Super Villain Bracket

Who is the coolest super villain around?

We had that question and created this bracket as a result. Villains for all superheroes are included, though you will notice in the bracket below that they are mostly Marvel or batman villains. Some of these villains you may have even rooted for. There are a few that have a good side when the greater good is at stake like Magneto, Venom, and Loki. All of these guys are awesome heroes in their own rights. Please enjoy the super villain bracket.

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This bracket is divided into sinister villains in the top left, evil geniuses in the bottom left, villains with cool powers in the top right and characters with brute force in the bottom right. Some of them as always could fit multiple descriptions. I did my best to include most of the great batman villains and all the villains from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but didn't get them all. I also included the typical heavy hitters like Shredder for the Ninja Turtles.There are a few that I left off that I wanted to include hence the crossing out. Arnim Zola is one of those villains and pyro and blob are on the other side of the bracket.

This bracket is written in red pen. It was the only pen around at the time I made these, which was right before a long trip. Don't worry, many brackets in the future are typed out. I wanted to finish out the handwritten ones first before we got to the new typed ones. Anyway, here are our filled out brackets....

Eli's bracket

Eli started out with Jenna's nice handwriting during our long car ride, but you will notice that the writing switches throughout the bracket. Our youngest actually fell asleep during the brackets being filled out and I finished his bracket with him when we arrived and he woke up.

As always though, Eli went with the names that sounded cooler for the most part. He picked yellow jacket to win the whole bracket. Eli thought saying yellow jacket was cool and he really likes yellow jacket's shrinking power. The boys both enjoy the ant-man movie. Yellow Jacket is a cool bad guy from that movie. Losing to yellow jacket in the finals was Red Skull, another awesome character. Rounding out his top 4 were Joker and Sabretooth. That is a solid final 4 that a lot of people would have. Yellow Jacket, Red Skull, Joker, and Sabretooth is an intimidating group of villains.

Noland Jr.'s bracket

Noland's bracket actually surprised me a pretty good amount. I thought for sure that Jr. would have Venom winning his bracket. Venom did make the final 4 though, but Lizard was the pick over Venom. Which makes sense in the grand scheme of things. Noland Jr. does not like villains, but likes the ones that are sometimes good. That is a characteristic that is true for Lizard and Venom. Killer Croc is even a good guy in suicide squad and is known to sometimes fight for the greater good.

So we have that narrative and we know that Jr. doesn't like super evil bad guys....What about one of the most evil bad guys in the Shadow King? Shadow King made it all the way to the finals and he is super bad and creepy. Shadow King never shows a good side. What gives? Well Shadow King was in an episode of X-Men in an African village. Noland loves African animals. Since he liked that episode he overlooked how evil Shadow King was. He picked the Shadow King and surprised us, but justified it because he loved that episode. Oh 5 year olds!!!

Jenna's bracket

Most people would have a bracket looking a lot like this. Two 1 seeds for Jenna and two 2 seeds. Loki, Kingpin, Thanos, and Magneto in the Final 4 with Loki winning it. How popular Loki was in the MCU, he probably should have been a 1 seed. However, Magneto, Joker, Thanos, and Doctor Doom are arguably bigger names. Still, Loki is just so dang entertaining. The master of deception is the master of Jenna's bracket and perhaps another bracket because there is still one more to come. He's sometimes good, but usually about as evil as it gets. Loki is the reason the Avengers had to come together in the first place, but he has fought alongside some Avengers in the last few movies. Such a great character with a lot of depth.

Her other final 4 picks were based on what she has seen. She absolutely loved the kingpin in the Daredevil series. He was our favorite villain from all of the Marvel Netflix series to date. We like him way better than the Hand. Thanos is a character with a lot of layers to him and she quite enjoyed seeing his flawed point of view in the Avengers. He is a really well developed bad guy. Finally, Magneto is perhaps the most iconic bad guy of all. Magneto was the main villain in the X-Men universe and the best known Marvel villain before the MCU started.

My bracket

I had a few choices that were different than others. I had Ronan going further than everyone which was a bit of a surprise to me. If Ronan wasn't up against my champ Loki, he could have made a deep run. The guy wrecked everything in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, which was absolutely terrific by the way. I also had Juggernaut and Rhino going further than other people and Scorpion as well for that matter. I really like those characters from the cartoons of my childhood. Those characters were always my favorites. They were so big and powerful and it often took multiple heroes to stop them. Scorpion always went after J Jonah too and JJ was super annoying, let's be honest.

My toughest choices were Juggenaut over Thanos, Rhino, and then Magneto. I could have easily argued any of those in the top spot for that bracket. Dr. Doom v. Red Skull was another tough decision. Those are probably my 2nd and 3rd favorite villains respectively, but I have always enjoyed Red Skull. That character (the red skull) was always my favorite villain. My favorite villain until recently. Tom Hiddleston has done such a fantastic job with Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that it was actually impossible to pick against him. This guy is the most deserving champ and certainly the best villain. There is everything to like about the character. He has just been brilliantly done. Loki is the champ in 2/4 brackets. Let's see our top 5 overall though.

Top 5 across the brackets
T-5. Yellow Jacket/ Lizard/ Ultron (made 0 final 4s) 9 spots
4. Magneto 10 spots
3. Joker 11 spots (only made 1 final 4)
2. Red Skull 14 spots
1. Loki 15 spots

Loki is the winner of the super villain bracket!

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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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Coolest Superhero Bracket

Noland Jr. loves superheroes. His two biggest passions outside of his family and God are superheroes and animals. You will see a lot of superhero brackets and a lot of animal brackets on this page. He really wanted to do a superhero bracket after his Disney movie bracket. This is the one he has enjoyed doing the most. What made it more fun is that when I posted this one to Facebook, we got a lot of participation on it. Please enjoy our coolest Superhero bracket!!!!!

As you can tell, this bracket has themed groups. You will notice that about all of these brackets. They are all separated by themes or eras. The themes for this bracket were Smart Ass Heroes, with Spider-Man as the favorite and #1 seed, Outer-space heroes with Thor as the #1 seed, Mutants with Captain America as the #1 seed, and rich heroes with Batman as the #1 seed. There were a few stretches in each region, but I put them in the region I thought they fit the best. Characters like Star-Lord could have fit in multiple regions, but he is a smart ass through and through. Captain America isn't technically a mutant, but he did have the Super Soldier serum which pretty much made him a mutant. My main goal with the bracket theme was to put the 3 main Avengers in separate brackets (Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America and Spidey in the 4th. I tried to line them up by who most people would pick, but also seperate Jr.'s favorites as much as possible.

The Outer Space bracket was the weakest in my opinion, but holds enough value with the Guardians, Superman, and Thor. Also when Captain Marvel and Silver Surfer really get introduced, this region will look much stronger, if not be the strongest region of all.

Please note that this bracket is for the coolest superhero. We all picked our favorites, not who would win in a fight. If it was who would win in a fight the seeds would be changed and the winner should be unanimous. You just can't beat Silver Surfer in a fight. The surfer has unlimited power and no real weaknesses. It's kind of pointless to do a bracket like that, so we just picked our favorites and encourage you to do the same.

So here is Noland's bracket which will not come as any surprise to those that know him....

Anything with Spider-Man is unbeatable for this child currently. It was no doubt that Spidey would win and Captain America is his clear #2. Ant-Man is probably his 3rd favorite, but he faced Spidey in the Sweet 16. We forgot to write in Black Panther over War Machine for him, I didn't realize that until I already posted it. I figured Black Panther was going all the way to his Final Four, but he had Wasp take him out. Like I said he is a big Ant-Man fan and has recently started liking Wasp too. Wasp has pretty much the same powers as Ant-Man and is a great ally to him so it makes sense.

You will notice that Junior has a very strong lean towards team Cap. We all do actually. In fact, Iron Man is out in the 1st round for Noland despite him being too young for the X-Men's heyday. Angel still knocks out Iron Man for him. He had Cyclops and Superman going further than everyone else in our family. He's a big Cyclops fan after the family Universal trip. Cyclops spent a lot of quality time with him.

That whole Outer Space bracket was very surprising for me in his selections. Up until this bracket, he was Groot everything. With his selections though, he picked Superman over Groot. None of us are Superman fans so it shocked me when Superman made it to the Top 8. I thought for sure it would be Groot or Rocket in the Final Four. Seeing Thor was a bit of a shock as this was before Infinity War. He has grown to love Thor though. It is very recent, but cool. Thor is an awesome hero as Infinity War proved. I was also shocked that he had Silver Surfer losing to Captain Marvel. This guy always picks male characters over females and he loves Silver Surfer. Captain Marvel is cool though and I am glad he likes her. I was just a tad surprised.

Here is our boy that is always full of surprises...

Eli picked Batman to win it all. Ever since Lego Batman, Eli has been on a Batman kick. Batman says in that movie "Iron Man Sucks" so that also leads to another first round exit for Iron Man. Lego Batman speaks the truth according to my boys. While he hates Iron Man, he loves his best buddy, War Machine. He loves the character and he loves saying War Machine. War Machine makes the top 8, but Iron Man out round 1. Only Eli can do things like that.

Eli had Luke Cage aka Powerman making it all the way to the Finals. He really enjoys saying Powerman and loved Luke Cage on the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. It's cool to see that watching the same show as Noland, he can develop a completely different set of favorite heroes. He also had Drax going to the Final Four. Loving the Guardians like all of us, but picking different favorites. Captain Marvel he decided was fun to say and even not knowing the character, he had her going to the Elite 8. There he had her losing to Drax though.

I wouldn't say he loves Nick Fury, but he did pick him to the Sweet 16. He just didn't really know the other characters and thought saying Fury was cool. My biggest shock was him saying Gambit over Hulk. Must have just enjoyed saying Gambit. I love that character, but Hulk was his favorite until Lego Batman came along. I am not surprised by Mikey and Raphael dominating that bracket for him though. He has started to loved the Ninja Turtles.

Next up, Princess Jenna

As always, Jenna has the extra special pictures and explanations. She went with the family star hero Captain America. We should note though that this was before Infinity War and with only one viewing of Ragnarok. Her favorite at this point is probably Thor and Thor only made it to the Elite 8. Thor is pretty spectacular, but faced a surprisingly tough road to the Final 4.

Want to know something kind of surprising? Jenna is the only person to pick Iron Man in the Round 1 matchup. Not only that, but she also had Iron Man out in the 2nd round. Poor Iron Man. Lego Batman and being against team Cap really lowered his ranking in our family.

Other than that, Jenna pretty much followed our bracket. It was very similar to the rest of the family. There was a strong Guardians of the Galaxy influence with Star-Lord and Groot in the Final Four. The Lego Batman factor was involved in the picks and she loves Cap like the rest of us. The only other one where she picked different from the majority was Iron Fist to the Elite 8. I also love Iron Fist, but couldn't advance him as far.

Now its my turn....

I probably had the most different bracket other than Captain winning. I had several choices that were different from my family, but I also probably know the most heroes. Captain is clearly my favorite and has been for years, but there were some really tough choices. I did not design the bracket so my favorites could get through. That being said, it was cool that Daredevil was able to get into my final as my second favorite hero. Tough to beat the blind superhero from Hell's Kitchen.

I had some tough choices with Black Panther over Iron Fist and Black Panther over Batman. They are all Top 10 heroes to me and I'd rank them about the same. I chose Black Panther because I think he's just a bit cooler. Groot over Rocket was also an incredibly tough choice. After watching Infinity War I probably would go with Rocket over Groot actually, but I really love Groot. Silver Surfer over Thor would be seen as an upset, but I really like Silver Surfer. With that said, after Infinity War, I am liking Thor a lot better and he'd probably do better if I redid this bracket. I probably would have Spider-Man beating Punisher in an updated bracket, but Punisher used to be a Top 5 hero for me. Tom Holland is adding a lot of value to Spidey for me. That and my son is obsessed so it's causing me to like the hero more. My toughest choice was Falcon over Star Lord at the time. After Infinity War, I am thrilled with my decision. Why Peter why?

A couple people were hurt massively by where they were on the bracket. I like Hawkeye a lot better than some of the people in my Sweet 16, but he was up against Falcon and Falcon is in my Top 5. Falcon gets knocked out early though because he goes against my number 2 in the Sweet 16. The Thing also is a really amazing hero, but he was up against my #2 hero Daredevil. Namor could have won a few matchups, but he's not beating Batman. Yondu has a lot to offer as a character, but he is not beating Rocket. Michalangelo is by far the best ninja turtle, but he's not beating Cap. The leader of the ninja turtles isn't beating my favorite from the X-Men either. Doctor Strange has super cool powers, but not as cool as Ant-Man. Wasp has those same cool powers, but had to go against the Dark Knight.

This is my favorite bracket to date. I really love it. And I love that Captain America was so well represented.
#TeamCap

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My friend Tyler Colan decided to be awesome and do his own bracket for us as well.

Tyler went above and beyond and even left a note. He stated that his top 4 were all on the right side of the bracket so his Final Four isn't a true Final Four. Jean Gray was knocked out in the Sweet 16 despite being his number 3 hero. Tyler wished it was seeded a little differently for this reason. He did not like the outer space section, but ultimately picked Thor to win that section. Like the rest of us, he was not a big fan of Superman or Supergirl. He's more of a Marvel guy then DC just like us as well. The exception to Marvel v. DC for him like the Robinsons is Batman. The Dark Knight is the one DC character that can compete with Marvel's greatness. He won Tyler's bracket for Batman's 2nd win so far in this bracket (Eli was the 1st). In his note section Tyler discusses this further and why DC is not great, but Batman is the best.

His bracket would look much different if we split up the X-Men more. Tyler loves the X-Men and they would make up at least half his Final 4 if it were split up accordingly. Maybe we will have to do an all X-Men bracket at some point when the boys get into it more?

My sister also created a superhero bracket

Her bracket again looks similar to the rest of us. Captain America won for her as well. It only took her 27 years of me pushing her into it for her to finally admit Cap was the best. This is Cap's 3rd win out of 6. He also was the runner up in Noland Jr.'s bracket. Captain America is the clear favorite so far. This could change if other people put input in. He is just has so much integrity and he is such a great guy.

I honestly thought she would pick Thor and might have if we did these after Infinity War came out. How cool was Thor in that movie? Thor still made the final though and joined Captain America, Batman, and Star-Lord in the Final 4.

She originally went with Luke Cage, but changed it to Doctor Strange. We are all liking Doctor Strange more by the day. He might be one that pops up again on another bracket in the future.

Surprisingly, the Ninja Turtles did awful with my sister. None advanced past the second round and all, but Michelangelo were out in the 1st round.

After all 6 brackets, here were our top 5 heroes!!!
T-3. Thor/ Groot/ Spider-Man (18 spots)
2. Batman (23 spots)
And #1 by a substantial margin
1. Captain America (26 spots)

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Until next time my fellow Superhero lovers!!!