In "Avengers: Age of Ultron," everybody from Captain America to the Hulk and Black Widow had an equal part to play. After all, they are a team of superheroes united by a singular vision - to protect mankind.
However, the same cannot be said of the paychecks of the stars who portrayed them. Cinema Blend just revealed how much each star took home just to be a part of the film, and the actor who took home the highest amount got more or less the paychecks of all the other stars combined.
It is no surprise who the highest earner is, but his paycheck still raised quite a few eyebrows. Robert Downey Jr., who plays Iron Man got a whopping $40 million.
The next highest earner is Scarlett Johansson, who portrays the Black Widow, got only half of what Downey took home since she received $20 million.
The next paycheck dwindled down significantly too at $6.9 million, and this went to Captain America star Chris Evans.
Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye might have been dismissed as an unimportant Avenger, but he follows Evans' salary closely at $6.1 million.
On the other hand, Thor star Chris Hemsworth only got $5.4 million, while Mark Ruffalo was the smallest earner at $2.8 million.
Johansson's salary should give hope to those dismayed by the overwhelming gender pay gap in Hollywood, which was recently addressed by "The Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence.
In a blog post, she said that when the Sony hack revealed that she and Amy Adams got way less than their "American Hustle" male co-stars, she did not get mad at Sony, but she got mad at herself for settling too soon.
"Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale, and Bradley Cooper all fought and succeeded in negotiating powerful deals for themselves. If anything, I'm sure they were commended for being fierce and tactical, while I was busy worrying about coming across as a brat and not getting my fair share," she wrote.
Lawrence received tons of support after making that post, including that of Cooper, but the same cannot be said of Renner, who said it was not his job to help the women get better wages because he doesn't "know contracts and money and all that sort of stuff."
"I'm a performer and I know human behavior," he told Business Insider. "When it comes to that sort of stuff I let other people deal with that."
