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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3575548" data-attributes="member: 19675">You mean that he led Galactus to all those populated planets without once ever being touched before?That's a bit of a stretch.Nope- the "Firelord Beatdown" occured in Amazing Spiderman 269 & 270...he was wearing a  reproduction of the black symbiote costume, which had found Eddie Brock (Venom) in Amazing Spiderman #258 (although he didn't really come back as Venom until about issue #300 or so).He "won" because his "Spidey sense" allowed him to avoid being hit...and somehow, a guy who had taken hits from the Thing couldn't take a few dozen from Spidey, who isn't even in Firelord's strength class, much less the Thing's.Yep.Coming to America had a budget of 38M and grossed 400M worldwide.  It lost money (like I said, due to wonky accounting practices*) on the studio's books.FF cost 100M to make and grossed 400M worldwide.  That's a flop- I guarantee you it's net profits finished in the red (see below).*Those practices include using subsidiaries for nearly everything in the production/marketing/distribution and counting that against the gross.  The movie may lose money, but the company makes it hand over fist.  That is why, if you ever get involved in a Hollywood production, you either get your money paid in full before it shows once, or get your money out of the gross profits- there will be no net profits.</blockquote>