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Originally Posted by Iceman

It's funny how quickly people forget that no one outside of hardcore fans knew anything about the Avengers a few years ago. People knew Hulk and then they were aware of Cap and maybe Thor or Iron Man. The X-Men have been in the public eye for longer with movies, TV shows, and toys since the 80's. For kids under 10 there might be some knowledge gap but it's' not like they are minor characters. Not saying Mystique is an a-list villain but a brotherhood set would be really popular, especially with a good Magneto figure (very unlikely now).

I guess I really can't say a great deal about what non-comic readers knew before 2007. Any of my friends who weren't comic readers wanted to know from me anyway, so anyone I knew was relatively aware of Marvel happenings, even the more out there characters. I would say though that the big 5 have always been known to a degree to the general public. Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and Wolverine are the big five, and are in one way or another constantly a large part of Marvel's dealings. So I suppose having known that since I was a kid I always thought that people knew about the Avengers, even if they didn't know that was the team name. Hell, the big 5 get more toys than any other characters, even in the character spanning MU line you can point out the big 5 by who has the most toys.