We are living in the era of postmodern and pop culture. Superheroes are significant elements of this current era, an age of adaptation and recurrence.
The Richest has cited a list of the most successful superhero comebacks illustrating the position of fictional superheroes in the current pop culture of this generation. It slightly discussed the history of these superheroes from the beginning of their popularity as comic characters to being the most iconic fictional characters on the silver screen. The list was based from their last worldwide box office gross and their current popularity in the television and film industry.
These most successful superhero comebacks shows the solid and undying position of fantastical imagination in the landscape of pop culture and the concept of postmodern. The chronic adaptations and comeback of these superheroes displays the incapacity of this era to recreate new and fresh ideas that are not patterned from the previous generations. This shows the concept of postmodern in the entertainment industry and our superheroes as divine immortals of recurrence.
1. X-Men
Leading this list, X-Men are the most popular superheroes of this century, with a worldwide movie gross of $1,164,176,205 in total. The Marvel franchise of this superhero crew has been part of the list of Hollywood blockbusters, from the original films to the recent "X-Men: Days of Future Past". With this, even the famous X-Men character Wolverine has movies that are massive blockbuster hits.
2. Spider-Man
Ever since, Spider-Man has been one of the loved and popular superheroes of all time. Without a doubt, after the iconic "Spider-Man" movie of Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco in 2000s, Spider-Man has once again placed itself in the hottest list of pop culture, including this one. The comeback and reboot movie series of The Amazing Spider-Man has showed its success with a total worldwide box office gross of $1,375,853,166.
3. Batman
One of the iconic superheroes of America, Batman is placed in the third spot with the gathered box office gross of $1,234,186,467. This iconic superhero shows his significance with the line of different on-production projects under his name, and the films that made great success in the silver screen, including Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy with Christian Bale.
4. Iron Man
Another Marvel superhero in the list, Iron Man has an accumulated worldwide movie gross of $1,039,859,426. When it was first introduced as comic book character, this superhero has already boomed to fame. And now, as career comeback for Robert Downey Jr., the Iron Man movie series is one of the favorite superhero movies of this generation.
5. Superman
Called as the All-American superhero, Superman will forever be part of the evolving superhero generation. Still in the limelight, after several film and television adaptations, Superman is set to release a new film in 2006, called "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice", which will solidify its hold as an iconic superhero of this generation.
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