Paramount's TMNT reboot movie currently aiming for 2013 release

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Originally Posted by Jester

OK...seriously. You are going to say with a straight face and without a hint of irony, that the Avengers, a book featuring Marvel's heavy weights like Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man is a smaller/less followed franchise than TMNT? Man...this fandom is kinda warped.

No. I'm not saying that at all. As comic properties Avengers has TMNT beat hands down..although I wouldn't be suprised if the Archie book at its peak outsold the Avengers although that wouldn't be hard as the Avengers have hardly ever been a sales success.

Heavy weights though? Within the fictional Marvel Universe Captain America, Thor and Iron Man are heavy weights. In the real world they are not.

Marvel's most popular characters in real life are universe's second stringers, the off beat or freakish characters like Spider-Man, Hulk and the X-Men particularly Wolverine. Hence to make the Avengers a success in the comic world Quesada had redesign them to include these characters.

My main point was that if you mention the Avengers to your average joe outside the relatively small comic buying audience and they'll probably think you're refering to the british tv show with John Steed and Emma Peel than Earth's Mightiest Heroes. So without a hint of irony I say that the TMNT is more known.

I concede that the movie has now made Iron Man well known with the public and the jury is still out on what will happen with Cap and Thor. I also concede that public awareness only counts for so much...many more know the Hulk better than they knew Iron Man but Tony Stark had the better movie and thus got better success.