It has nothing to with the comics any of you must realize.. its the movies 🙁 supermans movies were truly the most spanning and TV spots most numerous. X-Men right now are popular and Wolverine is one of the most popular amongst them... Hulk had a recent movie but kinda flopped... Spidermans movies are excellent and probably the most successful compared to any others.... Batman for God sake has had 4 movies .... three of which were really good and include extrodinarily popular actors.
Exactly. My grandmother knows The Hulk.
More importantly, she knows his name. Not as Bruce but as David, which is wrong. But she knows he has the name "Banner". How many people could say:
Batman/Bruce Wayne? Not as many as Hulk.
It's little things like the getting angry and ripping of clothes. Only Superman has one of those traits, the phone box. But even then more people know the clothes ripping inadvertedly because of Hulk Hogan.
Even in other shows like Family Guy or The Simpsons, The Hulk gets more mention than any others.
I went to the cinema to see Daredevil and when the flashing Marvel logo came up someone said "Oh....it's a Marvel movie?". Farfetched it may be but Victor Von Doom can vouch for me that it happened. My point being that some people who love Superman and Batman probably don't even know there are comics of either. Everyone I know who knows The Hulk knows OF the comic book origin. It's for this reason Hulk is widely more known. Or at LEAST more iconic.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Exactly. My grandmother knows The Hulk.More importantly, she knows his name. Not as Bruce but as David, which is wrong. But she knows he has the name "Banner". How many people could say:
Batman/Bruce Wayne? Not as many as Hulk.
It's little things like the getting angry and ripping of clothes. Only Superman has one of those traits, the phone box. But even then more people know the clothes ripping inadvertedly because of Hulk Hogan.
Even in other shows like Family Guy or The Simpsons, The Hulk gets more mention than any others.
I went to the cinema to see Daredevil and when the flashing Marvel logo came up someone said "Oh....it's a Marvel movie?". Farfetched it may be but Victor Von Doom can vouch for me that it happened. My point being that some people who love Superman and Batman probably don't even know there are comics of either. Everyone I know who knows The Hulk knows OF the comic book origin. It's for this reason Hulk is widely more known. Or at LEAST more iconic.
-AC
I knew Bruce Wayne by the time I was 6. And Clark Kent, and Peter Parker.
Betcha your grandmother knows Bill Bixby as well as the name "Banner"