing...

Quantumania was decently entertaining in theatres but I absolutely can not rewatch it.

She-Hulk actually isn't the worst adaptation considering the comics, but the court scenes and disrespect to Hulk and DD really sank it for me...

Okay, Marvel's rant incoming:

Marvel's came across as poorly written, with no character development or worse some actual character assassinatio, a floppy plot, another boring/meaningless villain, a big set piece that totally didn't work, the main character actual was the deus ex machina all along which is just atrocious writing the point of insulting the audience... there are basically two good scenes: the parents kerfuffle and the cat scene, but both were comedic in an otherwise not-a-comedy film so it kind of eats itself in a "what was the point/purpose of this" kind of way... hmmmm... one of the worst lines in all the MCU, reminding me of epically terrible lines in later GOT or the like... I kind of wish it was good cause it had a few things on paper that gave it potential, I wanted to see Brie get a good script/part in the MCU, and I love the Kree in the comics, but just like in GotG they are totally underwritten, undersold and underwhelming on screen... Anyway, thats about the gist of it for me, another "too bad" waste of potential and a LOT of money for a studio that used to be remarkably consistent.

Bernd_das_Brot_692026-01-27 00:22

That's fair. Anyway, it's not like I consider The Marvels a masterpiece. I would probably rank it in the same class as Love and Thunder (I was very disappointed that they waisted Gorr with little to no God butchering) and Quantumania (I expected a much more serious approach to Kang). I'd say that these are above Eternals, She-Hulk and Ironheart (to me, the writing on this group of projects made them hard to enjoy), but all of these are still above Secret Invasion (the only thing I remember liking about this one was the theme music).

Scott_J_Doyle2026-01-27 00:39

Can dig a lot of these opinions. The missed opportunities with Gore sting a bit and Kang as an Ant-Man villain will go down as one of the studio's worst ideas ever. I imagine we agree quite a bit abour the top line films if we have such a similar lower set, and as much as I have a personal soft-spot for L&T it stands out as one of the more objectively sloppy of the MCU flicks so belong to the bottom tiers it does.

Bernd_das_Brot_692026-01-27 00:11

Oh, I didn't know that Disney+ highlighted those 6 projects. Thanks for that info! Did they also give some explanation on why they're so important?

marioxb2026-01-26 15:29

I disagree there. Never cared too much for the Netflix stuff. I prefer my MCU to be 100% family friendly.

Scott_J_Doyle2026-01-26 15:42

Well that's just lame

Bernd_das_Brot_692026-01-26 20:16

While there certainly are projects I dislike and am not looking forward to rewatch, that is exactly how we felt about The Dark World before Endgame came out, which turned it into an important and (in my opinion) unskippable part of the MCU. With that in mind, I don't think that we'll be jumping over anything, but if we find enough time, we do intend to check out the Netflix series. Although, for now, that's not our priority.

Scott_J_Doyle2026-01-26 20:31

Why would you rewatch it if you're not looking forward to it? A thing has to be either pretty damn amazing or offers continually deepening mysteries/understanding-potential to warrant a re-watch in the first place in my books - most shows and movies in existence only warrant a single viewing, it's a rare thing for them to either hit the same or harder than first viewing, or get even better upon rewatch to be truly worth the time... many shows and films actually fall apart upon greater scrutiny and it's often better to preserve the feeling/memory that a single viewing yielded.

Bernd_das_Brot_692026-01-26 20:40

Honestly, to provide some company to my sister and just spend time with her. In my book, that's sufficient reason.

Scott_J_Doyle2026-01-26 20:52

Ah, gotcha, yep that works in my books too, cheers!

c_zardu_972026-01-27 23:32

Thank you for this, this really is an improvement!

Bernd_das_Brot_692026-01-27 23:45

You're welcome!