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The MCU films are kind of meaningless. I say this as a huge MCU fan, and I don't think this means the films are bad, I've thought about this for a while This is probably video worthy but it's not really animation based, which is why I'm dropping it in this thread --

-- I think it's ignorant to say that MCU films aren't formulaic or predictable, I remember when I was first watching most of the films to prepare for Infinity War that I generally knew when a fight was gonna happen and such. I didn't really see it as a bad thing, mainly because--

--I was more focused on the journey and how the things played out rather than the fact that they did play out, but I think that this predictability can lead to the MCU getting stale Like they've said that they intend on changing things up a little bit, but I think it's quite a--

--bit late considering quite a large chunk of the audience stopped watching after Endgame. And the MCU has had it's moments of doing something interesting, but more often than not forgetting about it (more on that later) And the Thanos snap doesn't really count, everyone knew--

--all the characters would come back, something common within the comics that I've grown to be sick of more recently. (So many characters just get resurrected or miraculously survive death, it's tiresome) I'm thinking more about what the MCU can do. It's a huge influence--

--and I think it could do a lot more, both with it's themes and its narrative. A few things that come to mind are how Ant-Man and Spider-Man FFH lean into different genres a little, and I really enjoy that, but the main kind of thing I'm thinking about is something I've seen --

--And the biggest problem with the MCU is that it's safe. It's safe for Disney, it's safe for mainstream media, delving into serious topics whether they social or political, stuff outside of the realm of beating the bad guy or what have you is unsafe, not just because it --