8. Successfully Rebooting Heroes
The Dark Knight trilogy was obviously a reboot of the Batman franchise when Batman Begins was released in 2005 (which is, in itself, being rebooted now) and it was to become a highly successful one at that. It was a concern at the time because, prior to it, the Batman films had gotten progressively worse. Michael Keaton was a great Batman in a couple of decent movies, Val Kilmer was an okay Batman in a dire movie, and George Clooney was an awful Batman in an equally awful movie, so Christian Bale had a tough task on his hands when it came to resurrecting the caped crusader as a fully-fledged movie franchise. However, despite the fact that Bale himself made a questionable dark knight, the franchise was so well written, produced and directed that it became a roaring success. Similarly, albeit on a lesser scale, the MCU successfully rebooted the Hulk, who had previously been massacred by Ang Lee in the 2003 film in which Eric Bana starred (though I lay no blame on Bana for the flop - it was all Lee's fault, really). Edward Norton first played the MCU's Hulk in the 2008 reboot before being replaced by Mark Ruffalo for the Avengers movie due to contractual problems. Ruffalo also made an Iron Man 3 post-credits cameo and will appear as the Hulk in the ongoing movies that are in development in the MCU. Hulk has been a roaring success (no pun intended) in the MCU thus far.