Captain Marvel - $426.3 million beats Wonder Woman - $412.5 million domestically. Highest grossing female superhero!

I think it is just simple math.

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I loved all the backtracking after the 'boycotts' failed. Especially the HUGE '2nd' weekend drop which they predicted and never happened.

'Just wait until the sequel comes out and you'll see' is the one they'll cling to for the next few years LOL

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Mediocre to you and others. But not to *most*.

For starters, audiences didn’t keep going back to Captain Marvel for no good reason. The Endgame connection? Yes, it got a big Endgame bump (especially this last week), but the arguments that it only got as high as it did because of Endgame reek of desperation. The only real connection this film had to Endgame, after all, was the post credits (which made their way online the same week Captain Marvel was released). Certain people on the internet are telling everyone this film is so mediocre, yet real people keep returning to it and even checking it out for the first time two months after it was released? Hmm. Any way you slice it, this film found its large audience and it resonated with them. In fact, as with the Black Panther effect, it’s highly likely the MCU gained new fans thanks to Captain Marvel (that’s right, whincels).

But putting aside its box office, unless you consider Cinemascore and PostTrak unreliable for some reason, then facts point to this film being very well-received by many of those who actually went to see it. And while granted a number of reviews were mixed (at worst), there were various big name critics that felt more enthusiastic about it. But we’re evidently not gonna convince one another about this, so let’s skip over the subjectivity of its quality.

Wonder Woman more of an achievement tho... heh. WW might’ve have come after a disastrous film, but ever since the first trailer for it dropped there was almost nothing but positive buzz surrounding it. And don’t forget Warner Bros did their BEST to distance WW from BVS — it payed off. Captain Marvel? From all the Brie Larson smear campaigning by petty incels, the epic fail boycotting (rotten tomatoes trolling), the lukewarm response to most of the film’s trailers (unpredictably many that kept criticizing the trailers held on to these negative opinions after viewing it), a bunch of less biased people being convinced that this was going to be the MCU’s first real failure, etc etc. It is an undeniable fact that from day one Captain Marvel was being SEVERELY underestimated.

BVS.... unless the trailers for Wonder Woman had been seen as trash, then BVS - and previous entries in the DCEU - NEVER held Wonder Woman back. WW was already a beloved pop culture icon and she was finally starring in her own film, a film that was being labeled the first true modern female superhero film. And yes, the film looked very appealing. It’s a WAY different story with Captain Marvel. Were the masses even familiar with Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers? I don’t think I need to answer the obvious. Whatever help Captain Marvel received from Endgame and the massive popularity of the MCU in general (“let’s see how the sequel will do!” is the new mantra of the detractors), the film was a big achievement on its own. No one, I repeat no one, expected this origin film starring an unknown character to mainstream audiences to make a billion, end up outgrossing every MCU origin film (not counting Black Panther) along with almost every non-team up film in this franchise, and last but not least not just make more than the mighty and beloved Wonder Woman did domestically but to make significantly more money overall.

So regardless of the narrative you and others are pushing, Captain Marvel at the end of the day did the unthinkable and it 100% surpassed all expectations. The demand for this arguably great origin film was very real. On a side note, lovely to know that Captain Marvel is here to stay for awhile. If her next film gets raves, that obvs won’t matter to everyone trying to convince others that the first movie was a fluke. They’ll call it mediocre, average, overrated, SJW (SWJ>reactionary views), and so on and so forth. But screw them. This film ruled, and many more will agree with that than not.

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Anyways, box office success is never equal to the quality of the movie.

Captain obvious everyone!

But Captain Marvel being the highest female superhero movie is not a bold claim. It’s called reality. On that note, Captain Marvel only happens to be a part of the biggest film franchise and most revered superhero film franchise, so this isn’t your typical mediocre-movie-made -a-lotta-of-money kinda a deal. The film still sucks? Yeah, yeah... naysayers and their broken records. But although CM far from won over everyone, the majority (which includes critics) still had far more good things to say about this film. (Spare me the ludicrous reactionary talking points/conspiracies.)

WW will be remembered more fondly? That’ll be a first for a DCEU movie. It nonetheless won’t be that simple, fella. 5 years from now Captain Marvel will still be around and you can bet she’ll be more popular than ever. What’s more, the franchise she’s a part of remains stronger than ever and Captain Marvel will officially be the face of this franchise moving forward. And if in true Marvel fashion the CM sequel manages to impress many more, then her first movie will only be forgotten by naysayers such as yourself. Wonder Woman? Doesn’t matter if her sequel lives up to the first one or not because she’s already a beloved character. Yet, one lousy movie can hold her cinematic self back—similar to what happened to Batman. Captain Marvel? She was a character that was unknown to mainstream audiences, and despite that her first movie left WW in the dust.

Furthermore, with this being the meticulous and quality-striving Marvel Studios, you srlsy think there will be no room for improvement when it comes to a CM sequel (useless question to ask if you’re against this franchise)? Oh, predictably there will be those that will trash it no matter how well it does with critics and audiences. However, if Marvel doesn’t lose any steam within the next 5 years (and there’s nothing that suggests it will), then you can bet your ass Captain Marvel is going to be taking the world by storm... the film’s box office numbers and the buzz surrounding it say she already has... and likely won’t be outshined by the currently more recognizable Wonder Woman. So sorry not sorry but this “forgettable” first Captain Marvel movie will at worst be seen as a decent origin story that had more potential (MCU connection notwithstanding). But that potential, partner, is something I’m certain audiences will witness in the next few years.

So yeah, Captain Marvel isn’t going away anytime soon. And as always, bring it on haters/incels! Haters were so convinced Captain Marvel was going to be a complete failure, and then when the film painfully proved them wrong, loser haters unsurprisingly made hundreds of pathetic excuses. Lolz. I can’t wait for round 2!

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Still, Captain Marvel is more poplar at this moment, so? The quality of the movies and the opinion of critics has nothing to do with popularity... That is proven by the box office of both movies.

You all Nolanites can cry a river, but the reality is Captain Marvel wins the popularity contest. Quality is shit to me because I like what I like and what you and others thinks means fucking shit to me... Ha, ha, ha.....

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