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DC Triumphs Over Marvel in State by State Superheroes Poll
by Neil Cole
There's no stopping the juggernaut of comic book–inspired movies taking over the country's silver screens, and it looks to be another year of pitched battles between Marvel and DC. The next crop of contenders - including Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Joker, and Wonder Woman 1984 - mean that fans of big-screen skirmishes between good and evil have a lot to look forward to over the next few years.
Movie buffs don't just like rooting for their favorite superheroes - they like knowing who's rooting with them too. That's what inspired the team at USDish.com to use Google Trends data to identify each state's most popular comic book universe and superhero. The results of the latest Marvel versus DC poll from Dish Network and show that fans may not be so loyal to last year's most popular heroes.
While Marvel conquered last year's survey, the tables have turned this year. Thirty-two states named DC their most popular comic book universe, and fourteen chose Marvel. Alaska, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Kentucky couldn’t name a winner between the two universes, though all four named a DC superhero as their favorite. Twenty-nine of the top heroes also came from DC comics, while twenty-two came from Marvel.
Last year, California pledged its allegiance to Burbank-based DC, and New York stood solidly behind New York City–based Marvel. However, both states were surprisingly fickler this year and switched universes.
Superman soared in the showdown of superheroes, landing at the top of the list for eight states. That includes Illinois, home to the town of Metropolis, IL and a fifteen-foot-tall, two-ton Man of Steel statue.
While female superheroes have gained visibility lately - Wonder Woman raked in more than $820 million worldwide in 2017, and Captain Marvel has grossed over $1 billion globally - they didn’t conquer the competition. Only four of the eighteen most popular superheroes on the list were women.
Check out the map below which details how both DC and Marvel ranked in the poll from state to state:
