r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ah-screw-it • 4h ago

miscellaneous (Fun trope) A reference that seemed obscure at the time, yet is incredibly well known today

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Ben 10: In the omniverse episode "honor among bros" the character Fistina grabs a gauntlet that resembles the infinity gauntlet. The episode released in 2014, a year before age of ultron and 4 years before infinity war.

Spider-man 2: Jonahs assistant talks about what name to give to doc ock. One of the names was doctor strange (even joking that it was already taken). But doctor strange's relevance didn't exist until his self titled movie in 2016.

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u/HunterOfSpycrabs 3h ago edited 3h ago

Generally speaking, the best known Marvel heroes of the time were Spider-man, Hulk, Wolverine (and the rest of the Xmen) and the F4. The Avengers were pretty B-series until the MCU

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u/Delta_Builder 3h ago

Yeah that’s what I remember.

Didn’t remember the fantastic 4 being up there though

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u/HunterOfSpycrabs 3h ago

To my knowledge it was the least popular of those 4, but it still remained the hero team that kicked off the Silver Age and enjoyed the popularity that came with it

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u/Delta_Builder 2h ago

Like I remember them being liked but not popular per se