10 Things WWE Could Learn From The Marvel Universe

10. Debuting With Confidence

Just about everyone in the film industry was surprised by how well Guardians Of The Galaxy did at the box-office in 2014. The film was the third highest grosser of the year, taking in $772m worldwide. How is it that Guardians, a debut outing for an obscure Marvel property, could make that amount of money? It wasn't a proven entity like Iron Man or X-Men and it didn't have a bonafide Hollywood star as the lead. Yet the film did exceptional business, shattering industry expectations. So how exactly did Guardians do it? Well, there many theories as to why but a lot of the credit has to go to Marvel's marketing department who made you feel like you needed to see it and that, despite its obscurity that, yes, of course Guardians Of The Galaxy is the next logical superhero movie. It was a supremely confident debut for the group that, had it been handled differently, wouldn't have had anywhere near the same level of impact. Now let's look at how WWE debuted two superstars in 2014. First was Adam Rose who, after weeks of vignettes hyping his debut, did absolutely nothing and was soon debuting with his bunny sidekick. Then there's Sting, who is an established entity and who, to be fair to WWE, did have a memorable debut. Only problem is, Sting hasn't been seen on WWE TV since, and won't be until the weeks leading up to WrestleMania. WWE could definitely take a look at how Marvel debut characters and maybe learn a few things about perception and reality.