Ranking: Every MCU Final Battle From Worst To Best

10. Captain America Vs. Red Skull (Captain America: The First Avenger)

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As Allied soldiers assault Red Skull's compound, Cap manages to sneak onto the crimson guy's jet while he flees. After dismantling the guards, exiting the ship and flying back onto it again, the fight is on.

This one's a pretty rough slug-fest, but clearly more concerned with the stakes of the Tesseract, which is on-board the ship and obviously has huge implications for the MCU's future.

It's nevertheless an incredibly short fight that ends with Cap breaking open the Tesseract container, and when Red Skull touches the cube, he's incinerated by it. Suicide much? Or would it in fact be deemed "death by adventure?"

Rating: Well-staged with high-stakes and an iconic, emotionally gratifying payoff where Cap sacrifices himself, but very little in terms of actual fighting. 5/10

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