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While I understand Mercen's point, Spiderman seriously should not have been included in the examples. No matter where the hell you live, from the dumbest child to the wisest grandpa can almost-instantly recognize Spiderman, even if they never saw neither the movies, nor the comics, nor the series. He's a very, very popular character, if only because most Marvel fans can identify with him.

Now, his many counterparts like Spiderman 2099....are a different story, but I'm sure you were not including the counterparts when listing each hero.

The Hulk and Captain America are not too far away. As for Iron Man, while not as well-known, whoever knows him loves him. And even the ones that don't know him, even the most brainless kids, know that he isn't a freaking knight (neither in abilities and skills nor personality).

Also, one thing you didn't seem to realize Mercen. While DC's main popular faces, mostly the Justice League's Main 5 (or 6) and some of their villains, are extremely well known, pretty much any other character that isn't them is not as well known. Try asking any non-DC fan who Zatanna is, who Deathstroke is, who Bane is, who Ares is, who the Red Lanterns are. If they know who they are, it's a Deus Ex Machina.

Meanwhile, while Marvel's characters except Spiderman are not as well known as DC's main faces, they do have a much higher amount of known characters. This means that they can easily make something and bring a great multitude of characters, and most people will at least be aware of at least 3/4s of those characters. While with DC, if they tried to do something with at least half the characters not being their popular ones, most people wouldn't even know half the cast.

This may be because while DC loves to make retcons and AUs now and then but don't make too many characters (that stick for long), Marvel instead makes multiple characters that even if not as popular, are at least somewhat memorable in some way. They got the Avengers, multiple X-Men comics and stuff, and just with those 2 you already reach more than 25 characters, not counting counterparts and not counting the standalone heroes either, nor their villains.