In any superhero movie, there are scenes of thrilling action and extraordinary displays of superpowers. Even though I love and am obsessed with these kinds of movies, there is one outstanding problem that seems to plague many superhero movies and movies in general.

This problem is that they have boring protagonists. Now when I say boring, I don't mean that they are overtly bland characters. Obviously, in superhero movies, the main character has superhuman abilities, which make for great fight scenes and awesome displays of their power. What these superheroes lack isn't a cool suit or grand powers, it's a coherent character arc. In many good movies, one of the main things that makes a story good is a character that starts off as one thing, but through the events of the plot, is forced to change and ultimately become a different version of their past selves. In my opinion, there have been few superhero movies that have achieved in creating characters that each undergo external and internal struggle, forcing them to become not just stronger heroes, but stronger people. Then there are some that base their entire movie around developing the protagonist's arc.

This is a list of my most favorite character arcs in superhero movies.