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Spoiler, according to this study, it’s not DC!

I really want to be offended on DC’s behalf, but I can totally understand this.

In a study published in February of this year, it tells all about Marvel blowing DC out of the water.

And really, well, DC is to blame.

Marvel took the world by storm with all of its movies. They put everything they had into Iron Man in 2008. Put their whole company and every dollar on the line to make that movie to put themselves on the map.

Thus setting off the biggest chain reaction.

Bigger than anyone, including them could have imagined.

Marvel then wrote Hulk, Thor, Captain America, and started one of the biggest franchises in the world to culminate in one of the highest grossing movies of all time, Avengers: Endgame.

Meanwhile, DC looked at them doing all this in 2013 and decided, yeah let’s get in on the superhero thing.

After all, with iconic characters such as Superman to kick us off, how could we lose?

Oh, I don’t know, put a director in place that doesn’t understand the very concept of the character.

Produce a movie that had so much potential and utterly destroy itself in the final what? Ten minutes of the film. Great job.

After completely misunderstanding one of the most iconic characters in the world, DC decided we didn’t need to bother with explaining anyone else’s backstory. We’ll just cram our three biggest heroes into a movie together and that’ll be amazing.

Uh no.

DC, what were you thinking?

Not only did they create a sucky movie with a crap premise, because let’s start off with breaking a fundamental rule of another iconic character, Batman, who doesn’t kill. Let’s just kick this movie off with him going on a murderous rampage on Superman, determined to find a way to kill him because he might be evil.

I’m all for the movies where Batman has a plan to subdue Superman in case, he goes bad. But I have news for you, until Superman does something firmly evil, he’s not doing it. And furthermore, it won’t be a lethal plan either.

See Justice League: Doom, which is part of a well-crafted cartoon movie series by DC where Batman’s plans to non-lethally take down the Justice League are stolen and converted to kill them instead. No murder here.

Then it also does one of the dumbest things as well in Batman V. Superman, Batman asks a question.

“Who are you?” To Wonder Woman.

Like…?

Have you glanced at a Batman comic once and a while? Well yes, typically asking questions is part of an investigation, this is lamest showcase of his detective skills. Because he would have already found the answers before laying his cards on the table to Diana.

He wouldn’t just walk up and be like, tell me your life story. Especially when I don’t think that anyone would think she was just going to spill her guts to him.

Nope. No.

Just shitty writing.

By the time DC actually decides to make a good movie, it’s too late to save it’s doomed attempt at following in Marvel’s footsteps.

Wonder Woman could not save the rest of them.

Nor could Aquaman’s story, especially given all the things happening in the background as well.

Honestly, when Marvel created the first Iron Man movie, I doubt they were thinking about Endgame. No matter how anyone tries to spin it.

Maybe it was a glimmer. But I doubt they honestly believed they’d get there.

But they did.

Because they started small. They picked less well-known hero and dove in hoping against hope that people would take to the story they created. Then they dove in again with the next one and the next one, until people were hooked, and they had a whole world created they could play with.

DC tried to jump ahead.

DC also blatantly disregarded its own characters in favor of trying to compete.

They rushed and paid the price.

But one of the most interesting things, I took away from this study was who the most popular superhero in the world is…

Spider-Man.

Because arguably, his worst movies came during Marvel’s agreement with Sony.

Out of all the Spider-Man movies in existence, those attached directly to the MCU with Tom Holland are arguably the most forgettable.

Captain America: The First Avenger. Iron Man. Thor. All of them are iconic and have moments we easily remember and quote.

Sam Raimi’s Trilogy has it’s own attached memories to it, even if they aren’t all good.

Andrew Garfield. Who doesn’t remember the small knives are his weakness moment? Or when he walked into the kitchen beaten and bloody but finally bringing home eggs.

But… I can’t remember much that happened in the MCU Spider-Man movies.

Here’s the thing though, Marvel or Sony don’t need much to make Spider-Man iconic.

He’s got cartoons, video games, and movies we can watch on repeat that have all arrived within the last 25 years regardless of who your Spidey is. There’s a Spidey for everyone, because they’re all good in their own right.

None of them have been so disappointing we’d rather forget their existence like I’d like to do with the DCEU.

Tobey Maguire’s versions are on? I’ll watch them, even three, which isn’t that good or my favorite. It’s not unwatchable.

I own all the Tom Holland movies and will watch them.

Andrew Garfield is my personal favorite and always a rewatch movie for me. Either of them. Even two, which again is not great but not unwatchable.

There are the Spider-Man video games done by Insomniac where you can feel all the love, they have for this character poured into every inch of the game.

An endless supply of cartoons. You’ll have a favorite, I’m sure depending on when you grew up, but you’ll watch them over and over. I’m sure.

His comics have endured with crazy storylines.

He’s got little kid cartoons now. He’s everywhere because he’s everyone’s hero.

Just like Miles Morales is.

Behind the mask, there could be anyone. Gwen, Peter, or Miles. We can all relate to one of them as the Spider-Verse continues unfolding around us. There’s no version that you can’t watch and not find something to enjoy.

Spider-Man endures because he’s like everyone.

He struggles.

Every day, every comic, every game, every cartoon, but he reminds us that we have to get up. To keep trying.

Day by day. We’re just “trying to do better.”

I think in the worst of times, he provides comfort, and we need it now more than ever. Unlike Superman or Batman, he can’t save the world with sheer muscle or money. He has to make slow changes day in and day out. Something we all relate to right about now.

And honestly, there isn’t a character like him in DC.

Oliver Queen, Bruce Wayne, Kate Kane, they’re all rich.

Clark Kent, Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, they have steady jobs, and super speed to help them along.

While others like Diana Prince or Arthur Curry are royalty.

Not exactly the same down to earth statement is made here. Nor the same struggles. And definitely not the same racial issues like Miles Morales faces.

Spidey’s popularity makes a lot of sense to me from the message he sends.

And Marvel, well, Marvel took over the world with 20 movies and a dream, while DC fell on it’s face trying to fly before they could walk.

Check out the article, it’s interesting to see it all broken down!

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