2013 MTV Movie Awards: Top 5 Moments

1. The Avengers Dominate!

No one thought The Avengers would gross $207 million domestically on its opening weekend en route to a worldwide box office haul of $1.5 billion. It was the biggest superhero movie of all-time and some have gone on to say it was (and is) the best. Those are incredible feats to be sure, but perhaps not quite as shocking as The Avengers winning the MTV Movie Award for Best Movie, a category that has been dominated by Twilight in the four shows prior to last night.

It certainly helped that the final Twilight film was not even nominated in the category, but The Avengers had to win out against competitors like Django Unchained and fellow superhero film The Dark Knight Rises. The best part of all of this is not the golden popcorn Joss Whedon can now call his own, but what this victory along with the wins in Best Fight and Best Villain categories represent. To the mainstream audience, even the young ones we thought we had lost to melodramatic vampires and werewolves, have now spoken and placed superheroes at the top of genre filmmaking.

This bodes very well for Disney and Marvel as they prepare to release Iron Man 3 in a matter of weeks. Whedon made sure to remind the live audience and those watching at home that The Avengers 2 is on the way in 2015, though he probably wishes he would have plugged IM3 as the first step toward the next team up. Then again, it's not like the audience is unaware of that fact.

Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, and Whedon all seemed very appreciative and genuinely touched by the recognition their film received last night. They should be, too, as The Avengers earned each of last night's victories. It is a film that will be remembered for not only solidifying the superhero genre's position atop the box office, but also for placing the genre right in the middle of the hearts of minds of fans and mainstream moviegoers all over the world.