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[kpopSuperstar]

I just wanted to do one more of these ranked lists.

There are 36 films in the MCU. Fantastic Four, that comes out in two weeks, will be number 37.

This was hard to rank, and I was surprised at how many of these films I dislike. The first eleven are the only ones I really enjoy.

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. The Avengers
3. Avengers: Endgame
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Deadpool & Wolverine
6. Thor: Ragnarok
7. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
8. Iron Man
9. Captain America: Civil War
10. Spider-Man: No Way Home
11. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
12. Spider-Man: Homecoming
13. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
14. The Incredible Hulk
15. Doctor Strange
16. Iron Man 2
17. Captain America: The First Avenger
18. Thor
19. Ant-Man
20. Black Panther
21. Thunderbolts*
22. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
23. Iron Man 3
24. Avengers: Age of Ultron
25. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
26. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
27. Captain America: Brave New World
28. Spider-Man: Far From Home
29. Eternals
30. Ant-Man and the Wasp
31. The Marvels
32. Black Widow
33. Captain Marvel
34. Thor: The Dark World
35. Thor: Love and Thunder
36. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Winter soldier is the only movie I didn't hate, but it's been a minute

 

[Doom85]

1. Captain America: Winter Soldier
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
3. Captain America: Civil War
4. Avengers: Endgame
5. Avengers: Infinity War
6. Spider-man: No Way Home
7. Thunderbolts*
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
9. Avengers
10. Deadpool and Wolverine
11. Black Panther
12. Guardians of the Galaxy
13. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
14. Iron Man 3
15. Avengers: Age of Ultron
16. Thor
17. Iron Man
18. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
19. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
20. Doctor Strange
21. Thor: Ragnarok
22. Spider-man: Homecoming
23. Iron Man 2
24. Ant-man
25. Captain America: The First Avenger
26. Spider-man: Far From Home
27. Captain America: Brave New World
28. Thor: Love and Thunder
29. The Incredible Hulk
30. Black Widow
31. Captain Marvel
32. Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania
33. Thor: The Dark World
34. The Marvels
35. Ant-man and the Wasp
36. Eternals

And yes, to definitely varying degrees, I enjoy almost all of these films. Because I remember what I consider the real era of "slop" like Superman 3 and 4, Batman Forever/& Robin, Catwoman, Hulk 2003, Blade Trinity, Elektra, the Ghost Rider films, X-men Origins: Wolverine, Jonah Hex, Green Lantern, and 2015 Fantastic Four. Only Eternals gets close to how bad and particularly boring those films were.

 

[March Climber]

Nice list OP. I'll show mine.

Movies:

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Avengers: Infinity War
4. The Avengers
5. Spider-Man: Homecoming
6. Avengers: Endgame
7. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
8. Avengers: Age of Ultron
9. Thor: Ragnarok
10. Thunderbolts*
11. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
12. Deadpool 2
13. Captain America: The First Avenger
14. Spider-Man: Far From Home
15. Guardians of the Galaxy

16. Deadpool 1
17. Ant-Man
18. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
19. Spider-Man: No Way Home
20. Iron Man
21. Deadpool & Wolverine
22. Thor
23. Doctor Strange
24. Ant-Man and the Wasp
25. Black Panther
26. Iron Man 2
27. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
28. The Marvels
29. Black Widow
30. Captain Marvel

31. Iron Man 3
32. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
33. The Incredible Hulk
34. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
35. Eternals
36. Thor: Love and Thunder
37. Thor: The Dark World

TV Shows:

1. Daredevil Born Again
2. Loki
3. Falcon and the Winter Soldier
4. Hawkeye
5. Wandavision

6. Moon Knight
7. Agatha All Along
8. Ms. Marvel
9. She Hulk
10. What If?

11. Secret Invasion

Captain America: Brave New World (Have not seen yet)
Iron Heart (Have not seen yet)

Edit: Decided to change how it's spaced, because I feel the top 15 are solidified, and so are the bottom 7. It's 15-30 that I feel iffy about and have thought multiple times about moving things up and down, even now.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

The one true list

 

[March Climber]

The one true list

In order to get more context, what is this specific list based on? Writing quality? Memorable moments/scenarios? Cohesiveness? Hype?

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

In order to get more context, what is this specific list based on?

It's based on many varying things.

 

[Risible]

I just wanted to do one more of these ranked lists.

There are 36 films in the MCU. Fantastic Four, that comes out in two weeks, will be number 37.

This was hard to rank, and I was surprised at how many of these films I dislike. The first eleven are the only ones I really enjoy.

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. The Avengers
3. Avengers: Endgame
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Deadpool & Wolverine
6. Thor: Ragnarok
7. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
8. Iron Man
9. Captain America: Civil War
10. Spider-Man: No Way Home
11. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
12. Spider-Man: Homecoming
13. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
14. The Incredible Hulk
15. Doctor Strange
16. Iron Man 2
17. Captain America: The First Avenger
18. Thor
19. Ant-Man
20. Black Panther
21. Thunderbolts*
22. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
23. Iron Man 3
24. Avengers: Age of Ultron
25. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
26. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
27. Captain America: Brave New World
28. Spider-Man: Far From Home
29. Eternals
30. Ant-Man and the Wasp
31. The Marvels
32. Black Widow
33. Captain Marvel
34. Thor: The Dark World
35. Thor: Love and Thunder
36. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Winter Soldier at 13 is WILD.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Winter Soldier at 13 is WILD.

A lot of people love that one. I saw it when it came out and it didn't click, but if there is one I should rewatch, I guess that's the one.

 

[kunonabi]

To be honest Endgame has made me retroactively hate everything that came before it but prior to that my list would have looked like this:


1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Avengers: Age of Ultron
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Iron Man
5. Avengers: Infinity War
6. Captain America: The First Avenger
7. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
8. The Avengers
9. Ant-Man
10. Doctor Strange
11. Captain America: Civil War
12. Black Panther
13. Thor
14. Iron Man 3
15. Iron Man 2
16. Thor: The Dark World
17. Ant-Man and the Wasp
18. Thor: Ragnarok
19. The Incredible Hulk
20. Captain Marvel
21. Avengers: Endgame

I refused to watch the first 2 Spider-Man films. No Way Home was awful outside of Garfield and Dafoe so I'm not going to bother with it either.

 

[Pejo]

I mostly agree with OP's list, but I didn't see most of the latter half of the movies and I think the first Dr. Strange should be higher.

 

[Shubh_C63]

Difficult list for sure.
Just wanna say Deadpool vs Wolverine and both of the Black Panther movies were not that great. (Not a racist)

 

[March Climber]

Difficult list for sure.
Just wanna say Deadpool vs Wolverine and both of the Black Panther movies were not that great. (Not a racist)

As someone who liked BP, it understandably has problems that mostly occur in the third act.

The perfect end fight in that movie would have simply been a second challenge between the two panthers without their suits, with T'challa using his wits and words to throw off Killmonger in bare-fist battle, who was already emotionally unstable.

It didn't need the random betrayal. It didn't need the war. It didn't need the horrific CGI fight at the end. Just man vs man at the top of a cliff or something…maybe that cliff where T'challa and Killmonger had their final exchange of words, with more good writing added in during the fight.

It's part of the reason why Thunderbolts ranks so high for me and probably why it ranks so high for Doom85 . The movie didn't try to end on the typical big silly CGI fight and instead kept the focus on the character writing. They managed to make a huge moment feel more personal and emotional than most other marvel movies.

 

[Baemono]

From the ones I watched:

1. Avengers: Endgame
2. Iron Man 2
3. Spider-man: Homecoming (if it counts)
4. Avengers
5. Spider-man: No way home (if it counts still)
6. Captain America 3: Civil War
7. Thor Ragnarok
8. Dr Strange: Multiverse of Madness
9. Iron-Man 3
10. Avengers: Infinity War
11. Spider-man: Far from home
12. Thor: Love and Thunder
13. Avengers: Age of Ultron
14. Thor

I don't really care about the others. I have absolutely no interest in Captain America besides Civil War, and that's solely because Spider-man was in it

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Just watched Thunderbolts, and was surprised how much I liked it. Having lower stakes and less bombastic action did wonders for grounding it and making the superhero stuff seem impressive again. I remembered this thread and decided to put together and share my list.

I didn't realize I'd seen so many of these. The "n/a's" are the ones I haven't, and--unsurprisingly--it's most of the recent ones. How's this compare to yours?

Movie	Quick Rating	Rank
Avengers: Infinity War	9	1
The Avengers	9	2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	9	3
Iron Man	9	4
Avengers: Endgame	8	5
Thunderbolts* [d]​	8	6
Iron Man 3	8	7
Captain America: The Winter Soldier	8	8
Guardians of the Galaxy	7	9
Captain America: Civil War	7	10
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	7	11
Spider-Man: Far From Home	7	12
Thor: Ragnarok	7	13
Spider-Man: Homecoming	7	14
Captain America: The First Avenger	6	15
Avengers: Age of Ultron	6	16
Iron Man 2	6	17
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	6	18
Ant-Man	6	19
Doctor Strange	6	20
Thor: Love and Thunder	6	21
Thor	5	22
The Incredible Hulk	5	23
Thor: The Dark World	5	24
Black Panther	n/a
Ant-Man and the Wasp	n/a
Captain Marvel	n/a
Black Widow	n/a
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings	n/a
Eternals	n/a
Spider-Man: No Way Home	n/a
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	n/a
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania	n/a
The Marvels	n/a
Deadpool & Wolverine	n/a
Captain America: Brave New World	n/a

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Phase 1

Avengers: A
Iron Man: A
Iron Man 2: B+
Thor: B
Captain America The First Avenger: C
The Hulk: F

Phase 2

Captain America The Winter Soldier: A+
Avengers Age of Ultron: A
Antman: B
Guardians of the Galaxy: C
Thor The Dark World: D
Iron Man 3: D

Phase 3

Avengers Endgame: A+
Avengers Infinity War: A+
Captain America Civil War: A+
Doctor Strange: A+
Spider-Man Far From Home: A+
Thor Ragnorok: A
Spider-Man Homecoming: A
Black Panther: A-
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2: B+
Antman and The Wasp: B
Captain Marvel: D

Phase 4

Loki Season 1: A+
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness: A+
Ms. Marvel: A
Werewolf By Night: A
Hawkeye: B+
Moon Knight: B+
Shang-Chi: B
WandaVision: B-
Eternals: C
Black Panther Wakanda Forever: C
Falcon And The Winter Soldier: D
Thor Love And Thunder: D
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special: F
Black Widow: F
Spider-Man No Way Home: F
She-Hulk: F-

Phase 5

Loki Season 2: A+
Daredevil Born Again Season 1: A+
Thunderbolts: A+
Deadpool And Wolverine: A
Agatha All Along: B+
Iron Heart: C
Echo: C
Captain America Brave New World: D
Secret Invasion: D
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3: D
Ant-Man and The Wasp Quantumania: F
The Marvels: F

Doom85

 

[Pagusas]

I don't have time to make a list, but honestly the top film would be the first Iron man. Watched it recently and it just has a special feeling, a groundedness that all future films lack.

Bottom of the list would be Eternals for the killer sin of being boring, Black Panther 2 for just being pure bad, and Thor 4 for wasting insane talent on such a horrible script.

Everything else falls in the middle as average fun films to me. And no I don't consider Winter Soldier to be anything special, it's 3rd act is just bad lazy writing that lets the film down (which is litterally the same problem almost all MCU films have, they all have the most copy/repeat bad 3rd acts)

Edit: fixed, I meant to say Thor 4, not 3.

 

[AJUMP23]

Oh man. It's gonna be lit. Parody post. Making that clear.

 

[kruis]

 

[Doom85]

Oh man. It's gonna be lit.

(checks Google for any evidence of Russo saying this)

To Mr. Wong Updates:

 

[DKPOWPOW]

Top Tier

Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Infinity War
Thor: Ragnarok
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2
Iron Man
Captain America: Civil War


Good

Deadpool & Wolverine
Thunderbolts
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Black Panther
Ant-Man
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness

OK

Black Widow
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Avengers
Incredible Hulk
Shang Chi
Fantastic Four

The Rest

All the other movies are meh or trash fire.