A poll involving 56,244 votes pits Zack Snyder's Justice League against Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame for the most popular superhero team-up film. The results surprised audiences, but perhaps what’s most interesting is what it can reveal about the desire for DC Studios Co-CEO James Gunn and Peter Safran to move away from the Snyderverse.Snyder recently revealed details on Snyder-con 2, an event raising money for AFSP that premieres Zack Snyder's Justice League in IMAX. This ends speculation that Snyder wanted to move on from DC and distance himself from fans amid the DCU reboot. According to a recent poll that pits Snyder's magnum opus against the MCU two-part finale, audiences aren't ready to move on either.RELATED: DC: 8 Comic Book Storylines We Hope Appear In James Gunn's DCUEd Boon, the co-creator of Mortal Kombat and Injustice, posted a poll that asked audiences to choose their favorite film between Zack Snyder's Justice League against Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, which produced 56,244 votes in total. Zack Snyder's Justice League won with 55.5%, holding 31,215 votes, compared to 45.5% for Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. Judging by the replies before the poll ended, fans thought it was a done deal that Avengers would come out on top, but the results tell a different story. This is similar to Warner Bros. previously labeling Zack Snyder's Justice League as a mistake only for the film to be described as a “cultural phenomenon” by HBO Max before Zack Snyder's Justice League won the fan choice award at the Oscars (although bots were allegedly used to influence those results).

The results of this poll may also call into question James Gunn's narrative of Snyderverse fans as a vocal “minority,” seeing as how 31,215 fans showed up for Justice League under a single person’s Twitter poll, against what many consider to be the best two MCU films. This is especially surprising since Zack Snyder's Justice League never saw a theatrical release. Also, general audiences might still consider it a director’s cut of a poorly received four-year-old film. However, the journey that fans embarked on to see Snyder's true cut of Justice League has made the film more meaningful than the stereotypical Hollywood blockbuster, at least to those fans, with Zack Snyder's Justice League topping Blu-ray sales and even receiving praise from video game auteur Hideo Kojima.

Gunn has said his intention with the DCU was to “build upon what has worked” and “rectify what has not." However, the recent Shazam 2 box office bomb and the results of this poll may tell a different story, especially with the Snyderverse films reportedly making $893.8 million in DC profits against the following DCEU soft reboot films that reportedly lost $570 million for the studio.

Zack Snyder's Justice League is available on HBO Max.

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