How the Superhero Movies bracket works
Rank superhero movies without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — The Dark Knight or Spider-Man: No Way Home? Avengers: Endgame or Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 32-deep order worth screenshotting.
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. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. 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 The Dark Knight, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
The Dark Knight
2008 - DC
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 - Marvel
Avengers: Endgame
2019 - Marvel
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 - Sony
Black Panther
2018 - Marvel
Avengers: Infinity War
2018 - Marvel
Logan
2017 - Fox
Iron Man
2008 - Marvel
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014 - Marvel
Spider-Man 2
2004 - Sony
Batman Begins
2005 - DC
The Batman
2022 - DC
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 - Fox
Wonder Woman
2017 - DC
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014 - Marvel
Thor: Ragnarok
2017 - Marvel
The Incredibles
2004 - Pixar
Superman
1978 - DC
Deadpool
2016 - Fox
Spider-Man
2002 - Sony
Joker
2019 - DC
X-Men: First Class
2011 - Fox
Shazam!
2019 - DC
Across the Spider-Verse
2023 - Sony
Doctor Strange
2016 - Marvel
Aquaman
2018 - DC
The Avengers
2012 - Marvel
Captain America: Civil War
2016 - Marvel
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024 - Marvel
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2023 - Marvel
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017 - Marvel
X2: X-Men United
2003 - Fox
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 15 completed Superhero Movies brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
The Dark Knight
44W - 10L · won 5 brackets
81%
win rate
- 2
Avengers: Infinity War
28W - 14L · won 1 bracket
67%
win rate
- 3
Across the Spider-Verse
27W - 14L · won 1 bracket
66%
win rate
- 4
Spider-Man 2
24W - 13L · won 2 brackets
65%
win rate
- 5
Guardians of the Galaxy
24W - 14L · won 1 bracket
63%
win rate
- 6
The Batman
21W - 13L · won 2 brackets
62%
win rate
- 7
Avengers: Endgame
22W - 15L
59%
win rate
- 8
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
20W - 14L · won 1 bracket
59%
win rate
- 9
Spider-Man: No Way Home
20W - 15L
57%
win rate
- 10
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
20W - 15L
57%
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.
- 3Watch for the film you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Superhero Movies bracket FAQ
How many films are in the Superhero Movies 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?
The Dark Knight, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Logan, Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man 2, Batman Begins and The Batman, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank superhero 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 Superhero Movies 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 superhero movies 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.