Last Updated on 21 May 2024
I searched the Internet for lists of the best superhero movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 30 lists. I took the 30 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. I ended up averaging the rankings each film got (there were 187 that were on at least 2 lists) and dividing that average by a factor of the number of lists that movie was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.
The movies that were on the most lists (out of 30) were:
- The Dark Knight (2008) – 29 lists
- Logan (2016) – 26 lists
- Spider-Man 2 (2004) – 25 lists
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) – 25 lists
- Iron Man (2008) – 24 lists
- Black Panther (2018) – 24 lists
- Wonder Woman (2017) – 24 lists
- Superman (1978) – 23 lists
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- TheTopTens – 20 May 2024
- IMDb User Ratings – 15 May 2024
- Ranker – 14 May 2024
- Bam Smack Pow – 9 May 2024
- Collider – 7 May 2024
- Dexerto – 3 May 2024
- Parade – 3 May 2024
- The Manual – 22 Apr 2024
- Paste Magazine – 4 Apr 2024
- MovieMaker – 31 Jan 2024
- Comic Book Resources (CBR) – 3 Dec 2023
- Rotten Tomatoes – 13 Nov 2023
- ScreenRant – 27 Sep 2023
- USA Today – 22 Aug 2023
- Music Gateway – 26 May 2023
- HotNewHipHop – 26 Sep 2022
- Looper – 17 Aug 2022
- Rolling Stone – 29 Jun 2022
- GamesRadar – 14 Dec 2021
- Mental Floss – 12 Jul 2021
- FilmsRanked – 4 Nov 2020
- StudioBinder – 8 Mar 2020
- IGN – 4 Feb 2020
- Marie Claire – 23 Sep 2019
- GQ – 17 Nov 2017
- Empire – 3 Oct 2015
- Flickchart – no date
- The Ringer – no date
- WatchMojo – no date
- When It Was Cool – no date