It’ll be May 6 in a few days, and with it, Marvel will celebrate the respective 15th and 10th birthdays for Thor and Captain America: Civil War. Both movies are pretty vital to the Infinity Saga, mostly when it comes to long-term investment—you don’t get Loki or Thanos without the original Thor, and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame don’t arguably happen as they do without Civil War paving the way for them.
At the time of their individual releases, Thor and Civil War were generally well-regarded by critics and audiences alike, and have the box offices to show for it. Despite who they’re about, they were both “out there” to one extent or another for general audiences: Thor invited them to the world where alien viking with a magic hammer fights giants and his secretly evil brother, and Civil War wanted them to accept and dread the Avengers finally throwing hands without mind control factoring into their beefs.
Execution hasn’t always matched the ambition, but several Infinity Saga films, whether they were first-timers or sequels, have made an ask of the audience. That’s continued through the Multiverse Saga, including getting on board with supporting Infinity players like Sam and Bucky to star in their own projects and go on to headline December’s Avengers: Doomsday. Marvel already wants fans to have nostagia for the previous movies, so in the spirit of that, tell us in the comments what Infinity Saga films you still love after all this time.
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