{"id":198942,"date":"2025-12-24T01:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198942\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:18:07","slug":"imdbs-top-10-of-2025-confirmed-an-mcu-truth-few-fans-were-ready-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198942\/","title":{"rendered":"IMDB’s Top 10 of 2025 Confirmed An MCU Truth Few Fans Were Ready For"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a> fans weren\u2019t ready to hear this truth about Marvel Studios\u2019 releases in 2025, but IMDb<\/a> has revealed the truth. After a relatively slow year in 2024, Marvel Studios released three feature films in 2025, developing the stories of heroes such as Sam Wilson\u2019s Captain America, the New Avengers (n\u00e9e the Thunderbolts)<\/a>, and the Fantastic Four. These movies debuted to varying levels of success, but only one has landed on IMDb\u2019s top ten list of Most Popular Movies of 2025.<\/p>\n

While the number one spot is filled by the new DC Universe\u2019s Superman reboot, which achieved a rating of 7.1 based on 366k scores. Superman is followed by Weapons, Sinners, One Battle After Another, Jurassic World Rebirth, Frankenstein, and Happy Gilmore 2, while Marvel Studios\u2019 Thunderbolts* hits the list at number eight. Scored 7.1 based on 249k ratings, Thunderbolts* has surprised some<\/a> by making this list ahead of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which had a significantly higher box office draw and introduced Marvel\u2019s First Family to the MCU for the first time ever.<\/p>\n

Why Thunderbolts* Made IMDb\u2019s List But The Fantastic Four: First Steps Didn\u2019t<\/p>\n

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Given the disparate box office totals and legacy of the Fantastic Four, some could have assumed The Fantastic Four: First Steps would have been more highly-rated than Thunderbolts*. This is especially true as we\u2019d never had a strong live-action adaptation of Marvel Comics\u2019 Fantastic Four team<\/a> before, but Matt Shakman had a unique and stylistic tone that gave Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach a great sandbox to play in. Conversely, few had hope for Thunderbolts*, but the crossover movie became one of Marvel Studios\u2019 biggest surprises when it hit theaters in May 2025.<\/p>\n

Thunderbolts* brought together antiheroes and reformed villains from the MCU\u2019s past<\/a> as a brand-new team tasked with stopping the Void\u2014the dark alter ego of new super-soldier Robert Reynolds\u2019 Sentry\u2014and saving New York City. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Alexei Shostakov\u2019s Red Guardian (David Harbour), Bucky Barnes\u2019 Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), Ava Starr\u2019s Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and John Walker\u2019s US Agent (Wyatt Russell) worked fantastically on-screen, and it was brilliant to see them outed as the New Avengers at the end of the movie. These surprises made Thunderbolts* a surprise hit for the MCU.<\/p>\n

While we loved seeing the Fantastic Four enter the MCU officially<\/a> in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thunderbolts* will arguably age better as the MCU progresses, and, by introducing the New Avengers, may have even had a bigger impact on the franchise. On IMDb, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is only close behind Thunderbolts*, ranked 6.9 based on 223k ratings, so it surely almost got a spot on the top ten list. While it just missed out, the popularity of both Thunderbolts* and The Fantastic Four: First Steps spells good news for the MCU\u2019s future, which has us very excited.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and\u00a0join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Marvel Cinematic Universe fans weren\u2019t ready to hear this truth about Marvel Studios\u2019 releases in 2025, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[61212,156,108340,3993,409,111,139,69,2531,122511],"class_list":{"0":"post-198942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-answer-feature","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-imdb","11":"tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-the-fantastic-four-first-steps","17":"tag-thunderbolts-2025"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}