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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has gotten a little bit stale in the past year or two, as it’s starting to seem like the studio is struggling to find new ways to challenge its heroes. It certainly doesn’t help that the audience is perfectly aware that no challenge is too great for the collective superpowers of the Avengers. Unless they throw us a curveball and suddenly kill off Iron Man or something (actually, there’s rumors this sort of fate is headed Captain America’s way), it’s hard for Marvel to concoct a surprise. And that’s why it continues to be necessary for the studio to inject its cinematic empire with new heroes. You may have seen headlines to the effect of Ant-Man having had the worst opening for a Marvel movie in a decade. That’s true, but Pro Box Office’s list of highest domestic grossing films for 2015 still has Ant-man in the top-10, having earned over $170 million to date, just in the U.S. That’s a position most any studio would