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For Marvel actors, the MCU also stands for the Marvel Commercials Universe

Marvel Studios are showing what's in their wallet - commercials money



You know their names. You even know their faces - after all, even though some of Marvel Studios' stars are sometimes hidden behind masks, they are easily identifiable. As the MCU movies & TV shows have become entrenched in modern pop culture, those actors do as well. And now, they're branching out - not only into unrelated movies and TV shows, but also something else.

Commercials.

You can't watch TV or streaming for more than a few minutes than you'll see an MCU actor in a commercial promoting milk, a credit card, a mobile phone, or something else. 

For a time, it was seen as unseemly for major movie stars to appear in commercials - around the same time it was considered a step-down for a movie star to do television. But in the late '80s and early '90s, US movie

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Chris Arrant

Chris Arrant: Chris Arrant is the Popverse's Editor-in-Chief. He has written about pop culture for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel, Newsarama, CBR, and more. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. (He/him)

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