Ranking the Superhero Projects of 2025

8. Marvel Zombies

This was a hot mess of nothing. The plot was barely there and honestly the animation style took you out of the story approximately every 30 seconds because everyone looked the same and no one looked like their characters. The ending was clearly rushed and undeveloped. No one thought this story out. This was not a project that anyone was passionate about, there was no thought, no love, absolutely no indication that a single person cared about what was being put out. Dead last, there was really nothing enjoyable about this movie.

7. Captain America: Brave New World

Then we have the latest Captain America movie but unfortunately it seems no one told Marvel that it was a Captain America movie. Because not only did Sam not get Cap’s theme music, don’t get me started, but also the story didn’t have anything to do with Captain America. They spent too much time on red Hulk and honestly too much time referencing the shitty Hulk movie in general when we should have been focusing our energy on Isiah Bradley and Sam trying to undo the wrongs of the past and getting the general public and more importantly the US government to see Sam as Cap. It was a wildly disappointing movie and we know why it was bad and not handled as well as Chris Evans’ Captain America movies.

6. Thunderbolts

Oh there is nothing I hate more than movies that have great potential but end up sucking. I loved the mental health angle. I loved the centering the film around Yelena. I think the problems came mostly from structure but also partially from having too many people in the core cast. I did say this when the cast was first announced, I also had my reservations with how the interactions between Bucky and John were going to be handled and I was 100% correct in my concern. They not only didn’t really acknowledge the two of them and their history and baggage but John was kind of useless entirely. Like Jon Snow after he was brought back from the dead just walking around doing a whole lot of nothing. I think we should have cut him from the cast, also Taskmaster since they wasted her anyway and honestly Ghost wasn’t necessary. If we just had a story about Alexie and Yelena reconnecting and trying to find purpose and they decide to build a team in order to forge a family and that’s how they find Bob. Then Bob, with his powers that he can’t control ends up helping Yelena work through her helplessness; it would have been a much better movie. They had the right idea but the worst execution.

5. Daredevil

It’s a great show, my only real sticking point because it's sort of the purpose of my whole existence is the fact that they butchered Vanessa Fisk’s character beyond repair. She is unrecognizable from her comic book counterpart and it's inexcusable. “But in the original series” yeah it was a shit adaptation then too and one that was extremely easy to fix, they chose to double down instead and that means I get to bully them for their horribly sexist bullshit decision. Destroying a single character beyond recognition and that single character being one of the only women in the show and the other woman in the show being nothing but a plot device isn’t a good look.

4. Iron Heart

I don’t understand the hate for this. I really don’t. It was good, it was funny, Riri is a badass and ya know what I do understand and I think we all understand why it got hate, still don’t understand the hate though. I don’t think that the MCU is going to bother following up on it. I don’t think there will be a second season, I don’t think we are going to see Riri back on the big screen anytime soon.

3. Eyes of Wakanda

Honestly brilliant. It gave us the exact amount of episodes it needed to. It was such a brilliant way to tell Wakanda’s story while weaving them into history and exposing them to the rest of the world. They very easily could have made the episodes fully isolated but they tied them together so well. It was badass and beautiful to look at.

2. Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four was everything I wanted it to be and more. All casting reservations I had were 100% unfounded and completely wrong. I’ve never been so happy to be incorrect. Pedro Pascal was a perfect casting choice, his permanent puppy dog eyes really helped soften Reed and made him more sympathetic. Vanessa Kirby could not have been more perfect. Sue saving the day is the only thing that made sense. And the choice to center it around the idea of family was the most correct choice they could have made.

1. Superman

Anyone who thinks this is a bad movie, and even worse a bad adaptation of Superman is not only wrong, they are profoundly, painfully stupid. This movie was incredible. It WAS Superman. It felt the most like a comic book movie a comic book film has felt in a LONG time. David was such an incredible casting choice. The way they portrayed Lois was perfect. I loved that it wasn’t an origin story and it dropped us in the middle of the action.