• keyez@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Giving creative control to specific directors to let their vision shine through the project: Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor Love and Thunder, etc.

    Edit meant Thor Ragnarok the Taika Waititi directed movie.

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      I mean, Iron man was like literally the first movie in the MCU (discounting that Hulk movie), it also literally started the trope of Bad Guy has literally the same skillset/power as the good guy that was replicated a bunch of times.

      GotG, and Thor: Ragnarok are the only movies that are unique and carried by their directors.

      Love and thunder is a dumpster fire.

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        I think bad guy having the same skillset is really just a superhero trope.

        • Flash vs Zoom
        • Green vs Yellow Lantern
        • Spidey vs Venom
        • Aquaman vs Black Manta
        • Wonder woman vs Ares
        • Green Arrow vs Dark Archer

        I listed DC heroes primarily to show it isn’t just a Marvel thing. But all of these arch enemies are basically evil duplicates of the hero.

        I think the trope largely stems from a “How do you defeat someone who is as powerful/strong as you” kinda thing.

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            Well it’d be the ratio we care about, but let’s see (should only count first movie to simplify) and just saying yes if villian has same powers.

            Marvel:

            • Ironman - yes
            • Cap - yes
            • Thor - no
            • Hulk (if you count 2008 film) - yes
            • Guardians - pass (ensemble so kinda hard to say)
            • Antman - yes
            • Doctor Strange - yes
            • Spiderman - no
            • Black Panther - yes
            • Cpt Marvel - No/maybe

            DC:

            • Superman - yes (cause this iteration started with Zod, even if lex Luther is real arch enemy)
            • Batman - pass (too many reboots and maybe we count anyone cause he has no powers)
            • Wonder woman - yes
            • Flash - yes
            • Aquaman - yes (maybe BlackManta is different enough, but I’m counting it)
            • Bluebeetle - yes
            • Shazam - no

            So 6/10 vs 4/7 or 60% for marvel vs 57% for DC. So surprisingly around the same.

            Edited to fix formatting

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              You can’t not count batman, it’s a no.

              So is Aquaman.

              And so is Wonder Woman, not sure how you can say Ares has the same skillset as WW.

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        Ah I think Thor Ragnarok was what I meant, the Taika Waititi directed movie