4. The Avengers (2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fiJMQV8Mc After scoring Captain America: The First Avenger in 2011, composer Alan Silvestri was pegged by Marvel Studios to take on the big task of scoring The Avengers. His theme for the film plays it a little on the safe side in terms of failing to push any boundaries with it, but that doesn't take away from the fact the theme is big, heroic and more than fitting for the highly-anticipated team-up. Look no further than the moment in the film after the Hulk punches the Chitauri Leviathan and viewers get their first major look at the fully-assembled team as the theme plays in its full glory to see how much it works. Whether it makes a return or not for the upcoming sequel, Age of Ultron, or if Silvestri's replacement Brian Tyler jettisons it for the creation of his own like he did with Patrick Doyle's for Thor: The Dark World is up in the air. As it stands, Tyler has a solid foundation on which to build out from Silvestri's theme and hopefully he will succeed in solidifying it into a truly iconic musical identity that the Avengers deserve.
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