When Nightcrawler came out, Entertainment Weekly (don't judge me) had a fun listing of other creepy characters in movies.

I mean, who needs Hannibal when Cain and Abel can solve crimes every week and then Cain kills his brother on the series finale?

Showgirls has given you CancerAids, old friend.

"Hey guys, please don't stop buying my stuff. So I left out some of the details in the movie paid for that shows what a genius businessman I am and how tough I am, who hasn't?"

Or at the very least, anchoring a movie as Magneto's co-lead and love interest in a story set in 1982 or something. She and Fassbender would have crushed that.

I'd watch that, too. The character has a lot of potential.

Well and Lugosi had a bit of an inflated opinion of himself. He looked down on being in Frankenstein, which completely made Karloff's career.

None of whom act in hardly anything anymore. Certainly not popcorn movies.

Hunger Games being the ONE of these franchises that meets that criteria, largely because it's got a hugely successful series of books behind it.

Completely blank slate for many people, I agree. Before Civil War, the character was poorly written for the better part of about 15 years.

She's done with Mystique. They offered her a chance to have her own solo movie with the character and she isn't interested.

This article, incidentally, may be the first such article about Hollywood being sexist due to the kinds of movies that make money. I'm sure if sexism in Hollywood were addressed before 2015, things would have changed long ago.

Doesn't make me uncomfortable at all.

Then it turns into what's subjective.

You make it sound like this is some proletarian cause.

Completely true, but he was a second tier character at Marvel with an unbroken series of books for about 40 years before they made him matter again with Civil War around 05.

I don't think it's girl franchise vs. everyone franchise, the Marvel properties are just much more marketable and Downey is their top star. He's signed to be in nearly all of their upcoming movies and he's credited with a lot of the success of the Avengers, so this deal makes sense for him.

Except that Iron Man was a fluke. Everyone forgets that.

The Hunger Games series is solid and has a lot of fans, but it's not the monolith the Marvel movie universe is. Downey is a good 60 percent of the screen time in Iron Man 3 and that made a billion dollars without other Marvel stars doing anything substantive.

Of course they're sexist, their business is getting women to be sexually desirable to the entire world in stories about make believe people being attractive to everyone in the audience.