Yearender 2018: 'Avengers Infinity War to Aquaman', How Marvel Trumped DC in the Superhero Movies Race

Stan Lee is having the last laugh in heaven, or whatever new marvel-ous universe he has travelled to after his death because Marvel films this year have managed to upstage the only big DC release, yet again. In fact, the Marvel executives have done such meticulous planning that post Endgame too, there are smaller films from the same universe like Spiderman and Guardians of the Galaxy’s next venture, to appease the fans. However, when viewed in comparison to Marvel’s this year’s releases like Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, and Ant-Man and the Wasp, Aquaman seems trite and well, unappealing. It had only released a handful of films since the end of Batman trilogy — Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League and Aquaman, and while a few of these have even done well at the box office, barring Wonder Woman, none of them are a match for Marvel films. That’s another thing, the only DC movie in the last six years to receive an overwhelming response from the audience as well as critics is Wonder Woman, and the reason the film was so wildly popular was because DC was trying to do something original by introducing a woman led superhero film, which is something Marvel will not do till 2019.