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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"Mythology" is something that happens *because* of the lack of a mass media, of a universal commercial marketplace for fiction It exists *because* of a world where most stories you heard from your parents they heard from their parents and no one knows who came up with it first
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Like, no, Hercules' legends being different when you went from city to city - like the name of Pecos Bill's horse changing depending on how far north or south you were - is NOT like Marvel vs DC or canon Harry Potter vs queer fanfic It's almost exactly the opposite
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yeah but the counter point is that, for that to work you need to bundle the REST OF HUMAN HISTORY into a single category, like "tradition" is the same in every human culture across time and in oposition to what we have here in the moder capitalist-american day.
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