The Reel Rejects - COY'S COMIC CORNER: 25 BEST MCU FIGHT SCENES RANKED!! (Marvel Action Scenes)

Episode Date: November 21, 2022

RANKING The Best MCU Fight Scenes (Netflix Characters Included)! On this list includes fight scenes from Black Panther, Daredevil, Captain America: Winter Soldier & Civil War, Avengers Infinity War & Endgame, Thor, Spider-man, Iron Man, & MORE from the multiverse! Here's another episode of Coy's Comic Corner. #Marvel #MCU #BlackPanther #BlackPantherWakandaForever #Spiderman #Avengers #AvengersSecretWars #AvengersKangDynasty #ScarletWitch #Hulk #CaptainAmerica Follow Coy Jandreau: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?lang=en https://www.youtube.com/c/CoyJandreau https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Become A Super Sexy Reject For Full-Length T.V. & Movie Reactions! https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Support The Channel By Checking Out Our High-Quality Merch: http://shopzeroedition.com/collections/reel-rejects-merch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to another episode of Coy's Comic Corner, Good Citizens of the Reject Nation. I am very excited about this list because it is one that we've gotten a ton of comments about. And remember, if you leave a comment, telling me what you'd like to see. If we get enough of them, that is what I will make a video of. You are my co-hosts. You are my producers. Don't tell Greg. That said, this video is only in the MCU.

We're going to do the 25 best action fights in the MCU. If this video gets enough likes, comments, and hits 50,000 views, so share it with your friends. do have already prepared 15 to 20 fights in the Marvel films we were going to do one giant list but then realized that would be like another you know 63 villains thing and it'd be it'd be crazy so if you want to see what I think the Marvel fights are outside the MCU we're talking the blade blood rave we're talking some of those incredible X-Men fights some Logan goodness leave a comment share this video with your friends et cetera et cetera and please do hunt me down over on tiktock 15 second 30 second one minute I'm doing an impression of Greg doing an impression of me at this point either way

let's get into it all the best action in the mccu all right we're going to start off with an honorable mention because i wanted to keep this under 25 but i honestly had about 55 so one honorable mention is the thomas the train engine fight in ant man i got to give that some love there's some really inventive fighting some inventive action some great use of power so my one honorable mention is the thomas the tank engine fight at the end of ant man all right now into 25 25 counting them down starting with i think one of the best fights in the mc u is the sinister five fight the almost sinister six fight at the end of spider man no way home it's got a lot of story in it and i love when a fight is able to also convey a story so not only do you see how the different

spiderman fight differently not only do you see the different power sets with all of the almost sinister six villainy but the scope felt really big i really enjoyed that when you're leading up to a giant reality warping event you've still got the scope of all these villains plus you've got this being a redemption arc. You see that they're being saved. You get to have the nostalgia of a lot of of these characters. You haven't seen fight in a long time. And you've got some really cool story moments like Toby McGuire fighting lizard. That's kind of an Easter egg for fans of the Sam Ramey franchise because they'd been setting up a Toby McGuire versus lizard fight since Dylan Baker was in the early ones. So there were moments that felt like they were payoffs of long bygone eras.

And we did get that incredible. My favorite moment of phase four, Andrew Garfield catching Mary Jane. That moment of redemption for Andrew Garfield literally felt like Andrew Garfield, the actor, redeemed his spider man getting redeemed him saving someone there was just so much story in this fight and it was a great fight so did my number 25 in the mc u all right my number 24 is a bit of an asterisk because it is a few fights but they're used as a montage so i'm going to encapsulate an entire style of fight and it's in a show you probably didn't expect to make this list now i said mccu but thanks to daredevil being included in she hulk and everything going forward i am including netflix in this list we have not yet seen x-ben so it doesn't count yet but in this list i did want to include

some of the incredible fights in Netflix, because to me, that's some of the best action we've had in the MCU. I'm going to say Colleen Wings' training fights, as well as her cage fights, which were used to establish what kind of character she was, are some of the best fights in the MCU. Not only do we get to see Henwick actually kicking ass, it's actually the actors doing all this work. Not only do we get to see some story elements showing why, as we progress, she probably should be in the Iron Fist, but we also get to set the stage and build out the world. We see the importance of martial arts, we see some story, plot, and emotional growth in the character, and we build out everything for Iron Fist. I think Jessica Henwick is one of the best things to happen to Iron Fist,

and I feel like these fights, along with some of her great dialogue and some of her great bouncing off with other supporting characters in the show, really did elevate that show. Say what you want about Iron Fist, but Henwick was not a weak point. She gets one of my best fights, number 24. Our number 23 is Spider-Man fighting the vulture. The very end of Spider-Man Homecoming is really interesting because there's already been so much action. There's already been so much We've already really had an interesting thing where we like Adrian Toombs and we also like even more to hate Adrian Toombs. We have this interesting dynamic between like a paternal figure and Spider-Man in he's the father of the girl she likes. There's a lot of really interesting emotional dynamics, which I think elevates this fight, pun intended, they're flying, but also it does the thing that Spider-Man comics do great where Spider-Man's very good in certain environments. He is not made for the sky. He's a spider. I love that not only do have him fighting Vulture, who's clearly in his element, he's actually terrifying. They do great work. with not only Michael Keaton, but with the character design, but also he's at the advantage. The vulture is using his skills, so we get to see a villain in their element fighting really well.

We get to see the smarts and ingenuity of Spider-Man, and we add an Avengers element. We add the plane that they're stealing, which adds more tension and everything else, and also builds out to the greater MCU. I think that vulture fight doesn't get enough love. It's my number 23. My number 22 is another fight. I don't feel like gets enough love. There is a lot of incredible action in Netflix.

I'm going to say that over and over again. You're going to get sick of hearing it, but it's true. This fight, I don't see on any action list. I don't see it any fight list, and I really think it showed how brutal war is in a one-on-one scenario. It is the final fight between Jigsaw and Punisher, where Jigsaw gets mangled. We not only get a new origin for Jigsaw, we also tie it to Punisher's origin. I love when they can actually land the, oh, the bad guy is the opposite of the good guy, similar skill set, similar blah, blah, blah. When that actually works, it's genius.

And this was brilliant because it was at the end of the season. we built all the way up to jigsaw becoming visually jigsaw we already loved the actor ben barnes playing the character we were already very invested he's oddly charming while being sinister but he's very much the opposite of frank castle in that he doesn't have a problem doing evil in the evil's sake frank castle's an anti-hero how do you make someone a villain to an anti-hero they got to be all the way bad so we've got this war between these two professional mercenaries we've got these two brutal assassins brawling in a park and then it ends with the very carousel that made punisher born so from the birth of punisher we then have the birth of jigsaw. He smashes his face into the mirror from the carousel where his children and wife died. Beautiful poetry, beautiful, brutal action, a very important fight scene in the MCU. My number 21 is the fight on Titan. There is going to be a lot of Avengers on this list because it's the culmination of a lot of storytelling.

What I love about the fight on Titan is Thanos is just so hard to take down. You've got effectively an entire team of Avengers, and I love how smart the movie was to kind of separate and do three separate teams of Avengers. And this one is a medley of Cosmic and Grounded. This is a medley of Guardians and the Avengers we know fighting together, still failing to take out Thanos. And I love that this is a natural progression to seeing just how powerful Doctor Strange is. After they do everything on Titan, after we see the power of Spider-Man, after we see the ingenuity of Iron Man, after we see the brutality of Thanos, and after we have these characters learning how to fight together as a team in real time, we see at the end that Doctor Strange himself is one of the only things that

even slows him down that end with all of those dr strangers him being like tied up in the magic all of the moment like that it crescendos into and then a star lord moment of arrogance which is very contest on the internet but is very much his character that emotionality is real and i think it actually suits the character and the movie all of that really feels like what it would be like to fight the mad titan and i love this fight so very much the mad titan fight on tit all right we are into the top 20 fights of the entire mc u this was one of the hardest list i've ever compiled. This might have actually been as hard as the villains list because I realize the scope of the MCU. If there's three fights per movie, if there's 10 fights per season, we're talking hundreds

of fights. So into the top 20s crazy and I got to go with one of my favorite moments of multiverse of madness. It is where Scarlet Witch goes full Scarlet Witch. It is a beautiful use of multiverse in that she can kill characters. We're immediately endeared to because their character we've wanted to see for all time. It's a great use of showing the power of the Scarlet Witch because she's not just doing finger guns. It's not pew, pew, pew, pew. She's actually using witch craft. She's actually able to manipulate reality. She's able to do things like ripping half of Professor X's face off. That isn't a head twist. If you look closely, she rips one side of his head to the left, the jaw to the right. She's eviscerating these characters. And the Black Bolt moment

is one of the biggest gasps I've ever heard in an MCU film. So for me, I didn't love multiverse of madness in a top 20 MCU way, but I did love this fight in a top 20 fight way. And that's what I love about these movies. Even if there's not an experience that I enjoy top to bottom, there are always highlights, there are always moments, and to be honest, if this wasn't a multiversal fight, it wouldn't have had the same impact, but, because they wouldn't have been able to kill as many characters, but at the same time, it being a multiversal fight also is tricky because how much are you invested? They still managed to make me care while walking that very fine line and bring in new characters and show the power of Scarlet Witch, in inventive ways,

love this fight, number 20. At number 19, we've got the most James Bondian of fights. Do you remember in Casino Royale and then Quantum of Salas, had they started using these incredible backdrops of color and action, juxtaposed with more shadowy foreground figures, and then they moved the camera around. You start to feel the dynamic of using the Z-axis in a fight. Z-axis is very important to me, and I think the Z-axis use in the scaffolding fight in Shung-chi is absolutely genius. Not only do they go up and down using the external wall of a building using the scaffolding, but there's actually moments of depth of field fighting. Not only do you have these two master martial artists fighting in an aerial way without being on rigs because they do

have some use of gravity and it's a fascinating way to have a dance up, down, left, right toward, but we get to see the power of Shang Chi in an environment we haven't yet. We get to see just how skilled he is, just how world aware he is, and we get to see the incredible death dealer scenario that's been teased throughout the film. We've been building up to this death dealer fight. This is a great way to show the prowess of two different martial artists. It's a great way to grow out the world, and it's a great way to see how you can use a camera in very inventive ways, almost has its own character within a martial arts fight when you actually have stunt people in martial artists doing the fighting less cg i more fighters and you get stuff like this

i love this fight next up we've got another underrated fight from netflix this one is a show that had a lot of really good political drama in its own way in in the streets of Harlem it had a lot of great character development but a lot of people felt like and i and i'll admit i'm one of them once we lost mahershula ali on lukech the show never quite felt the same this fight however came out of nowhere and just absolutely enveloped me in excitement this is the bushman team up with Luke Cage fight to take out all these drug dealers the whole show you've had these two guys at odds and again a hero and a villain that have similar perspectives but one key fundamental difference and obviously Bushmaster very fundamentally different than Luke Cage

but in the way they fight you get to see a lot of characterization Luke Cage is a bulldozer he doesn't stop moving he's always going forward they even talk about that with pop there's always that movement this forward momentum and then Bushmaster has to tame himself because he agreed not to kill for this fight there's a really cool dynamic of seeing restraint plus seeing bulldozer plus no death because this is a hero fight. I love Bushmaster having to see him up with Luke Cage, and I also love that they're fighting styles tied into their characterizations, and any fight ever set to Wu-Tang is always going to elevate. I mean, this would be fun to just go through all the Wu-Tang use in Luke Cage, but that isn't fair to the rest of the MCU. This fight doesn't get talked about

enough, and it's truly incredible. Number 17, I often talk about how magic when used in movies is really tricky, because it feels so linear. One of my biggest issues with multiverse of madness was when Scarlett, which was taking over and fighting in Kun Lun, it went from her being inventive and like whispering in that guy's ear, like, pew, pew, pew. And I'm like, that there's so much we can do with magic and imagination. And I remember thinking that up until

we got to this fight. And I was like, this is imagination incarnate. And I call this fight the composer supreme. The music fight between Doctor Strange and Dr. Strange. It almost went too long. And I think there is merit in talking about that. But I think the inventiveness,

the crazy orchestra, pun intended and all of the things they were able to do to show that magic can be this force is well worthy slightly i should have like 10 seconds it's just slightly too but it is so cool it is so inventive you see what the sorcerer supreme can do and you literally use music as a weapon like what better way to have the composer get to fight alongside sam ramy i love that we've got this incredible score i love that sam ramy is leaning into the weird and i love that it feels gothic and edgy and inventive and powerful all at once which is dr strange love this fight number 16. Okay, so I'm a huge, huge fan of Punisher season one. I thought Punisher Season 2 was good but not great. I remember liking it, but not loving it. I remember Punisher Season 1. I could not stop watching. All of Daredevil couldn't stop watching. There are just some elements that didn't quite land free in Punisher season 2, but I would still put it up against a lot of other Marvel content. It just didn't quite work. That said, the opening of Punisher Season 2 is one of the best first episodes in the Netflix or Marvel Cinematic

television show. The fight in the bar with Frank Castle taking out everyone in a bar brawl, I would put that up against Roadhouse. I put that up against any classic bar deep bar room fight of all time. This fight is so brutal, so intense, so Frank Castle, so inventive. It felt like the Jackie Chan dream we always had of him fighting in Home Depot, like we're just use every single prop, but Punisher. So it's violently our rated. It's viscerally our rated. It is so much evisceration. I love this fight. I love the characterization of John Bernthal. and I love that it immediately reminds you what show you're watching and you're right back in with one fight into the world of Punisher.

It is a spectacular use of stunts, practical, and characterization all growing towards a great climax. All right, we're into our top 15. This is a movie that I argue about almost as much as Eternals. This is a movie that I think belongs in the top third of the MCU. This is a movie that is maybe the most argued about next to Eternals. And it's a movie that has an action set piece that I think sings above. I mean, this is top 15 and there's literally 100. hundreds of action set pieces. This action fight is just so memorable and inventive and crazy.

It is the barrel of monkey scene in Iron Man 3. Iron Man 3 diving out of an airplane and using electricity to have all these people while falling through the sky latch on together, saving every single one, using science, using geometry, using his brain, and then using the genius of shooting basically a free fall out of the sky. Like that would be a huge thing that Tom Cruise, who would actually do it in real life, would do soon a mission impossible, but I thought it was so inventive, like point break does great aerial stuff. There are certain classic aerial moments in movies, and I think this is amongst them. I don't think Shane Black had built so much characterization into this downtrodden Iron Man to this point.

You so want to see him save the president. You so want to see this action work. And you're so on the edge of your seat, and then it has a twist. So if you can do all that and then have a twist that he wasn't in the suit and he was doing it remotely, genius. Because you're on the edge of your seat. And then when things go awry, he's been doing it remotely. Genius use of the Iron Man suit. use of tension love this fight action whatever you want to call it i loved it all right number 14 we're

going back to thanos now there's this thing in the comics which they actually were able to mirror more subtly until it was obvious in front of me called the big three captain america thor and iron man are your big three those are the guys that are often foundational for the avengers they are these characters that are often at odds but often they will always team up there they always eventually get back together the big three are a fascinating thing and the big three against thanos fight is so incredible. Not only do you get everything leading up to wielding Milnear, but you get all of them fighting as a team. You've got the shield bouncing off Milnear, you've got Cap wielding Milnear, you've got Iron Man throwing everything he has at Thanos. You also see in that moment that three of our most

powerful warriors that at that point we've already spent 12, 13 years with that we love can't take out this guy. And they're doing the best they've ever done. We're seeing such an intense, powerful dynamic and i also love that it mirrors the avengers one moment where you see them at odds with each other you see cap fighting thor you see all those things and in this moment they're uniting together and then it ends basically with that that wielding of of milnir that we all knew was coming this fight is so emotionally impactful and it's so well choreographed and it feels so real and thanos isn't real he's ones and zero so it's very impressive this exists all right i think this one is overshadowed by some of the other action set pieces will come up later in the

list but i feel like people don't talk about this action set piece enough This is my number 13, and it is the scene in Bucharest in Civil War. Now, obviously, you've got so many moving parts, there's so many dynamics here, but to have a fight go through a stairway and then end in a chase that is basically a motorcycle, Winter Soldier, Captain America, Black Panther, we just met Black Panther. And it so deftly is able to make us understand that he's right alongside Captain America, that he's right alongside Winter Soldier. That's dream sequel stuff right there.

sequels always feel like they have to get bigger and beggar and then sometimes the bigger and better doesn't work it doesn't feel right this is doing a sequel to winter soldier in a way that you're like oh man black panther is just as hardcore as these two we saw fighting in winter soldier and the way they're able to play at this dynamic after falling in love with him trying to get better and the way you empathize with everyone in this dynamic that's the essence of civil war it's heroes fighting each other it's people that care about each other having to come to blows and then the action's insane when when bucky is able to like throw that motorcycle over his shoulder like hop on it chase and then black Panthers just going, it's awesome. It is such a cool set piece. I love it so much. All right, my number 12 is one of the most violent things I think in the entirety of the MCU. It follows a certain iconic hallway scene in season two of Daredevil, and it is a hallway of its own right, but how do you make a hallway for Punisher? Well, you set it in a prison, and it is the essence of, you're locked in here with me, and I love this sequence so much, because not only is it all the brutality of the Punisher, not only does it further the story, not only is it ticking time bomb leading to kingpin but it gives us the difference in the acrobatic brutality of

daredevil opposite the sheer brutality and blunt object just hurt everyone of punisher that then ends with effectively a comic accurate moment because the blood on his chest mirrors the the bloody skull for the first time we haven't gotten him in the skull yet so we finally get the skull and it's in the most brutal on-brand to Netflix Punisher way possible and it's through a hallway this is the best of the comics meets the best of these actors meets the best of these stuntees meets the best of netflix's uh tradition of hallways this is everything in a fight and i love it so much and it ends with kingpin and punisher facing off could not have been scripted in the stars better love this fight number 11 is incredible action incredible characterization and a beautiful way that further the plot

this is what i like on my fights it is the prison break scene in guardians of the galaxy people remember how much they love these characters people remember how funny james guns movies are but I don't feel like they remember the action ties so beautifully into the humor I know the cosmic elements really change the MCU going forward but I really think the team fight elements that are born out of this very specific scene did enhance and inspire a lot of stuff coming up with the Avengers this is a beautiful fight where they're all clad together giving it almost uniform team bonding feel which they hadn't had yet so you got that characterization it also culminates in rocket on Groot's shoulder and this insane 360 gun mowing down

while everything around them is moving, using Rockets Genius to build a bomb, using the cleverness of Pratt as Starlord, using Gamora, there's so much of this that all has to line up, like a great heist, like a great prison break. I love when a movie has like a ticking clock

that culminates an incredible moment, and that incredible moment happens to also be the first time we really see them as a team, which mirrors the first time we see the Avengers as a team. I love that spinning around shot. I always think of the Avengers uniting as a team. Then James Gunn did it with the Guardians, you night against a team added an awesome gun and a rocket raccoon and a group this scene's just perfect

so much fun check it out again if you haven't seen it a while all right we are into our top 10 mccu action scene fight set pieces of all time and my number 10 is maybe one of the more surprising endings of a fight i honestly didn't see this one coming the first time i saw this in theaters there were gasps i remember being shocked and so impressed that they went this way it is the tachala killmonger fight on the waterfall that ends with the mantle being passed of the black Panther. That is literally a critical moment, not just in the movie, but in the MCU, understanding the passing of the torch, understanding the culture of Wakanda, understanding how important this battle is, and then surprising us by seemingly killing Tchala, throwing him off a waterfall, which

sets up a great thing with Mbaku and the tribe and everything they're able to do there, which also grows out the world, and then the fight itself. Not only do you have spectators that are that are rooting for their king and feeling for their king, not only is it this beautiful, lush color palette with all of Ruthie Carter's costumes and this incredible visual of this waterfall, but you see and feel the pain in the violence of Kilmonger. You understand, as ever in this movie, which is so impressive, where he's coming from, what he sees that he's fighting for, and at the same time, you obviously are rooting for T'Challa the entire time.

I love when fights have you going, like, man, I really understand where these guys are coming from, and then it lands in a way that surprises you. Top 10, fight, easy, incredible experience in the theater. I want to see this moment again on a big screen tomorrow. Number nine is a recent one, and I honestly think it is a moment that everyone thinks of when they think of this movie, which is the sign of a good action set piece, and it is one of the moments that I remember going like, oh, I'm so glad the MCU can do this. I'm so glad they're going this way. I'm so glad practical is so important to them in this set piece.

It's the bus scene in Shang Chi. The bus fight in Shang Chi is one of the most captivating chases I've seen in a car experience in a movie. you've got the dynamic of the hills in san francisco you've got this new character with blades for hands you've got shung chi who you've just really met and you haven't seen him fight yet not really and then you've got the incredible ticking time bomb the tension of aquafina's character that you're trying to save you've got a fun tie-in with the guy filming it you've got an eyeline through that guy filming it you feel like you're there with him you've got practical stunts you've got outside the bus inside the bus powers you've got everything you could want in a comic book adaptation fight and it's all going 60 miles, probably more 77 miles per hour, let's say. It's going so fast, so intense. This is the moment I knew I love Shang Chi, and this fight is a big standout for me. It's so honestly hard once you're into the top. I mean, all of these have been hard, but now we're on the top eight,

I really struggled with each one of these positions, so I'm going to totally own that this number eight was at one point number one. That's how much the top eight moved is this was my number one, and I love it, and I think of it probably weekly. Come at me, nerds. It is the moment that I really, really hoped would transform. form how fights were and I think we're working our way back to it. It is the elevator fights in winter soldier. This is closed combat. This isn't shaky camp. This is holding on stuff. This is

showing the power of stunt people. This is furthering the plot. The betrayal is literal and physical. This is showing what Captain America can do in a fight. We've seen them go up against superheroes. We've seen them like, you know, user shields of battering air. We've seen a lot of big. We've seen a lot of incredible things. The Batrock fight, by the way, almost made this list. It was so hard not to just have 20 Winter Soldier fights. But Bathtrock shows. us what he could do with that dynamic with open space I loved bringing it in tight making it intense I love that we see crossbones really born here I love that he's fighting some of his you know mercenary compatriots which is also a commentary in the whole

movie he's fighting against the system the system's betraying him and I also love that we all love it so much that when they brought it back in end game that moment was immediately like a whole this is one of the best action pieces in movies I love the elevator fight so very all right again this top eight any of these could be number one and this one is maybe the fight I talked about most on the entire press tour for this film I went to London with this film I talked to the director on this film I talked to the stars in this film I was very invested in this fight on this film to the point where I then ran into the director on the no way home tour and he remembered how excited it was about this fight and that was years later and that guy talks to

probably 100 people a day my love for this fight is so loud that he was like oh you're the guy that of the Mysterio fight in Far From Home was literally a John Ramita Senior sequence mixed with a John Ramita Jr. sequence come to life. John Amita, Sr., one of the best Spider-Man artists of all time. His son, John Demeter Jr., another of the best Spider-Man artists of all time, mix in a little bit of Ross Andrew. That is what this fight felt like. I felt like I was a kid reading a comic book, flipping pages, and my imagination was actually translated on screen. I talk all the time about adaptation versus translation. There are times in shorts, that an adaptation totally works because it furthers the story, it fits the medium,

and it reminds you why you love the medium of comics while reminding why you love the medium of movies. That's the sequence. You also got a little dash of Iron Man zombie. You also got some incredibly surrealistic images that make you a little afraid. It's heart-wrenching, and it builds the overall six-movie arc of Spider-Man in that the Spider-Sense becomes so essential here. I love that the Spider-Sense is developed over time like his origin. I love that Mysterio is a prophetic villain because we're going to be dealing with DeepFake. and voice modulation and all the issues that are coming in our reality and Mysterio shows that in a very at-an-eleven superhero scope way with this fight I would change not a single frame of this fight I love it so much the Mysterio fight is one of my favorite sequences in any comic book movie ever all right number six and this one I think people have fallen off of because of how long it's been I think a lot of times people get like ah they that was before and they don't remember what it felt like then how inventive it was then how important it was then and I think that you need to look at the influence

of things as well as the current technology. And this one holds up and is arguably my favorite Hulk fight in the entire MCU. It is the Avengers assemble in the battle for New York. It is giving us that first team spin around. It is giving us every single character that we've seen in five

different movies uniting for the first time. It seems easy now. It seems very like, oh right, get these characters. Before Avengers, no one thought it was possible. Before Avengers came out, people were like, you're going to have the guy from that mythic Norse God movie team up with the guy from that World War II movie and the guy that made like a suit.

It didn't make sense. This Battle for New York showed us that you can make all these different tones come together. It showed us that all these characters fighting styles are beautifully worked for a team dynamic. It gave us, again, the visual of the Avengers assembling is such a moment, and it still makes me excited. It still fills my heart with glee, and it actually made things feel like there was a scope, right? Like, New York was actually losing. Like, people were dying. It was intense.

It was real. And it set the stage for Iron Man's PTSD. It set the stage for so many important elements that launched out of the MCU. This was a moment that spawned so many moments. And it did it beautifully with brilliant action. I love, love, love, love battle for New York. All right, we are into the top five, my lovelies. And how do you top an Avenger assembly?

Even if they don't say it yet. How do you make a fight against a chatari seem like nothing? You have them fight each other. Every punch lands twice. If you care about both people fighting, I say that all the time. And I don't think that's ever been more. true since the first double-page spread come to life. Captain America's Civil War gave us the airport fight, which is one for the ages.

I get a lot of crap for defending Civil War. I maintain it's in the top, maybe eight Marvel films of all time. I think it is so good, consistent, and powerful. The villain Baron Zemo does this with words. He gets the strongest people on the planet. Instead of fighting them, he makes them fight each other, and his reasoning behind it is sound, if not, like, completely unreasonable. There's so much right about how this fight happens,

how long it takes to get there, and then how much they let you live there. This fight's wicked long. It was unprecedented. This is like a chunk of the movie. And you've got everything from Giant Man for the first time to Spider-Man for the first time, to Black Panther for the first time.

You've got so many beautiful images. The moment we all saw Spider-Man land with Captain America's Shield, and he says, hey, everyone, that's all the marketing this movie ever needed. And it was a lion's share of this movie's market, and that's just the tip of the iceberg we've got scale with throwing insane things we've got the tiniest little things being important we've got characters having the banter they do from the comic books we've got people meeting for the first time every kid that grew up reading comics is like who would win her to fight on the playground this is the playground they made the playground in airport which is also genius because it gets rid of a lot of the problem that dc was having at the time where lots of people are dying and abandoned airport is perfect everything about this is is exactly tees crossed eyes dotted excitement and And I love it so much.

And I still think about those two teams of Avengers, how that might have gone if they went different ways. One was New Avengers like they teased at the end. Anyway, that's another whole video. I love it so much. Rewatch the Civil War fight. Do yourself a favor. It's like Thanksgiving dinner.

All right. Number four. Again, any of these could be number one. Number four is maybe the loudest I've cheered in a theater. I try not to be the guy that claps when planes land. And sometimes it feels like you're that guy in a theater. But this was pure emotionality. I like cheering in a theater.

I like being a part of that. I go to the movie theater for. reason. It feels like community. This was one of the most community-driven moments I've ever experienced in a theater because we've been upset for two and a half hours. Our guys have lost for two and a half hours. We are now in Wakanda with Wakanda's last stand as all of our heroes have rallied together and then Thorlands fully powered as the god of lightning with a new weapon stormbreaker set to emigrant's song and then just proceeds to own We've got incredible fights, again, using the genius of the, just running, just the visual of running.

I talked about it earlier in the Civil War fight, but here we've got Captain America and Black Panther running through this crowd to lead. I love that they're now side by side and they're doing it to lead this army to take out these invaders. This feels like a comic book to such a level. The soundtrack's incredible. The action is dynamic. It is so visually stunning. It is so powerful. And then there's moments of levity that don't feel like too much levity.

the thing I'm struggling with in phase four is as much as I love humor sometimes I'm like it's a little misplaced and I had that with earlier too like age of Ultron there are moments when I don't feel like age of Ultron is as intimidating like Ultron will crack a joke which I understand it's a Tony Stark spin off it makes sense for the character too

but there's moments where it doesn't make sense tonally to this fight as some of the best tonally accurate jokes like when they're when they're fighting and you have Steve Rogers meet Groot for the first time and he's like I am Groot and Steve Rogers is like I am Steve Rogers genius it makes sense. It elevates the tone. It gives you a minute to breathe. And then you get back to the

melee. Perfect fight. Perfect moments. God, I love this fight. Number three. Infinity War and Endgame are back to back. They shot them at the same time. They came out very close together. They are one giant experience. How do you top the Wakanda last stand? How do you top the moment with immigrant song and the landing and that intensity? How do you go from 14 years since this world started to have anything that feels like a justifiable conclusion to a climax to a fight. How do you do a fight big enough that you're like, this feels right?

You finally say Avengers assemble and then you open up portals and every character ever, except the Netflix characters, which is a real shame, comes out of those portals and they all just go to town for like 20 minutes. You've got Thanos's entire cabal,

you've got the Shatari, you've got everything tying all of this together in this one. It's basically like a screensaver you zoom out and see and it's after steve rogers has decided he's going to do it himself we get the ultimate essence of who steve rogers is he's one man standing by himself wielding mule near like a boss ready to take on the entire army until he dies because he can do this all day but then he doesn't have to we get the result of people coming back from the snap we see characters we lost we haven't seen again by way of the portal we hear on your left to kick this

fight off coming from Anthony Mackey who is now Captain America mirroring that magical comedic moment again levity in the right place mirroring that from winter soldiers who use a joke to further emphasis it's not even a joke in that case but it's using a past joke to really drive a moment home and you've got all these characters you love on screen at once for the first time and then you hear one of the most iconic two words in comic books uttered for the first time this moment is like I mean it's like really nothing else Avengers Assemble and the fight that ensued after and the scope of the visuals of what the universe was built. That's what it is.

That moment in a fight is zooming out in all your Blu-rays in a stack. That's looking at 30 Blu-ray stacked up and going like, they've built this and giving you that moment that you've dreamed of since you were a kid. Avengers Assemble. That's only number three. We got two more to go. Number two is going to be probably a little controversial because we just

went from Avengers Assemble. But that's kind of my point. This again, top eight could have all been number one. This fight, to me, is the strength of the MCU in that smaller is sometimes better. I love the Avengers Assemble fight.

But when I think about it, I'm remembering moments little pieces. I don't have like a play-by-play because it's too much. Your brain, it's not retainable. I like grounded Marvel, arguably more than giant Marvel. I like street level,

arguably more than Cosmic. I like characters that I'm invested in both sides of the fight. Again, why I love Civil War. Obviously, we want Thanos and his guys to go. You have no inner conflict with that fight. The knife fight in Winter Soldier,

is not only Bucky showing that he can take out both Black Widow and Captain America, which seems insane. We just met this guy. But it's actually the actors fighting with a knife hand-to-hand showing not only the power of stunt performers, but also the power of these actors. It's showing their power set. It's showing that the Russo brothers can direct the hell out of an action sequence. I think arguably this sequence is what got them Avengers Infinity War and endgame because it furthers the character development. It furthers the greater MCU and what impact this is. it shows you what a real comic book fight can look like when you're locked in on it there is again know what's going on is that cg i this is a brutal fight between brothers this is steve rogers

fighting winter soldier and then realizing it's bucky in this fight so you've got that emotional turning point it's black widow who we've seen just be so formidable get taken out very quickly and it's all after this incredible action scene with nick fury and one of the better car chases in the mc u so your heart's already racing and then you dive into this it's a great offensive and and defensive use of the shield. It's just everything I love about a good fight sequence, and it feels contained, and I love that I can just be in on it. I can play that entire fight scene in my head straight through.

It is my number two. It is everything I want a fight scene to be. Here we are, number one. All right, so I broke a rule here. Greg was like, we got to keep it to the MCU. Otherwise, this list will be too long, but I snuck in a Fox property. I want you to remember when the rain is falling,

Evanescence plays, and you're like, man, daredevil's going to be the best fight scene of all time. And then I want to remember the heartbreak. Because Daredevil has the best scene of all time in the Netflix version that came out 10 years later, and it is still the best action I have ever seen from Marvel. This changed fight scenes. Can you imagine being hired to do a Daredevil show? We're going to talk about Chris Brewster here.

Chris Brewster is the man in the suit in this fight sequence. Can you imagine dedicating your life to martial arts, being this incredible martial artist that loves comics, investing in this character, putting your blood, sweat, and tears into it, and then doing that job, which is largely one take, and being like, that's really going to have an impact. on people. Comic fans are going to love this. And then zoom out and every network

has copied it. It has established a fingerprint for Netflix. It has changed comic book movies and shows. They did such a good job. That stunt team, that stunt performer, what Brewster did alongside Charlie Cox, what Charlie Cox was able to do in using

the mask to lean and position and using doorways to tag in and out stunt people. So a lot of the time it is Charlie Cox. And then they're literal ninjas. It's a ninja fight scene. that as ninjas doing the fights you care about every impact you are invested in every camera angle its elegance is its simplicity and its simplicity is very complicated i love when a fight scenes like oh that's they're they're fighting the hallway but it's so complex and powerful this made the

netflix universe this one hallway fight is the thing you think of and it's the bar that every mc u fight since has had this is a netflix show it didn't have a 250 million dollar budget and to this day when you think about a movie with a $250 million budget, the hallway fight is the bar. That's just so incredible. The hallway, change cinema, hard stop. It is the best action scene in the MCU, and I'm so happy that even if you don't like comics, you understand what we feel sometimes when we read them. That was what it feels like to feel that adrenaline, that action, that intensity.

And they gave us that in 3D. They gave us that in one of the most memorable action scenes of all time. That is my number one. All right, you lovelies, that is going to do it. That is my top 25 action scenes in the MCU. Again, we only used MCU and Netflix, MCU as in the ones that have the characters that are all changing. I understand that now we have Andrew Garfield and Toby McGuire in the MCU.

I saw No Way Home. I talk about it quite a bit, but it didn't make sense to really add those into this video. If you want to see what I think of those Marvel fights, do you want to know what I thought of the train scene with Doc Ock? Do you want to know what I thought of the Logan brutality of the opening of Logan? Do you want to know what I thought of the first berserker rage next to? I can do all of that.

Just leave a comment. Let me know. We got to get this video to 50,000. So like, subscribe, send it to your friends, comment. It all drives up the algorithm. Let's hit 50K and I will do a 15 or 20 of the Marvel fights. Maybe even get some ghost rider in there because what Neville Dean and Taylor were able to do with cinematography. They were on roller skates behind cars.

There's craziness. We will do the MCU. And then this is done, Marvel. and you know Blade Blood Rave is going to be on that because that Blade Blood Rave I think about it all the time I listen to that soundtrack

like an inordinate amount do you find yourself just bopping the 90s techno I hope you do all right that is going to do what your lovelies like subscribe comment find me on TikTok

harassed Greg so we can make that next list and most of all go read a comic book thank you thank you thank you I'll see you next time