So it’s still out there. I saw a video today denouncing the concept of superhero fatigue because Hollywood and their willing propaganda machine are still trying to blame superhero fatigue for the current fall of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and why the DC Movieverse is filled with problems. Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn even joined the chorus this week, though at least he’s only suggesting a slowdown instead of a full stop and actually addressing the problems with the movies themselves. (Then again he liked The Flash(point movie), so judge him accordingly. I haven’t seen it nor plan to.) The rest are pushing the “superhero fatigue” narrative hard. This is total BS pushed upon us by auteur directors, writers who don’t want to write this stuff but need the paycheck, and a collection of activists, misery obsessed types, media snobs, and everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeee types that make up the modern press. Even supposed geek media says people are done with superheroes.

My response is in there.

Not a year of my life, including the first few years I wasn’t really paying attention to (being a baby or toddler at the time), has gone by without more than one live-action or animated superhero TV show or movie being released. Even the old radio shows gave us Superman, the Green Hornet, the Blue Beetle, and the Shadow. Serials gave us the original Captain Marvel, Batman, the “rocket men”, and still more Superman. The superhero genre isn’t even accounting for half the movies and shows out there now, even with the saturation on Disney+, and rarely are there two new superhero shows going on there at the same time, though it has happened. The idea that people are tired of superheroes is such a crock of bull that I’m starting to get ticked off about it. You know what the real issue is? CRAP Fatigue. Allow me to explain.

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