The 2026 "Friendlee Awards:" The Nominees (Best of the 2025 MCU)
Friends From Work: An Unofficial Marvel Podcast
Kyle Schonewill and Robby Earle
4.8 • 659 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
One of our favorite annual traditions returns, the Friendlee Awards, with the winners being chosen by our valuable FFW+ committee. If you are a FFW+ subscriber be sure to get your vote in ASAP. For everyone else, enjoy this look back at what made 2025 one of the better MCU slates we've had in a while.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the 2020 |
| 0:15.4 | Here on Friends from Work. |
| 0:19.0 | It's one of our favorite annual traditions where we celebrate what 2025 brought us inside |
| 0:27.1 | the MCU. |
| 0:28.1 | So this is the best of 2025 for 2026 in season seven. |
| 0:33.7 | Yes, that's always that confusing thing. |
| 0:35.5 | But welcome back to the awards. |
| 0:37.5 | Robbie, without for the do, here you go. |
| 0:39.2 | Ready? |
| 0:41.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:42.7 | The 2026 friendlies. |
| 0:44.9 | This is the same song I've used every year. |
| 0:48.7 | Every time, though, it just, like, it gets me there. |
| 0:52.6 | It just works. |
| 0:54.4 | It just works. It just works. |
| 0:57.2 | Rob, it was a fun year in 2025 in the Marvel Cylenic years. |
| 1:02.3 | Man, I always love this part of the year, if only, or part of the season, I guess. |
| 1:10.0 | If only because, like, I forget sometimes |
| 1:15.0 | everything that came out in a year. It's like by the time we are to this point, like, it all |
| 1:22.6 | kind of blends together sometimes, especially as we're doing like the rewatch orders, |
| 1:29.3 | you know, and things get like pulled out of release order and I kind of forget |
| 1:30.9 | where it actually fell. |
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