Happy 80th Birthday Batman

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Is Batman still the most popular superhero? I wonder if he's still more popular than Spiderman or Superman.

Dunno. Hard to say. Those are the three classic superheroes everyone knows.

I guess who's the most popular at the moment can be measured by who's starring in their latest movie or something. Batman definitely definitely felt huge when the Heath ledger and Christian Bale Batman movie came out. But a few years before that, Spider-Man felt bigger with the Tobey Maguire and James Franco Spider-Man trilogy.

I'm gonna guess Batman also was huge in the 80s and early 90s with the Tim Burton movies and the Batman TAS, but then dropped off a for about a decade until the Nolan movies again.

None of the big 3 stop being famous, but clearly each have had their peaks in popularity. Easier for the general audience to remember their existence and care about them when their newest big blockbuster movie is coming out.

I always felt Spider-Man was slightly inferior to Superman and Batman. No reason in particular. I just feel that way. I could be wrong. He's huge but always seemed like the smallest of the big 3.