Official Marvel Tier List
F tier:
98) Captain America 1979
97) Captain America 2 1979
96) Howard the Duck
95) Punisher 1989 (Dolph)
94) F4 (2015)
93) Morbius
92) I am Groot S1+2
91) Iron Fist Netflix
90) Fantastic Four 1994
89) Generation X
88) Nick Fury: Agent of Shield
87) Captain America 3 1990
86) Man-Thing 2005
85) Elektra
84) X-Men: the Last Stand
83) New Mutants
D tier:
82) Spiderman 70’s trilogy
81) Daredevil 2003 (Affleck)
80) Secret Invasion
79) Blade Trinity
78) Hulk (2003)
77) The Punisher (2004) Thomas Jane
76) What If…? (excluding episode 4)
75) Defenders Netflix
74) Punisher: War Zone (2008)
73) The Incredible Hulk (2008)
72) X-Men: Dark Phoenix
71) X-Men Origins: Wolverine
70) Spider-man 3 (Tobey/Raimi)
69) Ant-man and the Wasp
68) Fantastic Four (2005)
67) Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
66) Captain MArvel
65) Thor
64) Thor: The Dark World
C tier:
63) Ghost Rider 1+2
62) Luke Cage Netflix
The Marvels
61) Ms. Marvel Disney Plus
60) Venom
59) Venom: Let There be Carnage
58) Eternals
57) X-Men: Apocolypse
56) The Punisher Netflix
55) Ant-Man: Quantumania
54) Thor: Love and Thunder
53) Agents of Shield ABC TV show
52) The Amazing Spider-man (2012)
-What If Season 2
51) X-Men (2000)
50) Ant-man
49) Black Widow
48) Iron man 2
-Echo season 1
47) The Wolverine
46) Avengers: Age of Ultron
B tier:
45) Iron man 3
44) X-Men: First Class
43) Blade
42) Gaurdians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special
41) Falcon and the Winter Soldier Disney plus
40) She-Hulk
39) The Amazing Spider-Man 2
38) Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
37) Jessica Jones Netflix
36) Wanda Vision
35) Doctor Strange
34) Deadpool 2
33) Captain America: The First Avenger
32) The Avengers
31) Iron Man
A Tier:
30) X 2: X-Men United
29) Big Hero Six
28) Blade 2
27) Hawkeye Disney Plus
26) Spider-Man: Far From Home
25) X-Men: Days of Future Past
24) Moon Knight
23) Spider-man (2000) (Tobey/Raimi)
22) Loki season 1+2Disney Plus
21) Black Panther
20) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
19) Spider-Man: Homecoming
18) Captain America: Civil War
17) Deadpool
16) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1
S tier:
15) Punisher: Dirty Laundry
14) What If…? Episode 4
13) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
12) Shang Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings
11) Spider-man 2 (Tobey/Raimi)
10) Werewolf by Night
09) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
08) Daredevil Netflix
07) Thor: Ragnarok
06) Avengers: Endgame
05) Logan
04) Spider-man: No Way Home
03) Gaurdians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
02) Avengers: Infinity War
01) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
The One Above All:
00) Spider-man: into the Spider-verse
My subjective personal top 10 Marvel projects:
10) Hawkeye Disney Plus
09) X-Men: Days of Future Past
08) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
07) Gaurdians of the Galaxy vol. 1
06) Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame combo
05) Daredevil Netflix
04) Shang Chi
03) WereWolf by Night
02) Guardians vol 3
01) Into the Spiderverse/Accross the Spider-verse
Subjective ranking of all Marvel franchises to date:
(Franchises only. No one-offs (i.e. moon knight, black widow, ms marvel, she hulk, etc. all excluded))
20) Captain America (80s)
19) Spider-Man (70s)
18) Sony live action Spider villains (Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Morbius, Madam Web)
17) Fantastic Four, Fox (FF, FF: Rise of the Silver Surfer)
16) Amazing Spider-man, Andrew Garfield (Amazing Spider-man 1-2)
15) Black Panther (Black Panther, Wakanda Forever)
14) Doctor Strange (Doctor Strange, Doctor Strange: MoM, WandaVision)
13) Thor (Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: Love and Thunder)
12) Ant Man (Ant-man, Ant-man and the Wasp, Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania)
11) X-men (X-Men: First Class, Days of Future Past, Apocolypse, Dark Phoenix)
10) Wolverine (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, Logan)
9) Blade (Blade, Blade 2, Blade: Trinity)
8) Deadpool (Deadpool, Deadpool 2, (Deadpool 3 2024 release))
7) X-Men (X-Men, X2: United, X-Men: The Last Stand)
6) Iron Man (Iron Man 1-3)
5) Netflix Era Defenders (Daredevil Seasons 1-3, Jessica Jones 1-3, Luke Cage 1-2, Iron Fist 1-2, The punisher 1-2, Defenders)
4) Spider-man (Raimi, 1-3)
3) Spider-man (Homecoming, Far From Home, No Way Home)
2) Captain America (The First Avenger, the Winter Soldier, Civil War, Falcon and the Winter Soldier)
1)Gaurdians of the Galaxy (Vol. 1-3)
00) Avengers (Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame)
Top Marvel Directors:
10) Bryan Singer
09) Mathew Vaughn
08) Jon Watts
07) Dustin Daniel Cretin
06) Michael Giacchino
05) James Mangold
04) Ryan Coogler
03) The Russo brothers
02) Sam Raimi
01) Jams Gunn
Honorable mentions: Jon Favreau, Joss Whedon, Joe Johnston, Shane Black, Marc Webb
Top 5 major Marvel Actors
5) Charlie Cox
4) Tobey McGuire
3) Hugh Jackman
2) Chris Evans
1)Robert Downey, Jr.
Honorable Mentions: Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellin, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Paul Rudd, Chris Hemsworth, Chadwick Boseman, Tom Hiddleston, Ryan Reynolds, Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland
Best long-form MCU Character Arcs
8) Thanos
7) Nebula
6) Spider-man (Tom)
5) Loki
4) Thor
3) Iron Man
2) Captain America
1)Rocket Raccoon
MCU Phases Ranked to Date
5) Phase 5 (still ongoing)
4) Phase 2
3) Phase 4
2) Phase 1
1)Phase 3
Best New Additions to MCU-Post Endgame
16) Captain Carter
15)Kahori
14) Echo
13) Kamala Kahn
12) The Contessa AKA Val’ (Valentina Allegra de Fontaine)-played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Val is a great addition to the MCU, though she isn’t quite as interesting as she probably will be someday quite yet. Clearly she is mirroring Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury’s journey from the first couple phases by assembling some villains. Im interested to see where that takes us, because we all know I’m a sucker for a good villain team up.
11) John Walker played by Wyatt Russell
John Walker is incredibly underrated and I would love to see him return. By the end of his debut tv series, he evolved into the US Agent comic fans are familiar with. He offers the world a different take on Captain America, one that further proves how incredible of a human Steve is supposed to be. John is and will always be an interesting character to explore, and Russell played a “knock off dollar store” Cap to a tee. Hopefully the MCU doesn’t drop the ball on this one because I sense some major drama coming surrounding this fascinating character. A lot of people seemed to mis understand the character and didn’t give the show a chance.
10) Sylvie played by Sophia di Martino
Arguably the best variant that Marvel has put up on screen so far since the multiverse saga began. She is undoubtably Loki yet oh so much her own individual. She brings forward something that simultaneously homages Tom Hiddleston as well as offering an interesting character who makes interesting choices. Initially conceived to be the MCU version of the Enchantress, she evolved into being kind of her own thing. Hopefully one day we do get the Enchantress but until then, Sylvie will be more than adequate.
09) Mobius played by Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson will always be watchable even if he played the role of a banana.
08) Adam Warlock played by Will Poulter
Will nailed the character of Warlock, at least the infant side of him. We have yet to see what he will do with the future of the character but so far it’s off to a fantastic start in no short thanks to James Gunn’s expert direction. Will packed on the muscle and underwent quite the transformation for the role.
07) Kang played by Jonathan Majors
It’s a shame that Majors could potentially be replaced due to his personal life’s problems, because man this guy can pull off “bad guy” better than just about anyone before him.
Update: He was fired.
06) Namor played by Tenoch Huerta
Namor played by Huerta delivered a multifaceted, complex borderline antihero/villain that permeated with personality and backstory. Huerta carried himself in a way that frankly sold me on the actor to portray Marvel’s first mutant for years to come.
5) High Evolutionary played by Chuckwudi Iwuji
James Gunn wrote the High Evolutionary to be the biggest piece of s*** you can imagine. It’s rare when we see Disney go all in on villains, and usually when we do, it’s glorious. High Evolutionary is definitely the most intimately scary guy the MCU has seen to date. Spoiler Alert-Recently Kevin Feige let it slip that he isn’t dead yet, which is an exciting prospect to think about where they could take this character in the future.
04) Yelena Bellova played by Florence Pugh
I might get some hate for saying this, but she is better than Scarlet. There, I said it. You will see in time. I called it right here: she will go down in history as the superior Black Widow.
03) Kate Bishop played by Hailee Steinfeld
Hailee doesn’t have a lot of acting chops under belt, but man does she have star power. She is gorgeous, charismatic, funny, personable, plus many more excellent things. She has what it takes to become an A list superhero, and you can mark my words, she will be. It’s clear that they are setting up some very long form storytelling with Kate Bishop, which is exciting because she is arguably the most interesting Young Avenger. Hailee (along with the next two) are arguably the biggest candidates that will one day culturally fill the shoes of the Avengers who have since retired.
02)Moon Knight played by Oscar Issac
Jeez. What a performance. And he’s only just beginning too. Not only that, but the lore that Moon Knight brings to the table is exciting.
01)Shang Chi played by Simu Liu
After I saw Shang Chi for the first time, I remember walking out the theatre and saying “Simu Liu is the next big time Avenger star”. He is funny, charismatic, dynamic with his acting, good looking and buff, and has a real life personality that helps him embody his character. Simu Liu IS Shang Chi already. Can’t wait to see wherever he pops up next, and wherever that may be, is surely to only benefit from his inclusion.
00)Man Thing/WereWolf/Elsa Bloodstone played by Carey Jones, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Laura Donnelly Respectively
In a brisk 55 minute runtime, Werewolf by Night managed to introduce the world to the most fascinating and mysterious trio we have seen on the big screen in a LONG time. They delivered JUST the right amount of information that makes us incredibly intrigued by these characters, without being so short that it was a tease and not quite long enough to get explored. They legit got us hooked, then dipped out. The story telling potential for this trio is just beginning and is by far the most exciting additions to MCU.
Top 10 Marvel Duos
10) Drax and Mantis
9) Thor and Rocket Raccoon
8) Spiderman and Iron Man
7) Captain America and Iron Man
6)Professor X and Magneto (Fassbender/McAvoy)
5) Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson
4) Miles and Peter B Parker
3) Rocket and Groot
2) Mobius and Loki
1)Captain America and Bucky
Honorable mentions: Nick Fury and Agent Coulson, Kate Bishop and Clint Barton, Dr. Strange and Wong, Spider-man and Harry (Raimi), Spider-man and Ned, Loki and Thor, Nebula and Gamora, Wolverine and Jean, Steve and Natasha, Steve and Sam, Nick Fury and Talos