Every MCU Movie Superhero Team Ranked Worst To Best
It's not just about the Avengers or the Guardians, you know!
More than any other genre, superhero movies in shared universes lend themselves to taking individual characters and smushing them together to make a team. That's why the very mention of the Avengers Initiative when Iron Man was released was so exciting: we hadn't even met the individual heroes and we were getting to play with them all together. Like getting Action Man to play with He-Man and your Transformers - it just broadens horizons immediately.
That's also why there are so many superhero team-ups in MCU movies and TV shows. After all, Kevin Feige is no more than a kid, clever kid with a toy box full of Marvel characters. The question is, though, which is the best?
In the interest of establishing some firm rules, only team-ups that either consist of three or more members, have some sort of bad-ass name or are given their own legitimate mission need apply. So no Cloak & Dagger, no Ant-Man & The Wasp and Iron Bros (okay, maybe that one's made up, but War Machine and Iron Man were pretty close).
Anyway, which teams made the cut and which ranks bottom? As if you didn't already know...
14. The Inhumans
After suffering the ignominy of being given a movie and then having it taken away from them (albeit with the sweetener of the show's debut screening in IMAX), The Inhumans went the way of the dodo, largely thanks to poor story-telling and soap opera melodrama.
It didn't help, more crucially, that the characters simply weren't great and the hero "team" led by Black Bolt simply were not interesting enough, despite some good casting. The quicker Marvel bring in mutants and the X-Men wipe away memories of this misfire, the better.
13. The Warriors Three
Aside for the misnomer of their title in the MCU, the Warriors Three should have been pretty great. Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg were all warriors of legendary acclaim and the rest of the team was made up (at various times) of Thor - Asgard's mightiest hero - and Sif, who was basically even better than him.
But the MCU badly abused the Warriors Three through neglect and apathy after an interesting introduction and largely just sort of forgot about them. Much like Jane Foster, Sif disappeared entirely - despite Ragnarok threatening her home - and Thor's initiation as an Avenger meant he had no time for his former buddies.
In the end, the Three are killed off comically quickly in Ragnarok as a means to clean up some loose ends. It's despicable treatment, but because they're so badly written, it's like an act of mercy.