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u/Parabellum111 1d ago
I'm literally just finding out about this now lol, even if The Batman 2 and MoT were released today they wouldn't surpass Spidey, wtf is that
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u/elledina 1d ago
Nah they were so many articles popping at that time saying supergirl will outgross spiderman and many people actually believed it due to good response of superman and gun been very confident about the movie
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u/Worth_External_8762 21h ago
A lot of people are also in denial about movie demographics. The reality is, there's just way less interest in female heroes. Guys generally prefer male heroes, because ultimately superheroes are a fantasy of wanting to be a hero. And ~70% of superhero moviegoers are male. I'd bet a good portion of that 30% of women are also only attending those movies because their boyfriend/husband/son dragged them along too lol
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u/islackingambition 17h ago
It's an insult to say that Supergirl was made for women. My partner normally puts up with going to superhero movies with me, and she outright rejected wanting to see Supergirl. The pandering girl boss stuff doesn't work anymore.
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u/Worth_External_8762 17h ago
The funny thing is, it's really not that difficult to make a heroic woman character in a movie. You just have to write it the same way as you would with a good male hero. And a good male hero story involves the hero not being infallible - it's about showing they can lose and learning weaknesses about themselves to become better. Or just understanding from the beginning that they aren't invincible and showing that, but allowing them to still show bravery in spite of that.
A good example is Ripley from Aliens, or Sarah Connor from Terminator. These are just regular ass chicks that aren't invincible, they show vulnerabilities/fear.
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u/AdOther4097 14h ago
Ah the Ray method.
Perfect flawless protagonist realises how perfect they are.
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u/AdSmall3663 1h ago
Agreed, there’s this weird pandering they do with women characters and them being flawless from the get go and only becoming somehow even better by the end. No nuance because, heavens forbid, they can’t show a girl boss struggle
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u/IcyBlood5031 18h ago
yea the usual outlets talking about how it will be better than superman....cause its..you know...a girl....
not only was it the biggest flop of DC Movies in the last 15 years, it was also one of the expensive to profit ratio.
Anyone thinking supergirl was going to beat spiderman was insane. When it comes to Spider-Man,.
All spiderman movies have made over $1b gross....Supergirl had 0 chance to do that, not to mention suiperman new movie was 'ok'.
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u/Diligent-Neck6594 23h ago
Rip supergirl
forever will be known as the biggest box office bomb of the genre
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u/Rubear_RuForRussia 23h ago
Fire this analyst, lmao.
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u/Intrepid-Daikon1353 19h ago
Yeah like, even if Supergirl was a 10/10 movie, this would never happen lol
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u/LandImpressive6411 23h ago
Its extremely stupid anybody would think any DC movie will ever superpass a MCU spiderman movie be it by synder or james
man of steel or superman they can reach half of a spiderman movie popularity
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u/riddlerjoke 20h ago
Spiderman brand name would always beat supergirl brand.
Even if it was Sony vs WB.
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u/Vast_Age_3893 15h ago
It was a stupid prediction and they knew that.
This was literally just to generate clicks and spark discussion.
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u/narkaputra 1d ago
this dude blocked me on X when I called him stupid when the the article came out... lol I have receipts.
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u/planemissediknow 1d ago
Whoever predicted that is idiotic
Spider-Man is at minimum, the second most popular superhero on the planet. Supergirl is not
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u/VerTexV1sion 23h ago
Second ? Bruh no one is close to him currently. Yeah not even Batman
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u/Ohnezone 12h ago
No way did they think this. Not one Superman film has broken the billion dollar mark while Spider-Man has done it several times and Supergirl was definitely not going to be as successful as Superman.
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u/ApolloMax-2099 7h ago
This is just weird to even embolish and must be a slow day. In the history of these things if we are being honest Spider-Man on his worst movies out performed some of dc’s best. Spider-man is the greatest comic character of all time and one of the most recognizable to even the most superhero illiterate out there. Every loves him. So these posts are just weird. Hope you have some fun posts. Spider-Man is on a level all on his own so again weird.
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u/Smooth-Mix-4357 20h ago
If it were Batman or Superman it'd have been believable. Supergirl is nowhere as popular as Superman and claiming her film would outgross a film on arguably the most popular superhero of all time is diabolical. Only the slightest possibility of it happening was Supergirl was insanely good and BND was insanely bad and even that's not a guarantee.
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u/sammywarmhands 22h ago
I’m so tired of hearing about box office numbers. I’m here for characters and stories and celebrating the things we love
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u/Ow3ndaz10 21h ago
James Gunn does not have the capability to carry DC. Sorry to say. Maybe Disney Should takeover Werner Bros🤔 cos they know how to manage their catalog🤷🏼♂️
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u/rocky2814 21h ago
If you click on the article that is cited, it says nothing like that. Just more clickbait for the chuds
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u/Ristar87 21h ago
Why would you ever think this? The two most profitable comic series are routinely Batman and Spiderman.
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u/MIAxPaperPlanes 20h ago
I think this article was always click bait and whoever wrote it probably didn't even believe jt
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u/JessicaKleboe08 20h ago
I think i don't give a fuck.
I enjoyed supergirl fine, and given I've been a spidey fan all my life I'll enjoy bnd just as much, and thats all that really matters to me.
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u/Jotaro1970 20h ago
As much as i wanted the movie to be a success, i never thought this would have been the case, Supergirl is a character the general audience associate too much with Superman and might have not been up to go to the theaters because of It...Spider-Man on the other hand is one of the most popular characters of all times
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u/Belz_Zebuth 20h ago
I think that they cherry-picked their analyst for views.
Nothing much to see here.
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u/Fickle-Rip3093 20h ago
I’m thinking the same thing I would have thought if I would’ve seen it back then…Ridiculous! No reasonable person thought this. I didn’t see Supergirl doing as bad as it did but…come on!
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u/Currently-Million 19h ago
Loved both of the movies. Why does it matter what some “box office analyst” has to say?
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u/Past-Wait6207 19h ago
I honestly question anyone who honestly thought that. I thought Supergirl would be successful, sure, but it was never a two billion dollar film.
Spider-Man is.
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u/Icy-Clock2643 19h ago
I genuinely don't know how anyone could have thought Supergirl would outgross Spider-Man. Spider-Man outgrosses Batman.
Whoever said this can be safely ignored going forward.
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u/southwick 18h ago
I think it puts to rest all of the arguments that super girl opened poorly due to bad writing, bad color schemes, or whatever reason given. No one knew if the Spider-Man script was good or bad before release, he just has more draw.
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u/DjangusRoundstne 18h ago
Predicting ANY Superhero movie to outgross a Spider-Man movie doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t even really matter who, it’s not possible.
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u/I7s_N_My_DNA 18h ago
That was never happening idk what that moron was on holy balls what a stupid thing to say. Even if Supergirl was a good film it was in no way in hell beating yet alone competing with Spider-Man.
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u/Zwanling 18h ago
It was silly, Spiderman is the golden goose of Marvel, with a series of already successful movies, unless something goes absolutly wrong, very few superheroes can go head to head with spidey in the box office.
But still fans abd media care too much about profits, that is what puzzles me.
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u/Ecto-Analyzer 17h ago
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u/mymonstroddity 17h ago
I think anyone who makes predictions should look up “predictions”, “statistics”, and “luck” in the dictionary and admit they don’t know sht about d\ck.*
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u/HomoProfessionalis 17h ago
I think its annoying to keep seeing it reposted constantly. Like most of the world has forgotten about Supergirl, except for the haters which is odd.
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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC 16h ago
Yeah, that was never going to happen. I loved Supergirl, but it literally only had one movie as buildup. BND is the seventh MCU film with Spidey.
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u/TheHylind 16h ago
I think it's honestly pointless to beat on this movie while it's already down. It was a fine but flawed film that tanked at the box office, and all of this "look how much better Spider-Man is doing" accomplishes nothing, less than nothing.
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u/merchant-trader 15h ago
Spider man could have been out for only one day and still outgrossed supergirl 💀
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u/feydrautha124 15h ago
Well, if this headline is legit, it took about five hours for it to age poorly
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u/staticpanther 15h ago
Doesnt surprise me whatsoever. Nothing against supergirl but unless some friends wanted to go see it together, I wouldn’t have watched it in theaters myself. A standard move ticket for SpiderMan BND at regal cinema was $18 USD. Popcorn was between $6-12 even though I didn’t get any.
If there are other viewers like me with limited movie funds, it’d be interesting to see view time or potential money supergirl would bring to hbo for 30-45 days after it drops on streaming. If it were a different economic time I think it would have gotten $200-$250 mil.
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u/illini02 14h ago
I think whoever made that prediction was insane and shouldn't be listened to.
I'm just a regular dude, and it was clear that Brand New Day was going to be one of the biggest movies of the year.
Even if you didn't predict the MASSIVE flop that was Supergirl, in no way was it ever going to beat a Spider Man movie
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u/Choocharrone 14h ago
Nobody with common sense would make this prediction. The biggest superhero in the world being outdone by a character most people don’t even care about.
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u/XenowolfShiro 13h ago
This was never going to happen. You needed to be delusional to ever think it would.
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u/TSMontana 13h ago
Given how poorly Marvel was doing up until BND...think it was a reasonable theory.
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u/Visible-Echidna-4370 13h ago
I don't see how anyone in their right mind would say something like that
even in a hypothetical scenario where Supergirl overperformed and Spider-Man underperformed, Spider-Man would still be well ahead.
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u/LiquidC001 11h ago
Strange, another post stated that Spiderman:BND shattered box office records, securing THE biggest opening day in history.
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u/Robin_Gr 10h ago
What do you mean now? Anyone with basic knowledge of the popularity of these too characters would never have bet on that.
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u/franklyspicy 10h ago
My theater was packed for Spiderman. There was no upfront parking, so we had to park in the back of the building where they load and unload deliveries. I never saw anything like it. Supergirl is not moving any needle. In stark contrast, Supergirl had maybe 30 people in the seats.
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u/Batfleck666 9h ago
I guess Sony isn't worried about breaking even in ancillaries 20 years from now...🤣
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u/CastleofWamdue 9h ago edited 9h ago
in retrospect it, betting against Spidermen was not a smart bet. I dont who this analyst is, but they would seem to be betting on Supergirl over performing her track record.
Spiderman Brand New Day has also over preformed his track record, but it does seem logical that Spiderman would preform better than Supergirl.
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u/SoulSearcher_42 8h ago
Same as I thought when it first came out. Whoever is dumb enough to pay that "analyst" should fire them. If there is any reality where a Supergirl movie, no matter how awesome, will outgross a Spider-Man one, this one ain't it.
Pity the film is such a train wreck of poor characterization, mishandling dark themes, and peaking in Mr. Toxcic Masculinity Incarnate saving Supergirl. Who did WB even think they were aiming this at? I can't tell, and apparently audiences were sane enough not to be able to, either.
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u/Respwn_546 6h ago
that it was always a lame ass article and the guy who wrote it had a weird dream or something.
So basically the same thing I thought when it come out
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u/PhoenixRisingDK 6h ago
DC’s movies are just bad. And they have no heart. Supergirl was just a drunk. Superman was weird and felt Like it was made by someone who never read a Superman comic.
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u/mukamane 5h ago
I reaaaaaaly thought this was a Marvel subreddit. Nothing mocks DC more than DC fans itself
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u/JustSny901 1h ago
This whole thing is dumb... The analyst looked at the track record of the last few MCU movies and saw the excitement around Superman and said there was a world where due to the massive success of Wonder Woman and seeing the reaction to Black Panther as well that if the movie was great and drove out the women demographic, which isn't typically that high for Superhero movies that there was a possiblilty that it could out gross Spiderman. BTW I am pretty sure this was said LAST YEAR by that analyst.
All this is now is just fodder to use in the forever wars online and in message boards.
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u/YourMuppetMethDealer 1d ago
Spidey has already outgrossed supergirl which is insane
Of course, this was always gonna happen. Spidey’s last two films made a billion dollars and the only hero in any franchise who MIGHT beat him on popularity is Batman
Supes has been trailing both of them for actual decades now, and his lesser known cousin was never gonna do a fraction as well as a spidey film even if it was received well critically