
Starting with Iron Man in 2008, the setting has grown to include numerous film adaptations of Marvel's many comic book properties, with a main focus on The Avengers and their various members. It was distributed by Paramount and Universal from 2008 to 2011, followed by Disney from 2012 to the present after Disney acquired Marvel Entertainment, with Sony Pictures co-producing some of their films from 2016 onward. is a combined setting and media franchise produced by Marvel Entertainment and Marvel Studios.


The Marvel Cinematic Universe or MCU note Dubbed Earth-199999 (pronounced "Earth Nineteen Ninety-Nine-Nine-Nine") of the Marvel Multiverse - although the franchise refers to itself as Earth-616 relative to everything else, despite not being the Earth-616 of the comics.
