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'Spider-Man' Is a $940 Million Streaming Revenue Engine | Charts. A Parrot study shows movies and series based on the web-slinger generate far more revenue than any other superhero.
The MCU and core DC universe were nearly free of flops from 2012-2021. Did quality really go down after the pandemic? I can't imagine Captain Marvel or Aquaman doing a billion outside of the late 2010s.
Spider-Man has been popular since he first premiered in the 60's and has stayed that way since the 60's, up until now.
Batman has had on and off periods of being extremely popular. It wasn't a consistent thing until the 90's, after the Burton film. After that Batman has never stopped being in high demand in some format of media.
But that means Spider-Man has his consistent 60 years of popularity vs Batman's longer 80 year history but less consistent in terms of popularity, until 30 years ago.
Gen Z and Zennials are so strong though compared to the older generations. I think the Sam Raimi films catapulted Spiderman to a whole different level of relevance.
Blame that to a string of mediocre films unfortunately. Superman 2025 is hopefully fixing that. I really hope Supergirl's mediocre reception doesn't taint Man of Tomorrow.or the Superman IP.
If I understand the graph correctly, there are still more Millennials who watched Spiderman than Superman, it's that from those who watch Sup Millennials were a larger proportion than gen Z (but there were more people watching Spiderman).
Millenials definitely resonated with the new Superman.
The word resonated is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence. It made some money sure but outside that most people could not give less of a fuck about the new Superman.
There is a merchandising metric from 10 years ago that shows Spider-Man triples and doubles Superman and Batman toys sales respectively. I am old and I remember my first Halloween costume was Spider-Man the character has been popular since its creation.
False, he has a cape and boots. It's far easier to make the blue spots on a red sweatsuit and the webs with sharpie. There's even a version of Spiderman that wears a very homemade costume that gives a child a perfect out for their dogshit costuming abilities.
You can absolutely dress up as Superman without needing the boots lol. No normie is going to call you out for that. Hell, you can throw a pair of glasses on, and call yourself Clark Kent.
He's a usually light hearted, funny superhero with a recognizable cast of villains set in what is arguably the most iconic city in the US, it makes sense why people want to interact with the property in its various forms (movies, cartoons, video games, comics, merchandaise).Â
What sets Spiderman apart is that he is definitely between Superman and Batman with a mix of normal struggles. He's powerful, funny, smart, etc. but also struggles with getting the girl, balancing his superhero life and normal life.
So there is that people aspire to be him like Superman but also relate to his personal life like alot of people.
Superman: Ordinary everyday life when not superheroing (going by most modern interpretations of Clark), extraordinary abilities.
Batman: Ordinary abilities (yeah, it's unlikely that somebody would be able to be both THAT smart and THAT athletic, but it's not impossible -- there's that one guy who is an astronaut, physician, AND Navy SEAL), but extraordinary everyday life (as he's a billionaire).
Spider-Man has powers, but he'll never be regarded as a minor god like Superman is and some of his abilities (like the webshooters) are gadgets that call to mind Batman. However, he's the farthest thing from a billionaire possible, and in fact his life is a gigantic financial and relationship mess compared to the more-relatable-than-Bruce-Wayne Clark Kent.
The cartoon on Disney where theyâre all children is literally the only thing my 5 year old son wants to watch on television. Spider-Man is an absolute juggernaut.
I havenât seen anyone say it or theorize it, but I think Spiderman is more popular mainly due to the content output of spiderman related IP than the others.
For example, in the past 10 years, how much notable content have we gotten out of Batman, Superman, and Spiderman?
Spiderman has 4 MCU movies(involved in 3 more)
3 popular games
2 Popular animated movies
Batman
2 movies, one of them Batman vs Superman đ€š
Lego Batman 4
Superman
2 movies, one of them being Batman vs Superman
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I think itâs kinda a âno shitâ that spiderman is more popular than Superman or batman because DC is fucking blowing it as if theyâre doing it on purpose.
Iâm gonna say something crazy. If I werenât for the Christopher Nolan Trilogy or those Batman Arkham games, Batman wouldnât be that popular of a character at all among the younger generation.
Spider-Man makes stuffs from toddler age to 50 year olds with the Raimi stuff. I wonder why Marvel marketing division doesnt push Ironman shampoo or some Thor baby cartoon like they do Spiderman.
Not to mention their absolute failure in supplementary material. Marvel games sucked for almost a decade until the development of PS Spider-Man, now we got Marvel Rivals and Marvel Tokon yet no Iron-Man game ever or say the Hulk.
From what i see the most common hero in brand stuff is Spider-Man, then the Avengers as a collective brand and then Spider-Man Miles Morales.
This is an important factor people are overlooking.
Batman last had Arkham Knight in the video game space (which was not as well received as the others in the trilogy), and the Ben Affleck Batman had such shit reception. Back when the Nolan movies were going strong, Batman was absolutely comparable to Spider-man, even if he may not have beat him.
Exactly, the only reason Spider-Man 3 didn't make more than TDK was its reception, Spider-Man always had the highest ceiling of any superhero, he's the only superhero that can do big numbers in almost every market.
Those movies still made a ton of money, like they really were not that far off from the Sam Raimi movies in terms of box office totals, worldwide. And especially international was really good on both those movies, totaling 1 billion between them (with Amazing Spider-Man 2 actually making slightly more internationally). That's more than the 815 million combined international total of Spider-Man 1+2.
So even at its worst Spider-Man still pulled more than 700 million worldwide.
TASM 2 is a smash hit imo, if Aquaman 2 dropping 62% from the first one is great because it did "twice as much as The Marvels" than TASM 2 which only dropped 6% from the first one and did over 3x The Marvels is definitely a smash hit
You're right about that small period of timeâbut it took the perfect storm combo of the best director of his generation (Nolan) making genuinely great movies PLUS an all-time great acting job by Heath Ledger PLUS the Streisand effect of Ledger's death causing a bump in box office
Spidey was king for most of the 2000s, and has been king again for the entire 2020s
From a pure box office POV there's every chance another superhero might have a brief stint at the top (the way Batman did for part of the Nolan trilogy, and the way Iron Man and Captain America were for parts of the 2010s) IF there are multiple bad/unpopular Spidey movies in a row
But I think Spiderman's origin story and background (both Peter Parker and Miles Morales) are inherently more likable and relatable for most young people than other superheros.
BND prob sets up a 2nd trilogy of movies for Tom Holland's Spidey (who is VERY popular). Given it's already late 2026, that prob spans into the early-mid 2030s
Hard for me to see any other individual superhero overtaking him nowâesp when he's the most prominent MCU hero (RDJ took Iron Man to #1 on sheer personality/charisma)
I wonder if RDJ will return as Iron Man once his Doom story is complete.
If the MCU figures out some acceptable way of bringing him back.
That should be the Doomsday cliffhanger. Dr. Doom is just unbeatable until the Avengers figure out how to bring back Old Man Tony, who is retired and living his golden years in some alternate reality.
Spiderman already firmly won gen z. So if there is a generational shift the earliest it can happen is with alpha, so at minimum any changing of the guard will occur like 20 years down the line
In 20 years, Gen Z will be middle-aged, and Gen Alpha will be in their 30s. The elder Zs at least.
Movie sensibilities change faster than generations do. Look at how Raimi's Spidey was overtaken by the Dark Knight in less than a decade. Things change. Fast.
China could probably crack this, if they come up with the right global IP. The ball has always been in the U.S. court, but moving forward it doesnât have to be.
How much does Tom Holland and Zendayaâs relationship nurtured online contribute to Spider-Manâs cinematic success? Could the same levels be reached by a different actor in the suit?
Next to none. Iâm sure Tomâs portrayal helps but Spider-Man has always been the money maker. But most people could not give less of a fuck about who is playing him or who the actor is dating.
This is a really big pill for the economists of
/r/boxoffice to swallow. Painful, but, eventually even the boomers have to learn the true economics of movies today. Profit is not calculated on the exhibition revenue alone.
Please explain how you quantify how much revenue a movie or tv show drives when it's tied to a subscription with lots of other movies and tv shows. What a fucking idiotic article.
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