Is Marvel Dead?

The MCU has been a juggernaut of the entertainment industry for a decade and a half now. Introducing an entire generation to the amazing world of comic books and changing how the industry sees superhero movies. That being said there are a few trends that marvel is following from the comic book industries troubled past that maybe spelling the end of the MCU. So join me and a special guest as we discuss why the MCU is dying
Blue Glare's channel: / blueglare8
Artwork: www.fiverr.com/nekochin
Kevin's twitter: / kevstreehouse
Music used in order
Avengers theme - the Avengers
stardust speedway - Sonic mania
logic and trick - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
Menu theme 1 - Yugioh Master Duels
Trial - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
Poem for Everyone's soul - Persona 4
Pressing Pursuit - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
Another Ideology - Persona 5 Royal
Buy Mode 1 - The Sims
Troubled - Persona 3
Butterfly Kiss - Persona 5
Changing Seasons - Persona 3
Aquatic base Level 1 - Sonic the hedgehog 2006
Battle Theme 4 - Yugioh Master Duels
West City - Dragon Ball Fighterz
Midna's lament - The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
Chapters
0:00 How did we get here?
7:13 Diluting the brand
14:17 Politics
18:55 What's next?
22:06 Final Thoughts
23:23 Outro
#marvel #avengers #loki

[@Kevstreehouse]

God I am so fucking sick and tired of these brie larson loving beta soy boys who hate the Mcu. Fucking virgin probably wouldn't know a good film if it kicked him in the ball. As for the synder movies if they're so bad how come he got a 3 hour cut of justice league and the greatest scene in movie history belongs to the flash in the synder cut ? Why even bring up anything political in this video? it is a good example of modern entertainers thinking that anyone cares about their political opinions. When in reality it just alienates their potential audience, entertainers need to realize that they're nothing more than a dancing monkey for the viewers entertainment. Go fucking choke on your pumpkin spice lattes you pretentious libtard. No one wants to hear your left wing garbage.

[@GhostNation23]

I'm a friend of Blue, heard about this project, and waited with anticipation to watch this! And I gotta say this was excellent! I agree and have a similar view of the state of the MCU and such. Muy bueno

[@Kevstreehouse]

Thanks man. Blue actually reached out to me about a collab and it kicked off the entire project.

[@BlueGlare8]

I had a blast being in this, and you did a damn awesome job with the editing. Great work man and what a great video!!!

[@Kevstreehouse]

we had a great time having you on man

[@xolotte]

Really awesome video! I feel like oversaturation is such a huge issue with the Marvel Cinematic Universe nowadays. I used to skip some movies and would still be able to follow what was going on in the movies I did watch, but they are making it very inaccessible to casual fans by having so many movies and tv shows come out in such quick succession. It makes me want to not watch any MCU media anymore

[@Kevstreehouse]

Totally agree. I think personally I'm kinda done with it. I skipped thor and I'm not really interested in seeing black panther 2 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@maxwenck9852]

Genuinely class video your an engaging speaker keep them coming , it’s gonna pay off

[@Kevstreehouse]

Thanks dude. Will continue to keep her lit 😁

[@Jacox98]

I've rewatched this video multiple times the past few days cause it's the best expression of the sentiment I think a lot of us MCU fans are feeling. I've struggled to even keep up with half of what's come out in phase 4 because I normally like to sit with things for a long while and I'm just now finding out we're getting close to Phase 5. Not even really interested in most of their output anymore lmao but I hope the trajectory gets better soon (Daredevil: Born Again please be good please please please) also i noticed the channel name change and I think it suits you really well!

[@Kevstreehouse]

thanks for the kind words man really appreciate it. I'm hoping born again is good but hesitant at this point. After I finished this I actually started reading daredevil again cause I forgot how much I liked the character. thanks for noticing the name change. Too many people kept finding the NFL player when searching Kevin Greene

[@treasey8655]

This aged like fine wine looking at the failure of antman

[@Kevstreehouse]

whats funny is when I posted the video people said that and black panther would correct the ship and this video would age poorly. Must be doing something right

[@Shepherd_Tallon]

Another excellent video, mó cara. Some very sad but accurate comparisons. Comic books, and it seems the MCU too, often share the same issue as soap operas - They're all prone to escalation. Eventually subtlety vanishes and everything just becomes a slightly different variation of the same recycled plot, blown up because the only way they can keep people hooked is to escalate. I especially like the shout about how Marvel unleashed their fanbase on Sony simply because Sony wouldn't bend over quick enough for them. Everyone seems to have forgotten how that actually went. I remember Jeremy Renner at the time getting in on it all on Twitter even. Strange stuff. I mean, two mega corps disagree, who gives af. But still, strange stuff.

[@Kevstreehouse]

Yeah it's mental. Thought you'd dig the comics comparison as a connoisseur of the xmen titles from this time 😁

[@Shepherd_Tallon]

@@Kevstreehouse Yeah, and it's bang on too. The Onslaught saga was another example of what you were talking about. A saga that took place across almost every monthly book. I mean it was epic and I loved it, but it was also a symptom of massive escalation in the narratives.

[@Kevstreehouse]

@@Shepherd_Tallon would work alot better as a movie maybe 👀

[@Shepherd_Tallon]

@@Kevstreehouse 🤔🤔🤔 Indeed 🤔🤔🤔

[@MrMeanGrinch]

Really nice video!

[@Kevstreehouse]

Thanks brotha

[@moosedawgatlantaproductions]

Great video! Informative, intelligent, and funny. I look forward to more content!🤑

[@agentsmith2378]

Great vid totaly agree mate ,new sub 👍

[@Kevstreehouse]

Thanks. Good luck catching neo man.

[@agentsmith2378]

@@Kevstreehouse you mean Mr Anderson.

[@Kevstreehouse]

@@agentsmith2378 oh fuck oh shit oh fuck hes onto me!

[@Hmiasato]

I really like this video. I have to say that I'm tired to watch so many heroes movies and TV Shows after I watched the last Avengers movie. That last movie was incredible, but after that I lost interest in MCU. I'm born in 1980 and in my country I read Marvel comics a lot. I read Marvel's Comics made in 1970 to 2000. After that I thought that the quality was declining and stopped buying comics. I went to watch animes and after that reading mangas. I think what you have said in the video was the problem: they made a model so rigid that creators can't create something more unique and interesting. I think the problem is the executives, like in game industry, executives create so many problems to the development of a game. They don't give creators freedom to dare making more interesting stories. Another problem was just as you said, there are too much films to watch. I don't have too many problems to identify Marvel Comics characters because I read the comics. If I don't watch some movies I'll remember the heroes from the comics. Well, I said too much, sorry if my english isn't good, I'm from Brazil. I really like this channel. I watched first your video about the History of Vanilaware. I'm a huge fan of the softhouse. I guess that if Marvel don't make movies as the same quality as Winter Soldier, Civil War, Endgame, they will have to reset the Multiverse, like Heroes Reborn or Zero Hour.

[@Kevstreehouse]

Hey man don't sweat the English honestly the fact you left a comment is really cool. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@Weremoogle]

I agree with some of your points. Definitely eliminate the need to watch anything else aside from that film to understand what's going on. Making movies political doesn't necessarily help to draw in an audience. It can divide, and push half of your audience away. I would avoid any current politics. You need to have an interesting story that makes sense, with heroes pushed to their limits in some capacity to address it. Make the audience feel some genuine emotion for the hero(es), and you're really onto something memorable. For my taste, the good to excellent Marvel films have been Iron Man 1, Captain America (all three), Thor 1, Blade 1, The Punisher, X-Men 1 and 2, Spider-Man 1 and 2, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Avengers 1, Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 3, Deadpool 1, and Logan. Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Punisher on Netflix were pretty great. DD was the best of the bunch. I haven't been tempted to try any Disney Marvel TV shows, and I thought Agents of Shield was overhyped mediocrity. Which is a pretty good description for my expectations for anything current from Marvel Studios.

[@jonasMasterCraft]

I don't understand much about comics, but it was a fun video :) Also, I agree that cultural production can, and does, convey lots of important ideas. But I think you should think twice before suggesting the forgiveness of genociders (20:00), independently if they swear they won't do it again, or had "sympathetic causes". Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there is a similar history in the USA (apart from colonization), but to live in a country that has experienced the brutal systematic extermination of tens of thousands of people, is infinitely more complicated.

[@Kevstreehouse]

I do live in one of those countries. I'm Irish. I wasn't saying they should forgive thanos but the avengers are essentially a private military force so to have them be allowed to just doll out executions without any authority is kinda terrifying in reality. I'm not saying they forgive thanos but he was crippled and wasn't resisting the avengers when they came. So it wasn't really heroic for thor to just murder him and the movie never condemns that action so its inadvertently saying that you should be allowed execute pows without repercussion which is not what any force should be allowed to do.

[@BustyCatbot]

I've learned to just *not know who certain characters are* while watching MCU movies so I don't have to allocate an absurd amount of time to watching more movies and shows, like with No Way Home, I haven't fully watched any of the other Spider Man franchises, bits and pieces here and there, mostly through memes, but besides that I only had a gist, and still enjoyed the movie, and I didn't watch like, 50% of the Disney+ shows that are "required viewing" to understand a lot of MCU characters and storylines, but I still find ways to enjoy the MCU. I watch what appeals to me, and not what I *have* to watch to understand what's going on, I have YTers to tell me what references what anyways.

[@vintageoriginallegit]

Damn you should have a lot more subs then was some really good well produced work.

[@Kevstreehouse]

thanks man appreciate the kind words

[@Iskelderon]

It certainly feels like it's in its death throes. Right now, they're throwing all kinds of shit at the wall in the hopes that at least something will stick and it's just one exercise in mediocrity after the other.

[@BleakVision]

These movies habe squeezed out so many genres that I pray since 2012 for them to die. The last drama movie I thoroughly enjoyed was Slumdog Millionaire. And since then I have to make due with heavily flawed ones like Inception, Interstellar or Skyfall. Or when did we get the last comedy action movie a family could enjoy like Back to the Future or Honey I Shrunk the Kids?

[@TheDarkwasp]

Just wait until Eternals 2 comes out, then you'll be singing a different tune

[@Kevstreehouse]

I literally got this exact comment on reddit but about black panther 2 XD

[@ethanpease5936]

5:12 it's ditko like how you pronounce spit. Its not diteko.

[@akivabuschman4084]

Hi, sorry for being late

[@Kevstreehouse]

was worried about you man. You alright?

[@akivabuschman4084]

@@Kevstreehouse yeah I'm good, I was just kinda busy

[@Kevstreehouse]

@@akivabuschman4084 always a pleasure to have you in the chat.

[@i_will_break_your_knees1807]

A lot of the new 52 stuff was mid, I really only enjoyed the court of owls and red hood and the outlaws, and a couple nightwing books. still waiting on a nightwing or red hood game

[@Kevstreehouse]

I thought the batman stuff was good. Everything else was mid indeed. What do you mean a red hood and nightwing game Gotham Knight looks....... Like a thing that exists

[@i_will_break_your_knees1807]

@@Kevstreehouse I would 100% play Gotham Knights if I had a PS5 or Xbox (or decent PC) I was excited for it but then they cancelled it on PS4 😅, but I'd like an independent game that stars either Nightwing or red hood, but I'm also biased since they're my favorite

[@Kevstreehouse]

@@i_will_break_your_knees1807 I know what you mean man. I'm a nightwing Stan. 2nd favourite super hero

[@i_will_break_your_knees1807]

@@Kevstreehouse all the best parts of batman minus the consistent brooding and anger

[@anthonysmurthwaite6258]

Phase 1 is overrated

[@Kevstreehouse]

I think the quality of films increased alot in phase 3. I just like the variety in 1

[@anthonysmurthwaite6258]

@@Kevstreehouse the 1 film that I just never understood why people liked it was the first avenger, Captain America as a character never interested me until winter soldier which is probably my second or third favourite mcu movie

[@Kevstreehouse]

@@anthonysmurthwaite6258 I think cap 1 is like the 2nd worst performering movie next to incredible hulk. I kinda like the indian jones vibe it has but winter solider blows it out of the water