From a Washington Post story by David Betancourt headlined “The 12 best superhero performances of all time”:

No one ever said being a superhero was easy.

You have to please a fan base oozing with comic book knowledge and movie critics likely to be looking down on you for taking the role. Only the elite few can do both.

There are the classics. Men who can fly and billionaires dressed as bats. And then there’s the modern everlasting interconnectivity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Studios’ ongoing quest to reclaim its former glory, which have given us a vigilante, a goddess, a genius and a king.