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TIL in 2013 it was reported that Robert Downey Jr. was paid $50m for The Avengers, while some of his costars made just $200K. RDJ reacted by threatening to quit the MCU; he wasn't "going to work for a place where they treated his colleagues like shit." His threats worked, his costars got huge raises

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