10 Huge Movies That Aquaman Destroyed At The Box Office

3. 70% Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Box Office: $880.2 million (Spider-Man: Homecoming), $863.8 million (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), $854 million (Thor: Ragnarok), $773.3 million (Guardians of the Galaxy), $714.3 million (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), $677.7 million (Doctor Strange), $644.6 million (Thor: The Dark World), $623.9 million (Iron Man 2), $622.7 million (Ant-Man & the Wasp), $585.1 million (Iron Man), $519.3 million (Ant-Man), $449.3 million (Thor), $370.6 million (Captain America), $263.4 million (The Incredible Hulk)

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has proven its ability to sell ice to Eskimos at this point, with risky projects such as Thor, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange and especially Guardians of the Galaxy turning immense profits.

But even more impressive is the fact that Aquaman has out-grossed 14 of the MCU's 20 released movies to date, while falling short of just Captain America: Civil War ($1.15 billion), Iron Man 3 ($1.21 billion), Black Panther ($1.3 billion), Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1.4 billion), The Avengers ($1.5 billion) and Avengers: Infinity War ($2.05 billion).

It's an especially laudable rebound considering the underwhelming performance of Justice League barely a year prior, which made "just" $657.9 million, placing it ahead of a mere eight (40%) of the MCU's output.

To be clear, Justice League was a team-up movie featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and The Flash. And audiences were inexplicably more fussed about watching...Doctor Strange?

No such embarrassment awaited Aquaman, though, which proved the DCEU isn't quite the dead-in-the-water property that many dismissed it as post-Justice League. Aquaman's decision to be a 99.9% standalone story was clearly the right one, then.