>Iron Man was considered a risk. Nobody was chomping at the
>bit for a movie about him or Cap. He's inarguably the most
>successful and beloved film adaptation of any comic book hero
>ever, and Cap isn't far behind at this point.

You make lots of great points but I’d argue a couple of the Batmans against this.
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>Add to that, they built an entirely unrivaled movie universe
>around him.
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>The entire MCU was built on Iron Man.
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>Green Arrow is a second string player at best, and yet CW
>wound up building multiple highly successful franchises with
>green Green Arrow as the foundation.
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>Marvel has been successful due to consistently reat casting,
>solid storytelling, and quality long term planning, just for
>starters.
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>B,c,d, all that is immaterial. Tell a compelling story about
>compelling characters, add layers of connective tissue, all
>processed through a highly refined machine that's proven to
>excute over and over and kver again, and it's a wrap.
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>I'd see a Howard The Duck movie on opening night at this
>point.
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