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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If they lived in a society that had mass commercial media and someone owned the Hercules IP and whatnot, this couldn't really happen the same way That is a difference between our world and their world, a fundamental difference between how we think and how they thought
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There are stories that work this way still and I think it's significant that we generally find those stories to be old fashioned and hokey - that's how genuine mythology feels in a commercial world "Grandma's stories about her hometown"
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