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Rank the Marvel Cinematic Universe films

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God Tier
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Iron Man

Great Tier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers: Age of Ultron
The Avengers
Captain America: The First Avenger


Decent Tier
Iron Man 3
Ant-Man

Meh Tier
Iron Man 2
Thor
The Incredible Hulk

Thor: The Dark World Tier
Thor: The Dark World

I have yet to see Civil War.
 
Top Tier:
- Captain America: Civil War
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Avengers

Mid Tier:
- Ant-Man
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Iron Man
- Thor
- The Incredible Hulk

Low Tier:
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Iron Man 2
- Iron Man 3
- Thor: The Dark World
 
Iron Man

Winter Soldier

Avengers


are the holy trinity of the Marvel fillms because not only are they Amazing but they each represent a great part of What Marvel is great at.

everything else ranges from good-great tier.


Bad/comedy tier

Thor 2
 
1. Captain America: Civil War
2. Iron Man
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. Iron Man 3
5. The Avengers
6. Avengers: Age of Ultron
7. Thor
8. Ant-Man
9. Captain America: The First Avenger
10. Iron Man 2
 
God Tier
The Avengers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: Civil War

Great Tier
Iron Man
Ant-Man

Decent Tier
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Ant-Man
Iron Man 3
Captain America: The First Avenger

Meh Tier
Iron Man 2
The Incredible Hulk
 
Great:
Iron Man
Guardians of the Galaxy
-Daredevil S1
Winter Soldier
--The Mandarin Short

Good:
Ant Man
Avengers
Civil War
-Jessica Jones S1
The First Avenger
-Daredevil S2

Average:
Iron Man 3
Thor
Age of Ultron
Thor the Dark World
Iron Man 2

Below Average:
The Incredible Hulk
 
God Tier
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: Civil War
Iron Man

High Tier
Captain America: The First Avenger
Avengers
Ant-Man
Avengers 2: Age of Ultron

Mid Tier
Guardians of the Galaxy

Low Tier
Thor 2: Dark World
Iron Man 2
The Incredible Hulk
Thor
Iron Man 3
 


  1. Amazing:
  2. Captain America: Civil War - Really managed to bring comic-level thematics into the movies, and every single character was at their A game. Black Panther GOAT.
  3. Guardians of the Galaxy - Great movie all around. Kept from first place by lack of themes/previous character development.
  4. Iron Man - Second half is somewhat boring, but the first half carries it via one of the best told origin stories ever.
  5. Ant-Man - Just really funny.
  6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - I like spy flicks and this movie also had great universe-wide consequences.
  7. The Avengers - Not much substance, but a fun romp nonetheless.

    Decent:
  8. The Avengers: Age of Ultron - Thought it would be Avengers + actual themes, but failed to fully hit either mark.
  9. Captain America: The First Avenger - Mediocre movie. Bogged down by Cap's instant transformation from downtrodden pipsqueak to "perfect" man as a character.
  10. Iron Man 3 - Had some cool scenes, but otherwise pretty empty.
  11. Thor - I forget a lot about this movie, I mainly just remember that it wasn't entirely boring.

    Bad:
  12. Thor 2: The Dark World - I have forgotten almost everything about this movie. Wait....does this mean the villain won!?
  13. Iron Man 2 - Rushed in so many ways. Almost entirely incoherent.
  14. The Incredible Hulk - An all around shit movie. Also, dat CG.

BONUS ROUND:
Daredevil Season 1 - Between Winter Soldier and Avengers.
Daredevil Season 2 - Between Civil War and Guardians. Goddamn fantastic. If they dropped the Hand stuff and made it entirely about Punisher, it would be in first place.
Jessica Jones Season 1 - Between Avengers and Ultron. Falls in Decent category.
Agents of Shield Season 1 - Between Iron Man 3 and Thor. Propped up entirely by the post-Winter Soldier parts. Would otherwise be between Hulk and IM2.
Agents of Shield Season 2 - Between Agents of Shield Season 1 and IM3.
Agents of Shield Season 3 (as of writing) - Between Agents of Shield Season 2 and IM3.
Agent Carter Season 1 - Between Thor and Thor 2. Plot was interesting, hated the office drama crap. Falls in the Decent category.
Agent Carter Season 2 - Between Thor 2 and IM2. Was just pretty boring.
 
Here's my ranking.I made some ranking choices many people would disagree and i tried to give a reason why i ranked them in those places.

God Tier:
-Captain America:Civil War
-Avengers
-Iron Man
-Guardians of the Galaxy

Very Good Tier:
-Captain America:Winter Soldier (Not in the top spot for me but still i like this movie A LOT. I just don't think it's in the same league with the movies above.)
-Thor (Kenneth Branagh brings a Shakespearean magic to the movie and maybe it's not an sci-fi/fantasy epic but it's a very well made sci-fi/fantasy adventure)
-Avengers:Age of Ultron (Despite it's flaws it's Whedon doing Whedon stuff and i love it)


Still very good but with with some flaws tier:
-Iron Man 3 (Twist was very smart for me.I'm a huge comics fan and we all gotta be honest: Mandarin was NEVER a great villain. Iron Man movies modernized the character and same had to be done about the racial stereotype villain.)
-Iron Man 2 (Definitely not as good as the first one but style and tone carries over perfectly)
-Thor:The Dark World (I think despite not being the movie people want to see it's still a very good fantasy-action movie with decent humour)

Good but not very good tier:
-First Avenger:Captain America (First act is AMAZING but second and third acts really fell flat)
-Incredible Hulk
-Ant-Man ( Very familiar story and i didn't get the heist movie vibe but still has it's moments.And Paul Rudd is awesome)

And yeah,i like ALL the Marvel movies.I don't think any of it is bad or even okay.

And when it comes to TV shows:
Daredevil is definitely God Tier. Jessica Jones and AoS Season 3 is Good but not very good. AoS Seasons 1-2 and Agent Carter Season 1-2 needs a new Meh Tier.
 
the fact that everyone is putting Iron man in the God/Goat tier makes me happy :'D

I'm surprised at how many people are putting the Cap movies over it. I remember when TFA came out most people still thought Iron Man was the clear best. Granted TFA is pretty darn solid as well so I'm fine with it.

I've actually grown to appreciate IM1 more over time. When I first saw it I found RDJ's Iron Man to be an annoying character but I've grown to love his performance over rewatches and through getting to know his character in the other movies. And dat post-credits scene is honestly even cooler knowing how well they pulled it off.
 
Great:
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Ant-Man
Iron Man
Captain America: Civil War

Very good:
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Avengers

Good:
Iron Man 3
Avengers: Age of Ultron

Meh:
Iron Man 2

Thor Tier:
Thor
Thor 2: The Dark World
 
Pretty damn good to great tier:
1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. The Avengers
4. Iron Man 3
5. Guardians of the Galaxy
6. The Avengers: Age of Ultron (I like it better than others)
7. Iron Man (Last third killed it)
8. Ant Man

Watchable Tier:
9. Thor
10. Captain America: The First Avenger (Apparently I need to rewatch this)
11. The Incredible Hulk

Not so hot tier:
12. Iron Man 2
13. Thor 2: The Dark World
 
I'm surprised at how many people are putting the Cap movies over it. I remember when TFA came out most people still thought Iron Man was the clear best. Granted TFA is pretty darn solid as well so I'm fine with it.

I've actually grown to appreciate IM1 more over time. When I first saw it I found RDJ's Iron Man to be an annoying character but I've grown to love his performance over rewatches and through getting to know his character in the other movies. And dat post-credits scene is honestly even cooler knowing how well they pulled it off.

Iron man is definitely a superior movie to TFA. TFA is solid though.
 
Sorry! I had a feeling my list wouldn't go over well.

You definitely have the most unique list (Winter Soldier 2.5/5, HOW COULD YOU?). I guess you could say that it's The Worst :P

BONUS ROUND:
Daredevil Season 1 - Between Winter Soldier and Avengers.
Daredevil Season 2 - Between Civil War and Guardians. Goddamn fantastic. If they dropped the Hand stuff and made it entirely about Punisher, it would be in first place.

WHAT

Punisher MADE season 2. If it wasn't for him, S2 would've been trash. What it lacked was a good villain.
 
God Tier:
Iron Man
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Avengers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: Civil War
Deadpool (shut up, it counts)

Great Tier:
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Ant-Man

Good Tier:
Captain America: The First Avenger

Decent Tier:

Iron Man 3
Thor

Meh Tier:
Thor: The Dark World
Iron Man 2

Thor: The Dark World Tier (lol):
The Incredible Hulk (I don't remember much about this one tbh. Migh need to revise my rankings. Possibly I'd bump this up one tier and reserve Thor: The Dark World Tier for Batman v Superman, even though it's irrelevant to this list. BTW, Man of Steel would be far below that.)

P.S. if we're doing shows, add:

God Tier:
Daredevil S1

Great Tier:
Daredevil S2
Jessica Jones S1
 
Didn't realize that so many people thought so little of Age of Ultron. For my money, it's the better Avengers film.

Good movies:
Avengers
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Captain America: Civil War

Totally forgettable, bloated movies:
Everything else
 
God Tier

*Waiting patiently*

Great Tier

Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: Civil War
Deadpool
Iron Man
X-Men Days of Future Past

Good Tier

Captain America: Winter Soldier
The Avengers
Ant-Man
X-Men First Class
X-Men
Spider Man

Decent Tier

Captain America: The First Avenger
Iron Man 3
The Incredible Hulk
X-Men 2
Spider Man 2

Meh Tier

Iron Man 2
Thor
X-Men 3
The Amazing Spider Man
Spider Man 3
The Amazing Spider Man 2

Thor: The Dark World Tier:

Thor: The Dark World
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Hulk
Fan4stic
The Fantastic Four

I added some other movies from the Marvel Universe in there. I know they were made from different studios, but they are still part of the Marvel Universe! I might have missed some, but I included as many as I remember/saw.
 
Didn't realize that so many people thought so little of Age of Ultron. For my money, it's the better Avengers film.

Good movies:
Avengers
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Captain America: Civil War

Totally forgettable, bloated movies:
Everything else
Iron Man tho.
 
Iron Man: 5/5
Hulk 2008: 4/5
Iron Man 2: 2/5
Thor: 3/5
Cap 1: 3/5
Avengers 2/5
Iron Man 3: 1/5
Thor 2: 2/5
Winter Solider: 5/5
Guardians: 5/5
Ultron: 1/5
Ant-Man: 4/5
Civil War: 5/5

God how I wish Fiege discovered the Russo bros sooner
 
I just rewatched TIH for the first time since I watched it in theaters and boy, that final fight scene against Abomination is looking preetty rough. Otherwise I enjoyed it. It's not great, but it gets the job done.

The only Marvel films I truly don't enjoy are Thor: DW and AoU. Age of Ultron in particular I found dire and exhausting and I feared it signaled the beginning of the end for the MCU. Ant-Man and CW have so far proved that sentiment wrong, fortunately.

Iron Man 1 is still the best MCU film and a recent rewatch cemented that feeling. Such a brisk, feel-good, light hearted, hard-hitting movie. Even the soundtrack is badass.

WS is close but I don't like the super bombastic everything.gif ending.
 
I'm weird. Really enjoyed Ant Man, Iron Man 1 and 3, Guardians of the Galaxy and the 2nd snd 3Rd Captain America movies but genuinely disliked the rest (I've seen them all but Thor 2 and from the sounds of it that will not make my "good" list). Too annoying and cheesy.
 
Guardians
Civil war
Winter soldier
Iron man 3
Captain america
Ant man
Ironman
Avengers
Ultron


Don't remember at all:
Thor
Thor 2
Hulk
Iron man 2

All of them (that I remember) have been fun action movies at least. Really isn't a huge difference in quality from best to worst
 
I actually walked out of Winter Soldier..


I was extremely drunk and was feeling nauseous


Top 3

GotG
Civil War
Iron Man

Rest are popcorn flick tier.
 
Been trying to figure out a list, besides my top three and bottom three, they're pretty interchangeable.

The First Avenger
Iron Man
Guardians of the Galaxy

Middle tier (everything else)

Thor 2 (walked out of this one, granted I was hungover from a night of drinking brought on by being cheated on. Saw it on blu-ray and it was inoffensive at best)
Iron Man 2
Antman (walked out of this one, no interest in finishing it)

Edited for clarity
 
Here goes...

Great:
Captain America: Civil War
Guardians of the Galaxy

Good:
Iron Man
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Ant-Man

Ok:
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
The Incredible Hulk
Captain America: The First Avenger

Bad:
The Avengers
Thor
The Avengers: Age of Ultron

Flaming Hot Cheetos Shit:
Thor: The Dark World
 
God Tier
None

Great Tier
Iron Man
Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Decent Tier
Captain America: Civil War
Guardians of the Galaxy


Meh Tier
Captain America: The First Avenger
Ant Man
The Avengers

Bad Tier
The Incredible Hulk
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 3
Iron Man 2
Thor
Thor: The Dark World
 
Iron Man 3

Civil War

The Winter Soldier

Avengers

Guardians of the Galaxy

Ant Man

Age of Ultron

Iron Man

Iron Man 2

Captain America

Thor 2

Thor

I think I forgot something.
 
I like Thor 2.

I haven't seen hulk yet, its weird because I like the character in Avengers, but then I hear its a different actor and I feel that will take away from it since I really like Rufallo.
 
Great
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Avengers
Captain America: Civil War
Iron Man

Good
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: The First Avenger
Iron Man 3
Thor
Ant-Man

Meh
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 2
Thor: The Dark World

Bad
The Incredible Hulk
 
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - ★★★★½
Iron Man 3 - ★★★★½
Guardians of the Galaxy - ★★★★
Captain America: Civil War - ★★★★
Thor: The Dark World - ★★★★
Iron Man - ★★★½
The Avengers - ★★★½
Ant-Man - ★★★½
Thor - ★★★
Iron Man 2 - ★★★
The Avengers: The Age of Ultron - ★★★
The Incredible Hulk - ★★★
Captain America: The First Avenger - ★★½

I just recently rewatched them all so this would be my current ranking.
 
Great

Captain America: Civil War - Maybe it's a little early to put this at the top of my list, but it's so damn great. It's probably the best story in a Marvel movie, one that's more about the characters and how they interact and not about saving the world as we know it. It juggles a dozen superheroes flawlessly, giving each and every one of them time to shine. And the action is amazing. As far as I'm concerned, the airport battle is the new standard for big, bombastic superhero action scenes, and the final battle is the new standard for smaller scale fight scenes. Every superhero movie should aspire to live up to this masterpiece.

The Avengers - It was jawdropping to see all the heroes on screen together for the first time in this movie. It had everything I wanted from an Avengers movie. Every character kicked ass. Until Civil War, I wasn't sure if any movie could dethrone this one.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier - A precursor to the greatness that is Civil War. The Russos showed that they really knew what the hell they were doing.

Iron Man 3 - I don't care what anyone says, this movie is hilarious and has some great action scenes.

Iron Man - The movie that jumpstarted the whole thing, and despite the disappointing third act, it still holds up.

Pretty Good

Thor - This movie gets a lot of hate, and I don't know why. It's a smaller scale, smaller stakes story. It's not about the end of the world like almost every other Marvel movie, it's about two flawed brothers trying to win the respect of their father. One of them learns from his flaws, gains humility, and grows from the experience, and the other doesn't learn a damn thing, and falls further into madness because of it. It's not as action-heavy as most Marvel movies, though the battle between Thor and his friends and the frost giants was pretty great.

Ant-Man - A surprise hit that made a character as silly as Ant-Man likable to general audiences. It's a fun movie that never really takes itself too seriously.

Captain America: The First Avenger - Entertaining enough, and the WW2 setting is different enough to keep it interesting.

Guardians of the Galaxy - This one's tough. The first time I saw it, it would've place much higher. But on subsequent viewings, I don't feel like it holds up all that well. The jokes lose their punch and actually become a little bit lame once you know them, and the action isn't very good. Still, the likable cast keeps this one in the Pretty Good category.

Disappointing

Avengers: Age of Ultron - Bloated, I think, is the word that best describes this movie. It didn't juggle its characters very well, Ultron was a pretty bad villain, and the action just wasn't as good as the first Avengers for some reason. I mean, the movie starts up with what should be an epic battle between the Avengers and Hydra, and it should have me screaming, "Hell yeah!" but it just didn't have much of an impact at all. The same goes for the Hulkbuster fight, and the Sokovia fight.

Iron Man 2 - Another disappointing sequel. Whiplash and his drones were lame villains, Tony getting sick from the arc reactor in his chest was a poor attempt at tackling Tony's alcoholism without actually bringing up alcoholism, and there was far too much SHIELD stuff and just generally setting up for future movies.

Thor: The Dark World - What's the deal with Marvel and stumbling on sequels? I mean Winter Soldier was great, but that's the exception. These past three movies make me a little bit worried about Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Ant-Man 2. Anyway, about the movie itself. Its biggest flaw is that it just doesn't seem to know exactly what it wanted to be. It's just... there. It doesn't push the overarching MCU story forward in any meaningful way, nor does it contain an interesting plot in and of itself. There's not really any growth or change in any of the characters (outside of Thor's mom changing from living to not living). I can't even remember what the villain's plan was. The action was serviceable, but not exceptional. Just, overall, there's not much reason for this movie to exist.

The Incredible Hulk - I don't even remember much about this one. I just remember seeing it and not really caring for it.


Overall, I wouldn't say any of them are bad, just disappointing at worst.
 
As a movie, not so much. Robert Downey Jr is (and continues to be) great as Stark, but otherwise the movies are only so so.

The first one has aged really bad in that regard. The villain and central conflict really is only there to be there. There isn't any real reason why it's Obie that's piloting the Iron Monger suit in the movie. He seems like a laid-back suit type who should have a henchman who is piloting the suit. Everything else about the movie is great but they really needed to have an equal match for Iron Man and it's shoehorned into the movie. He's basicly playing in God mode when killing Afghan rebels and that doesn't come off as very heroic.
 
The first one has aged really bad in that regard. The villain and central conflict really is only there to be there. There isn't any real reason why it's Obie that's piloting the Iron Monger suit in the movie. He seems like a laid-back suit type who should have a henchman who is piloting the suit. Everything else about the movie is great but they really needed to have an equal match for Iron Man and it's shoehorned into the movie. He's basicly playing in God mode when killing Afghan rebels and that doesn't come off as very heroic.

It's two-fold

1. Obie is jealous of Tony, and thus defeating him in the Iron Monger would prove that he was better than Tony

2. Him donning the Iron Monger suit was also something he did at the spur of the moment, because he had been found out
 
1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Iron Man 3
5. Iron Man
6. The Avengers
7. Captain America: The First Avenger
8. Ant-Man
9. Thor
10. The Avengers: Age of Ultron
11. Iron Man 2
12. The Incredible Hulk
13. Thor: The Dark World

Everything below either The Avengers or Captain America 1 is pretty much skippable, though everything up through Thor 1 is decently entertaining.
 
Great
Iron Man
Guardians of the Galaxy

Good
Captain America: Civil War
Avengers

Trash
Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Thor
Iron Man 3
Ant-Man
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 2
Thor: The Dark World
The Incredible Hulk
 
It's two-fold

1. Obie is jealous of Tony, and thus defeating him in the Iron Monger would prove that he was better than Tony

2. Him donning the Iron Monger suit was also something he did at the spur of the moment, because he had been found out

In retrospect it seems like it's more plot convenience than anything else. It seems like a remnant of comic book movies of past rather than what the MCU was about to become. The first two acts of the movie is great fun, though.
 
No particular order within Tiers.

A Tier
The Avengers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: Civil War

B Tier
Iron Man (depending on my mood, I might have this in A Tier)
Captain America: The First Avenger
Ant-Man

C Tier
Thor
Iron Man 3
Avengers Age of Ultron

D Tier
Iron Man 2 (RDJ saves this film)
Thor The Dark World (mainly for Loki and the last 30 minutes)

Bottom Tier
The Incredible Hulk
 
1. CA: Winter Soldier
2. Avengers
3. Iron Man
4. CA: Civil War
5. The Incredible Hulk
6. Ant man
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. CA: First Avenger
9. Avengers: AoU
10. Thor
11. Iron Man 2
12. Thor 2
13. Iron Man 3
 
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