Yesterday I was full of big thoughts for a long-winded rebuttal of this argument, but today I’m feeling lazy so I’ll just do unconnected points and try to keep them brief.

I think this is only a little holiday in the multiverse, and it’ll be wrapped in a nice tiny bow by the time they get to The Mutant Saga (or whatever). There will be some kind of restrictions brought in to stop all the dimension-hopping.

I take the opposite view and get to the same point. Multiverses are in danger not because of the failures, but because of the successes. In pop culture, especially in movies, Highlander rules apply “There can be only one.”

All that 80s infinitemultiworlduniverse stuff was dreamed up to boost comic book sales - forcing readers to buy multiple titles to follow a story. It really killed the creativity across the board by severely limiting what creators could do. Book sales did increase but (imho) most of it was a dreary, unreadable mess.…

I don’t think GOTG3 proves anything except that if you make a good MCU movie it’ll be more successful than the lesser quality ones. It has nothing to do with multiverses and very little to do with super hero fatigue either. Lots of people seem to be willing to watch good MCU movies no matter how many are made. There…

For all the talk about the Guardians being a closing chapter, Gunn punked out on any character deaths and the end credits say Star-Lord is coming back.

Every single character can come back for Guardians 4. It’s just a case of actor willingness and schedule, which is really just a case of money.

And there is still the…

Have to believe at least a little bit of that revenue was based on hearing Patrick Stewart’s voice in the trailer and the possibility of some truly wild Illuminati cameos.

In other words, the Multiverse sells.

Even the blip “deaths” had a lot of emotional weight for me, because I saw them through the eyes of the characters witnessing them. Obviously we know that they’re coming back, but they don’t know that, so I can feel their horror at the proceedings. This even carried through past Endgame, for flashbacks like Yelena’s…

Dad get out of my ROOM

Yeah, it mattered to ten-year-old me a lot. I edited out a paragraph about how teenage me read A Game of Thrones and reacted with a mere “wow” to Ned Stark’s death. Although really, my point was not that story deaths aren’t affecting (of course they are), but that subsequent resurrections don’t somehow erase those…

Multiverse movies are popular at the moment because we appear to be living in one of the darker timelines, and it’s comforting to think there are better timelines out there. Audiences want to see Tobey Maguire and Michael Keaton suit up again because most of our lives were better in the 90s and 00s. The multiverse…

“box-office poison”

Eternals’ audience score was 77 percent. Ant-Man 3's was 83 percent. Dr. Strange 2 - the one this guy says most viewers hate, is 85 percent.

This really boils down to critics lashing out to find relevance when franchises no longer need or want their input.

Also, just ONCE, I wish people would remember the fucking…

Look, I don’t doubt there are plenty of people who think like this. I’ve seen the basic complaint that death has no meaning in multiverse stories trotted out hundreds of times in a dozen different ways. And without presenting a whole TED Talk on why I think this fundamentally misunderstands stories, let’s just resolve…

Man is this ever some disingenuous trash. Cherry picking examples and all. I think my favorite part is this:

And Dr. Strange 2 made nearly a billion on a budget of a 1/5 of that. 

Because what GOTG3 really confirms is that the multiverse—the whole organizing principle behind the still-emergent Marvel Phase Four multi-film story arc—is box office poison.

You’re lucky I’m old enough to get that reference! :)

I’m still hoping for the little known, but legendary in some circles, sequel script Doctor Detroit and the Multiverse of Mom to be dusted off and finally produced.