Curated to 64 explicit links, Marvel’s screen canon resolves into nine legible clusters bridged by No Way Home and Deadpool & Wolverine

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The atlas covers 370 catalogued Marvel screen works released 2005–2026 across film, television and animation. The research extracted 197 relationship candidates; the graph below intentionally shows a curated, legible subset of 64 explicitly sourced continuity links across 68 works and franchise nodes, grouped by continuity cluster. Edge colour is the relationship family; node colour is the cluster; dashed edges rest on a single source.

The refined connection network: nine clusters, 64 curated links

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crossover / multiverse sequel / continuation spinoff / setup reboot / alternate timeline same continuity single-source claim (lower confidence)

A link here means a source explicitly described a narrative or continuity relationship — shared branding, actors, ownership or comic origins alone do not establish canon. Some curated rows still carry debated or loosely characterised canon; the hover explanations and citations preserve that nuance. Bridge nodes — Spider-Man: No Way Home, Deadpool & Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Defenders, Loki, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — are ringed in gold.

Releases per year, 2005–2026: three streams stack up

What the network cannot say alone

Of 197 extracted relationship candidates, only the 64 with explicit, sourced continuity language survive curation — the rest were vague or weak claims, per the corpus behind en.wikipedia.org.
Spider-Man: No Way Home carries six curated links and single-handedly stitches the Raimi, Webb, Sony and MCU continuities into one multiverse cluster — moviesoncomics.com.
Chris Evans’s Johnny Storm returning in Deadpool & Wolverine is the strongest-sourced single edge in the set, with 7 source mentions — en.wikipedia.org.
Four Netflix series converge on one node: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist all culminate in The Defenders — reference.org.
2021 is the corpus peak: 35 works in one year, 22 of them MCU — en.wikipedia.org.

Reference guide

By research scope, the 370-work catalog splits into 190 animation works, 109 Marvel Cinematic Universe works and 71 non-MCU live-action works, spanning 26 scope-and-format groups from 2005 to 2026.

ScopeFormatWorksYearsSource

Master catalog: 370 corpus candidates

WorkYearFormatScopeStated franchiseMentionsSource

Method: web research atlas of Marvel screen works. Master catalog of 370 works (2005–2026) with format, scope and stated franchise; 22 annual release rows; 26 precomputed scope/format count rows. The lead graph draws a curated 64-edge subset of 197 extracted relationship candidates; an edge means a source explicitly stated a narrative/continuity relationship, and single-source edges are drawn dashed as lower confidence. Aggregate counts are taken as supplied, not recomputed. Weak, vague or duplicate relationship claims were cut from the visual for legibility but remain in the research corpus.

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