On Friday, we asked our readers to pick their favorite Phase IV Marvel Cinematic Universe film. While surprisingly all seven films got votes (thank you to the two people who voted for Black Widow and kept it on the big board), there was a clear victor. That victor also happened to be the film that leaned most into both comic book nonsense and nostalgia, which is a combination as winning as anything else in pop culture.
That winner, of course, was Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is the type of movie that would’ve seemed wholly impossible just a few years ago. 41.9% of those who voted did so for the visual image of three cinematic Spider-Men all pointing at each other, like the meme. Truly, who can blame them?
In second place, with 17.6%, was Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which was surprising to me. I thought, for sure, that one of the top two spots would’ve gone to the third place choice, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Perhaps that film is just too new, and that’s why it only got 14.9% of the vote.
Check back on Friday for our next Reader Poll!
