franchises

Viewing and reading orders for film, book, game, and TV franchises. Pick a franchise, choose a section, then an order — release, chronological, or recommended — and check items off as you go.

179 franchises

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161
Cloverfield
A complete viewing order for the Cloverfield franchise, a Bad Robot anthology of three theatrical films connected by a shared universe of monster attacks and dimensional rifts. Covers Cloverfield (2008), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), with context on how each entry fits into the franchise's unusual multiverse structure.
1 sections
3 items
— / 3
162
Child's Play / Chucky
A complete viewing order for the Child's Play franchise — all seven mainline films from the 1988 original through Cult of Chucky (2017), plus all three seasons of the Chucky TV series (2021–2024) created by Don Mancini. Also covers the standalone 2019 MGM/Orion reboot as a separate continuity.
2 sections
11 items
— / 11
163
Castlevania
A complete play and watch order for the Castlevania (Akumajō Dracula) franchise — Konami's classic 1986–2008 action-platformer timeline defined by Koji Igarashi, MercurySteam's Lords of Shadow reboot trilogy, and the two Netflix animated series (Castlevania and Castlevania: Nocturne). Includes both release and Konami's officially-published chronological canon order for the classic games.
3 sections
33 items
— / 33
164
Buffyverse
A complete viewing and reading order for the Buffyverse — Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel, covering the original 1992 film, seven seasons of Buffy (1997–2003), five seasons of Angel (1999–2004), and the canonical Dark Horse comic continuation through Season 12 (2018). Includes a combined chronological variant that interleaves Buffy and Angel by their concurrent broadcast seasons for viewers who want to follow the crossover storylines in the order they aired.
5 sections
24 items
— / 24
165
Breaking Bad Universe
A complete viewing order for the Breaking Bad universe — all five seasons of Breaking Bad, all six seasons of Better Call Saul, and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, created by Vince Gilligan and set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order for watching Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad together.
3 sections
13 items
— / 13
166
Bleach
A complete watch and reading order for the Bleach franchise — Tite Kubo's 74-volume manga, the original 2004 anime (366 episodes), the 2022 Thousand-Year Blood War reboot, four theatrical films, and the 2018 live-action adaptation. Filler arcs are tagged so you can skip straight from the Fullbring arc to TYBW without missing any manga content.
5 sections
25 items
— / 25
167
BioShock
A complete play and reading order for the BioShock franchise — Irrational Games' first-person action-RPG trilogy set in the fallen underwater city of Rapture and the sky-city of Columbia, plus the tie-in novel BioShock: Rapture. Covers all six story-driven games and DLC, with both release order and an in-universe chronological option that navigates the franchise's multiverse timeline.
2 sections
7 items
— / 7
168
BIONICLE
A complete watch and read order for BIONICLE, the LEGO franchise that ran from 2001 to 2010 (Generation 1) and was rebooted in 2015–2016 (Generation 2). Covers all four direct-to-DVD animated films, the Netflix series, DC Comics runs, Greg Farshtey's novel trilogies, and story-relevant video games.
5 sections
17 items
— / 17
169
Berserk
A complete reading and viewing order for the Berserk franchise — Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy manga and all of its anime adaptations. Covers the 1989–present manga (continued post-Miura by Studio Gaga and Kouji Mori), the 1997 TV series, the Studio 4°C Golden Age Arc film trilogy, the 2016–2017 anime, and the 2022 Memorial Edition recut.
3 sections
10 items
— / 10
170
Battlestar Galactica
A complete viewing order for the Battlestar Galactica franchise — covering both the original 1978 ABC series and its sequel Galactica 1980, and the acclaimed 2003 Ronald D. Moore reimagining with its four seasons, two TV movies, and two prequel series. Each continuity is presented separately so you can follow either universe or both.
2 sections
11 items
— / 11
171
Babylon 5
A complete viewing and reading order for Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski's science-fiction universe spanning the 1993 pilot film, five seasons, eight TV movies, the Crusade spinoff, and comics and novels. Covers both release order and a chronological-narrative order placing In the Beginning and the TV movies at their in-universe positions.
3 sections
34 items
— / 34
172
Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise
A complete viewing and reading order for the Avatar franchise, covering the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, Dark Horse comics, F.C. Yee's prequel novels, the 2010 live-action film, and the Netflix live-action adaptation. Includes release order, a chronological story order interleaving animated seasons with post-show comics, and standalone sections for comics, novels, and film.
5 sections
28 items
— / 28
173
Assassin's Creed
A complete play and watch order for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise — the mainline games from 2007's Acre Crusades entry through 2025's feudal Japan, the handheld and side-scroller spin-offs, the 2016 Justin Kurzel film, and the three animated shorts. Includes both release-order and in-universe historical chronology, so you can play the series in publication order or follow the Brotherhood's history from Ancient Greece to Victorian London.
4 sections
25 items
— / 25
174
Arrowverse
A complete viewing order for The CW's Arrowverse — every per-season entry of the eight live-action superhero series (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman, Black Lightning, plus the retroactively-canonized NBC Constantine), the two CW Seed animated web series Vixen and Freedom Fighters: The Ray, and the five-part Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover that merged three previously-separate universes into Earth-Prime.
2 sections
47 items
— / 47
175
Anne Rice Immortal Universe
A complete reading and viewing order for Anne Rice's Immortal Universe — all 13 Vampire Chronicles novels, the two New Tales of the Vampires, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, two theatrical film adaptations, and all three AMC series (Interview with the Vampire, Mayfair Witches, and Talamasca: The Secret Order). Covers publication order, a chronological-internal reading path that positions Pandora and Vittorio in their ancient and Renaissance settings, and the full AMC television run.
5 sections
27 items
— / 27
176
Animorphs
A complete reading order for K.A. Applegate and Michael Grant's Animorphs — all 54 main-series novels, 4 Megamorphs companion books, 4 Chronicles prequels, and the 2 Alternamorphs gamebooks published by Scholastic between 1996 and 2001. Also covers the Scholastic Graphix graphic novel adaptations (2020–2025) and the 1998–1999 Nickelodeon television series.
5 sections
72 items
— / 72
177
Alien
A complete viewing order for the Alien franchise — seven mainline films from Ridley Scott's 1979 original through Alien: Romulus (2024), the FX television series Alien: Earth (2025), and the crossover films. Covers both release order and in-universe chronological order, with notes on which entries belong to the prequel storyline and which to the Alien vs. Predator crossover continuity.
3 sections
10 items
— / 10
178
Ace Attorney
A complete play, watch, and read order for Capcom's Ace Attorney franchise — covering every mainline courtroom game, the Investigations detective duology, the Victorian-era Great Ace Attorney prequel games, the Professor Layton crossover, the anime adaptation, and Takashi Miike's live-action film. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order for the games.
3 sections
17 items
— / 17
179
A Certain Magical Index / Railgun / Accelerator
A complete viewing and reading order for Kazuma Kamachi's Toaru / 'A Certain' franchise — every anime cour and film across A Certain Magical Index (3 seasons + Endymion film), A Certain Scientific Railgun (3 seasons + OVA) and A Certain Scientific Accelerator (1 season), the source light novel arcs (Main Series, New Testament, Genesis Testament), and the spinoff manga (Railgun, Accelerator, Dark Matter, Mental Out, Astral Buddy). Includes a cross-cutting Full Anime Order section with both Release Order and the famous In-Universe Chronological Order that interleaves Index, Railgun, and Accelerator arcs.
7 sections
23 items
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franchises

Viewing and reading orders for film, book, game, and TV franchises. Pick a franchise, choose a section, then an order — release, chronological, or recommended — and check items off as you go.

179 franchises

sort:recent·a–z·items·progressfilter:all·in-progress·unstarted·complete

161
Cloverfield
A complete viewing order for the Cloverfield franchise, a Bad Robot anthology of three theatrical films connected by a shared universe of monster attacks and dimensional rifts. Covers Cloverfield (2008), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), with context on how each entry fits into the franchise's unusual multiverse structure.
1 sections
3 items
— / 3
162
Child's Play / Chucky
A complete viewing order for the Child's Play franchise — all seven mainline films from the 1988 original through Cult of Chucky (2017), plus all three seasons of the Chucky TV series (2021–2024) created by Don Mancini. Also covers the standalone 2019 MGM/Orion reboot as a separate continuity.
2 sections
11 items
— / 11
163
Castlevania
A complete play and watch order for the Castlevania (Akumajō Dracula) franchise — Konami's classic 1986–2008 action-platformer timeline defined by Koji Igarashi, MercurySteam's Lords of Shadow reboot trilogy, and the two Netflix animated series (Castlevania and Castlevania: Nocturne). Includes both release and Konami's officially-published chronological canon order for the classic games.
3 sections
33 items
— / 33
164
Buffyverse
A complete viewing and reading order for the Buffyverse — Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel, covering the original 1992 film, seven seasons of Buffy (1997–2003), five seasons of Angel (1999–2004), and the canonical Dark Horse comic continuation through Season 12 (2018). Includes a combined chronological variant that interleaves Buffy and Angel by their concurrent broadcast seasons for viewers who want to follow the crossover storylines in the order they aired.
5 sections
24 items
— / 24
165
Breaking Bad Universe
A complete viewing order for the Breaking Bad universe — all five seasons of Breaking Bad, all six seasons of Better Call Saul, and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, created by Vince Gilligan and set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order for watching Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad together.
3 sections
13 items
— / 13
166
Bleach
A complete watch and reading order for the Bleach franchise — Tite Kubo's 74-volume manga, the original 2004 anime (366 episodes), the 2022 Thousand-Year Blood War reboot, four theatrical films, and the 2018 live-action adaptation. Filler arcs are tagged so you can skip straight from the Fullbring arc to TYBW without missing any manga content.
5 sections
25 items
— / 25
167
BioShock
A complete play and reading order for the BioShock franchise — Irrational Games' first-person action-RPG trilogy set in the fallen underwater city of Rapture and the sky-city of Columbia, plus the tie-in novel BioShock: Rapture. Covers all six story-driven games and DLC, with both release order and an in-universe chronological option that navigates the franchise's multiverse timeline.
2 sections
7 items
— / 7
168
BIONICLE
A complete watch and read order for BIONICLE, the LEGO franchise that ran from 2001 to 2010 (Generation 1) and was rebooted in 2015–2016 (Generation 2). Covers all four direct-to-DVD animated films, the Netflix series, DC Comics runs, Greg Farshtey's novel trilogies, and story-relevant video games.
5 sections
17 items
— / 17
169
Berserk
A complete reading and viewing order for the Berserk franchise — Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy manga and all of its anime adaptations. Covers the 1989–present manga (continued post-Miura by Studio Gaga and Kouji Mori), the 1997 TV series, the Studio 4°C Golden Age Arc film trilogy, the 2016–2017 anime, and the 2022 Memorial Edition recut.
3 sections
10 items
— / 10
170
Battlestar Galactica
A complete viewing order for the Battlestar Galactica franchise — covering both the original 1978 ABC series and its sequel Galactica 1980, and the acclaimed 2003 Ronald D. Moore reimagining with its four seasons, two TV movies, and two prequel series. Each continuity is presented separately so you can follow either universe or both.
2 sections
11 items
— / 11
171
Babylon 5
A complete viewing and reading order for Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski's science-fiction universe spanning the 1993 pilot film, five seasons, eight TV movies, the Crusade spinoff, and comics and novels. Covers both release order and a chronological-narrative order placing In the Beginning and the TV movies at their in-universe positions.
3 sections
34 items
— / 34
172
Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise
A complete viewing and reading order for the Avatar franchise, covering the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, Dark Horse comics, F.C. Yee's prequel novels, the 2010 live-action film, and the Netflix live-action adaptation. Includes release order, a chronological story order interleaving animated seasons with post-show comics, and standalone sections for comics, novels, and film.
5 sections
28 items
— / 28
173
Assassin's Creed
A complete play and watch order for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise — the mainline games from 2007's Acre Crusades entry through 2025's feudal Japan, the handheld and side-scroller spin-offs, the 2016 Justin Kurzel film, and the three animated shorts. Includes both release-order and in-universe historical chronology, so you can play the series in publication order or follow the Brotherhood's history from Ancient Greece to Victorian London.
4 sections
25 items
— / 25
174
Arrowverse
A complete viewing order for The CW's Arrowverse — every per-season entry of the eight live-action superhero series (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman, Black Lightning, plus the retroactively-canonized NBC Constantine), the two CW Seed animated web series Vixen and Freedom Fighters: The Ray, and the five-part Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover that merged three previously-separate universes into Earth-Prime.
2 sections
47 items
— / 47
175
Anne Rice Immortal Universe
A complete reading and viewing order for Anne Rice's Immortal Universe — all 13 Vampire Chronicles novels, the two New Tales of the Vampires, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, two theatrical film adaptations, and all three AMC series (Interview with the Vampire, Mayfair Witches, and Talamasca: The Secret Order). Covers publication order, a chronological-internal reading path that positions Pandora and Vittorio in their ancient and Renaissance settings, and the full AMC television run.
5 sections
27 items
— / 27
176
Animorphs
A complete reading order for K.A. Applegate and Michael Grant's Animorphs — all 54 main-series novels, 4 Megamorphs companion books, 4 Chronicles prequels, and the 2 Alternamorphs gamebooks published by Scholastic between 1996 and 2001. Also covers the Scholastic Graphix graphic novel adaptations (2020–2025) and the 1998–1999 Nickelodeon television series.
5 sections
72 items
— / 72
177
Alien
A complete viewing order for the Alien franchise — seven mainline films from Ridley Scott's 1979 original through Alien: Romulus (2024), the FX television series Alien: Earth (2025), and the crossover films. Covers both release order and in-universe chronological order, with notes on which entries belong to the prequel storyline and which to the Alien vs. Predator crossover continuity.
3 sections
10 items
— / 10
178
Ace Attorney
A complete play, watch, and read order for Capcom's Ace Attorney franchise — covering every mainline courtroom game, the Investigations detective duology, the Victorian-era Great Ace Attorney prequel games, the Professor Layton crossover, the anime adaptation, and Takashi Miike's live-action film. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order for the games.
3 sections
17 items
— / 17
179
A Certain Magical Index / Railgun / Accelerator
A complete viewing and reading order for Kazuma Kamachi's Toaru / 'A Certain' franchise — every anime cour and film across A Certain Magical Index (3 seasons + Endymion film), A Certain Scientific Railgun (3 seasons + OVA) and A Certain Scientific Accelerator (1 season), the source light novel arcs (Main Series, New Testament, Genesis Testament), and the spinoff manga (Railgun, Accelerator, Dark Matter, Mental Out, Astral Buddy). Includes a cross-cutting Full Anime Order section with both Release Order and the famous In-Universe Chronological Order that interleaves Index, Railgun, and Accelerator arcs.
7 sections
23 items
— / 23

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