His dreams of being a writer and a better man than his colleagues seem far away, and he feels like a second tier character now.
Before the release of 2008's Iron Man, he was a second tier character that the average human being did not have a vast awareness of.
Ayane is often regarded as a top-tier character in many of the games she is playable in, especially in the DOA fighting games where she was noted for being very unpredictable and confusing for the opponent as well as fast and hard to counter.
According to UGO, Ibuki in Street Fighter III "has the strength and speed to face off against any top-tier character", as she is "quick, somewhat unpredictable and easy to pick up", and "she's just as likely to attack an opponent from the front as she is to dash into the air and rain down several kunai.
Ghost Rider is one of the lower-to-mid-tier characters in the Marvel library.
But Marvel and DC are known mainly for "corporate comics" — series with top-tier characters like Spider-Man, Captain America, Batman and Superman.
So Avi Arad, along with chief operating officer David Maisel, went to Wall Street to get funding for an independent studio, making films based on second-tier characters the company hadn't already licensed elsewhere, starting with Iron Man.
But the studio will need a leader with vision to turn some of the second-tier characters, like Thor, into franchise-worthy heroes, especially since the best characters, like Spider-Man and the X-Men, already have homes at other studios.
It is not unheard of to meet six or seven top-tier characters (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Pluto etc) in a 20 minute session.
The styles range from multi-tiered, character-packed collage (like Tyler Stout's fanboy-friendly work for "The Empire Strikes Back") to subdued prints that express a movie's mood more than anything else (like the simple smoking gun forming Clint Eastwood's profile in Olly Moss's "Dirty Harry").
The second tier, the character traits, includes Self-directedness (SD), Cooperativeness (CO), and Self-transcendence (ST).
