It's not Hollywood, it's sheep. People generally have to be told what to like, and be pointed in the direction of said things.
Ryan Reynolds has been into Deadpool for ages, he's wanted to play him in a movie since I was in Secondary school, which was around the time the first Spider-Man movie came out.
I don't necessarily mind the whole "Hollywood has introduced me to something." part of it, but it's the creation of threads that bothers me. As if we all needed to be made aware of a certain character, because we couldn't have found out on our own.
I've been reading comics since I was about five or six, and I remember actually buying issue #98 of The New Mutants back in 1991, where he made his debut. So it just irks me that everyone is now like "Hey! Look at this cool new character!".







