it looks silly but i take more of an issue with every marvel movie currently being time travel stuff to undo some event in some way and/or multiverse shenanigans that allow for self-referential insertions
Literally the thing that made Marvel / DC so obnoxious twenty years ago was the constant need to recon what the last writer did. Whole dissertations have been written on "The Death of Superman" and how it didn't kill Superman so much as the very idea of death itself.
Between Multiverses and Time Travel and Clones and Androids and literal straight up Magic, you'd think they would have a toolkit to be a bit more original with their stories and settings. But any given arc can't seem to get beyond the Simpsons trap of reverting the entire premise back to where it was in :19: :84:
Occasionally, a creative team can get a few years, but the toys go back to the status quo as determined by the EIC who takes orders from the ownership.
It’s like pro-wrestling if they never aged, injured, or went to work at other promotions.
it looks silly but i take more of an issue with every marvel movie currently being time travel stuff to undo some event in some way and/or multiverse shenanigans that allow for self-referential insertions
They TIME TRAVEL NOW!?
yeah, they time travel now.
"I think we're stuck in a timeloop! We just fought these guys!!"
"Nope, that just happened."
Literally the thing that made Marvel / DC so obnoxious twenty years ago was the constant need to recon what the last writer did. Whole dissertations have been written on "The Death of Superman" and how it didn't kill Superman so much as the very idea of death itself.
Between Multiverses and Time Travel and Clones and Androids and literal straight up Magic, you'd think they would have a toolkit to be a bit more original with their stories and settings. But any given arc can't seem to get beyond the Simpsons trap of reverting the entire premise back to where it was in :19: :84:
Occasionally, a creative team can get a few years, but the toys go back to the status quo as determined by the EIC who takes orders from the ownership.
It’s like pro-wrestling if they never aged, injured, or went to work at other promotions.