Collider dropped a ranked list of the best battle sequences in fantasy cinema on Tuesday, and it's the kind of list built to start arguments in comment sections rather than settle them.

The outlet pulls from seven decades of filmmaking, and the range is the whole point. There's Disney's 1971 oddity Bedknobs and Broomsticks, where Angela Lansbury's Miss Price animates a museum's worth of medieval armour to fight off Nazi commandos. Collider calls it a film that started life as a Mary Poppins knockoff and found its own identity in that climax, part haunting, part slapstick, with suits of armour chanting themselves to life.

Then there's Ray Harryhausen's 1963 stop-motion classic Jason and the Argonauts, which Collider rates as the animator's best climactic sequence. King Aeëtes sows hydra teeth into the ground and skeleton warriors rise to stop Jason and his crew from getting away with the Golden Fleece. The choreography between the stop-motion skeletons and the live actors, per the piece, is tight enough that it feels like they were actually on set together.

From Irontown to Narnia

Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke gets a slot too, for the siege of Irontown, where Lady Eboshi's settlement is attacked by both the Boar Tribe and samurai loyal to Warlord Asano. Collider points out that most of the actual violence happens off-screen, but what's shown, piles of boar corpses blown apart by explosives, lands hard against the film's man-versus-nature themes.

The 2005 Chronicles of Narnia adaptation shows up for the Battle of Beruna, where Peter Pevensie leads Aslan's army against Jadis the White Witch. Collider credits the film for giving its fantasy creatures, centaurs, minotaurs, griffins, distinct fighting styles instead of treating them as one undifferentiated horde, and singles out Tilda Swinton's performance for making Jadis feel like an actual threat rather than a cardboard villain.

And then there's the Battle of Hogwarts, the two-part finale that closes out the Harry Potter franchise. Collider doesn't pull punches describing it, giants and sentient statues in the mix, side characters dying without warning, the whole thing building toward Harry and Voldemort's final confrontation. The piece frames it as a fitting, if sombre, note to end eight films on.

Collider's full list runs to ten entries, though the outlet has only detailed five in what's circulated so far. No word yet on where each of these five actually lands in the final ranking, whether Hogwarts tops it or gets beaten out by something further down the list nobody's expecting.

Fantasy fans on social media are already doing what fantasy fans do best, picking sides and drafting their own top tens. Expect the rest of Collider's list, and the inevitable pushback to it, to surface over the coming days.