How the Marvel Characters bracket works
Marvel character sorter without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Spider-Man or Iron Man? Wolverine or Captain America? — 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 options in the field. Seeding is random, which means a replay is a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. 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 Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wolverine and Captain America.
Spider-Man
Peter Parker
Iron Man
Tony Stark
Wolverine
Logan
Captain America
Steve Rogers
Thor
God of Thunder
Black Panther
T'Challa
Hulk
Bruce Banner
Doctor Strange
Stephen Strange
Deadpool
Wade Wilson
Scarlet Witch
Wanda Maximoff
Black Widow
Natasha Romanoff
Thanos
The Mad Titan
Loki
God of Mischief
Groot
I Am Groot
Rocket Raccoon
Guardians of the Galaxy
Storm
Ororo Munroe
Gamora
Guardians of the Galaxy
Vision
Synthezoid
Hawkeye
Clint Barton
Ant-Man
Scott Lang
Nick Fury
Director of SHIELD
War Machine
James Rhodes
Falcon / Captain America
Sam Wilson
Winter Soldier
Bucky Barnes
Star-Lord
Peter Quill
Drax
The Destroyer
Miles Morales
Spider-Man
Magneto
Erik Lehnsherr
Professor X
Charles Xavier
Jean Grey
Phoenix
Cyclops
Scott Summers
Shang-Chi
Master of Kung Fu
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 8 completed Marvel Characters brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Spider-Man
26W - 5L · won 3 brackets
84%
win rate
- 2
Iron Man
22W - 7L · won 1 bracket
76%
win rate
- 3
Scarlet Witch
12W - 6L · won 2 brackets
67%
win rate
- 4
Captain America
14W - 8L
64%
win rate
- 5
Thor
12W - 7L · won 1 bracket
63%
win rate
- 6
Rocket Raccoon
11W - 7L · won 1 bracket
61%
win rate
- 7
Loki
12W - 8L
60%
win rate
- 8
Magneto
11W - 8L
58%
win rate
- 9
Deadpool
10W - 8L
56%
win rate
- 10
Wolverine
9W - 8L
53%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Trust the first instinct. Overthinking a matchup usually produces a ranking you do not agree with later.
- 2The default run puts all 32 options in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
Marvel Characters bracket FAQ
How many options are in the Marvel Characters bracket?
The pool holds 32 options. 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 options are included?
Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wolverine, Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, Hulk, Doctor Strange, Deadpool, Scarlet Witch, Black Widow and Thanos, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Marvel character sorter 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 option 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 options that never met. If you would rather place the options 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 options?
Every completed bracket feeds the Marvel Characters 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 characters bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own options, 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.