Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

[PAOerfulone]

JWeinCom said:

PAOerfulone said:

Slightly off-topic:

But just look at the run that Spidey has been on for the last 7 years - Every since his introduction into the MCU.

2016 - Civil War.
2017 - Homecoming.
2018 - Infinity War, Spider-Man (PS4), Into the Spider-Verse.
2019 - Endgame, Far From Home.
2020 - Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
2021 - No Way Home.
2022 - N/A (I'm drawing a blank. If there was something this year, I missed it.)
2023 - Across the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man 2 (PS5).
2024 - Beyond the Spider-Verse.

And that's not counting the Venom stuff.

Just... Home Run after Home Run. So many Home Runs it would make Barry Bonds jealous!!!

Has any other superhero had the run Spidey has had these last 7, soon to be 8, years? Has Batman or Superman ever had a run like this?!

I don't want to start a flame war by saying this: But I'm reaching the point where I just might have Spider-Man as the #1 superhero, period. For the longest time, the Big 3 has always been Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man. And for a good chunk of that time, Spidey was seen as the #3 behind DC's dynamic duo. Something almost everyone in the 20th century accepted. Then, we go into the 21st century, Spider-Man and Batman both take off into higher levels across all these different ventures: Movies, video games, TV shows, etc. They overtook Superman and really haven't looked back for the most part. (Poor Superman, I love that Big Blue Boyscout, it's been so long since he's really had something like on the level of what Batman and Spider-Man get on a regular basis.)
And all throughout the 2000s and 2010s, Batman and Spider-Man have basically been neck-and-neck going back and forth. But recently? With this unbelievable run Spider-Man has been on w/ this film and more than likely Beyond the Spider-Verse next year? I think he's pulled ahead of Batman and firmly taken hold of that #1 spot.

Why would you have had Superman ahead of Spider-man at any point?

Mostly out of respect for Superman's legacy. He's supposed to be THE superhero of superheroes. Not in terms of his powers, but in his morals - What humans and mankind should strive to be like. But it's been so long since we've had a GOOD Superman portrayal outside the comics - And like you said, comics have been so niche now that they're almost irrelevant. 

In terms of movies, Spider-man has clearly been miles ahead since the first Raimi film. In comic books, he's outsold him probably since the 70's. Superman's yet to have a decent or good selling solo game and Spider-man's had at least a handful prior to the PS4 game. Superman possibly has the edge in animation, not counting the Spider-verse movies. 

I think it's generally agreed that Spider-man and Batman are 1 and 2. I am fairly sure they've had the best grossing solo films, and best selling videogames. Spider-man comics tend to outsell Batman, but the comic book industry is at this point a relatively small part of it.

If Superman is third, it's a pretty distant third. X-men might have been ahead for a while if you count teams here, until Marvel intentionally set out to devalue the franchise. Superman is iconic, but really hasn't been as big as the others since like the 70s. 

At this point, Spider-man is definitely in the top spot. I think you could have argued that even before the MCU, but now it's not close. The fact that the PS4/5 games have overtaken the Arkham series as the top super hero franchise, by a lot, is just the cherry on top. Now if only they could make another good Spider-man animated series... and not cancel it after two seasons.