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Comicbook worlds often reflect our own modern culture, without any thought of how that world's culture would look on its own - especially pop culture. If you, like Gwenpool, somehow made your way from our world into the 616 universe, what would you realistically find there? Certainly not a perfect copy of our world that just happens to have some superpowered people in it, right? Just think about movies: no one is going to go watch an Avengers movie when the Avengers are real people you might see on the street. Imagine what the landscape of pop culture might be like today without Marvel movies. If nothing else, there would be fewer colossal failures like The Mummy, trying to launch their own "cinematic universes," right?

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