No...but the Intellectual Properties are of companies that are essentially equals..like the Coke & Pepsi of the Comic Industry
A bit of perspective: I recently spent three weeks in India, and saw t-shirts and such with Cap's shield iconography all over the place. I also saw a few Batman symbols, but only one or two Superman crests.
But that is 10 years after the Marvel Cinematic Universe officially kicked off... This was after 2 Avengers movies and the Captain trilogy came out, correct?
No, after three Avengers movies. But, your point?
Yep. He may also be seen as more relatable, due to his humbler origins, less godlike powers (and the fact he doesn't wear a cape), and real world-ish setting.
To give a serious answer to a sarcastic question, I do think there's been a slow, generations-long shift away from placing boundless faith in certain exceptional individuals, and a general move toward skepticism of the same. Look at how JFK was viewed in his time, and what a legend he became, whereas now even people who vastly prefer him to the Republicans of his day pay much more attention to his faults. Also, Superman represented the 20th century USA, which sure seems less and less of a hegemonic superpower these days. So yes, I think there's a very real chance people related much more to the myth/want for a godlike overseer in generations and decades past than they do now... as evidenced, perhaps, by the fact that his past five or six movies have hardly been box office sensations.
Those aren't in any way mutually exclusive problems. And, to the vast majority of humans worldwide, the character they see in the movies is the character.
Hey, man, I'm just reporting what I witnessed on the other side of the planet.
