SAN DIEGO — Saturday is no joke on Comic-Con's biggest stage: Hall H saw Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, the Justice League and even the fan-favorite Stranger Things kids, but still the day was ruled by the jam-packed Marvel Studios panel.

Here are five ways Marvel knocked out the competition:

Ant-Man added to its sizable cast.

Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly return as the two leads in Ant-Man and the Wasp (in theaters July 6, 2018), which has boosted its ensemble with Michelle Pfeiffer. She's playing Janet Van Dyne, the original Wasp and wife of scientist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), who in 2015's Ant-Man was thought lost forever in the quantum realm. Plus, Walton Goggins has joined the crew as antagonistic businessman Sonny Burch, Hannah John-Kamen as the villainous Ghost, and Laurence Fishburne as Bill Foster, a scientist who worked alongside Pym.

Captain Marvel will have a retro story.

Marvel gave the faithful a big chunk of news about its upcoming superheroine. Captain Marvel (March 8, 2019), starring Brie Larson, will take place in the early 1990s — before the events of the first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, Iron Man — so Samuel L. Jackson will have both his eyes and the shapeshifting galactic race the Skrulls figure in as the movie's chief villain. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige also introduced new concept art of Larson in her superhero outfit and punching a bunch of aliens, which drew a huge response from the crowd.

Thor: Ragnarok introduced a new supergroup.

Chris Hemsworth was on hand to present an assortment of new specifics about his thunder god: new hair, a new foe in Hela (Cate Blanchett) and a new team of heroes he's running with. The latest trailer for the fall film (out Nov. 3) revealed how Thor, fellow Avenger the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), frenemy/brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and warrior woman Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) find themselves on the same side as Hela tries to take down Asgard, while a clip shown to fans offered Jeff Goldblum at his quirky Goldblum-iest as the Grandmaster.

Black Panther showcased two great villains.

Director Ryan Coogler debuted a batch of footage from his new movie (Feb. 16) that featured the Wakandan superhero (Chadwick Boseman) and friends Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) and Okoye (Danai Gurira) engaging in spycraft in a casino and a trailer that offered a look at the politics of the film as well as its insane action. Fans also got a glimpse at what a pair of Black Panther's notorious villains can do: Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) is an arms dealer with a dangerous transforming robot arm, and Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) makes a play for the Wakandan throne and has his own supersuit that's just as cool as Black Panther's.

Avengers: Infinity War is stacked with starpower.

Marvel didn't do anything special for its third Avengers film (May 4) other than show the same footage that played a week earlier at Disney's D23 fan event, but it still wowed the crowd when Thor meets the Guardians of the Galaxy for the first time, Spider-Man (Tom Holland) swings around in a spiffy new outfit, Captain America (Chris Evans) emerges from the shadows in a full beard as a fugitive, and Thanos (Josh Brolin) comes to Earth looking to destroy its mightiest heroes.