Top Five Marvel Characters
Spoilers for all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies (from Iron Man to Captain Marvel) before Avengers: Endgame are included in this episode! Discussion of trailers for Endgame is also included! Be warned!
Welcome to the biggest behemoth of an episode you ever did see from Goodbye Mello Brick Road – months in the making. In the most ambitious project and crossover to date, join Dave Mello as he traverses the globe to speak with twenty-three different beloved friends and family members. In this five-hour marathon of fun conversations and Marvel obsessions, over thirty characters are mentioned as Dave has assembled his own team of Avengers to rank the five best Marvel characters!
In terms of time stamps, you can jump around and listen to any list that may pique your interest. Dave welcomes new friends of the podcast and old as he interviews:
Ryan Foley (7:13), Allison Folse (36:01), Jenn Nicol (48:02)
Tim Gomez (1:05:53), Tyler Clardy (1:16:19), Humad Shah (1:44:18)
Calvin Heighton (2:01:30), Nancy, Joseph, and Nicole Mello (2:30:21), Aunt Jacki Tibbitts (2:57:00)
Alyssa Yarboro (3:06:12), Sophie Woodcock (3:12:13), Courtney Colen (3:25:41), Kelsey Elliott (3:34:24)
Jessica Flacksenburg (3:41:46), Zev Behar (3:53:06), Patrick Raiford (4:05:28), Kelsey Mahoney (4:19:22)
Lach (4:29:24), Jaymi Souza (4:35:47), Caleb Cleveland (4:43:53), Chris Doyle (4:52:04)
Wowza, that’s a ton of people! But it makes for a very near and dear episode to my heart and a great way to get excited for Endgame, which debuts in just two days! It’s finally here!
Additionally, don’t forget to check out Nicole Mello’s books, Venus, The Modern Prometheus, and Phantasmagoria, which are available on Amazon!
You can also listen to Calvin’s podcast, Calvin’s Canadian Cave of Cool, on iTunes! Tyler’s podcast, Film Frauds, can be heard on the Daily Collegian!
And don’t forget about Zev Behar’s movie reviews for Captain Marvel and Dumbo on The Mickey Mindset!
These Marvel films have been a special way to navigate early adulthood and late stage adolescence and teenage years and it really feels like we’ve grown with the characters as they age and develop on screen. It really is like a bond. As such, I’ve been writing a number of MCU Retrospective articles over on my notepad, Saoirse Ronan Deserves an Oscar. Feel free to check them out for more Endgame adjacent content!
Be sure to subscribe to the new feed for Goodbye Mello Brick Road on iTunes, as hosted by Dave Mello! It’s a new network and a new era for the podcast!
Lastly, here are some more spoilers. If you don’t want to know who picked which characters before you listen to the episode, then stop reading now!
I turned everyone’s selections into an aggregate list of the thirty characters selected by each person. If a character was ranked number one on someone’s list, I gave that character five points. If they were ranked second, they got four points. And so on. The cumulative totals are listed below for those interested!
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man (59 points)
- Steve Rogers/Captain America (54 points)
- Tony Stark/Iron Man (41 points)
- Thor (32 points)
- Bruce Banner/Hulk (25 points)
- Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (24 points)
- Shuri (14 points)
- Scott Lang/Ant-Man (12 points)
- T’Challa/Black Panther (12 points)
- Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (9 points)
- Rocket Raccoon (8 points)
- Nick Fury (7 points)
- Thanos (7 points)
- Drax (5 points)
- Gamora (5 points)
- Matt Murdock/Daredevil (5 points)
- Okoye (4 points)
- Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (4 points)
- Wolverine/Logan (4 points)
- Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (3 points)
- Charles Xavier/Professor X (3 points)
- Clint Barton/Hawkeye (3 points)
- Doctor Doom/Victor Von Doom (3 points)
- Peter Quill/Star-Lord (3 points)
- Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl (3 points)
- Goose (2 points)
- Magneto (2 points)
- Peggy Carter (2 points)
- Adrian Toomes/The Vulture (2 points)
- Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange (1 point)
Thank you everyone for doing this and reading this and listening to this! I appreciate it more than you know! Happy Marvel Week!
Image Source: Nicole Mello