It allowed them to successfully transition most, if not all (early-to-mid 2000s Daredevil, Elektra come to mind immediately, of their heroes to commercially and critically successful movies. So, really, at the time X-Men came out, it was kind of the saving grace for Marvel. At the time DC was killing it with Burton's first Batman film, so Marvel was playing catch-up in terms of quality.
A year a later the first Captain America movie came out and it was somehow even worse than the Punisher. There was a 1989 Punisher with Dolph Lundgren that, apparently, was not very good (depending who you ask). Fast-forward to 2000 and the original X-Men movie comes out which, as far as I can remember, is the first Marvel movie to, you know, be any good. I don't think my fandom of these three heroes shaped my childhood as much as The Simpsons did, which I also grew up loving, but I do have very fond memories of my time spent with these heroes and their stories. I don't remember dressing up as a Spider-Man, but I may have worn a mask or two.
I dressed up as Batman AND as Wolverine as a child. I think Venom and Beast were a notch below that to close out my top five as a kid. In fact, my three favorite superheroes had to have been Spider-Man, Batman and, of course, you might have guessed, Wolverine.
When I was a young child, I loved the X-Men. I think we need to talk about the X-Men, most specifically Wolverine for a bit.
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