bitterly fought any creators looking for additional compensation. Starting in the late 2000s, however, Marvel’s publishing contracts included bonuses for original characters that appear in movies or TV through a “Special Characters Contract,” although they’re riddled with complicated loopholes. If a character appears for less than 15 percent of screen time, for example, that’s considered “just” a cameo, meaning a creator is owed significantly less. By those metrics, for example, cameos include Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier in Captain America: Civil War. Despite being the linchpin of the
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