Avengers

It's hard to explain to our younger readers, but it is a miracle that the MCU got its start building the Avengers. Earth's mightiest heroes were decidedly B-list before Robert Downey, Jr. and Chris Evans's handsome faces were, uh, made the faces of the franchise. Here's Cracked in 2012 read the comics, we guess.  

Yes, over the course of the Obama istration, we went from “an Iron Man movie? Two of them? Okay…” to “The Avengers' real MVP is.