Marvel Universe

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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)	List of films based on Marvel Comics Marvel Cinematic Universe X-Men film series Spider-Man in film Fantastic Four in film Blade film series
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 Marvel vs. Capcom Questprobe
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. Superhero 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, Mister Fantastic, 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, Elektra, 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 Prime Earth.