With the jury still out on how interested audiences are in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel Studios can celebrate an achievement this week. Several of its past hits made appearances on the domestic Disney+ viewership charts, underscoring why the MCU remains the highest-grossing film franchise of all time. Beginning in 2008 with the first Iron Man film, the superhero franchise has generated more than $30 billion worldwide. Avengers: Doomsday is being viewed as a make-or-break moment in the franchise’s history, after an uneven half-decade that has seen it fall to unprecedented depths. During this time, Marvel has released outright box-office bombs such as The Marvelsand Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, as well as unexpected underperformers such as The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Marvel is leaving no stone unturned to make sure audiences give the franchise another chance with Avengers: Doomsday, bringing back not only directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo but also Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans. The Russo brothers joined the franchise with Captain America: The Winter Soldierand were then handed the reins to Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which together grossed nearly $5 billion worldwide. However, this past weekend saw an earlier Avengers movie strike back on streaming. It remains the most divisive of the four Avengers films so far, but it featured perhaps the most human sequence in any of them.
Collider Exclusive · Marvel Personality Quiz Which MCU Hero Are You? Spider-Man · Daredevil · Iron Man · Punisher · Thor · Cap
Six heroes. One destiny. Answer 10 questions to discover which Marvel Cinematic Universe hero shares your personality, values, and fighting spirit. Will you swing, fly, or thunder your way to glory?
🕷️Spider-Man
😈Daredevil
🤖Iron Man
💀Punisher
⚡Thor
🛡️Cap
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What drives you to do what’s right? Choose the answer that feels most like you.
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It’s 2 AM. Where are you? Your answer says more about you than you’d think.
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How do you handle a villain who keeps escaping justice? Every hero has a method. What’s yours?
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How do you feel about keeping a secret identity? The mask — or the lack of one — says everything.
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You’ve lost someone important because of your heroism. How do you carry that? Every hero pays a price. The question is how they pay it.
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What’s your role when working with a team? Who you are under pressure is who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line between justice and revenge? The answer defines what kind of hero you really are.
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When you’re not saving the world, what does life look like? The person behind the mask is always the more interesting story.
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What keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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The battle is lost. You’re outnumbered, outgunned, and exhausted. What do you do? This is your tiebreaker — choose carefully.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your MCU Hero Is…
Based on your answers, the Marvel hero who matches your spirit, values, and instincts has been revealed.
Queens, New York
🕷️ Spider-Man
You carry the weight of the world on shoulders that are younger than they should have to be — funny, loyal, and endlessly self-sacrificing.
You do the right thing not because it’s easy, but because no one else will.
You understand that responsibility isn’t a burden you choose — it’s one that finds you.
Whether it’s a neighbourhood mugging or a multiverse crisis, you show up.
Peter Parker’s lesson — that great power demands great responsibility — isn’t a slogan to you. It’s the code you live by, even when it costs you everything.
Hell’s Kitchen, New York
😈 Daredevil
You fight in the shadows between law and chaos, guided by a fierce moral compass that refuses to let the guilty walk free.
You use every tool available — your mind, your body, your faith — to protect those the system overlooks.
You’ve looked into the darkness and chosen not to become it, though the line has never been easy.
Matt Murdock’s duality — champion in the courtroom, devil in the alley — mirrors your own.
Relentless, conflicted, and unwilling to stop. That is exactly you.
Stark Industries, Malibu
🤖 Iron Man
Brilliant, driven, and occasionally insufferable — but always the person who solves the unsolvable problem.
You lead with your mind and back it up with resources, innovation, and a stubbornness that borders on heroic.
You started out looking out for yourself, but somewhere along the way the world became your responsibility.
Tony Stark’s arc — from ego to sacrifice — is your arc too.
You build, you plan, and when the moment comes, you’re willing to give everything. Because in the end, you’re Iron Man.
New York City
💀 The Punisher
You’ve been through fire that would break most people — and it did change you, completely. What’s left is unyielding, relentless, and operating by a code forged in grief.
You don’t ask for forgiveness, and you don’t expect gratitude.
You see a corrupt, broken world and you’ve decided to do something about it, consequences be damned.
Frank Castle’s war is born from love twisted by loss — and so is yours.
Uncompromising and unflinching — the world may not agree with your methods, but your conviction is absolute.
Asgard · Protector of the Nine Realms
⚡ Thor
Powerful, proud, and on a lifelong journey to become worthy of the legend you carry.
You lead with strength but have learned — sometimes painfully — that true greatness comes from humility and growth.
You’re larger than life, yet more vulnerable than you let on.
Thor’s story is one of transformation: from arrogant prince to worthy king, from isolated warrior to beloved protector.
You bring the storm when it’s needed — and the warmth when it matters just as much.
Brooklyn, New York · The Avengers
🛡️ Captain America
You believe in something bigger than yourself — and you fight for it even when the world has moved on and nobody else will.
You don’t bully the small guy, and you never stop when it gets hard.
Steve Rogers didn’t become a hero when he got the serum — he was always one. So were you.
Your strength isn’t in your fists; it’s in your refusal to compromise what’s right, no matter the cost.
In a world full of people taking the easy road, you’re the one who picks up the shield and stands up — every single time.
The Memorable Sequence Nearly Didn’t Make the Final Cut
We’re talking about Avengers: Age of Ultron, whose farm sequence director Joss Whedon fought the studio tooth and nail to retain. The scene introduces Hawkeye’s family and instantly injects the film with a shot of humanity. To make sure it stays, Whedon agreed to include a studio-mandated scene in which Thor has a premonition. Age of Ultron proved to be rather prophetic about artificial intelligence and foreshadowed the Captain America-Mjolnir moment in Endgame, but it also included strange creative decisions such as introducing a romantic subplot between Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) and Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson). The movie grossed $1.4 billion worldwide against a reported budget of nearly $500 million. Fun fact: it’s the most expensive MCU movie ever made. According to FlixPatrol, it was among the most-watched films on Disney+ domestically this week, when the leaderboard was topped by Spider-Man: No Way Home. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Release Date
May 1, 2015
Runtime
141 minutes
Director
Joss Whedon
Writers
Joss Whedon
Producers
Jon Favreau, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Patricia Whitcher, Stan Lee, Victoria Alonso, Jeremy Latcham
