You wouldn’t think there would even be an article in this. It’s just a line of movie set chairs with all the actors set to appear in Avengers: Doomsday, the post-Kang pivot of Marvel Studio’s latest phase after Jonathan Majors got in trouble so serious even they couldn’t ignore it. It’s lame, we can see that, move on, right?
This is the short version. When Marvel Studios dropped a livestream version of this, it looked more like this:
You can’t tell until you click on the video when embedded on a site like this, but that’s a nearly five and a half hour video. What’s different? Paul Rudd gets a smaller chair as a joke to his role as Ant-Man, and Robert Downey, Jr redid his bit at the end, though there isn’t a major change. Otherwise it’s the same chairs, the same pan, just a longer waste of time.
Five and half hours. Every ten or so minutes a new chair was revealed. Every ten minutes or so the fans in the chat complaining this was taking too long got something resembling relief from the stupidity, and that’s if they didn’t move on by then. So what did I think of the actual cast list?
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BW Vs Bleeding Fool> Superheroes STILL Don’t Need A Break
Why do we keep having this conversation. Come to think of it, why do we keep rehashing most of these conversations lately? Maybe because we focus on the wrong problem.
Admittedly I’m a huge superhero fan. I grew up at a time when being a superhero fan was rewarded with content. From new stuff to reruns of original stuff back when black and white wasn’t a deterrent (I still blame Ted Turner’s obsession with colorizing old movies), there was a lot of superhero shows, while movies with superheroes continued to pop up. It was a great time to love superheroes. Also admittedly we don’t necessarily live in those times.
We do have more superhero stuff coming out, but a lot of it is being poorly received, and I do acknowledge why. Heck, the article I’m about to go up against from geek media site Bleeding Fool and writer A.H. Lloyd also acknowledges why at point…and then takes the scorched earth approach to the superhero genre, with the title “After 35 Marvel Movies & Six Batmans, The World Needs A Break“, except his solution is a break from the entire genre. I can’t help but disagree even when I agree with him. I wasn’t even going to make this a Vs article originally but It eventually felt like it fits the series, so here we go. Read the article so you know I’m not taking things out of context (or can yell at me if I am) and let’s dive into this discussion. Again.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on March 25, 2025 in Animation Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, DC Spotlight, Marvel Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged BW versus, commentary, DC Studios, Marvel Studios, superhero movies, TV superheroes.
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