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Awaiting Endgame: The Marvel Cinematic Universe Through the Years

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Iron Man kicked off the MCU in May 2008.

May 2, 2008, was the day the first Iron Man film was released nationwide. And thus the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a.k.a. the MCU, was born. Almost 11 years later, on Friday, April 26, the powerhouse filmmakers are releasing their 22nd, and maybe most anticipated film, Avengers: Endgame.

Spoiler alert: We don't want to say who's coming out alive in this sequel, but the next Marvel film, Spider-Man: Far From Home, is scheduled for release in July.

Here's a look back at Marvel's universe of films.

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The Old Dark House: Even if it hadn't been essentially lost, James Whale's The Old Dark House (1932) wouldn't ever have fit, exactly, on the Mount Rushmore of Universal's horror greats: Frankenstein, that ol' corpse's wife, the Wolfman, Dracula, and — since actually you can't see him we can get away with five faces on this mountain — the Invisible Man. Whale directed the debut of the studio's classic version of three of those characters, all but the Wolfman and the Mummy, and his impeccably atmospheric House, shot one year after Frankenstein and three years before the Bride thereof, stands as another example of his and Universal's 1930s streak of mining from horror lore an ideal essence. There's no perfect monster in House, but there is a perfect haunted house, one where the lights won't stay on, the stairways creak, a madman lurks, and a whimpering comes from behind a padlocked door. The film, now sparklingly restored, is to being trapped in a scary house what Frankenstein is to deranged scientists playing God: It's the movies' pure headwaters of the very idea.