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After a few rough installments across two different versions Spider-Man under Sony, a partnership with Marvel studios relaunched the character in the MCU, where it's seen huge box office returns and rave reviews from critics and audiences alike. Avengers: Endgame, and No Way Home also has the highest Rotten Tomatoes score of any live-action Spider-Man movie.
Rotten Tomatoes puts the focus around review scores from critics, but it turns out Spider-Man: Homecoming brings down the average with the MCU's 13th highest audience score (still in the top half of the MCU) at 84 percent.
The MCU's average Rotten Tomatoes audience score is 83 percent, and, every movie has an audience score of 70 percent or higher, other than Captain Marvel at 45 percent. Other than that, every movie in the MCU is rated 70 percent or higher by audiences, and only ten of the MCU movies have an audience score over 90 percent, putting the Spider-Man movies at the top of an already elite franchise.
Spider-Man has always been one of Marvel's most popular characters, especially compared to the rest of the MCU's characters, whose comics were always less popular than Spider-Man, assuming they were well known at all before their MCU introduction. Even so, it's a testament to the films themselves and a bit ironic, considering the films are all distributed by Sony, whereas every other MCU movie since The Avengers has been distributed by Disney. Sony and Marvel Studios still collaborate on Spider-Man movie development and share box office earnings, but it's interesting to see this unique partnership reach such impressive results.
