Was Iron Man really globally renowned before 2008?

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The MCU started slow with Iron Man, built its cinematic universe deliberately with a few more solo movies, before taking the big chance, the game changer, 2012's Avengers. The success of that film is what made every studio want to get in on the cinematic universe bandwagon- it proved the concept.

“...Edogawa Ranpo (say it quickly out loud)...”

71% of the globe knows about him. Stop being so fishist.

It’s unthinkable. As much as I liked Marvel growing up — especially as I got older — DC was hands down my favorite as a kid because of the more iconic heroes that had already existed for almost a century. They even had ages (golden, silver, etc..) and reboots of those heroes, before Spiderman, Fantastic Four, and…

“Computer, show me the most A.V. Club headline possible”

It never ceases to amaze me how studios manage to so frequently miss the point. I think they tend to get lazy and over-simplify and think “people want a comic book based expanded universe. Give them that” and miss the point that people don’t want any one thing in particular.

Is Aquaman really globally renowned?

Personally, I find this most impressive:

I’m not surprised by this shit, but it still angers me. They literally tried (and succeeded for nearly half a century) to disappear this black woman -damn near in plain sight. Look at her placement in the photo. She stands tall enough to be seen (barely) but not tall enough to be recognizable. Shorter people in the…

“Made money” has to be considered next to “how much did it cost?” And that number is $300m. It’s the second most expensive movie ever made. It didn’t even make back its money in domestic gross.

Right? I mean the science stuff is badass enough but the they added this...

Yet another racist to ignore

Yet another commenter confusingly not in the greys.

That fact is only fun for one person.

Fun fact: HM Queen Elizabeth II receives £42.8 million a year ($US 59,957,010) via the Sovereign Grant, which is about 65p (91 cents) per person.

No. It is not thinly veiled.

I have read the entire article and still, for the life of me, I can not decode that title.

I mean, you don’t have to do that though. I have my extremely sparse FB profile active so that people can message me if they need to. Otherwise you WILL lose total contact with some of those older friends or more distant relatives. Just because you have their current phone number and address doesn’t mean you’re going…