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For kids that were not into video games during the 2000s, another option was to read book series like Harry Potter. As they got older, some moved on to books like Twilight, Hunger Games, etc ...

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At the moment NBC does not currently have a superhero so maybe it might slowly be going away after Heroes Reborn bombed.

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NBC is developing "Powerless," set in the DC universe. I suspect they won't be out of the superhero game for long.

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If I never got into superhero comics/cartoons when I was a kid, I don't know how I would feel about superhero movies today.

My guess (hypothetically) is most superhero movies would probably be just another action movie to me, with some sci-fi/fantasy elements.

I first got burned out on action movies by the time it was the late 1980s. So I never really latched on to movies like Die Hard 1, The Abyss, etc ... nor anything with Steven Seagal, Jean Claude Van Damme, etc ...

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In the movies, yes. In tv, no. That being said if Arrow doesn't significantly improve in the next three months I'm ditching my season pass on that one.

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Also Universal Studios (their sister company) doesn't have any movie rights to any popular characters so there is less of an incentive for NBC to go out of their way. The CW has most of the DC Catalog in family. Fox has the X-Men under license. And ABC has most of the Marvel universe.

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Remember that an X-Men show is coming to television on Fox. Only CBS has been dumb enough to directly pit one superhero show against another.

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I don't know if Universal still has the rights to The Incredible Hulk.

Universal did a Hulk tv show for 5 seasons back in the late 1970s, and there were two Hulk movies during the 2000s.

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To be more specific, I was getting burned out on superhero movies by the time it was around 2006-2007. Stuff like: Spider Man 3, Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider 1, X-Men: The Last Stand, etc ... just weren't cutting it anymore for me.

On the DC side, I thought most of the superhero movies largely fell flat except for the Dark Knight trilogy. The mid-1990s era Batman films, Catwoman, Superman Returns, etc ... were rather awful or mediocre at best.

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I love Superhero shows but have stripped my watching down to Arrow, The Flash (my fav) and Legends of Tomorrow (which is currently backing up on my Tivo).

Red Dog's right that it's the best time for superhero shows on TV.

I think the key is to just pick your favorites and go with those. No way to keep up with them all, especially if you watch other TV shows, too.

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Hulk's in the Avenger movies so he's cemented in the Disney/Marvel universe. One way or another Marvel's reacquired the rights: either Universal let them lapses or then came to an agreement like Sony and Marvel did with Spider-man.

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They own distribution rights to any Hulk movies, but Marvel has creative control and would have to make the movie. This is part of the reason we haven't had any more Hulk movies. Disney doesn't want to split the profits with Universal. Namor is in a similar boat.

No idea where they stand with TV rights.

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Guillermo del Toro was developing a Hulk reboot TV series for ABC. But, it's been in development hell and is unlikely to happen because of cost.

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I think I see your problem. :lol: None of these movies are well regarded. In fact most of them are utter shit. You just had to weather the storm through the crap.

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Right, he just forgot to mention Elektra :lol:

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Don't forget Incredible Hulk.