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Is Iron Man as popular as Batman, Spiderman and Superman?

Yes 53 39.26%
 
No 59 43.70%
 
Bye bye Downey Jr. and bye bye Iron Man 23 17.04%
 
Total:135

Funny thing is RDJ really knocked it out of the park with Iron Man. Before that, Iron Man was a really dry character. His book was kind of joyless. After RDJ, The portrayal in all other media actually changed! That's pretty amazing if you ask me.

No other portrayal (Comics, cartoons, etc) has matched Downey's version of the character, though. I wonder if the character could survive someone else in the role.



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I don't think so but maybe in a few years he'll be at the same level as Batman and Spiderman.



    

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Again,

The movies alone aren't what make the popularity.

It's the movies, tv shows, merchandise, and comics that do it collectively.

Ironman is only really high up in terms of the movies. In terms of everything else, he's nowhere near the top. Spider-man, Batman, and Superman are way higher up the totem pole than Iron man is.

And it will take at least 20 years of hard pushing Iron-man COMBINED with Spider-man falling off the map just about for Ironman to overtake Spider-man, who happens to be the highest grossing comic character ever.



If you asked everyone on the planet to name as many super heroes as they could, Batman and Superman would be the top 2 most common answers, they are the biggest brand names, the most well known heroes. Spiderman would be third. I've got no clue after that.

Batman and Superman have been the most famous, well known super heroes for decades and decades....



Found a list that splits the heroes into how famous they are and how popular they are, and I agree with it.

Most Famous

1.Superman
2.Batman
3.Spider-man
4.Iron-man
5.Wonder Women
6.Captain America

Most Popular

1.Batman
2.Spiderman
3.Iron-man
4.Captain America
5.Thor
6.Wolverine



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Barkley said:
Found a list that splits the heroes into how famous they are and how popular they are, and I agree with it.

Most Famous

1.Superman
2.Batman
3.Spider-man
4.Iron-man
5.Wonder Women
6.Captain America

Most Popular

1.Batman
2.Spiderman
3.Iron-man
4.Captain America
5.Thor
6.Wolverine

Iron-man 4 on most famous, 3 on popular? No, Wolverine and Hulk are more famous. Hulk more so because of the TV series. Wolverine is more popular (only been one X-men filmed without him, I think).

Now in terms of actor playing Iron-man, RDJ playing Iron-man brings in ticket sales at the box office. No RDJ, I question whether the character would be popular at all.



Hmm, pie.

The Fury said:

Now in terms of actor playing Iron-man, RDJ playing Iron-man brings in ticket sales at the box office. 

Ye... I agree. RDJ is the big draw for ironman atm, if they don't nail the next actor to play him then he dissapears. Batman, Superman, Spiderman they're all Iconic characters. Iron Man isn't imo.



I don't think so. The people recognize Iron man as Robert Downey jr and not as Iron man itself. If Iron man will be popular even after Robert Downey jr will leave the role, i can say it's popular like the others, otherwise i still don't think Iron man could be compared with Superman, Spiderman and Batman.



Barkley said:
Found a list that splits the heroes into how famous they are and how popular they are, and I agree with it.

Most Famous

1.Superman
2.Batman
3.Spider-man
4.Iron-man
5.Wonder Women
6.Captain America

Most Popular

1.Batman
2.Spiderman
3.Iron-man
4.Captain America
5.Thor
6.Wolverine

Most popular Batman > Spiderman? Whaaaaaaa?



From my experience with my kids, Superman barely even exists, Spiderman is by far and away the most popular, iron man and batman are roughly the same.