Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-113599)

Earth-113599 also called the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a reality in which superheroes such as Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Hulk, Spider-Man, and Daredevil reside. It contains many similarities to Earth-1218, Earth-616, and Earth-1610. Containing many of the same iconic figures and organizations that can be found in those respective realities.

From an outside perspective, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a massive franchise in which all the Marvel Studios (Walt Disney) produced films and television series take place in. Starting in summer of 2008 the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been widely successful for almost a decade, generating a worldwide total of over ten billion dollars. The Marvel Cinematic Universe however, is notorious for having fractured film rights, especially between the Spider-Man, the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises.

History
Marvel Entertainment after suffering financial problems in the turn of the century, sold off the film rights to some of their most popular franchises (Spider-Man, The Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Blade, etc) to more successful studios such as Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox. Marvel still suffering financial issues in the new millennium was bought by Walt Disney Studios in mid 2004. Wanting however to create superhero blockbusters with the newly acquired property, Disney attempted to terminate the contracts Marvel Entertainment had previously made with other film studios, for their popular franchises.

After getting nowhere legally speaking with trying to get the rights back (Due to the other studios lack of interest in returning them) in 2005 Marvel employee Kevin Feige had the idea for a Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since the rights to Iron Man, Captain America & Thor had just reverted earlier that year to Marvel Studios control. All they needed was the Hulk, which Universal Studios was interested in selling back, to make an Avengers style team up film. Disney wanting to get something out of their purchase agree to buy back the rights to the Incredible Hulk, and announced an Iron Man and Hulk film coming in 2008. Followed by a S.H.I.E.L.D. Movie coming the next year (later changed to Black Widow and Hawkeye). On November 3rd 2005 the term for the shared movie reality was officially coined

Phase 1

 * Iron Man - May 2nd 2008


 * The Incredible Hulk - August 1st 2008


 * Black Widow and Hawkeye - May 1st 2009


 * Iron Man 2 - May 7th 2010


 * The Incredible Hulk 2 - November 19th 2010


 * Thor - May 2nd 2011


 * Captain America - July 22nd 2011


 * The Avengers - May 4th 2012

Phase 2

 * Iron Man 3 - May 3rd 2013


 * Black Widow -July 5th 2013


 * Thor: The Dark World - November 8th 2013


 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier - April 4th 2014


 * Guardians of the Galaxy - August 1st 2014


 * Hawkeye - November 7th 2014


 * Avengers: Age of Ultron - May 2nd 2015


 * Ant-Man - July 17th 2015

Phase 3

 * Deadpool - February 12th 2016


 * Captain America: Civil War - May 6th 2016


 * Doctor Strange - November 4th 2016


 * Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - May 5th 2017


 * Spider-Man: Homecoming - July 7th 2017


 * Thor: Ragnarok - November 3rd 2017


 * Black Panther - February 16th 2018


 * Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet - May 4th 2018


 * Ant-Man and The Wasp - July 6th 2018


 * Captain Marvel - March 8th 2019


 * Avengers: Infinity War - May 3rd 2019


 * Spider-Man: Last Hunt - July 14th 2019

ABC

 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.


 * Agent Carter


 * Damage Control


 * Legion

Netflix

 * Daredevil


 * Jessica Jones


 * Luke Cage


 * Iron Fist


 * The Defenders


 * The Punisher