If you’re a Marvel fan, you know that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a sprawling franchise with 24 movies to date. With each film averaging around two hours in length, it can be daunting to think about how many hours it would take to watch all of them.
But fear not, true believers! We’ve done the math for you.
First off, let’s list all 24 movies in chronological order:
- Iron Man (2008)
- The Incredible Hulk (2008)
- Iron Man 2 (2010)
- Thor (2011)
- Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
- The Avengers (2012)
- Iron Man 3 (2013)
- Thor: The Dark World (2013)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
- Ant-Man (2015)
- Captain America: Civil War (2016)
- Doctor Strange (2016)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
- Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
- Black Panther(2018)
- Avengers: Infinity War( 2018)
*The following three films were released after Avengers Infinity war and are hence not included in its runtime
- The post-Avengers Infinity War films are:
- * Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
- * Captain Marvel (2019)
- * Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018)
- Captain Marvel (2019)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Now, let’s add up the runtimes of all 24 movies. Keep in mind that these are approximate times and may vary slightly depending on the version you watch:
- Iron Man – 2 hours 6 minutes
- The Incredible Hulk – 1 hour 52 minutes
- Iron Man 2 – 2 hours 4 minutes
- Thor – 1 hour 55 minutes
- Captain America: The First Avenger – 2 hours 4 minutes
- The Avengers – 2 hours 23 minutes
- Iron Man 3 – 2 hours 10 minutes
- Thor: The Dark World – 1 hour 52 minutes
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier – 2 hours 16 minutes
- Guardians of the Galaxy – 2 hours and two minutes
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – two hours and twenty-two minutes
- Ant-Man – 1 hour 57 minutes
- Captain America: Civil War – 2 hours and twenty-seven minutes
- Doctor Strange – one hour and fifty-five minutes
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – two hours and sixteen minutes
- Spider-Man: Homecoming – two hours and thirteen minutes
- Thor: Ragnarok – two hours and ten minutes
- Black Panther – 2 hours and fourteen minutes
- Avengers: Infinity War- 2 hours and forty minutes
- Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018) – Two Hours and Five Minutes.
The films between Phase two and three:
The films in Phase three:
The films after Avengers Infinity war:
- * Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) – two hours and nine minutes
- * Captain Marvel (2019) – two hours and four minutes
- * Avengers: Endgame (2019) – three hours and one minute
Total Runtime:
So, all 24 Marvel movies combined have a runtime of approximately 59 hours and 7 minutes. That’s almost two and a half days of continuous movie-watching!
Of course, you don’t have to watch them all in one sitting. You can space them out over several weekends or even months.
Now that you know how much time it’ll take to watch all the Marvel movies, are you up for the challenge?