Throughout the 2010s and 2020s, MCU set a very high standard for superhero films because of this trope.
- Around half-way through The Avengers, Hawkeye almost crashes the helicarrier. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Cap, Black Widow and Falcon succeed in crashing three.
- The climax of Iron Man was Iron Man versus a man in a giant Powered Armor. The climax of Iron Man 2 is Iron Man and War Machine against an army of robots plus a man in a giant Powered Armor. Cue Iron Man 3, it's Iron Man, War Machine and an army of Powered Armor (including a giant one, though it doesn't fight) against an army of superpowered humans.
- Thor has somewhat big battles in isolated places (an ice world, a desert town, the Rainbow Bridge). Despite Thor: The Dark World retaining some action scenes in plains or wastelands, the big battles lay waste to both Asgard and Greenwich University.
- The Avengers was in both America and Europe, with the Evil Plan culminating in an invasion of New York City. Avengers: Age of Ultron doubles the continents (America, Europe, Africa and Asia) and has an even larger scale climax, where a whole city is turned into a Floating Continent so it can trigger an extinction-level Colony Drop. Avengers: Infinity War goes even further with Thanos, a villain who plans to kill half the universe and succeeds. Avengers: Endgame goes up to eleven with a alternate universe version of said villain who wants to rebuild the whole universe so no one will remember what he has done. What If...? introduced a villain who killed Thanos in 5 seconds, and destroyed his entire universe. And Kang the Conqueror looks to be a villain that threatens not just one universe, but the entire multiverse.
- Guardians of the Galaxy had the Big Bad be a zealot who aspired to destroy a whole planet. The sequel instead has a sentient planet who wanted to destroy the entire universe.
- Phase 3 itself is shaping up to be one before it even begins simply due to size — the previous phases were each comprised of six films. Phase 3? Eleven.
- Phase 4 ups the ante set by the Infinity Saga and then some. There are now TV shows and specials that are part of the main narrative. Instead of just one universe, we now have a whole multiverse to deal with. We're introduced to an organization that dictated the whole of the Infinity Saga, and a villain primed to be even worse than Thanos. The Final Boss of one of the installments is so powerful, he manged to one-shot Thanos, kill Captain Marvel, and effectively wipe out his entire universe. There's a Crisis Crossover with three seperate universes. And that's only a third into the new saga!
- Doctor Strange took place in one universe. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness instead took place primarily in three of them.
