Greatest Superhero Movie Bracket

With Noland Jr. loving superheroes the way that he does, I thought it was fitting to make this bracket for him and for all of us to fill it out. This bracket was a little harder because he didn't know all of the movies. I could have made this bracket much smaller and not included the final region. The no DC/ no Marvel region was a little tough for them outside of the animated movies. Noland Jr. played along well with it though as you will see. Eli was just saying stuff lol. Hope you enjoy the Greatest Superhero Movie Bracket.

Again, we had themed regions, but as stated earlier it was difficult for the boys on that last region. The regions are Marvel Team Ups, Marvel Solo movies, DC Universe, and Neither DC or Marvel. This bracket is so large because there are so many superhero movies and the amazing MCU couldn't fit in one region of a standard 16 team region. Therefore, I had to split it up a little bit and include some of the non MCU Marvel movies.

The boys have seen Power Rangers, the turtle movies, the Incredibles, and Big Hero 6 in that No DC of Marvel section. They haven't seen most of the movies on the DC Universe section either, but they did their best with just knowing the characters involved. If they didn't know the characters like Swamp Thing v. Constantine, they just did the best with what they had. This is one that Noland Jr. really wanted to do and he likes the biggest bracket possible so I made it happen. I could have included some other movies like Blade 2, but he hasn't seen the Blade movies either. Maybe I could have also included the animated Turtles movie for a 4th Turtles movie. Either way though, the boys had fun and so did we. I wrote out the participants in the bracket, but Jenna filled out the brackets for us as we talked about them and drove across state. Super fun task for you to do and feel free to use any of our brackets to use. Enjoy our super hero brackets.

Let's start with Noland Jr.'s bracket...

What is the 1st thing you notice?
If you are like me, you notice the weird drawing under his champion. That drawing was his "Spider-Man web shooters." He decided to make them in honor of Spider-Man: Homecoming since he picked that movie as his champ. His Spider-Man love shined through so much that he even picked the dreadful Spider-Man 3 all the way to the Finals....

The Spidey love was predictable, though I thought he would pick Guardians of the Galaxy in the team bracket. His Robocop prediction was not. I guess we will have to let him watch Robocop now. Top 4? What? 1st he had it knocking off the 2nd Turtles movie, Secret of the Ooze, then it knocked of Turtles in Time. A movie he has never seen knocking off two classics. Craziness. He had Big Hero 6 going shorter than all the rest of us too. I thought Big Hero 6 was running to the Final 4 with him. Not to be. Maybe it will with Eli....

Now for Eli's choices...

Eli's choice went a little more like we expected it to. Big Hero 6 was the obvious favorite in his eyes and won the bracket as expected. He absolutely loves that movie, especially Baymax. Again, Robocop upset Secret of the Ooze, but he just liked saying Robocop. I kind of expected it too. Perhaps, the only real surprise came from how well Jumper did. Eli kept saying Jumper while jumping as he advanced it all the way until it played Big Hero 6 in the Elite 8.

His Final 4 was rounded out with Batman Begins, Captain America: Civil War, and Spider-Man: Homecoming. All of those choices were expected. He really likes watching the Marvel movies on the list. Eli didn't advance any movies he hadn't seen over ones he had other than Robocop. His actually made a lot of sense for his age and what he has seen.

Here comes Jenna's list.....

Jenna was not a huge fan of the bottom part of this bracket. She thought I should have just stuck with Marvel, but still played along. She had more loyalty to the original Cap movie than even I did as a huge Cap fan. Her and Eli both picked Doctor Strange over Black Panther in a strange decision. That being said neither had seen Black Panther until after this bracket was complete.We now own that movie, so opinions have changed to a degree. It would not have advanced past Thor though for my Thor loving wife. Thor loses to Cap on one side while the latest Thor takes the cake overall. More examples of Jenna thinking Captain America and Thor are the two best heroes. It has been evident in the Marvel brackets to this point. There is a clear separation after those two.

Star-Lord and Groot are right behind Thor and Cap. She holds the Guardians of the Galaxy in high regard and they are her favorite team of superheroes. The original Guardians of the Galaxy making the Elite 8. Really it's her 3rd favorite, but it went up against her favorite Ragnarok. Civil War and the original Avengers would have done better if they didn't face that movie. Jenna was a big fan of Korg. Let's be honest though, we all loved Korg. Where was Korg in Infinity War?

Finally, it's my turn.....

The way the bracket broke I had some tougher calls early than late. The three toughest calls of the non-DC or Marvel bracket were in the first three rounds. Original turtles over turtles in time was the right call, but I did enjoy that 3rd movie. Big Hero 6 is better than the Incredibles, but I wanted to put Incredibles further. Finally the sweet 16 matchup of Big Hero 6 v. original turtles was also tough.

For the Marvel bracket, Iron Man v. Blade was tough only because I would have liked Blade to go further. Iron Man is one of the greatest movies of all-time though so Blade had no chance. Original Captain America v. original Iron Man was also a tough call. However, the 1st MCU movie won out. Speaking of MCU, the only MCU movie I did not like was Iron Man 3. Get that mess out of here. It was irrelevant in the universe. Iron Man 2 isn't great, but it is entertaining at times. Iron Man 3 is just pure trash. Black Panther v. Doctor Strange was another tough one because Doctor Strange can do some sweet stuff. I enjoy that movie more each time I see it. Panther was cooler though and more iconic. There is no beating Winter Soldier though.

The Marvel team bracket featured a tough matchup in round 2 as well. Ragnarok against Civil War. Two outstanding movies. Civil War gets the edge, but Ragnarok was fantastic and truly set the stage for Infinity War. It also made Thor an even more likable character, which is a trend that continued in Infinity War. Speaking of Infinity War, choosing between it and Civil War was incredibly difficult after only one viewing of the latest Avengers movie. Still, a decision had to be made, and I believe I made the right decision.

The DC Universe bracket was the weakest by far for me, but the Dark Knight stands head and shoulders above the other movies DC has produced. The Dark Knight is one of the greatest movies produced period, not just DC. Batman Begins is also incredibly good. Other than Batman movies, I don't really enjoy what DC brings to the table. It just is not quality. Hopefully, that can change one day, but for now Marvel owns the superhero game.

Our top 5 movies based on spots advanced in the bracket
T-4. Captain America: Civil War/ Spider-Man: Homecoming (12 spots)
3. Batman Begins (14 spots)
2. Big Hero 6 (15 spots)
1. Captain America: Winter Soldier (17 spots)

Captain America: Winter Soldier is the clear top performer in the bracket. Such an unbelievably wonderful movie. One that we truly enjoyed and one you should see immediately if you have not. The movie gave us Falcon. It gave us Bucky back. This masterpiece truly changed the superhero movie game. Its twists and turns were epic and the Russo brothers completely nailed this flick as always. Winter Soldier was as good as it gets and the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets pretty dang good. It will be tough for them to beat this one in the future.

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Until next week

- Noland

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