The Marvel movies have been successfully marketed in America and outside of it. A staple of these movies has been Captain America, who is clearly a United States centric character. How has Disney (the company behind these movies) marketed a US centric superhero to a non-US audience?
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1Apologies in advance if I'm in the wrong StackExchange. It was this or a business one and I felt the question would be of more interest here!– chessofnerdCommented Jul 1, 2017 at 5:58
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2Perhaps not surprisingly, "Captain America: The First Avenger" performed better overseas than in the US by a smaller ratio than the first Avengers film did. That said, it still made more money out of the US than in it.– chessofnerdCommented Jul 1, 2017 at 6:08
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1America is quite a well-known country... and even if they are in America, the film could be anywhere. Plus everyone is used to Hollywood, with American scenery and American actors with American accents.– marcellothearcaneCommented Jul 1, 2017 at 6:58
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9In Brazil and Chile and Peru and some other territories I believe they call him Captain North America. In Hawaii and Alaska they call him Captain Lower-Fourty-Eight and they have to pay extra for shipping.– Paul D. WaiteCommented Jul 1, 2017 at 10:02
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1One should remember that while Mr. America is certainly very American, most Hollywood movies are very American. People have gotten used to this after almost a century of Hollywood movies. The average Hollywood movie is laughably "patriotic". Additionally, the main reason why those terrible Superhero movies are produced is because they are popular in Asia - and like any other financially successful superhero movie, Captain America earned most money outside the US. I do not think the main audience for these movies cares what the movie is about as long as there are explosions– Raditz_35Commented Jul 17, 2017 at 12:01
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"From the creators of Iron Man", that's how. Iron Man was super popular. So are superhero films. Even if the comics themselves are pretty niche here (like Captain America), people flock to the cinema because it's superheroes.
In Germany at least, they try not to mention the name of Captain America in the title at all. Case in Point:
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Return of the First Avenger (a.k.a. Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
The First Avenger: Civil War (a.k.a. Captain America: Civil War)
Maybe, because they think "If we never mention the characters name, maybe our audience will forget about his name".
But then again, german movie titles ALWAYS get turned to whatever the hell Execs want them to be.
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2Speaking for Belgium, we've simply used Captain America, there was no alteration. I don't quite understand the need to avoid using the name, the origin story of the character is that he was used to rally American troops.– FlaterCommented Jul 17, 2017 at 15:00
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1Exactly, I mean you can keep giving him different names on the billboard, but they call him captain america in the movie all the time. No one calls him First avenger Commented Jul 17, 2017 at 15:12
Disney has marketed Captain America as an Avenger after release of 2012 The Avengers movie. And also as "From studios that bought you Marvel's Avengers!".
While before that it war marketed as "From the Studios that bought you IRONMAN!".
Till the release of Civil War Captain America it self became a brand so it was not marketed as above two strategies rather than it was "Divided we fall!", "Captain America 3", while the posters of Civil War almost resembled an Avengers type gathering so people were attracted to it. Specially some posters feature Ironman vs Captain America which was also a USB.
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