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Originally Posted by Panther

My argument is these characters aren’t real. There’s no “real” Captain America, Thor, or Iron Man. Doesn’t matter if they didn’t exist first on the big screen. I’ve heard plenty of collectors here and other places say they won’t buy theatrical Marvel Legends (WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE, btw) because they aren’t the “real” insert character name here. That is an oxymoron, makes my mind go in circles. To keep this on my original argument, AnthonyCustoms and the gentleman I quoted said they don’t collect figures of “Hollywood” actors, again, totally fine, but I need that same energy applied to other properties I named. Don’t care which came first, the fact is they are still represented by actors on the silver screen, and have been drawn over a hundred different ways. It seems using the “Hollywood actors” in a passive aggressive manner only applies to Marvel Legends or DC Multiverse. I don’t see this as an issue with any other toy line. In fact AC has all of the properties that I named in his personal collection.

As I said, I am not disagreeing with you. Your a main argument is alright, but like I said before, your support doesn't make sense in this context. All the other things you named were portrayed by actors before they were anything else.
Luke Skywalker IS Mark Hammill, Marty McFly IS Michael J. Fox, Peter Venkman IS Bill Murray, etc, etc, etc...
Every time someone that knows Star Wars sees Mark Hammill, they associate him with Luke Skywalker. If you've seen BttF, you associate Michael Fox with Marty McFly.

Iron Man is not Robert Downey, Captain America is not Chris Evans, etc, etc, etc...
They are characters that can be done differently, but the actors are not the final, ultimate version of these characters. I see MCU Ant-Man and it's the guy from Clueless. I see Thor and it's that guy from Cabin in the Woods. The MCU actors often had careers before the MCU and the actors can be associated with different characters than just the MCU characters.

Let's just say that they had cast Mark Hammill as Dr. Strange. When you saw that action figure, would you see Dr. Strange or would you see Luke Skywalker wearing a Dr. Strange costume?

So I get why people see an MCU figure with an actor's likeness and they just see a figure of a real-life person dressed up as a comic character.

I can't have "that same energy applied to other properties" because it doesn't make sense. Why would I hate a Ghostbusters action figure that looked like Dan Akroyd? Dan Akroyd IS a Ghostbuster.