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Dave’s Marvel Watch Guide

Dave presents an enormous Marvel watch guide—“the right way,” naturally meaning Dave’s way—as a choose-your-own-adventure rather than one mandatory marathon. He separates the MCU into narrative chunks, explains where to place shorts, shows, and post-credit scenes, and flags connections that might otherwise be missed.

His rule for canon is broad: if Marvel Studios references a project, he counts it. Connections to that project can also bring related series into the guide.

The Main Route: The Infinity Saga

The core viewing path runs from Captain America: The First Avenger through Avengers: Endgame, with selected shorts and web episodes folded in. Dave highlights recurring story threads—the Tesseract and other Infinity Stones, the Ten Rings, SHIELD, and characters who carry over from one story to another.

He explains why some entries appear where they do, such as following Loki directly into Thor: The Dark World, and recommends saving certain post-credit scenes until after later films to avoid spoilers. His viewing notes include:

• Watch Captain Marvel’s post-credit scene after Infinity War.
• Watch Ant-Man and the Wasp’s post-credit scenes after Infinity War.
• Save Black Widow’s post-credit scene until after Endgame.
• The “eight years later” card in Spider-Man: Homecoming is incorrect; Dave says it should be four years.

Optional Side Missions

After Endgame, viewers can continue straight into the Multiverse Saga or take on three substantial side missions:

• Agents of SHIELD saga: Agent Carter, Agents of SHIELD, Slingshot, and Inhumans. Dave traces their crossovers and movie connections, while noting that Agents of SHIELD seems to stop aligning with the films after its Thanos storyline.
• Defenders saga: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher. Dave emphasizes that these shows are darker and more violent, but especially relevant because characters such as Matt Murdock and Kingpin return in later MCU stories.
• “Teenage Angst” saga: Cloak and Dagger and Runaways, which link back to the other TV sagas. The more disconnected Helstrom can be skipped.

Dave turns the viewing burden into a running joke: the shows are “homework,” completing them earns his approval, and the Defenders’ violence may call for watching “with one eye open” while holding a friend’s hand.

The Multiverse and the Wider Marvel Catalogue

The Multiverse Saga is split into several smaller routes. Its first MCU section begins with Loki Season 1 and continues through projects including What If…?, WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Shang-Chi, and Eternals. Dave then sends viewers through additional side missions before returning to the main MCU story:

• Fox’s X-Men saga: Arranged for character and cameo impact rather than strict chronology, from Wolverine and the original X-Men films through Deadpool and Logan. Dave recommends the Rogue Cut of Days of Future Past.
• Marvel Legacy: Older Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Blade, Punisher, and Ghost Rider films.
• Marvel animation: Selected X-Men and Spider-Man cartoons, especially for their musical themes, characters, and later references.
• Spider-Verse saga: Connects the MCU’s Far From Home and No Way Home with the Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield Spider-Man films, Venom, Morbius, and the animated Spider-Verse movies.

The payoff is Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which Dave frames as drawing on several of these side routes. He then maps the next MCU stretch through stories including Hawkeye, Echo, Moon Knight, She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, The Marvels, Loki Season 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, Daredevil: Born Again, and Fantastic Four: First Steps.

The guide’s final stretch reaches Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Dave describes it as taking place four years after No Way Home and points out the returning characters and Spider-Man villains the film is said to include. He closes by saying the list is up to date at the time of recording and promising to revise it as Marvel releases more projects.

Standout Jokes and Reactions

The video’s humor comes mainly from Dave treating the watch order like a quest. He warns that forcing viewers to watch everything would be “bordering on kidnapping,” tells them to “catch” all five Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 post-credit scenes like Pokémon, and repeatedly congratulates them for completing their “homework.”

He also pokes fun at the sheer scale of the project, calls the teen shows the “Teenage Angst Saga,” and offers a metaphorical hug to anyone who makes it through the animated-series marathon.

Personality appearing: Dave, the host and narrator.