Rank their significance to Marvel Earth

Rank the following characters in order as to how essential their existence on Marvel Earth is from a in-universe standpoint.

Captain America
Iron Man
Thor
Spider-Man
The Hulk
Wolverine
Mr. Fantastic
Professor Xavier
Doctor Strange

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
Rank the following characters in order as to how essential their existence on Marvel Earth is from a in-universe standpoint.

Captain America
Iron Man
Thor
Spider-Man
The Hulk
Wolverine
Mr. Fantastic
Professor Xavier
Doctor Strange

They are all cash cows except Strange! However the old Dr. Strange 70's T.V.movie is awesome.

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
Rank the following characters in order as to how essential their existence on Marvel Earth is from a in-universe standpoint.

Captain America
Iron Man
Thor
Spider-Man
The Hulk
Wolverine
Mr. Fantastic
Professor Xavier
Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange
Mr. Fantastic
Thor
Professor X
The Hulk
Iron Man
Captain America
Wolverine
Spider-man

Strange
Fantastic

Thor...only to act as intermediary with asgard

everyone else

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
Rank the following characters in order as to how essential their existence on Marvel Earth is from a in-universe standpoint.

Captain America
Iron Man
Thor
Spider-Man
The Hulk
Wolverine
Mr. Fantastic
Professor Xavier
Doctor Strange

Have to establish better criteria to make it objective. In my case, I'm using people saved, sub-criteria: how they affect the moral demeanor of those in the universe. Basically, who has done the most "hero" things, both empirical and intangible.

So the ones that have fended off cosmic threats take first priority. So, as rightly stated, in some order, Reed/Strange/Thor (in that order for me). After that it gets tricky. Tony, for example, is rich and more powerful than Spider-Man. But who has saved more people, or averted more crises? Who's been the moral compass more often. The answer is Pete. Same reason Cap beats Tony or Hulk. I could get into "web of life" stuff with SM, which suggests he's intrinsic to the very idea of heroism in the MU, but that's a bit more esoteric.

Reed
Strange

Thor

Xavier

Spider-Man
Cap
Iron Man
Hulk
Wolverine

I agree with the above.

1- Reed Richards

2- Dr Strange

3- Thor
4- Hulk / Bruce Banner

5- Charles Xavier
6- Iron Man
7, 8 and 9) Wolverine, Spider-Man, Captain America

Xavier should be near the top, he is basically solely responsible for the Xmen

Though all are significant, if they all go the way of the dodo, there will always be someone to pick up the slack as proved by bucky, eric masterson, etc etc etc.

so, imo, they are all equally important.

Spiderman > everyone else

He is irreplaceable in the MU, everyone else on that list is.

Doctor Strange - fending us from demon invaders, like his predecessors before him.
Captain America - NAZI! Enough Said!
Professor Xavier - if he wasn't here, all mutants would side with Magento.
Iron Man - useful devices to aid mankind
Mr. Fantastic - same as Iron Man
Thor - protector
Spider-Man - small scale protector
Hulk - learn from first hand experience that gamma = big nuke = creates monsters
Wolverine - unnecessary, like Canada.

Originally posted by Mindset
Spiderman > everyone else

He is irreplaceable in the MU, everyone else on that list is.

har har har

Yea, I wasn't joking.

Spiderman is Marvel.

Originally posted by vansonbee
Doctor Strange - fending us from demon invaders, like his predecessors before him.
Captain America - NAZI! Enough Said!
Professor Xavier - if he wasn't here, all mutants would side with Magento.
Iron Man - useful devices to aid mankind
Mr. Fantastic - same as Iron Man
Thor - protector
Spider-Man - small scale protector
Hulk - learn from first hand experience that gamma = big nuke = creates monsters
Wolverine - unnecessary, like Canada.

if reed is gone Doom controls the world. magneto has noble intentions and can be negotiated with but doom...yeah.

I alluded to the Wed of Life stuff in my post here:

Originally posted by Digi
Have to establish better criteria to make it objective. In my case, I'm using people saved, sub-criteria: how they affect the moral demeanor of those in the universe. Basically, who has done the most "hero" things, both empirical and intangible.

So the ones that have fended off cosmic threats take first priority. So, as rightly stated, in some order, Reed/Strange/Thor (in that order for me). After that it gets tricky. Tony, for example, is rich and more powerful than Spider-Man. But who has saved more people, or averted more crises? Who's been the moral compass more often. The answer is Pete. Same reason Cap beats Tony or Hulk. I could get into "web of life" stuff with SM, which suggests he's intrinsic to the very idea of heroism in the MU, but that's a bit more esoteric.

...but it is hard to provide much evidence for. Obviously he's a moral compass character just like Cap, but the "proof" ends there. A statement like that from Madame Web is cool, but also doesn't invalidate what the other heroes have done. I think you'd have to weight that statement unfairly high to make for all the ways that, say, Reed means more to the universe than Peter.

It's also why I ranked Spidey higher than most, though, but I don't think we can just use that as a trump card for everything.

/thread

Originally posted by Power Cosmic II
if reed is gone Doom controls the world. magneto has noble intentions and can be negotiated with but doom...yeah.

Spiderman is tops. He's the only one the list that knows the secret to dial 11.

No one else.

Originally posted by Power Cosmic II
if reed is gone Doom controls the world. magneto has noble intentions and can be negotiated with but doom...yeah.

There was a nice "What if..." what would happen if Doom gains omnipotence.