Marvel’s quality has been in freefall since before Endgame came out, and most people lost interest after the payoff. Their shows are terrible, and the last movie was so bad that even critics are lambasting it.

DC’s cinematic universe has been a clusterfuck from the get-go, and although they still make epic animated films their live action movies are rarely worth watching.

Hollywood has been blaming super hero fatigue- claiming that the genre is overdone and will go the way of Westerns.

The fact that people are still interested in Invincible proves that the genre isn’t dead, it is just full of shitty films and shows that nobody wants to watch.

  • KickReasonable333@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think the issue is it’s also full of good shows that people don’t want to watch. The latest Loki and Harley Quinn seasons are doing soft numbers. So did Gen V. I haven’t seen Nielsen numbers for Invincible yet but the conversation feels lighter than season one.

  • GinTonicDev@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The superheroe genre is kinda are like the isekai genre. They are just a vehicle for storytelling. Either it’s a good story, or it isn’t.

  • bnathaniely@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve never experienced superhero fatigue, but I’ve definitely experienced “superheroes with multiverse shenanigans” fatigue.

  • LoneWolf2099@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Marvel hasn’t been in freefall, it’s just been extremely inconsistent. It went from Wakanda Forever (good) to Quantumania (bad) to GOTG 3 (very good) to Secret Invasion (bad) to Loki Season 2 (good) to The Marvels (Middling? I haven’t seen it).

    But I do agree on the main point - “superhero fatigue” is BS.

  • meestazeeno@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think Marvel had struck a gold mine with its OG run, which personally started when I was 8, and I was enamored to stick around to the end. When that story ended, I was like 18 or 19, and by then the new movies didn’t draw me in. They had nostalgia on a leash, among beloved characters played by actors who wanted to do other things. DC is all over the place, but batman keeps coming back, since he can be reimagined in so many ways.

    Invincible is comparable to the boys – a realistic depiction of superheroes where the intimate stories are focused on human problems the heroes have, which grounds them. I think that is why spiderman movies are so well received. But both the boys and invincible turn the fun “watch the good strong man win” on its head. So that is why it is refreshing, cause most people grew up watching movies where superheroes were more or less perfect besides some small issues.

    I get what you’re saying about fatigue, but like what /u/GinTonicDev said, it’s good stories that make it, and Invincible was written way before the MCU was even conceived.

  • OneGoodRib@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I mean most of the hype for this show has been from people who liked the show and also Fortnite so I don’t know if it’s a super good comparison. DC’s movies are also just so sucky I don’t want to compare them to anything else.

  • matthew_lane@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The hype around Season 2 proves that there is no “superhero fatigue.”

    Mate i hate to be the one to burst your bubble, but outside of fanboys on here, there aint no hype for season 2 of Invincible.

    Even the regualr bottom feeder media types are only doing the bare minimum with this season of Invincible, probably because of how little there is to this season so far.

    But also because superhero content doesn’t get clicks like it used to get clicks, due mainly to the supersaturation of the market… What you call “superhero fatigue.”