Highest-Grossing Superhero Films of All Time
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Avengers: Endgame (2019) leads in Worldwide Box Office (Billion USD) with 2.80 in 2021.
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2018 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2021: Avengers: Endgame (2019) is 2.6× larger than The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
About This Dataset
Highest-Grossing Superhero Films of All Time
Superhero films ranked by total worldwide box office gross in billions of USD. Avengers: Endgame broke every existing box office record when it was released in 2019, ultimately grossing $2.798 billion worldwide — surpassing Avatar to briefly become the highest-grossing film of all time and demonstrating the extraordinary commercial power of Marvel's decade-long story arc culminating in a single cinematic event that fans had been building toward since 2008.
Analysis
Avengers: Endgame (2019) (2.80), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) (2.05) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) (1.90) take the top three in Worldwide Box Office (Billion USD) in 2021. Values run from 2.80 at the top to 1.08 at the bottom, a spread of 1.72. First and second are separated by 0.75, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 1.90 down to 1.08.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2012–2021 (5 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- Worldwide Box Office (Billion USD)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2021.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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