Originally posted by Toyboy
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Broadly speaking, for both the comics and the MCU screen adaptations, I feel that once you have an audience spend enough time in a shared universe it’s reasonable to acknowledge that the audience is probably pretty used to the genre conventions of superhero fiction and having fun with it, whether it’s winking asides or self-referential humor. That’s not all I want from superhero fiction - I thought the recent “World’s Greatest Detective meets Zodiac” tae on The Batman was great and that movie is serious as a heart attack - but I’m not offended by it. Let’s have some fun with the whole shared universe concept and acknowledge it when things are goofy and holdovers from the Silver Age. And, hopefully, let’s also have some parts of the universe play it straight when they need to. Again, no arguments if that doesn’t work for you, but I think that’s part of the fun of the shared experience, even if it does include some winking and nudging at the audience.
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