How the Marvel Cinematic Universe bracket works
Rank Marvel movies without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Iron Man or The Avengers? Black Panther or Avengers: Endgame? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. By the end you have ranked all 32 without ever having to look at more than two at a time.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 films in the field. The field is reshuffled on every play, so the same film can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Iron Man, The Avengers, Black Panther and Avengers: Endgame.
Iron Man
2008
The Avengers
2012
Black Panther
2018
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
Captain America: Civil War
2016
Doctor Strange
2016
Ant-Man
2015
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
The Incredible Hulk
2008
Iron Man 2
2010
Thor
2011
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011
Iron Man 3
2013
Thor: The Dark World
2013
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
Captain Marvel
2019
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019
Black Widow
2021
Eternals
2021
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2017
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2023
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 116 completed Marvel Cinematic Universe brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Avengers: Infinity War
390W - 69L · won 45 brackets
85%
win rate
- 2
Avengers: Endgame
307W - 89L · won 25 brackets
78%
win rate
- 3
Captain America: Civil War
252W - 108L · won 8 brackets
70%
win rate
- 4
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
216W - 106L · won 10 brackets
67%
win rate
- 5
The Avengers
211W - 112L · won 3 brackets
65%
win rate
- 6
Spider-Man: No Way Home
188W - 108L · won 7 brackets
64%
win rate
- 7
Guardians of the Galaxy
169W - 113L · won 2 brackets
60%
win rate
- 8
Iron Man
157W - 113L · won 2 brackets
58%
win rate
- 9
Thor: Ragnarok
154W - 112L · won 2 brackets
58%
win rate
- 10
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
137W - 111L · won 3 brackets
55%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Pick the film you would actually rewatch tonight, not the one with the better reputation.
- 2The default run puts all 32 films in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Marvel Cinematic Universe bracket FAQ
How many films are in the Marvel Cinematic Universe bracket?
The pool holds 32 films. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which films are included?
Iron Man, The Avengers, Black Panther, Avengers: Endgame, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank Marvel movies take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other film grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two films that never met. If you would rather place the films into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these films?
Every completed bracket feeds the Marvel Cinematic Universe community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own marvel cinematic universe bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own films, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.