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Tholan
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What Marvel did is exceptional, they have characters spanning so many quality movies, it's a novelty. it will be very hard to copy, and no wonder that the first one to attempt will fail horribly. Suicide squad was to me the perfect example of a "hey look we also have a team of super heros except they are vilains !" and fail miserabely because nobody knew who they were (except maybe harley).
Chukzombi
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DC has about the same number of iconic superheroes as Marvel does. MCU had a longterm plan and DC is a clusterfuck with no plan at all. How Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman were allowed to become joke properties i'll never know.
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Sterling
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Depends on what you mean by characters but both comic companies have thousands and thousands of characters to draw from and Marvel regularly digs into some deep C tier garbage list and makes awesome movies out of it. Guardians of the Galaxy? Who regularly read that shit? Like nobody.
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Harshaw
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DC has more. They absorbed a bunch of smaller companies. Hell there are probably 10 times more Justice League members than Avengers members.
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a c i d.f l y
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There's way, way, WAY, WAAAYYY the fuck more Avengers than Justice League members. I can name a good 90% of the JL off the top of my head (DC fanboi). There are hundreds of Avengers I've never even heard of. Shit, there's probably more members of X-Men than JL. Of course, if we're talking multiverse, DC blows those numbers out of the park with thousands of different versions of the same characters.
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I think GoTG shows characters themselves arent the problem(well as long as the truly crazy characters are more secondary roles), its having actors that work well together and someone that knows how to write create your screenplay.
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This for sure.
I remember when GOTG trailer came out... I was thinking "this looks so bad", and I guess this before I had the mindset that Marvel could do no wrong... But good story, great writing, and great actors made it so much fun. It's pretty amazing they can take characters that barely anyone knows and make a movie so good with them.
Going forward I worry, because I feel like Iron Man and Cap are just impossible to replace. Probably some of the best casting ever... But I'm sure they will pull it off. Or could have a decade ago before all the SJW shit in the next phase.
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How shit tier was Iron Man as a character? As a kid I think I knew of him, but have trouble if it was him or Magneto I am thinking of. What other big characters in the Avengers movies were shit tier?
Sterling
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In the 80s and 90s basically A tier for Marvel was Spiderman and Xmen. Which was why those 2 particular brands were what got bought when Marvel was going under. Hulk was probably in a tier by himself between those 2 and the rest. Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, and maybe like Daredevil and Ghost Rider were sort of the well known characters. Then you sort of have the rest of the avengers and other random heros. Then you have a bunch of niche shit. Then you have GotG and Power Pack and other mostly trash tier stuff.
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Chukzombi
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as a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s. from DC i knew of Shazaam, Batman, Wonder Woman and of course Superman. from Marvel, i knew Cap, Spidey and Hulk. i wouldnt even know who the fuck the rest were if it wasnt for Hostess snack cakes.
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think if going by pre-2000's pop culture
A - Spiderman, Hulk, Captain America {} Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, Shazam
B - Wolverine, The Thing, Iron Man, Blade {} Flash, Batgirl, Aquaman, Supergirl
Thor would probably be C, Black Widow and Hawkeye D
A - Spiderman, Hulk, Captain America {} Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, Shazam
B - Wolverine, The Thing, Iron Man, Blade {} Flash, Batgirl, Aquaman, Supergirl
Thor would probably be C, Black Widow and Hawkeye D
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Sterling
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The mutant stuff and Spiderverse comics outsold everything else combined through the 80s and 90s. not close. There's a reason those were what got bought by Sony and Fox. Wolverine and Spiderman were the 2 most popular characters Marvel had by orders of magnitude. Wolverine made guest appearances all over the place because it would triple sales.
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