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The public just needs to learn this very simple truth: Companies don't love you-they love your money.

When 'Wandavision' was launched, I honestly felt that Marvel was on the direction of creating it's own genre universe, meaning that they had so many characters and universes that they could do any film possible: a western with superheroes, a noir film with superheroes, a sitcom with superheroes, a rom-com with superheroes... And yet, they went into the most generic and bland succession of series: Falcon, Loki, Hawkeye, Moonknight, She-hulk... All of them taste the same to me. Such a wasted potential. 'Wandavision' really opened a new door and they didn't even realized.

Marvel to me is boring and feels like homework. I understand this a vast universe but I wish it was more contained. I don't want to feel that if I don't watch a tv show that I won't understand the next movie plot.

The problem is Disney as a whole. They have all the rights to classic Disney characters, Marvel, and Star Wars but keep telling the same old stories.

I think now we can safely admit that 2017 through 2019 was the high water mark for Marvel Studios. Between Thor Ragnarok, Infinity War, and Endgame, they were at their peak of cultural primacy. Even on TV, the netflix shows had just reached their apex crossover with The Defenders, and would release Daredevil S3 (their best season of TV to date). I dont think that wave will ever come again.

I feel bad for hating on Brie Larson now. She wasn't that bad in Captain Marvel as far as i can remember. Everything else I've seen her in, she is really good, i am convinced that the creators made her do the wooden face.

I love that we are looking at the MCU without rose coloured glasses. The franchise walked around like their shit don't stank for too long. Oh and not to mention the labour strike in the industry right now.

I wish they'd start writing women more like Aracane, Castlevania, Avatar the Last Air bender, CyperPunk. Excellent examples of how to write strong women characters of various types, and they never feel the need to antagonistically tearing down men to do it. They demonstrate that Diversity is a strength that improves story telling. Marvel for the most part, IMO, make diversity feel it's some checkbox of chores they have to do.

i think the fact that they postponed a bunch of projects is a good sign. hopefully it means theyre giving VFX artists more time to work normal hours and also doing an overall quality check on their future projects

Disney in general aren't great with including explicitly LGBT characters. With a few exceptions like The Owl House and Eternals, a lot of their scenes portraying characters like that will be easy to dub (like someone making a passing reference to having a same-sex partner without showing them), easy to cut or slightly alter without impacting the story, and/or rely mostly on subtext without showing anything more intimate than hand-holding.

Quantity over quality and they frankly thought they can do no wrong.. great video as always.

We know The Take loves their royals, and now that Charles III has won the game of thrones, I half expected today's episode to just be a live-stream of the King's Coronation. 😜 Anyway, on the MCU's lip service, don't forget Marvel covering Chadwick Boseman's face on their international marketing for Black Panther.

When an actor plays a superhero role so well it's true that his role will take over his acting career. Think about it; when you see Tom Hollands on a magazine cover what's the first thing that comes to mind? Spiderman.

Now please do a take on how they completely butchered the Phoenix saga with all their sexist "hysterical women" claptrap. Not once, but twice.

To me it's simple. As an audience, I was a part of the journey that started with Iron Man. I invested time, energy and heart into stories that followed and honestly End Game was a great payoff. The last two Avengers films, for better or for worst, felt like the perfect culmination to everything that was built up till then. And with Tony's death, I was done. Now I don't feel like starting it all over again. It was great fun and now it's over.

I really do think Marvel’s collaboration with the US Government is what ultimately ruined the Miss Marvel show. The initial Miss Marvel comic run was so deeply influenced by American Islamophobia, from her powers to her storylines, and the show erased everything in favor of a simpler magic girl story. And by erasing the Islamophobia from the story, we also lost Kamala’s original shapeshifting powers and how her decision to appear like herself (a Pakistani girl) is a conscious decision she makes. It also erases how the government genuinely views her as a terroristic threat despite her doing little to no harm in her superhero work.

Tbf, many of the criticisms against MCU right now is that "it's becoming too woke", despite it being the other way around, at least according to this video. Aside from the valid criticisms about the quality of its vfx and the way they undercompensate/undervalue their artists and writers, a lot of the other criticisms are just hate towards the fact that MCU is introducing a more diversed cast, at least compared to before. MoM for example was review-bombed for the fact that Chavez has same-sex parents, despite them having very minimal appearance. So on one hand I think the representation in MCU mostly is really just lip service, and that past MCU really was suspiciously heavily-leaning on white male characters. On the other hand, I don't think those are necessarily some of the reasons the MCU is getting criticized now. Because although MCU can be problematic from that angle, a lot of its audience are just as problematic in the same way, so they're actually in agreement.

The royalty issue is sickening. Jim Starlin got more $ for minor character in Dawn of Justice than for multiple Marvel characters in the MCU he also created.

Remember, companies are not your friends

This essay is WAY BETTER than whiny fanboys bitching about "wokeness"

This is the first time I hear The Take talk about Palestine .. I’d love to see a video one day exploring the American-Israeli alliance’s effect on American Palestinians ..

It’s not surprising that the LGBTQ+ representation in the Marvel movies is pretty weak. It’s more likely a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kind of scenario. I still remember at SDCC 2019 when Tessa Thompson announced that King Valkyrie will be searching her queen. Taika Waititi especially looked genuinely excited for it. But in Thor: Love and Thunder, all she did was kiss a random woman’s hand and then flees. Yet Korg gets to have a boyfriend (who is a literal Dwayne the Rock Johnson joke), and even that is presented very briefly.

Quantity over quality. That’s probably why I’m more of the fan of superhero cartoons like Spectacular Spider-Man and Teen Titans (2003) than the MCU.

They are also responsible of the girl-boss version of feminism but with sexual orientations and discriminated races. I'll explain, just like girl-boss is a fake, superficial way of representing feminism, they have found a way to put LGBT+ characters and racialized characters in the spotlight just for the sake of saying see? We are diverse! but without adding the humanization, the protagonism and complexity that those characters would have if they were straight and white. Marvel works well money-wise so of course the rest of the industry tries to copy them and now most of the tv shows out there have LGBT+ characters or racialized characters that copy this format, with storylines always surrounding bullying, pity and of course, just around their sexual orientation and races, yet never touching much serious or real and raw issues like the death-rate we are submitted to in real life. It's always: Oh poor gay side character, the bully threw him to the floor in the school hallway, but never: Let's sit down and talk about the amount of trans people that are killed in a year.

I'd say another big problem that's been dragging the MCU down is its emphasis on comedy and jokes at the expense of letting emotional moments breathe and ironic detachment over sincerity. Alteori made an excellent video on this problem of how this leads to the movies' stories ultimately holding no weight. Contrast that with how The Boys, Invincible, and even Zack Snyder's superhero movies have that sense of weight to them; you FEEL the tension the characters are under and shit really does feel like it's getting real. But the MCU comedy diminishes all that.

Man Ike is one fucked individual. The only reason he got involved is cuz he was the head of toy biz who made the toys in the nineties when the comics were suffering close to bankruptcy and he never quite left. He's also personally responsible for the disaster that was the inhumans show.

OMG . just imagine how good the edgar wright antman movie would have been

Ummm no. Ike Perlmutter’s right wing views never blurred with the MCU beyond ironically delaying stories focused on female/non-white characters. Really it’s just a matter of this IP dominating the world for 15 years and people finally getting exhausted.

Recommend Skip Intro’s video on the MCUs relationship with the military/police (and really all his videos). As for MCU facing a “downfall “ they’re still ruling everything. But for me it’s been a matter of over saturation and them all fitting into the same formula. I think that’s why things like black Panther and wandavision were such a breath of fresh air - where directors managed to wrangle a bit more freedom from the formula.

Sabera is actually also a stolen idea by two Israeli creators: Uri Fink and David Herman. They came up with the idea of Sabra Man and never received any credit for the idea or the character. Also, please note: Sabra was written by American people, who never visited Israel or Palestine. So they clearly viewed my country as “the good guys” and Palestine as “the bad guys.” The name of the heroine Sabra isn’t a reference to the horrible things that happened in Sabra and Shatilla (you can watch Waltz with Bashir to understand the gravity of those events), but a reference to Israeli slang: a Sabra in Hebrew (pronounced Tzabar) is a nickname to an Israeli that is born and raised in the country. Like the Sabra, we are described as prickly on the outside but sweet within

People act like the military contracts are new and unique to Marvel. Top Gun in the 80s being a prime example. Also, usually the military and government in a lot of marvel is portrayed as shady af. This is all how Hollywood works as a whole. It’s not just Marvel or the MCU.

Guardians 3 is about to make an absurd amount of money, I wouldn’t call that a “downfall”

I love Brie Larson as an actress, but I don’t love this new direction of her career. She’s just not blockbuster material and I don’t see that as a bad thing. We need more movies like “Room” and “Short Term 12.” Not another Fast and Furious, but that’s what you gotta do now in Hollywood…Hopefully she’s using the money she makes from these movies to find projects that are closer to where she started because she is not someone who seems comfortable doing so much green screen.

Creatively the MCU is pretty rudderless right now, which doesn't help fan reception. Even though the Infinity Saga had some happy-accidents that allowed it to be built into what it was, there was definitely some direction in mind. Doesn't feel that way anymore, and the writing has dropped in quality. Also feels like we lack universe focal points, like what Tony or Steve once were. Also worth noting, conflating Spider-Man 3 and the Fantastic 4 films with Marvel Studios/the MCU is a bit of a misattribution, it doesn't minimize the broader problems with the MCU at all but those were Sony and Fox films respectively. Again, doesn't minimize all of the criticisms here.

what turns me off the most is the milking of the audience, instead of just introducing cool new characters they must be strategically teased out first and carefully planned along with the release of other characters to maximize profits instead of putting the character and storytelling first

These are all valid problems, though I don't think these problems are exclusive to this franchise. This seems like a general critique of the industry. Lots of artists burnout from overworking, the military has had a long-standing relationship with Hollywood, and directors and actors often quit projects when their creative visions are stifled by money-lead decisions. And diversity and inclusion on screen is an on-going issue.

it was called ENDgame for a reason folks

We saw how awful the writing for plot and characters, character design, continuity/power levels, and overall waste of creation in the MCU's arguably worst production: Werewolf by Night.

There's also the fact that the movies are just terrible films. People really need to start seeing how poorly made they are.

It's sad, Marvel films seems to do to its directors what Marvel editorial used to do to X-Men writers during Bob Harras's run editing the title. Even in "Icons Unearthed," they talk about how Marvel heavily edited the ending of Louis Leterrier / Edward Norton's Hulk movie to be just some cgi throw down with Hulk and Abomination that seemed disconnected with anything else. If Marvel's culture is really like this, I won't miss it. I liked some of the earlier films and Wandavision, but beyond that Marvel movie's are pretty basic and mediocre, IMO

Man I love the MCU but what is going on behind the scenes is insane!! I hope this isn't happening at DC😕

Interesting video and questions, the overall thesis of cracks in the armor and legitimate critiques is strong. That said, I have what are basically just a few nitpicks but I'll throw it out there anyway. Some of the supporting examples/evidence offered were puzzling. Movies like Spider-man 3 and Fantastic Four? They not only pre-date the existence of the MCU they are products of two entirely different, independent studios. Additionally, it was difficult to understand Scorcese's comments as a lead-in to point about abuse of VFX workers. Lastly, an important omission in discussing the Perlmutter problem is the 2015 incident where Feige essentially gave Disney a "he goes or I go" ultimatum resulting in Perlmutter being sidelined and cut out of any movie related decisions. By the time they finally laid him off, Perlmutter was entirely cut off from the creative side of comics, television, and movies. Again, none of this is to contest the overall points, rather to suggest the arguments for them could be bolstered a bit.

{0:27} - (1.) Isaac Perlmutter, has always the problem among so many other things. [Hint. He also try to kill off the X-Men] {1:48} - (2.) Studios always have to work with other companies, it happens all the time. {3:01} - (3.) You know about the issue about the WGA. That's the same problem with the VFX, obviously they want to raise and they want better working environment. {4:39} - (4.) Hollywood actors will always have problems with so many other Studios. Because some Big-Man staff in there offices, will always be a JACK@$$. {6:06} - (5.) Directors always parted ways it's the same thing with the actors, they want to achieve the projects that were supposed to do. {7:41} - (6.) Everything of course has to change for the love of Marvel, because if they don't. Everything they work for is GONE?!

I just got tired of the Marvel dialog, always undercutting emotion with a joke. It was fine for some dumb action movies, but I never felt emotionally connected to anyone because they were not characters, they were caricatures. After Endgame, when I felt absolutely nothing for Iron Man's dead, I knew that keeping up with all the movies was a waste of time. I still watch some that may sound interesting on long plane flights, but the last one I watched, the new Dr Strange was absolutely meh, completely cliché and uninteresting beyond a couple of cool scenes and concepts.

I gave up on the MCU after Endgame (a film that relies on time travel to fix things is not good storytelling). Shows like Loki and Wanda Vision have looked interesting but I can't help but notice that the creative freedom and decisions have been squashed for the corporate gain.

Do a take on HBO's Barry.

Honestly, I really loved phase 4! (Especially "Moonknight" and "Werewolf by Night"!) The only phase 4-projekt I didn't like was "She Hulk: Attorney at Law" because it was super boring. I also like Quantumania" and I'm really excited for the Marvels and especially "Guardians of the Galaxy - Vol. 3".

Cinematic movements like all other art and cultural trends are cyclical, like so many other times in the history of film there will be a counter movement (wave) responding to this current cynical big studio formula.

It is obvious you never read the actual Sabra and just watched TikTok videos and read clickbait articles. Had you read her entire fight with the Hulk, you would realize how mistaken your statements are. While it is obvious that this Sabra is written from a very western point of view, and not by Israelis who live through the conflict like the original Sabra which was written by 2 Israelis, it's lack of nuance can be changed in a movie. There are also many superheroes in the MCU who represent different nationalities, so no reason why Sabra shouldn't get a chance, especially considering how the entire comic book industry is pretty much created by Jews, yet Jewish characters have their entire identity wiped out in the movies.

Them exploiting and underpaying the most crucial workers is the least shocking but the most disgusting and least defensible with their insane profits. Pay. Your. Workers!!

Hollywood follows the money. Disney more than most. If people stop paying to watch their productions they will change.

The execs need to either fund a media project or don't, but if they do -- they need then to get out of the way and let the qualified writers, directors, producers, actors, artists and etc. do their effing jobs. . (And pay them properly for it, and allowed them a production schedule set to run at a reasonable not-insane pace / way too short amount of time; it's not like people will stop spending money on tv and movies if studios don't push out a should-be year-long project in 3 month's by working their employees to near-literal death.) . And as for the stories, and characters... the big bosses need to, again, butt out and let experienced writers, etc. create media that has some flippin' pride in itself. But they neither care themselves, nor allow those they've hired to care (as is ironically part of their job) about the integrity of the story, thus depriving it -- and every element within it -- of it's quality and even dignity as a self-contained piece of art meant to stand the test of time beyond any given cultural fad it may give reference to in passing. . People will forgive a lot if a story is immersive and the characters are likable (or at least compelling). But currently, the higher-ups' need to first bait audiences and then draw self-congratulatory attention to their lip-service and interference, completely derails any enjoyment otherwise found by the audience in the experiencing of the product itself. And what people don't like, they will eventually stop paying for. Why give our limited spending money to products we already know, from the last 17 or so offerings, are going to be crap that we can't even enjoy escaping into?

It has been expanded too much

What about LOGAN though?

I’m sorry but the issue with the directors is always staying true to the source material. It’s not a concern for their reputation but a huge ego that’s in the way there. Take Venom, that was an enormous hit for Sony so clearly you can’t rely on these people’s instincts. They have made flop after flop after ending their collaboration with Marvel so I can’t get mad at them for keeping a good deal of control with themselves.

So when it comes to the military, is Marvel the current version of No Child Left Behind or what?

The last movies flopping is just MCU fatigue. People are tired of superheroe movies.

I'd be interested to hear y'alls thoughts on Thor: Love and Thunder. I see a lot of hate for it despite being pretty similar to Ragnarok, which I think gets way overhyped. Love and Thunder suffers from Waititi's need for a joke a second, like Ragnarok. But I thought the villain and the themes were much better. And I wonder if the focus on a female hero and a tacked on gay part about the rock guy is responsible for most of the hate.

Fight the SYSTEM

It's plastic fantastic silly movies with amazing effects but terrible story telling and cliché characters. It is hard for any erudite intelligent person to finish watching any of these movies. Many talented actors got stuck in these neverending sequels-prequels and waisting their opportunity to add some valuable performance to the cinema history. Oh the almighty dollar...

Lol just in time for that MCU book to come out

Captain America wasn't created to sell war bonds. The character of Captain America was created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon who were Jewish American and were who hated seeing the USA's inaction during the war and how Jewish people were being treated. So they created Captain America as a Golem. A Golem is a figure from Jewish folklore and is basically a soldier created by the Jewish people to fight for and on behalf of the Jewish people and be their protector. They made the disabled immigrant Steve Rodgers become Captain America a symbol for truth and justice and fighting for what is right and the protector of the innocent. They also purposely made Captain America be blonde with blue eyes and have him punching Hitler in the face on the first ever comic cover to kind of really rub it in. And also the scientist the gives Steve the serum and recruits him Dr Abraham Erskine is also Jewish to again make the point of Captain America being a Golem. This isn't talked about enough but there is a HUGE problem of Jewish erasure in the MCU. Half the characters have Jewish origins and none of them are acknowledged. And some character choices made to certain characters are very problematic in that sense. Having MCU Peggy be British with dark hair is bad because in the comics Peggy is from the US south, is blonde and is a scientist. But there is another female character in the comics called Cynthia Glass who is British with dark hair but she is also a Nazi spy so having MCU Peggy be modelled after the Nazi spy and making her the love interest to the Jewish Golem is kind of not good. Also it is problematic having Wanda and Pietro join Hydra. Hydra in the MCU is very clearly the allegory for Nazi's and in the comics Wanda and Pietro are Jewish Romani and the children of Magneto. You know the Holocaust survivor Magneto. Peter Parker, Bucky, Captain America, Wanda, Pietro and Kate Bishop are all Jewish in the comics yet it is not acknowledged at all in the MCU. And then when we did get an actual Jewish hero/anti hero in the MCU in Moon Knight in Steven Grant/Marc Spector he wasn't played by a Jewish actor. And then they announced that Joe Locke will be playing Billy Maximoff in the upcoming Agatha Harkness series and Billy Maximoff is Jewish and Joe Locke is not. Also the title for the new up coming Captain America movie New World Order is Anti-Semitic. This is a huge thing that nobody seems to want to acknowledge or do anything about. It was Jewish people that basically created comic books and put their stories into the comics and that deserves to be recognised bit it is constantly ignored. I am not Jewish or religious in any way but I have been educating myself on this subject to be better informed. Like the MCU is happy to show Daredevil going to confession and having his faith be an important part of his character and have show Kamala Khan going to mosque and wearing a hijab and being open about her faith but they won't acknowledge the Jewish origins of half the stories and characters within the MCU. That is a problem. Don't get me started on the MCU's pitiful queer representation. That's a whole other story.

The only good things that have come out from the MCU since Endgame are: Loki, Wandavision, Spiderman no Way Home and Guardians of the Galaxy 3. They were sucessful because their writing was good, they stuck to the vision of their directors, they didn't push political shit unto us, and they CARED about the characters. Other projects, which in my opinion were good, like Shang-Chi or Moon Knight, fell flat because they were just generic.

The Marvel problem, is more of a Dinsney problem that on the one hand doing as much lip service as possible for the sake of woke feminsm, LGBTQ community and diversity in the sake of capitalising them, as on the ither hand they lost all focus of their over arch plans and each project's quality.

Ike was also was really mad that when Young avenger's comic's had a gay couple it didn't flop insted it saved the marvel comics

Whoever thinks marvel movies are art is just delusional at best... They are visually striking thrilling joyrides (when done correctly) but no one can seriously think that without CGI those movies would be anywhere as successful

You are cowards for not even mentioning the hell Joss Whedon had to go through while trying to protect his vision from the corporate overlords when making "Age of Ultron".

Wait. No one knew about Ike Perlmutter?

- "still quite Caucasian" - Jessica Alba - uptick in queer characters - gay kiss edited out in MENA - Ancient One not Tibetan for sake of China - There's an Israeli superhero that is NOT in the MCU The censorship and representation chapter is kind of thin when you break it down point by point.

I think the MCU should include Sabra, I just think they definitely need to fix her up. Then again there’s not a lot to fix up, just add to in an improved manner, cause she’s only had like 50 comics appearances

dark truths? secrets? Lol guess I fell for another crappy clickbait title. None of these controversies or external issues that Marvel has faced are secrets at all; everyone knows and many have been protesting about these practices for years, myself included. But it's obvious none of that has really done much to contribute to the MCU's recent critical and box office decline. It's just that their latest movies and projects have relatively sucked, narratively speaking. Like I get generating clicks but wow the title feels so off for this subject matter, pull it back a bit!

"Marvel portrays the military in a heroic, uncritical light", it's like you haven't seen Iron Man. This is true for Captain Marvel and other marvel films, but the first Iron Man movie is literally a story about a man learning how sinister the military-industrial complex is and denouncing it. The fact that people miss the nuance of the first MCU film honestly baffles me; it's not like the message is deeply hidden, it is clear and obviously against the idea of military as corporation in favor of the individual.

I mean capitalism ruins art.

I think Marvel just got too full of themselves and greedy. They're coming out with so many shows but I don't know if people are really that interested in shows like Agatha, Echo and Ironheart.

What bothers me is that there are plenty of bad movies starring men and women. Yes, the superhero movies starring women have been a disaster before Wonder Woman came out but there were plenty of movies starring men at the time that have also been disasters, like Punisher, The Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, Fantastic Four. The only good Marvel product at the time was X-Men. Yet women seem to get more heat for bad movies than men do. For instance, Captain Marvel did well in the box office but everyone not only makes excuses for its success but trashes Brie Larson for speaking her mind. However, Morbius not only bombed at the box office but Jared Leto was so insufferable that he made people on the set push him around in a wheelchair. Yet Jared Leto doesn't receive the level of hate that Brie Larson does. The level of hate for Phase 4 has also gotten out of control with toxic gatekeeping fans to the point that they're blaming the lack of quality on women by calling it the M-She-U. As a woman fan of Marvel who's dreamed of seeing Marvel movies starring women who don't dress like strippers since the movies first came out and had a mother with the same dream, it feels like being told that I'm not welcome in my own fandom and, honestly, it really hurts.

The treatment of captain Marvel was horrible. and its not just the studio but the fans commenting here as well, people made horrible comments on her and Brie. People couldn't fathom a more powerful character than captain America. Also imagine Jeremy Renner calling Natasha a slut in an interview and Evans fist bumping. shows a lot of masculine "rage" and "bro-culture" in fandom. Like Captain america kissed her lover's niece right after she died, so shouldn't we call him slut first? Its a misogynistic take that let fans lose on women. Like all the rubbish questions directed at Scarlet and never any of the "Alpha-gym-bro-hollywood-feminist" male stars stepped in to support her, even in her fight with Disney. Its heartbreaking.

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9:45 rrr ❤

It's not that complex, really. The quality of their storytelling has declined, and while I think diversity is important on some level, Disney is over emphasizing it and making it a top priority over character development and story/script.

The dark truth is as long Marvel made good movies, nobody cared about what happened behind the scenes. But because they're doing nothing but garbage, people think there's something worth digging... As if Captain Marvel and Black Panther didn't made a billion dollars on the box office, just as Top Gun Maverick with the help of the Air Force. Also, the responsible for VFX was an activist who got paid despite being fairly fired (cooncidence you didn't mention her?). Poor millionaire actors who can't get Oscar worthy roles. And there's a reason why Wright, DuVurnay and Derrickson didn't work for Marvel anymore. False inclusivity is driving people out of the cinemas...

The reason why Brie Larson was hated by mcu fans because she is unlikeable even by her cast mates. Kinda funny you didn't include that as much as i agree

You’re once again showing you did no research in original captain America history. His comic released before America even joined in WW2! Also like you’re not gonna mention America Chavez getting whitewashed when she’s Afro-Latina in comics or talk about all the Jewish & Romani erasure or antisemitism that’s gone on with handling of Wanda & moon knight? Like c’mon.

Does this mean that The Take has been doing a s**ty job until now?

MCU should've ended with Endgame.

Marvel is no longer as interesting as K dramas.

Possibly

More people need to talk about Ike Perlmutter. He's done so much worse. This video only scratches the surface of how bad he is. I first heard about him over a decade ago and he's why I've pretty much stopped going to see MCU movies. The only ones that I see are the ones that have a superhero lead who isn't a white male, like Black Panther and Black Widow. I'm trying to prove him wrong.

Marvel just needs better writers and directors who can bring something new that hasn't been done before. FYI i am available for that job.

Is it me or did The Take delete one of my comments?

Ike perlmutter is still right about female superhero movies tho. Not a single good one. Not even wonder woman

I was a huge marvel fan since I saw the Avengers in cinema when I was 10, but now I feel so meh about everything they do. With time I saw diversity which was mostly lip service and the reluctance to do a black widow movie enraged me. Now I don’t watch any of their new stuff and don’t really see a future where they change for the better because the status quo that they have been a part of for so long sadly has been very profitable 😢

How is marvels relationship with the military a "controversy" bexause of its inherent "politics" but all of the left wing politics is seen as a positive?

When I first heard that Doctor Strange was cut from Wanda/Vision because of mansplaining my love for the MCU plummeted to the ground.

first ?

My suggestion to the producers and company of Marvel: STOP TAKING CHRISTIAN MONEY!!!!!!!!!

I hope people realise how soulless and propagandinistic marvel is

Seriously? The problem of Marvel is that they has not been woke enough?

But the all female movies sucked lol. Black widow sucked. No one likes the wasp

Never like it. Watched due to peer pressure