how many superheroes are in the marvel universe
Marvel Universe Most of Marvel's major heroes are those created during Marvel's Silver Age: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, The Vision, Peggy Carter and Sharon Carter, Groot, the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Inhumans, S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Falcon, and the Silver Surfer. Marvel's other notable heroes from the Bronze and Modern Ages include Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Misty Knight, Colleen Wing, Ghost Rider, Blade, Drax the Destroyer, Star-Lord, Gamora, the Punisher, Moon Knight, Nova, Rocket Raccoon, Psylocke, Scott Lang, Black Cat, Silver Sable, Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, She-Hulk, Elektra, Cloak and Dagger, Rogue, The New Mutants, Jubilee, and New Warriors. Some of Marvel's most recent creations such as Deadpool, Gambit, Cable, Domino, War Machine, Jessica Jones, The Runaways, X-23, Daisy Johnson, Winter Soldier, Maria Hill, the modern Guardians of the Galaxy and Defenders, and Ms. Marvel have become popular characters in their own right. Unlike the DC Universe, few of Marvel's 1940s characters have become major characters in modern publications; Captain America is one exception, and to a lesser extent his contemporary, Namor the Sub-Mariner, primarily because both of these characters were reintroduced to readers and to the Marvel Universe during the 1960s.[citation needed]