Marvel Cinematic Universe: Soundtrack Scores Ranked From Worst To Best

Alan Silvestri returned to score The Avengers after his work on Captain America: The First Avenger, making him the first composer to score more than one of the MCU films. He reused his Captain America theme here, while also composing the now iconic Avengers theme music itself.

Director Joss Whedon considered him perfect for the role, saying that he brought something of an older style of composing to the project. He was able to combine huge, highly emotive cues along with smaller, character specific motifs.

Silvestri spoke of the daunting size of the project as, though he had scored many films with multiple characters before, this was the first project where each of the main characters represented a different, yet equally large, portion of the universe. His theme for The Avengers attempted to encapsulate that.

One minor criticism can be leveled at the score, which is also directed at Whedon. Barring the Captain America theme, there is no attempt to resurrect any of the themes from the previous entries in the MCU. The reason this stands out is because the film itself is a major triumph in film making, blending the various character arcs together into a successful, if streamlined, whole.

However, the Black Widow theme that is created here, based in Eastern European threads and developed through Red Ledger, is another wonderful new creation by Silvestri. Based on the strength of this score, his return to the MCU would herald some of the biggest and most memorable cues in action cinema.