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Post-Infinity War: Rank the MCU trilogies

What is the top MCU trilogy?

  • Iron Man trilogy

  • Thor trilogy

  • Captain America trilogy

  • Avengers trilogy


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I recommend the following scoring system:

Iron Man = 9
Iron Man 2 = 7
Iron Man 3 = 8

Iron Man Trilogy = 24

But whatever works. I appreciate your input either way.
 
Avengers will be a quadrilogy, so it's a bit unfair, but Avengers easily takes this. The most consistency between all the films.
 
1 - Avengers trilogy

2- Captain America Trilogy

3 - Thor Trilogy

4 - Iron Man Trilogy
 
In an earlier poll i went with Avengers - I guess i kind of feel like Civil War is almost an Avengers film. As its a draw, below, Im going with Cap this time.

Anyway here goes , scores out of ten.

Iron Man =9
Iron Man 2 = 6
Iron Man 3 = 5
Total = 20

Avengers = 8 ( great cbm but a little overrated)
Age of Ultron = 8 ( what can I say, I like this movie)
Infinty War = 9, wow, just wow !
Total = 25

Cap TFA = 6
Cap TWS = 9
Cap CW = 10 , such an amazing film.
Total = 25


Thor = 7
Thor TDW = 8, I really enjoyed this movie
Ragnarok = 9
Total = 24

Guardians of the Galaxy = 10, love this film.
Guardians of the Galaxy vol2 =8

Dr Strange = 9
 
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1. Captain America
2. Avengers
3. Thor
4. Iron Man
 
1. Captain America
2. Avengers
3. Thor
4. Iron Man

This rightchea.

Avengers doesn't work as a trilogy and Cap 2 is the best film the MCU has done for my money. TFA is highly underrated and CW is actually a little bit overrated, but still really good.

Avengers was groundbreaking with character work, Avengers 2 was character work with zero groundbreaking, and Infinity War was groundbreaking but didn't develop any of the characters except [blackout]Thanos[/blackout]
 
Captain America for me, since Avengers won't be a trilogy for long and Cap follows an arc through those three films. To boot, each Cap film improves over the last one.

Next would be Avengers. AOU is the weak link here but I still think it's pretty good.

Iron Man and Thor are sort of neck and neck for me because IMO each trilogy has one great film (Iron Man, Thor: Ragnarok) and two okay films (IM2 and 3, Thor and TDW).
 
Since the Avengers' is best measured as a quadrilogy and isn't complete yet, I'd say Captain America, followed by Iron Man, and then Thor. I believe GOTG may move past IM and into the top 3 once it completes its own trilogy.
 
While Avengers 4 is not released, I don't view Avengers as a trilogy. So I immediately disqualify it from the list. As for the others, I would rank them as:

Captain America
Thor
Iron Man
 
1) Avengers
2) Thor
3) Captain America
4) Iron Man
 
Avengers = 10
Age of Ultron = 8
Infinty War = 9
Total = 27

Cap TFA = 5
Cap TWS = 10
Cap CW = 8
Total = 23

Thor = 5
Thor TDW = 6
Ragnarok = 10
Total = 21

Iron Man =7
Iron Man 2 = 5
Iron Man 3 = 3
Total = 15
 
Cap "trilogy" - better character work. Avengers "trilogy" - better overall entertainment.
 
1. Avengers Trilogy (A1 = 9, AOU = 8, IW = 10) Overall 9

2. Captain America Trilogy (Cap 1 = 8, The Winter Soldier = 9.5, Civil War = 9) Overall 8.75

3. Thor trilogy (Thor 1 = 8, The Dark World =7, Ragnarok = 9.5) Overall 8.5

4. Iron Man trilogy (Iron Man 1 = 9.5, Iron Man 2 = 6.5, Iron Man 3 = 8) Overall 8

To be fair, Thor had three different directors and while Cap and IM had two different directors his latter two directors greatly surpass Iron Man and Thor's as CMB directors.
 
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My top 4 trilogies in the MCU are as follows:

4- Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3
3- Thor, Thor The Dark World and Thor Ragnarok
2- Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War

1- Avengers, Avengers Age of Ultron and Avengers Infinity War
 
1) Avengers
2) Captain America

I like every Cap movie more than Age of Ultron, but I like the first Avengers and Infinity War more than any Cap film.

3) Iron Man
4) Thor
 
Toss up between Avengers and Cap. I like the two Cap sequels better than the Avengers movies but I like all 3 Avenger movies better than the Cap origin film.
 
1. Avengers Trilogy = TA (9) + AOU (6) + IW(10) = 25
2. Cap Trilogy = TFA (8) + WS (9) + CW (7) = 24
3. Thor Trilogy = Thor 1 (7) + TDW (5) + TR (8) = 20
4. IM Trilogy = IM (7) + IM2 (5) + IM3 (7) = 19
 
Avengers, simply because a superhero team is more interesting than a trilogy for 1 character.

1. Avengers
2. Steve
3. Tony / Thor (tie)
 
I still in all good faith cannot call Avengers a trilogy. Avengers 4 was made at the same time and directly links to the 3rd film. Calling it a trilogy makes very little sense to me.
 
Captain America
Iron Man
Thor

Cannot count Avengers. Even if Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4 are two-parters, they're still two separate films.
 
1. Avengers "Trilogy" = TA (10) + AOU (8) + IW (10) = 28
3. Thor Trilogy = Thor 1 (9) + TDW (8) + TR (10) = 27
4. Cap Trilogy = TFA (7) + WS (10) + CW (8) = 25
4. IM Trilogy = IM (7) + IM2 (6) + IM3 (6) = 19
 
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