{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "What do you think about the MCU as a thing? Would you survive the snap?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184494283738/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: What do you think about the MCU as a thing? Would you survive the snap?</div>\n<p>I\u2019ve only seen the first Iron Man, GOTG1, and Black Panther, so I don\u2019t really follow or have a sense of it as a whole.\u00a0</p><p>Iron Man was before we (or more importantly they) knew there was a MCU, and Black Panther seemed to stuff most of its MCU stuff into the Avengers following. GOTG though, that was kind of suffering from having to work it into plot, which is maybe why I can\u2019t remember the plot at all. Some kid gets abducted by aliens when his mom dies and becomes comedy Han Solo, and then there\u2019s a prison break and two candy-colored sisters fight? I dunno.</p><p>More than plot though it seems like they\u2019re stuffing more thematics into these things as they get into properties with less preexisting name recognition. Go see GOTG if you care about the MCU, <b>or</b> you like the music and Star Wars knock off space operas of the late 70s-80s! Go see Black Panther if you care about the MCU, <b>or</b> about the place of blackness in the modern day! Go see Captain Marvel if you care about the MCU, <b>or</b> about female representation, <b>or</b> have nostalgia for the \u201890s!</p><p>But for all that it\u2019s always superhero movies, the rise of the hero, the set piece battles, and that\u2019s probably a thing keeping me from seeing all of them, I don\u2019t have <i>that</i> much appetite for the genre. And it seems we\u2019re never gonna get, say, a Daredevil that\u2019s a murder mystery with Matt Murdock approaching from different angles as a lawyer and a vigilante</p><p>Having grown up in the 80s and 90s when Marvel would just shove the X-Men into everything it\u2019s kind of amusing how they\u2019re trying to tell stories specifically without them now, though. (And in turn, I suddenly realize that for all its action, Logan <i>was</i> the breakout from the \u201csuperhero\u201d genre that I was longing for in the last paragraph.)<br/></p>"}