[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by Rattrap Primal

The thing is, back in the 90's before Onslaught , any hero who wasn't a mutant except for Spider Man (wait, this was during the Clone Saga) where considered lame. Nowadays, The Avengers have become Marvels meal ticket, half to the movies, have I think the writers like Bendis, and the fact that crossovers are more centered on Avengers now. Also, reading Avengers AI, the public now fears and hates AI like Ultron, not mutants

It is rather ironic, isn't it? The X-Men pretty much carried Marvel Comics (along with Spider-man at times of course) from the late 70's early 80's all the way through Heros Return in 1998 - then from 1998 to 2004 things were fairly even on focus. Then Avengers Disassembled/New Avengers happened and that is really when Avengers become the hot property. To that point the only non X-Men movie property that any Marvel title had was Blade and Spider-man.

How times change.