Standard MCU approach, no?
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It has become that way yes.... it wasn't that way in the first 2 phases, but has steadily shifted that way more and more.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Yeah the MCU has increasingly focussed on the light entertainment formula which means that the more weighty issues are brushed over so as not to bring the whole thing down. It’s a stylistic choice which has worked though it is perhaps wearing thin.
Hulk in particular is a difficult character as he is more sympathetic Monster than Superhero and that story isn’t easy as a C-plot in someone else’s show
yeah it feels like the MCU strategy is shifting away from "dramas with some plot" to "more light hearted whimsical adventurers". Aka less attention is paid into continuity and stakes and instead the focus is on comedy and fun interesting moments.
I personally think that's a poor way to go from my personal taste, but they have people making hundreds of thousands of dollars making those decisions, they probably know more about their audience than I do. At the end of the day, we all know the superhero train will derail at some point, as every genre has before them. We will see the end of "billion dollar" superhero movies and a shift into just "many million dollar movies". Its just a question of when. Marvel may feel this direction is the best way to maintain the longevity of their franchise, and perhaps this is the way to maintain the longest trek of movies in the forseeable future.
Wanda Vision, Spiderman: No Way Home, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness didn't feel like the comedy was what they doubled down on in Phase 4. And several of the Phase 3 ones seemed pretty heavy too.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Really? WandaVision was literally based on sit-com tropes, and MoM brought in the Bruce Campbell cameo as comic relief.
As far as I recall the only MCU movie with any real grit was The Winter Soldier (Maybe Dork World but that was boring)
Until we found out her husband was dead, she was subjugating an entire town to power her fantasies, and she was going to lose her kids.
And I'd argue sometimes comic relief is there because the darkness needs some relief.
I can kind of see the point though. I mean Marvel movies have always had heavy comedy elements even during its "darkest" movies, that has never really changed.
I think the reason that it feels so weird in She Hulk is that we have this really light hearted character pressed right against an older character with a REALLY DARK BACKGROUND....I mean Bruce has been through the s***. And though Bruce is trying to have some fun with his cousin and show her that being a Hulk is not all doom and gloom....he is also trying to be serious about how life changing this is. So the fact that is just being pushed to the side as "sorry cuz, I got this, its allll good" when we have seen how wrong it can go for a hulk....it just feels really jarring.
But perhaps I am being too hasty in saying the entire MCU has shifted tonally. Part of that could just be there are a lot more tv shows now, and they tend to be lighter....which is fine. Eternals is a pretty heavy movie, No Way Home does at least deal with the concept of loss and revenge, Shang Chi does have the notion of a character possibly falling to the dark side by the end, etc.
Ok, so @Tonguez beat me to my first point, but I guess my second point is that all three had writing issues along the lines of "This could all be avoided if one person did one rational thing." Strange not messing with everyone's memory because of a failed college application, for example. A certain scenario is desired, and it matters not at all how it is achieved.
That's a taste thing, for sure; if I can forget how stupid the main premise is, No Way Home is one of my fav MCU movies!
I don't think so. I think Love and Thunder backs up your point quite well.
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