{"id":49953,"date":"2015-03-28T21:47:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T03:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/28\/ranking-the-marvel-cinematic-universe.html"},"modified":"2015-05-09T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T16:18:55","slug":"ranking-the-marvel-cinematic-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/28\/ranking-the-marvel-cinematic-universe.html","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the Marvel Cinematic Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a bad analysis, overall. I&#39;d probably bump both <i>Thor<\/i> and &quot;Agents of SHIELD&quot; a rank or two higher, and &quot;Hail to the King&quot; and <i>Captain America<\/i> a rank or two lower, but it&#39;s a good write-up.<\/p>\n<p>The MCU, for all that Warners\/DC, Sony, and now Paramount are trying to imitate it, remains a fragile construct, without a serious dud to adapt to yet, or a major retirement\/cast change (excluding Bruce Banner). But this summary gives some indication of the bench depth, and upcoming films and the Netflix series should help things even further.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Where does your favorite Marvel Universe film\/TV show rank?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/03\/27\/the-entire-marvel-cinematic-un.html?utm_content=buffera7941&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=plus.google.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/yWBUof5ewZldoFIl5rj0ZJ1MDcwlSlJkkn0skU4k3cH1tSGRyWTDNu27Ky5lKc9kutiNDVym0BTe0GCoY6vtBBB2bDsTS0J34Do3e2sfCq8=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/03\/27\/the-entire-marvel-cinematic-un.html?utm_content=buffera7941&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=plus.google.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'>The entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, ranked<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nEven the studio&rsquo;s missteps are eminently watchable. But some are more watchable than others.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/izy5BjDTW9p'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a bad analysis, overall. I&#39;d probably bump both Thor and &quot;Agents of SHIELD&quot; a rank or two higher, and &quot;Hail to the King&quot; and Captain America a rank or two lower, but it&#39;s a good write-up. The MCU, for all that Warners\/DC, Sony, and now Paramount are trying to imitate it, remains a fragile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/28\/ranking-the-marvel-cinematic-universe.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ranking the Marvel Cinematic Universe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marvel-cinematic-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50113,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/avengers-family-feud.html","url_meta":{"origin":49953,"position":0},"title":"Avengers Family Feud","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Apr-15 4:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, it's silly, but it's also fun.And, also also, amusing to see actual relative heights between actors.(via +Boing Boing) View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129150,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/the-ultimate-marvel-cinematic-universe-infographic.html","url_meta":{"origin":49953,"position":1},"title":"The Ultimate Marvel Cinematic Universe Infographic","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Dec-15 11:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a pretty darned amazing unified history of the MCU (though only as accurate as the latest movie and\/or press release). 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