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Originally Posted by Byrnes

Someone explain what the difference is between X-Men/FF stuff and Spiderman? Doesn't Sony own Spiderman? So why does Hasbro/Marvel keep pushing that stuff out left and right? Does Disney own Sony or something? I hate this. I want X-Men/X-Factor/X-Force/Deadpool and everything else X-related.

The trick with Spider-Man is that Sony owns part of the character itself. So, since Spider-Man is still Marvel's No 1 most lucrative product, they deem it worth their while to develop a healthy relationship with Sony, since they will be in business with one-another as long as Spider-Man exists.

Fox on the other hand only owns the movie rights to X-Men and Fantastic Four, and so Marvel are no-where near as willing to cooperate with the company to satisfy fans.

In Marvel's current state of fluctuating arrogance (post Avengers and Guardians success), they are under the impression that they not only don't need Fox's cooperation, but that by starving the X-Men/FF comics and merchandise (even though Fox would not receive a percentage of any of this anyway) and promoting their "in house" properties such as the Inhumans or Guardians, they are in a win-win situation.

The problem here though is that X-Men movies are still going to do very well despite pulling plans on X-Men's COMIC BASED merchandise which Marvel, in its idiocy, doesn't seem to realise. The only people they are hurting are the fans themselves.