Things You Didn’t Know About The Marvel Cinematic Universe 8. Robert Downey Jr’s upswing Robert Downey had a promising start to his career. But then drugs happened and he went through some tough times. Finally, he cleaned up his act in 2001 and around this time with his friend’s PR agency cleaned up his image. This correction landed him up in the universe of Marvel as Iron Man. He received just $500,000 for his role. But after the movie raked $560 million, partly due to his superb act as Tony Stark, he received $10 million dollar contract to return as Iron Man aka Tony Stark. And for Iron Man 3 he received $50 million. Around 10,000% increase in his salary when compared with what he received for first film. 7. Terrence Howard’s empire dethroned Terrence Howard had a three movie contract with Marvel, with ‘Iron Man’ as the first project. Also, he was promised an increased pay if the movie Iron Man became a success and was turned into a franchisee. The money...