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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But that's not comic books being the new mythology, that's commercial fiction being more important nowadays than mythology Mythology, qua mythology, is much less of a thing in modern society I think the distinction does matter
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I mean How do I put this Actual mythology isn't something you *choose* It's just *there*, its relevance is assumed
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I think you can make a case that the characters are mythological figures, but the specific movies are not; they're not canonical in any usual way, and it's marked by the fact that the canon is always changing.
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But it's probably more like 'folktales'
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