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In my opinion a lot of comic book worlds are quite ludicrous and lazy. A man with the power of... ants. Spider man. A man that wears tight underwear on the out

In my opinion a lot of comic book worlds are quite ludicrous and lazy. A man with the power of... ants. Spider man. A man that wears tight underwear on the outside of his pants... A man that pretends he is a bat. Compare this with backstories from Japanese manga which clearly some are targeted at more adult levels of intelligence I'm flabbergasted a hollywood exec would decide to pour millions of dollars into some backstory aimed at children from the 1940s.

mschuster91 3y ago
> In my opinion a lot of comic book worlds are quite ludicrous and lazy. Which is precisely why they have such a large following. Most people are mentally drained after 40+ hour long work weeks.
- Spivak 3y ago
  "Why is this media that's made to be entertaining so popular?"
  - nwienert 3y ago
    There's so much media that is entertaining but not dumb
- chrischen 3y ago
  I'm fairly certain the reason is Marvel is Disney and they are pandering to a wide audience that includes children, because it's much more profitable to take the whole family for their tickets than just the adults.
toyg 3y ago
Marvel was aimed at teenagers and twentysomethings of the '60s, actually, facing fairly complex moral challenges. Their practical motto was "superheroes with superproblems". And most of the cinematic material actually leverages storyarcs published in the '80s, when the industry chased grown-ups (at that time Batman gets called a "fascist" and actually kills the Joker, SpiderMan is involved in dark assassinations and then gets married, Ant-Man abuses his wife, etc etc).
- reverius42 3y ago
  > SpiderMan is involved in dark assassinations and then gets married, Ant-Man abuses his wife, etc etc Maybe I'm behind on the MCU movies but I don't remember those things happening in the cinematic material!
EA-3167 3y ago
> Compare this with backstories from Japanese manga which clearly some are targeted at more adult levels of intelligence I'm flabbergasted a hollywood exec would decide to pour millions of dollars into some backstory aimed at children from the 1940s. They know their audience of wannabe eternal children, and so they invest for the only reason they ever do: a fat return on that investment. I'd also point out that a HUGE amount of anime, manga and ln content is beyond cheesy, it's just cheesy in a different way.

mschuster91 3y ago

> In my opinion a lot of comic book worlds are quite ludicrous and lazy. Which is precisely why they have such a large following. Most people are mentally drained after 40+ hour long work weeks.

Spivak 3y ago
"Why is this media that's made to be entertaining so popular?"
- nwienert 3y ago
  There's so much media that is entertaining but not dumb
chrischen 3y ago
I'm fairly certain the reason is Marvel is Disney and they are pandering to a wide audience that includes children, because it's much more profitable to take the whole family for their tickets than just the adults.

toyg 3y ago

Marvel was aimed at teenagers and twentysomethings of the '60s, actually, facing fairly complex moral challenges. Their practical motto was "superheroes with superproblems". And most of the cinematic material actually leverages storyarcs published in the '80s, when the industry chased grown-ups (at that time Batman gets called a "fascist" and actually kills the Joker, SpiderMan is involved in dark assassinations and then gets married, Ant-Man abuses his wife, etc etc).

reverius42 3y ago
> SpiderMan is involved in dark assassinations and then gets married, Ant-Man abuses his wife, etc etc Maybe I'm behind on the MCU movies but I don't remember those things happening in the cinematic material!

EA-3167 3y ago

> Compare this with backstories from Japanese manga which clearly some are targeted at more adult levels of intelligence I'm flabbergasted a hollywood exec would decide to pour millions of dollars into some backstory aimed at children from the 1940s. They know their audience of wannabe eternal children, and so they invest for the only reason they ever do: a fat return on that investment. I'd also point out that a HUGE amount of anime, manga and ln content is beyond cheesy, it's just cheesy in a different way.