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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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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You are know just interchangable meaning mythology and folklore.
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Further blurring things, Marvel does use Hercules as a character in its comics. As well as some other traditional mythology characters (e.g., Sun Wukong is on the Ascendants, which are the Chinese equivalent of the Avengers, and Anansi was the first Spider-Man in one timeline).
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