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| Marvel Universe | |
|---|---|
 Various characters of the Marvel Universe. Promotional art for the 2006–2007 miniseries Civil War by Steve McNiven. | |
| Created by | Marvel Comics |
| Original work | Marvel Mystery Comics #7 (1940, Golden Age) Fantastic Four #12 (1963, modern continuity) |
| Owner | The Walt Disney Company |
| Print publications | |
| Novel(s) | Marvel novels |
| Comics | List of Marvel Comics publications |
| Graphic novel(s) | The Official Marvel Graphic Novel Collection |
| Films and television | |
| Film(s) | Marvel Cinematic Universe X-Men film series Spider-Man in film Fantastic Four in film Blade film series List of films based on Marvel Comics |
| Short film(s) | Marvel One-Shots |
| Television series | List of Marvel Cinematic Universe television series List of television series based on Marvel Comics Marvel Animated Universe |
| Television special(s) | Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe Marvel 75 Years: From Pulp to Pop! |
| Direct-to-video | Marvel Animated Features Direct to video films Marvel Knights Animation |
| Theatrical presentations | |
| Play(s) | Marvel Universe Live! |
| Musical(s) | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark |
| Games | |
| Video game(s) | List of video games based on Marvel Comics |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Toy(s) | Marvel Universe Marvel Select Marvel Legends |
| Theme park attraction(s) | Marvel Super Hero Island Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: Breakout! Iron Man Experience Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle! |
| Official website | |
| https://www.marvel.com/ | |
The Marvel Universe is a fictional shared universe where the stories in most American comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Comics take place. Super-teams such as the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and many Marvel superheroes live in this universe, including characters such as Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, Wolverine, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, and Captain Marvel, Blade, Black Widow, Hawkeye, among numerous others. It also contains well-known supervillains such as Doctor Doom, Magneto, Ultron, Thanos, Loki, The Green Goblin, Kang the Conqueror, Red Skull, The Kingpin, Doctor Octopus, Carnage, Apocalypse, Dormammu, Mysterio, Electro, and the Vulture. It also contains antiheroes such as Venom, Namor, Deadpool, Silver Sable, Ghost Rider, The Punisher, and Black Cat.
The Marvel Universe is further depicted as existing within a "multiverse" consisting of thousands of separate universes, all of which are the creations of Marvel Comics and all of which are, in a sense, "Marvel universes". In this context, "Marvel Universe" is taken to refer to the mainstream Marvel continuity, which is known as Earth-616 or currently as Prime Earth.