I would love to blame Marvel for this.
But I can't.
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| Because, deep-down and sometimes NOT so deep down, Marvel gets the joke. Stan Lee pretty much invented not taking comics books too seriously, while convincing others to. Other people think of him as The Man Who Created the MCU. I know him as The Man Who Created "Who Wanz Ta Be a Soopuh-Heerow". |
No, Marvel is not to blame, really. It's their corporate overlords, Disney.
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| Media Organization Designed Only for Commercializing Cultural Content |
Disney, creator of the Golden Calf that is Mickey Mouse, is the foe of critical or even analytical thought. At least on the part of consumers. So naturally all they needed to hear was the phrase "Rogers: The Musical" from the film Hawkeye to send them RUNNING to their pap-factories to churn out in earnest the very kind of thing Marvel films make fun of.
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| Those pap-factories are powered by the trapped, suffering ghosts of The Sherman Brothers (or, as the Black Zodiac calls them, The Wailing Twins). |
Well, at least it's better than "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark", I suppose.
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| If nothing else, it will probably maim fewer people. |
But I sincerely hope DC is inoculated against such nonsense forever by, all things, Batman Beyond.
