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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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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"Well, in Athens it wasn't Hercules who bound Cerberus, it was Theseus" is not a matter of the studio releasing an Athens edit of the tentpole feature to appeal to them with the hometown hero It's the exact opposite
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i think this an interesting etiological distinction, but also i'm more interested in the functional aspects of mythology the way it gives a shared set of reference stories not a specific recounting of facts, not a canon, but shared stories about which to argue and interpret
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and i think comic book heroes fit that mold real well when people get to arguing about whether thanos had a point, or what captain america would say about concentration camps, or what exactly thor learned in RAGNAROK
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So, no "Collective Unconscious" as myth repository?
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