Awesome Music / Marvel Cinematic Universe

With tons of movies and TV series, is there any wonder that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has tons of great music?

Works with their own page:

• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Black Panther (2018)
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Avengers: Endgame

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• Iron Man:
  • AC/DC at the start of the movie, Black Sabbath at the end, and Ramin Djawadi (AKA, the guy who eventually composed Game of Thrones, and had done little of note up to this point) all the way in between. What's not to like?

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  • The badass and heroic "Driving With The Top Down", which plays during Stark's first flight.
• Craig Armstrong's work in the 2008 Incredible Hulk movie is phenomenal. Highlights include the Main Theme, which combines an eeriness and sense of dread for the monster to come. Also worth noting is the music for the final battle, which includes a reprise of the main Hulk theme.
• Iron Man 2:
  • The fantastically cheesy "Make Way For Tomorrow" theme from the Stark Expo gets cranked up to a gloriously epic eleven over the closing credits.
  • Ladies and gentlemen, John Debney's "Black Widow Kicks Ass"! And inexplicably not included in the film, "I Am Iron Man."
  • "Monaco Drive" is an all-too-brief blast of delicious Bondian swagger.
• Patrick Doyle's Thor's ending sequence is breathtaking, combining beautiful cosmic imagery with epic music. Incidentally, this music was also used during his Theme Music Power-Up.
• From Captain America: The First Avenger:

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  • "Star-Spangled Man", a glorious pastiche of every WWII-era ultra-patriotic propaganda tune.
  • Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain America March. It's an Alan spectacular (Menken with the song, and Silvestri with the score)! That this is the first theme for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to return in other movies is awesome in itself. It was even used to present the Stanley Cup.

• The Avengers:
  • The "Avengers Theme". Especially the repeating motif that starts at 1:06.
  • Helicarrier. This was one of several parts reused in Avengers: Age of Ultron (and this was a movie with original music by Brian Tyler and Danny Elfman).
  • Tunnel Chase begins the movie with thrills and suspense, ending with a tag of the title theme.
  • Assemble augments an already tense battle in New York with a mix of bombastic horns, strings, and timpani. It isn't until Banner (who earlier emerged from a pile of rubble) arrives that the piece goes into a decrescendo. At 4:10 as Banner walks forward, the strings picks up again along with some subtle timpani, building to a bombastic prelude that then transitions into the Avengers fanfare - leading to the iconic shot of the original Avengers "reloading" their weapons. This prelude makes a return later in the franchise.

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  • One Way Trip plays partially as the heroes enact the plan that ultimately saves the day, with equal parts sorrow, solemnity, and acceptance.
  • A Promise adds a beautiful acoustic guitar as the heroes settle after their victory, before one final triumphant reprise of the main theme.
• Iron Man 3: Brian Tyler's score is fantastic.
  • The primary theme, simply titled "Iron Man 3" and subsequently rearranged into "Battle Finale" from the final battle.
  • The jovial "Can You Dig It" from the amazing Creative Closing Credits.
  • Also the trailer music, "Something to Fight For" by Sencit music.
  • Eiffel 65 "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", used during the company logos and flashback. Anyone who loved this song when it was first released in 1998 can easily feel the nostalgia.
• Thor: The Dark World: While most of the soundtrack is great, "Into Eternity", which plays during Frigga's funeral gets special mention.
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier:
  • "Taking A Stand", Cap's new theme that sounds darker and more muted for the modern times, yet still appropriately heroic.
  • Winter Soldier's theme, a wail that makes one's hair stand on end and can quickly turn from ominous to sudden.
  • "End of the Line", played during the film's climax where Bucky saves Steve from drowning.
• Avengers: Age of Ultron:
  • The heroic and graceful reprisal of the main Avengers theme.
  • The glorious track titled "Avengers Unite" that plays during the final battle.
• Ant-Man:
  • Christophe Beck's score, which — befitting a heist movie about a former criminal using old-school sci-fi tech — is much jazzier and 1960s-influenced than that of the average Marvel film, with lots of Latin brass, bongos and flute.
  • The main theme and the Mexicali surf rock remix, "Tales to Astonish", that plays over the credits.
  • "First Mission", in which Scott not only fights, but defeats the Falcon single-handedly, is wonderfully tense, and even includes a cue from Henry Jackman's Winter Soldier theme upon Sam's arrival.
  • "I'm Ready" by the Commodores, a smooth bit of instrumental funk played over the montage of Scott and his associates mapping the heist on Pym's safe.
• Captain America: Civil War:
  • The Marvel Studios fanfare that plays during the beginning of the film. Fans can get excited just by the studio fanfare, similar to the Disney fanfare or the Fox fanfare!
  • "Civil War", an epic and exciting song with that plays during the iconic airport battle.
  • "Cap's Promise", the song starts on an emotional tone but starts to get more triumphant and exciting as the film reaches its finale.
• Doctor Strange (2016): The Master of the Mystic End Credits is delightfully mysterious. It has received much praise for its unique blend of instruments and styles, with the end result being just as grandiose, majestic, and trippy as one would expect for a film about the Sorcerer Supreme. It has been compared favorably to Pink Floyd, among other things. Speaking of whom, the use of a song of theirs, "Interstellar Overdrive", as Steven prepares himself for a party and drives is pretty neat.
• Much like Guardians of the Galaxy, Luke Cage (2016) really deserves its own page, as some of the jams played in Cottonmouth's club are just absolutely brilliant. Extra points in that the artists themselves performed live exclusively for the show.
• Spider-Man: Homecoming:
  • Michael Giacchino's score includes an epic version of the iconic Spider-Man (1967) theme that is used to introduce the Marvel Studios logo. The suite for the film can be heard here.
  • The Vulture's theme (mainly the ten-note phrase that announces his arrival) is menacing, swooping and intense, and fits perfectly for his terrifying appearances as a monster from the sky. When it plays during fight scenes, it features heavy drum accompaniment, making it sound like an evolution of the music from the '60s cartoon. Is there a better bad guy motif than that in the MCU?
  • Spider-Man's patrol of his neighborhood is set to "The Blitzkrieg Bop" by The Ramones, a band native to Peter's own Queens that fits perfectly with our high-energy New Yorker hero.

• Thor: Ragnarok:
  • Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" is used in the teaser trailer... and appears twice in the movie.
  • The entire score by Mark Mothersbaugh has been praised as being one of the, if not the single best score for an MCU movie to date. The "Ragnarok Suite" is particularly epic. "Twilight of the Gods," the song that plays during Odin's death scene, is also particularly moving.
  • "Where To?" uses the theme from the original Thor to phenomenal effect as Thor becomes the new King of Asgard and takes his seat in the control chair of the escape ship.

• Captain Marvel (2019):
  • Captain Marvel's theme is proud, passionate, and dynamic, much like the woman it represents and her "Higher Further Faster" mantra.
  • Nirvana's "Come as You Are" gives Carol's second encounter with the Supreme Intelligence a delightfully eerie vibe. Carol now knows exactly what the Supreme Intelligence is, and the song perfectly captures the melancholy and quiet anger that's running through her mind.
  • "I'm All Fired Up". Drawing on the strength of her reclaimed memories, Carol destroys her photon inhibitor, defies the Supreme Intelligence, and breaks out of the digital dictator's mind prison to assert her true power. Ladies and gentlemen, Captain Marvel has arrived in the MCU.
  • No Doubt's "Just A Girl", which plays as Carol Danvers wipes the floor with her former Starforce members in order to save the innocent Skrulls from the Kree's Final Solution. Now, the song's pretty damn kick-ass in its own right already, but it works incredibly well in the scene itself as the already sarcastic lyrics (i.e, "I'm just a girl, all pretty and petite") have their irony turned Up to Eleven as they play over sequences of Carol blasting her former teammates aside and punching them through steel walls.
• The main theme from Jessica Jones (2015) starts off as deliciously eerie jazz music before exploding into a snarling blast of electric guitars. The perfect theme for a badass Anti-Hero in a modern Noir.
• Spider-Man: Far From Home:
  • Peter's love for The Ramones continues with "I Wanna Be Sedated" in the first trailer (which, appropriately enough, is cut off by Nick Fury sedating Ned). In the film proper, "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" plays over the kids' return to the U.S., Peter and MJ hand in hand.
  • As Peter designs a new Spider-suit, Happy turns up AC/DC's "Back in Black". It's already a badass song, but also heartwarming when you recall that ACDC was one of Tony's favorite bands, cementing Peter as a worthy inheritor to his idol's legacy. Also punctuated with a funny moment where Peter confuses the band with Led Zeppelin.
  • Peter and MJ get the lovely and downright adorable romance theme "Bridge and Love's Burning" that punctuates their first kiss.
  • As with Homecoming's use of "Blitzkrieg Bop", Far From Home has a real banger of a classic pop tune for the first half of its credits. Appropriately, it's "Vacation" by the Go-Gos.