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I didn't eat nobody
technically, they did.
Not even technically.
Other studios bought the film rights to those characters and made movies about them. Marvel had very little say so about how those movies are made.
The Marvel Studio films are:
Iron Man
Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Avengers
Iron Man 3
Those are the only films Marvel has actually made themselves. All the other ones were developed and distributed by other movie studios. In fact Marvel has been slowly reacquiring the film rights to their properties. They just got back Blade, Daredevil, and Ghost Rider.
Fox still holds the rights to the X-men characters and the Fantastic Four.
Sony still has Spider-Man.
As long as those studios keep making films based on those characters on a regular schedule they can keep them.
technically, they did.
incorrect
are you blind? its further down on that wiki page you probably got that from.







but I feel like each movie is kinda a chapter building towards something bigger. So personally I'm a lot more forgiving if each movie ain't
at people talking about Iron Man is a premiere character in the comics. That's all fine and well but that means jack shyt to the vast majority of people going to see the movies. Iron Man is not a well known character in pop culture to the point that he can carry a movie on name recognition alone which is why 90% of the praise for the 3 movies goes to RDJ in virtually every review.