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Sony Pictures could've owned the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it could've owned it for cheap. The rights to the Spider-Man character had been bouncing around Hollywood for more than a decade before Sony finally got ahold of them in 1998. (The studio had to trade away to MGM its rights to make an alternate"