We now know the length of next MCU movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps, so here’s how it compares with the runtime of every other entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Since Iron Man launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008, the series has become the most lucrative franchise in movie history.
Indeed, 11 of the Top 50 grossing movies of all-time are Marvel, with Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, and Spider-Man: No Way Home all making the Top 10.
Those three movies also have lengthy runtimes, and with the upcoming Fantastic Four: First Steps clocking in at 2 hours 10 minutes, here’s where that sits in the all-time list…
MCU movies ranked from shortest to longest
Here’s all 37 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, starting with the shortest, building up to the longest, including July 2025 release Fantastic Four.
- The Marvels – 1 hour 45 minutes
- The Incredible Hulk – 1 hour 52 minutes
- Thor: The Dark World – 1 hour 52 minutes
- Doctor Strange – 1 hour 55 minutes
- Thor – 1 hour 55 minutes
- Ant-Man – 1 hour 57 minutes
- Ant-Man and The Wasp – 1 hour 58 minutes
- Captain America: Brave New World – 1 hour 58 minutes
- Thor: Love and Thunder -1 hour 59 minutes
- Guardians of the Galaxy – 2 hours 2 minutes
- Captain America: The First Avenger – 2 hours 4 minutes
- Captain Marvel – 2 hours 4 minutes
- Iron Man 2 – 2 hours 4 minutes
- Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania – 2 hours 4 minutes
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – 2 hours 6 minutes
- Iron Man – 2 hours 6 minutes
- Thunderbolts* – 2 hours 6 minutes
- Deadpool & Wolverine – 2 hours 8 minutes
- Spider-Man: Far From Home – 2 hours 9 minutes
- Iron Man 3 – 2 hours 10 minutes
- Thor: Ragnarok – 2 hours 10 minutes
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps – 2 hours 10 minutes
- Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings – 2 hours 12 minutes
- Spider-Man: Homecoming – 2 hours 13 minutes
- Black Panther – 2 hours 14 minutes
- Black Widow – 2 hours 14 minutes
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier – 2 hours 16 minutes
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – 2 hours 17 minutes
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – 2 hours 21 minutes
- The Avengers – 2 hours 23 minutes
- Captain America: Civil War – 2 hours 27 minutes
- Spider-Man: No Way Home – 2 hours 28 minutes
- Avengers: Infinity War – 2 hours 29 minutes
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – 2 hours 30 minutes
- Eternals – 2 hours 36 minutes
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – 2 hours 41 minutes
- Avengers: Endgame – 3 hours 1 minute
The next movies joining the MCU are Spider-Man: Brand New Day (out July 31, 2026), Avengers: Doomsday (December 18, 2026), and Avengers: Secret Wars (December 17, 2026), and with a couple of those having huge casts, expect them to be appearing near the top of this list.
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