so we've simplified the timeline to just focus on the movies. We've stuck to the release order here so if you're a total newcomer to the Marvel universe, you can watch the series as everybody else ...

If you're not too fussed about watching the films or shows in chronological order and prefer to see them as they came out in cinemas or on TV, the Marvel cinematic universe has been split into ...

Two different actors, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, played the web-slinging hero in movies produced by Sony that exist separately from the Marvel Cinematic Universe that launched in 2008.