I think there was a time when "Comic book superheroes are modern mythology" was a good and useful corrective to a certain kind of kneejerk snobbery toward the subject and I think that time ended well before MCU Phase II, much less Phase III
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Yes, it does a lot of the things mythology does, it is in many ways analogous to mythology or "what we have instead of mythology" Fine When you say it actually is mythology you're ignoring a lot of obvious facts as though they just don't matter and that's annoying
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It's like when people say stuff like "Football is my religion" and in some broad anthropological sense that's true and insightful and yet if you actually literally mean it and try to push it as literally true it's just stupid No it's not
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Despite being pure fictions there's an awful lot of belief in a single cannon that myths of the past were never as strict about. In that extent they are more "solid" despite people knowing they are fake. Was is really Apollo that killed Achilles? Films leave less room for opinion
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