Pretty soon, the entire world is going to lose its collective mind when Avengers: Infinity War hits theaters. The movie will be the culmination of a decade worth of films, starting with Iron Man, which came out in 2008. Infinity War is widely acknowledged to be the biggest cinematic event in history. Really, almost every filmgoer will agree that The Avenge🅷rs are the only superhero team in the world that matter right now.

And they would be wrong. Sure, Justice League released last year to a mixed response and does not have the box office clout that The Avengers possess, but cinematic worth is not measured by box office alone. The superhero team-up movies you see on the big screen these days are a culmination of storylines that ha𝓀ve been running through comics and related media🍒 for more than 70 years.

Once you go deeper into the matter, you begin to realize that there is a reason The Justice League is acknowledged by both DC and Marvel fans to be the granddaddy of all superhero teams. Even the DC Cinematic Universe, as messy as it's been, has consciously tried to move away from the Marvel Cinematic Universe formula, in the process giving us many movie moments that we could never imagine occurring in a Marvel movie. Here are 25 memes that challenge the idea of The Avenger's dominance, and prove that when it comes to a superhero team battle royale, The Justice League has more than a few tricks up their sleeves.

25 🦂 The Man Who Stands Alongside Gods 𒉰

There is a reason that Batman is fondly referred to as 'The Batgod' by large sections of the fandom. He may just be a man, but this Man always wins. Doesn't matter if he's goin🉐g up against a Gotham street thug or the ruler of Apokolips, Lord Darkseid. The Dark Knight will always find a way to win, if not by muscle, then by strategy and planning.

And that makes Batman a far more interesting character to watch than any other hero on either of the teams. The question at the back of your mind will always be 'How will the Bat get out of this situation?' All the best Batman storylines from the comics show him getting🦋 beaten to a pulp, only to rise up at the last moment⛦ and snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat.

That's what happened when Bane broke Batman's back and threw him in jail. Or when the Joker turned his own family against him. Or a♛♌ny number of times that he and Superman have clashed in the past. You may never know until the very last moment, but Batman will always win.

24 The Long, Hard Wait For The Film ⭕

Justice League has more loyal fans than The Avengers. This statement can be ba♏cked up by two facts. First, the Justice League has been the older, more popular team since their incept𓂃ion. The Avengers was even formed as a response to the League's popularity.

Over the years, the Justice League dominated fan's imagination like no other team. They made video games. They made cartoons. They were referenced endlessly in popular culture. All of that made the fans salivate thinking of the day when we would finally get to watch a live-action Justice League movie.

Which brings us to the second point: DC fans have been waiting a long time for The Justice League movie. Honestly, Marvel fans are pretty spoiled by this point. With their multiple solo-hero films, their multiple superhero team-up films, and now Infinity War.

All that DC fans had to look forward to was Justice League, and even that seemed to be an uncertainty at one point, with Batman V Superman underperforming at the box office. For all these reasons, the build-up to the League movie was far more intense than anything that was witnessed by the Avengers movies.

23 ⛄ The Coolest Leaders Any Team Can Have

It must be acknowledged that Captain America and Iron Man are the leaders of The Avengers. They're the ones that the others turn to for guidance, which is why the team was split into Team Cap and Team Iron Man during the events of Captain America: Civil War.

Now, while Tony Stark is a billionaire genius who can think his way out of any situation, Captain America is the shining standard for heroꦫ🍸ism that all of America looks up to. It would be hard to come up with better leaders for a team.

Unless you happen to be the Justice League.

Because the League has Superman and Batman as the team leaders. Superman is the shining standard for heroism not just to America, not just to the planet, but for the entir🐼e universe. There are civilizations in other parts of the Cosmos that are not even aware of Earth, who know about the Champion of the People known as Superman.

And Batman... well, he's Batman. He's the last word when it com🍰es to bei♕ng a genius billionaire. And he's the guy you call for all your battle planning and strategizing needs.

22 💟 The Trump Card To End All Others 💞

If you've got Batma🐽n and Superman in the same movie, how can you possibly hope to upstage them? Simple: Be Wonder Woman, and pull it off with ease.

Everyone agrees that Wonder Woman was the breakout character from Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.✱ Was it because Gal Gadot has the face of an angel and the swagger of a gunslinging cowboy? Definitely.

But just in case you thought her popularity in the movie was a fluke, along came Wonder Woman the next year and established the Amazon Princess as the most popular superhero in the DC exte꧋nded universe.

Wonder Woman is now so popular that even Marvel Superheroes can't stop praising her. Thor, AKA Chris Hemsworth, once cheerfully admitted 💃on Twitter that Wonder Woman would beat Thor any day. The new Deadpool movie makes a reference to Wondy's famed Amazon salute in the trailer.

With so much goodwill from both sides, Princess Diana becomes the trump card from the League that the Avengers just don't have an answer for. Because when Wonder Woman throws down on the big screen, Marvel or DC fan, male or female, you're rooti♌ng for her.

21 The Di꧂sneyfication Of The Marvel Universe

When was the last time you saw a prominent hero perish onscreen in a Marvel movie? The closest example we can think of is Agent Coulson from the first Avengers movie, and even t♐hat passing ꦡdid not last, since he came back on their TV show.

This fact about Mar🥀vel, that nothing too dark happens in the movies, is becoming extremely apparent after ten years worth of movieဣs. It is impossible to ignore the shadow of Disney that seems to loom over the Marvel universe.

What this has given us is a universe that only lightly brushes over what it means to be a superhero. Acquire superpowers, make plenty of quips, defeat the villain whose powers and origins mirror yours. Rinse and repeat. This is the formula that Marvel has chosen to establish in their movieverse, and needless to say, it is one that many comic book fans are getting tireꦿd🦄 of.

Of course, Marvel fans will argue that DC's movie formu🌄la is far from perfect, and they would be right. Is it too🌜 much to ask that both DC and Marvel learn from each other to give us better films than before?

20 🌸 The Only Hero The World Ne🍨eds

How effective do you need your superhero team to be? Do you all need to come together, pooling your collective might into a final confrontation with the villain? Or do you simply call Superman😼 and take the rest of the day off?

The latter is an option only for the Justice League.

To put it bluntly, the Man of Steel would destroy 90% of the Avengers on his own. N🦩ow, your first words of protest should be "But what about Thor and Hulk, you pathetic DC fanboy?"

First of all, there's no need for name calling. Second, the level of destruction that befell Metropolis in Man of Steel is unlike anything that occurred in any of the Marvel movies. And that was with a young, inexperienced Superman. Once Kal El came back from the grave in Justice League, he proved to be almost single-handedly capa🌱ble of defeating the villai🦹n.

So if a fight ever takes place between the 𝐆two superhero teams, you can be sure Superman will be the deciding factor in the fight, with almost all of the Avenger's focus directed at him. Leaving Batman enough time to plan a victory gambit.

19 🃏 The Batman V Superman Hype Was Real 🥃

At their core, both Avengers and ꦰJustice League are ridiculous concepts. Gods in capes and tights fighting mad scientists? Absurd. The skill of the films lie in making not only such a concept seem real, but getting us hyped for their wildly one-sided fights.

And be assured, both fight scenes in Batman V Superman and Civil War were equally one-sided. Superman should have won 🧜easily. And Team Iron Man should have won easily. Both films managed to make the fights actually look well-balanced and ex🦋citing.

But Batman V Superman managed to hype their fight up much more, making the fans almost wet themselves with excitement when the throwdown eventually occurred. All of BVS wa🔥s a gradual build-up to the fight. We caught glimpses of Batman's rage and paranoia. We got to see Superman's helplessness in the face of a world that did not know how to handle his presence. It made their fight sℱeem all the more important.

But the airport fight in Civil War almost seems like an afterthought. It started without warning and ended with no clear winners. The same t🀅hing happened at the end with the fight between Iron Man and Captain America and Bucky. It's difficult to get hyped for such abrupt brawls.

18 ꦐ No 'Other' Quicksilver To Steal Your Thunder

Quicksilver was a welcome addition to the Avengers. Until you remembered the other Quic🍃ksilver, the one who showed up in X-Men, and who stole the show in the movie with an insanely cool slow-motion fight scene. Suddenly, the Quicksilver in Avengers seemed like a pale imitation of the X-Men her✨o.

This is a constant problem that Marvel faces, where different companies own the rights to many of their characters, making it hard to plan a truly combined universe. Spiderman was a last minute entry to Civil War, because of the ༒long legal battle it took to include him in the Avengers. And his future in the Marvelverse is still uncertain. Venom is going to get his own movie without ever being able to mention Spiderman. Quicksilver and Black Widow from the Avengers movie had their pasts changed completely to ignore the💞ir connection to Magneto.

DC does not have this problem. All their characters are still owned by one parent company. This means that when the DC extended universe does start in earnest, they will be able t🔯o make much more ambitious team-up movies that can safely include every DC superhero character.

17 💫 The League Is More Serious About Saving Lives

When was the last time you saw the Avengers take stock of the destruction they caused during their battles? Think back to the post credit scene of the first Avengers movie. We see Captain America and the others sitting at an almost completely demolished diner right after the Chitauri attack, havin💞g lunch.

Wouldn't the Avengers have done better to lend a hand to the terrified people of the city who'd just witnessed a massive alien attack? The entire conflict of Civil War was based on the assumption that the Avengers don't do enough to clean up after them when they're off on a su❀perhero mission. Captain America was even willing to side with a serial life-ender, The Winter Soldier, and go against the gove๊rnment's regulations because Bucky was his old friend.

The Justice League has been shown to be far more careful about following the law of the land. Superman is constantly bothered by the destruction his actions caused in the battle over Metropolis. Batman V Superman 🌜was a direct examination of the destruction of the previous film, and Superman willingly turned himself over to the law to stand trial.

16 ♏ Taking A Long Viewꦅ Of Comic History

Whenever the more general arguments about 𒀰Avengers Vs Justice League pop up, they are u💧sually based on the recent live-action movies. But that misses out on the far more significant 70+ years worth of storylines that the two teams have been built on.

Now, The Avengers have come up with some interesting comic storylines in the past, like the Civil War narrative that was adapted for the big screen. But pound for pound, the Justice League has had the more interesting༺ storyline🅷s, with more mature themes, and more lasting consequences.

That is the main reason why The Justice League has historically enjoyed greater popularity than The Avengers. The Justice League Unlimited cartoon show took bigger risks and was more ambitious than anything the live-action Marvel movies have served up. The Injustice Universe, at first created simply as a supplement for a DC video game, eventually evolved into a fascinating study of what would h🐟appen if the Justice League decided to use far deadlier mꦑeans to establish world order.

And so, if you were to take in🌟to account all the storylines that the two teams have explored over 70 years, the League edges ahead.