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There’s that term again. Granted we can blame it’s use on the writer and not the celebrity being interviewed, but it’s still a crap term. Nobody talks about “rom-com fatigue” or “horror fatigue”, because there are still good ones. Superhero fatigue is a lie because it’s not the superheroes but lack of superheroing going on that people are sick of.

That didn’t stop Adam White of The Independent from using the term in an interview with Paul Dano, who portrayed the Riddler’s serial killer with a mission namesake in The Batman. While promoting the upcoming Netflix production Spaceman, which has nothing to do with superheroes so the only point I see is that White is one of those people looking to push the “superhero fatigue” narrative for his superhero-hating Hollywood pals, Dano had some interesting thoughts about why his movie was, in White’s words anyway, the “last stand” of superhero films.

Compare that with another interview with Captain America himself, Chris Evans. Tony Betti of Laughing Place was at Emerald City Comic Con, so the place you’d think he would get the superhero question but it actually comes up in passing as he talks about other movies he did and his dog more (at least one of those movies was Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, so it’s still comics). He did drop his own thoughts on superhero movies and seems a bit more positive. I guess when being Captain America in numerous films is part of your history versus one namesake take on a supervillain you get a brighter prospective.

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