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First, however, MetaMan will need to end the Hollywood accounting practice so better superhero movies can be made...

I guess that means you get to believe society is newly infantile up until the novelty of realistic superhero movies wears off?

You might like to read deeper on why mainstream superhero plots follow such a peculiar formula...

So, minus cape, they're trying to do superhero things that are often at odds with the biggest companies in the world.

We're talking about stuff like Batman and similar superhero stuff -- which was something few 20-40 year olds cared for even in the early 80s.

For example, instead of trying to come up with a totally new idea, movie industry just makes yet another superhero movie for their next blockbluster candidate.

And it is even more so in superhero movies.

You are already 90% of the way to superhero.

Real life isn't like a superhero graphic novel.

You have a few superhero stories exploring these themes (eg, The Authority or the old Squadron Supreme miniseries from the 80s), but yes, most superheroes seem to lack ambition and imagination.

Or DC/Marvel makes yet another 'new' superhero (exactly like the old ones, just different powers and costume which is just 'make-up'), or comes up another variation of old plots for old ones.

[1] I say this as someone who is guilty of watching superhero movies almost exclusively (I even paid to see Iron Man 2 in the theater five times).

The only discussion to be had about the article is: "Since when has comicbook superhero garbage counted as scifi?" "It still doesn't." End of conversation.

I thought there was a debate over "this fad means society is more infantile than it used to be", not, "superhero movies specifically mean that society is now infantile".

Nobody here is "going on" about how being more adult makes them better, but just in case someone did our commenter stands ready to psychoanalyze them as being stuck in high school and thus dismiss them in the exact same say s/he apparently resents superhero-comic fans being dismissed.

Whenever you see people outraged about any scandal -- be they sex-starved, sugar crazy gamergate nerd supervillains or buff, handsome, superhero SJWs -- they are simply using a "scandal" as an excuse for their agenda, whether that agenda is that of the gamergater Magneto or Professor X, the ultimate SJW.

(Superhero) comics were originally children's entertainment, almost a century ago.

(Superhero) comics are not original form for entertainment of our time; we should come up with something new of our own that reflects our time, not just repeat the same and old and tired.