Marvel movies have often seen record-breaking success at the worldwide box office resulting in several MCU movies that made over $1 billion, films based on the popular comic book franchise have found equal success domestically. Here are the top 10 Marvel movies, the highest-grossing ones of all time.
The third and final installment in the Iron Man trilogy, Iron Man 3 saw Tony Stark going up against the villainous Mandarin while dealing with the PTSD of his encounter with Loki and the Chitauri in 2012's The Avengers.
The first Doctor Strange was a solid if not overwhelming success for Marvel Studios, grossing around $670 million worldwide. The film's sequel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, drastically improved on its predecessor by grossing almost a billion dollars worldwide.
Spider-Man: Far From Home released in July 2019 at the height of Marvel’s cinematic dominance, following March’s release of Captain Marvel and May’s Avengers: Endgame.
Captain Marvel was released at the height of Marvel's power as the film that directly preceded the culmination of the Infinity Saga, Avengers: Endgame.
Captain America: Civil War posed an interesting plot that started with a disagreement over how the Avengers should be managed on a political level, which broke the band into two factions led by Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, more affectionately known as Captain America and Iron Man.
Black Panther outgrossed three Avengers movies domestically — a franchise that had long been the favorites in the MCU until the late Chadwick Boseman came into his iconic role as T’Challa.
The most recent release on this list and the seventh highest-grossing Marvel movie of all time domestically is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Despite its placement alongside its peers, Avengers: Age of Ultron is still the sixth highest-grossing Marvel movie of all time domestically.
The Avengers really took superhero cinema to a new level when it brought Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Captain America, the Hulk, and Hawkeye under one umbrella to take on Thor’s evil brother (at the time), Loki and the Chitauri.
The culmination of three phases of interconnected Marvel movies meant that Infinity War was more of an event than a movie release. The records broken at the box office evidenced this, as did the $2 billion worldwide total the film pulled in.