If You Only Have To Watch 5 Superhero Movies of the 2010s, Make Sure It's These Masterpieces

The superhero genre dominated the 2010s. More than any other film genre, superheroes had the world in a chokehold, greatly benefiting from the groundwork done throughout the 2000s by The Dark Knight and the X-Menand Spider-Man trilogies. The rise of the MCU in 2012 was the catalyst for the genre to overwhelm pop culture, become the definitive form of entertainment; what noir and Westerns were in the '40s and '50s, superheroes were in the 2010s.