The Marvels To Officially End As Lowest Grossing MCU Film Ever

[@masguapoako]

*The first Capt. Marvel was lucky to be sandwich by 2 huge MCU movies*

[@ahmadkaien]

That end credit scene at the end of IW made it seem like she would play a key part in Endgame lmao It was literally just a shoehorn to say "she exists, please clap"

[@benm5970]

Uh, what about Ant Man And The Wasp?

[@hemantks4353]

​@@benm5970Antman was not in 2019. They didn't Marketed as must watch before Endgame

[@benm5970]

@@hemantks4353 It was still between Infinity War and Endgame

[@taki75]

The zombie lie that won't die.

[@mrrational2046]

Glad it bombed, MCU needs to stop catering such a small audience that doesn’t support movies

[@spicymemes7458]

I am not a woman, and I enjoyed it. I guess I don't count.

[@hemantks4353]

​@@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdomWomen don't support Superhero movies. And that's the truth. So what's the point of adding Women superhero in MCU? Also itvwas because of Male superheroes MCU became this huge.

[@hemantks4353]

​@@spicymemes7458He said "Small audience". U come under that small audience. Every movie has a small audience

[@benm5970]

Uh, who exactly were they catering to?

[@Luis-rp2lm]

@@spicymemes7458clearly you’re not a man either.

[@manishlimbu1]

Even after Bob iger admitting that wokeness has ruined box office John campea still pretends like wokeness is not the main reason.

[@tristan_the_blerd]

Barbie was the wokest movie of 2023 and it’s the most successful movie of 2023.

[@annonymously331]

I came to John camera to get unbiased reporting of box office numbers yet I STILL can’t avoid these grifters from Ryan Kinel, Gamers and Geeks, Yellowflash…

[@benm5970]

No grown adult would actually use that word

[@willarth9186]

Mmm, Star Wars 9 and Thor Lord of Thunder gave me only a hint of the taste of bile in my throat. It was Nick Fury in The Marvels yelling, "BLACK GIRL MAGIC!" that had me actually tasting bile and giving me Irritable Bowel Syndrome for a week where I called it quits on Disney. Afterwards, thankfully a friend steered me to the series 1883 and I found that incredible writing and acting still does exist. If you would like to cleanse your palate after The Marvels and Star Wars, I suggest watching just the first four minutes of EP 1 of 1883. I had to binge watch the entire season with Sam Elliot, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Isabel May with cameos by Tom Hanks and Billy Bob Thornton just to find out more. Then I binged on 1923 with Harrison Ford and Yellowstone with Kevin Costner to round out the trilogy. Now? Disney is only an occasional nightmare of mine.

[@jaceruiz2382]

Hela made an immediate impact with her 1st scene to show how serious she was when she catches Thor's hammer & SHATTERS it! From then on, the audience has sat up in their seats to know she's dangerous. Thanos had a bit of that too when the 1st thing audiences saw him do was take the strongest Marvel powerhouse The Hulk, and break his nose, beat him alone, & do it in under a minute. It may not be all about set up, but you better damn well showcase up front why your villain is to be feared.

[@brucewilson3226]

Can we just say though the Hela we got in the movie didn’t come close to the comics. She was ruthless and all powerful. And when she teamed up with Thanos that was scary. I like Ragnarok but just wanted to say even a movie as good as that one had flaws. The movies they’re making now are just not interesting. Nobody cares about the characters they’re trying to put in front of us.

[@roflo2296]

Bob Iger is still blaming Disney's latest string of disasters on covid -_-

[@NoirNameless]

1. Nobody likes Captain Marvel 2. Two Co stars are in shows not everyone wants to watch 3. General interest for the mcu is low 4. It wasn’t great People are trying so hard to make it sound like it was everything else that made this movie fail instead of why it ACTUALLY failed.

[@benm5970]

Actually a lot of people like Captain Marvel

[@Rockscissorspaper]

I think you have a point with 3 and 4, but 2? Not so much. The early movies introduced new characters all the time. It doesn't matter that they were on streaming shows, the problem was in the writing. They needed to be handled better for those who were unfamiliar with them.

[@hemantks4353]

​@@benm5970Where? I don't see anywhere?

[@benm5970]

@@hemantks4353 Go on RT

[@Luis-jn7qu]

Marvel broke it's core proposal that Kevin feigi told the fans a while ago. "You don't have to watch the Marvel TV shows to understand what is going on in the movies." Looks like the Marvel shows are homework to understand who these "new" people are.

[@michaelfincham2749]

This is the same thing that Lucus Films did with Ashoka. Most people don't know the crew from rebels. And none of them were ever introduced to the audience. Some of us knew them, but not all. And because of that a lot of people tuned out. TV, cartoons, comic books, and game charters cannot transfer to the big screens without good character development. Disney Marvel/Lucus are losing the audience so fast I don't think they will ever get them back. They've lost the fans and casual viewers trust.

[@brucewilson3226]

I don’t mind them doing inside ballpark stories on Disney plus, just don’t do that for a cinematic movie where I’m paying $$25 for ticket + drinks + snacks = around $50. When people are paying that kind of money you need to tell a story most of the audiences will enjoy AND understand.

[@michaelfincham2749]

Exactly@@brucewilson3226

[@BU_TV]

I thought the first Captain Marvel was trash, so I definitely wasn’t going to see this one

[@728GT]

Facts

[@728GT]

The fact that people actually thought the first one was a legit "Billion dollar" film is crazy. 😂

[@MRLONG758]

​@728Autos I mean, it literally made a billion dollars

[@flyguy7825]

How was it trash when the movie made a billion? That makes absolutely no sense. Listen just because you didn't like it. Doesn't mean the rest of us didn't like it. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but out of the two movies, I'll take Captain Marvel over The Marvels though the marvels wasn't a bad movie

[@Brakdayton]

@@728GTCaptain Marvel *IS* a billion dollar movie. People are entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts.

[@michaellively9692]

They should have stopped with Endgame

[@TheDisruptiveOne]

This movie lost at least $200M.

[@ramboluib2752]

Not as bad as I thought it would be but there's absolutely no good reason for this film to have an Avengers film level kind of budget.

[@deannorman1349]

Even the people who have Disney+ don't like these character, some hate them. Captain Marvel 1 was ONLY successful because it was in-between two must see movies.

[@TheBlueNinjaX]

I’m sorry, but in no way was The Marvels better than Ant-man 3. You’re crazy for saying that.

[@the1don255]

Ant-man 3 definitely had better moments and premise … However the the overall picture 🙈

[@Ghost-27X]

I believe the fans just want the mainstream characters for the movies and all the the b tier should stick to cameos, limited runs & Disney+. Basiclly follow the way comic books put out their books.. The main characters have an ongoing series and the less known have limited runs.

[@irfandagman8044]

Black Adam is sitting somewhere with some tequila smiling

[@D_Roadtrip_Productions]

case in point: "Wish" totally flopped following The Marvels. all of Disney is in trouble

[@irfangumus3880]

Marvel's promotion team really dropped the ball with their short sided strategy and i think it played a big part in Marvel's downfall. They tried to sell Multiverse of Madness in a way that wasn't a true representation of the movie and it led to a lot of disappointment. Sure it helped MoM make more money than it would've done without that deception, but in the long run it really harmed MCU. And that's just one example of many similar short sided promotion strategies. I mean they deffinetly tried to do the same thing with The Marvels. That final trailers with the o.g. Avengers and Thanos was just desperate and this time people just saw through it.

[@spicymemes7458]

Reminds me of Disney using early Xmen to sell Dark Phoenix

[@OoLOSTWORLDoO]

His comment about the celestials is spot on, that totally baffled me how Marvel dropped that into a movie and failed to mention it elsewhere.

[@ramboluib2752]

You can practically delete that film in existence, and nothing will change in the MCU. It's baffling.

[@Salazar824]

How can this be? I mean miss marvel is the highest rated marvel show on rotten tomatoes 😂

[@Octobermayhem]

Decline in quality, and the audience they pander to couldn't care less.

[@JesterFace9]

John has been way too kind to this movie. It’s okay to be brutally honest; this is a mediocre film. The box office performance is deserved.

[@benm5970]

Or maybe he just has a different opinion than you

[@hemantks4353]

​@@benm5970Box office accounts for collective opinion and just his opinion

[@normanvaliao]

Bob Iger is in Master Class? That's a class I won't pick. He's the reason why Disney is in the pot hole right now.

[@goddyfame3424]

He sure is part of the reason for the mismanagement. But then who is competing with Marvels? No one. There is nothing Disney can look at and say, "Why are they doing better than us?" Marvel buying X-Men protected them from competition. DC is stuck with fake Superman stories. The day DC figures out what Superman is really about, would be the day Marvel begin to Panic.

[@nathandrake8320]

Just gotta laugh at John coming up with all these excuses blaming other movies.

[@damiandekker474]

Hela was fine in Ragnarok, but they totally forgot about her for literally half of that movie. Fun film, but poorly paced...

[@Odrade100]

The only reason to the first one success was the false premise that it was needed to understand end game, nothing else. The movie was pure trash and was the movie that started marvel decline into the pandeverse. Marvel today has embrace the pandeverse and it shows, flop after flop, I wonder how many flops can Disney afford.

[@nathandrake8320]

People showed up for GOTG Vol 3. Campea beating around the bush lol

[@alexpollock6932]

No one ever mentions that captain marvel is not a likable character

[@isaiahc2994]

It was the wrong story to tell imo. I think a problem with captain Marvel is as a viewer i have no connection with her or know who she is in the mcu. Like what does she do? just fly between planets and protect skrulls? What was she doing between every since her very first introduction? There's an entire movie missing between the first captain Marvel and the 2nd one.

[@mokf1869]

disagree completely, Ant man wasn't great but it is a masterpiece next to this piece of crap, I wanted to walk out, unfunny made no sense, worst MCU movie ever made, disrespectfully bad if it made 200m it was 200m more than deserved.

[@blueeyeddevil454]

Putting men down at every turn is to blame.

[@benm5970]

How?

[@Luis-rp2lm]

@@benm5970by the fact that this film flopped

[@willdebeast21]

The real burning question is... how many Black Adams is this? One-half?!? Three-fourths of a Black Adam??

[@aliciag8097]

Totally agree there's just not much stake in the MCU right now, and it's hard to get excited for new projects (except Deadpool 3, will will be a crazy ride!)

[@andreobelisk5024]

But tHe fIrsT oNe diD A billiOn DoLlaRs rEmEMbeR?🤣🤣🤣

[@BonafideShaunDent]

Bringing in tv characters whom the audience knew nothing about still could have worked. They had good ideas but failed to execute them properly. The tone of the movie was wrong. It should have been on par with Captain America Winter Soldier or The Eternals. More serious instead of leaning to kiddie. They had the drama between Carol and Monica, the guilt Carol felt for her actions, the could have done a better job with the villain and shown the Kree suffering and just given everything more weight. The movie was brought down to Kamalas level in terms of tone instead of elevating that character to be in more serious movies. This should have been a heavy movie with Kamala being the light hearted character that helps bring Carol and Monica back together and mend that relationship while dealing with this threat that forced them together. Damn it I hate it when a movie has the right ideas or close to it but fails to execute them properly. This, like Black Widow, could have been a movie that could have elevated the game just like Winter Soldier. Of coirse that is just my opinion

[@dennis_nguyen]

How come you don't blame Kevin Feige? Isn't he the decision maker at marvel?

[@ROSPoetry1]

not completely, this movie was made during the Bob Chapek Era. Movies after 2024 are Feige production movies. Hence why he pulled Cap 4 and the Daredevil series back to work on them. Under chapek the movies and shows suffered a lot taking away creative power from Feige.

[@byronkennedy7203]

People forget Captain Marvel came out at the climax of the Infinity Saga. Howard the Duck 2 would've made 800m if people thought it was going to have the next Infinity stone in it. The first movie over performed because of the timing and circumstances of the MCU

[@CannonKnight]

What I find most interesting is how the movie bombed worldwide. The entire planet lost interest in Marvel movies. How did that happen so quickly? It's a like a #1 rated TV show getting cancelled two years later.

[@rickf9807]

John always saying hey dont hate me I liked it. Afraid to take a stand ;).

[@nebriancoleman4704]

Monica should have had a cameo in the Ms. Marvel show (She could have even been related to the brother's wife) before this movie came out. The TV characters should team up before they hit the big screen. Then show up for the main event. Even if it was just those two.

[@UnknownEX0]

The problem isn’t the shows. The problem is these characters just suck.

[@jbarajasp]

That’s half a black Adam

[@PrimeTime__]

The best show-movie tie in was in Agents of SHIELD. The agents discovered the Hydra base and sent it to the Avengers. Opening scene in Age of Ultron they raided the base. You didn't have to see the show but it was a nice detail because that aired right before the movie came out.

[@cmleibenguth]

Not to mention Captain America Winter Soldier Complete mid season shift

[@PrimeTime__]

@@cmleibenguth correct. The show was mediocre until then. It got good after that.

[@monkeytoung]

First they need to slow down alot. Maybe they also need to relize tv and movies dont mix. Have a tv universe and a movie universe.

[@mattcollins3591]

Kinda sad people would rather go see quality foreign made films rather than Hollywood movies. Hollywood doesn’t care about quality anymore

[@MyWorldYourView]

Black Adam gets some bragging rights now.

[@seaniveroni5579]

Yup lol

[@spicymemes7458]

No lol

[@503thekid]

Godzilla minus one was a fantastic movie the marvels not so much lol

[@Playmaker251000]

I wonder if this will be John’s new Black Adam. Where he compares box office disappointment to it

[@jamesletza9584]

I didn’t like Captain Marvel, I thought Rambeau was the a nothing part of Wandavision, and I haven’t seen Ms Marvel or Secret Invasion. I have absolutely no investment in the Marvels and just don’t want to see it.

[@MrMortombachman]

Trailer looked embarrassing. That bit with the girl screaming as she floats around in space sums the problem up imo

[@erikloroff132]

One thing I've been thinking about is the post endgame era had a big hole when chadwick boseman passed. I feel like black panther was supposed to be the main character of this phase and they had to pivot after that and they dont really know what theyre doing overall i think

[@goddyfame3424]

Marvel doesnt care about Wakanda. The last thing they need is pro black movies. Took them 5 years to put out the movie after the first while force feeding us Ant. They own too many characters and trying to do everything themselves and trashing the whole joint. Look at Kang, they demolish his character because he is black. Yes, I think there is a conspiracy in Disney to under represent Black characters. In a movie here the Black character should be front and center with real black motivation, they undermine the story trying to whiten it. That is why people are not interested in Kang Dynasty. I will watch Foundation series over Kang Dynasty.

[@cmleibenguth]

​@@goddyfame3424They own so many characters because they created them They don't own "too many" Its their own IP

[@goddyfame3424]

@@cmleibenguth Did they create the Characters or do they own the rights to them? Last time I checked, the creators are dead. My point is that with all the characters in one company's hands, the competition is barely there so we get deminishing quality of content and propaganda.

[@captaincorona9488]

Hey, Disney. You need to make your characters interesting with real story arcs before we get invested in your movies. This is one of the reasons why I like the MCU movies with Tony Stark. He had a real character arc. You see him as a playboy, Bruce Wayne type. His character suddenly got dark when he learned how his parents got killed. You then got into the third act as he became the person who saved the universe.

[@thehacker4012]

Tony Stark became an Avengers after one good movie and one mediocre movie, so your argument kinda falls apart.

[@captaincorona9488]

@@thehacker4012 you look at the overall character arc from 2008 thru 2019 and you got a good picture.

[@thehacker4012]

@@captaincorona9488 That took almost ten years. Most of the new characters had been around for less than two years.

[@paulappleton9666]

Simple truth: you reap what you sow. Hence, Disney / Marvel is getting everything that it deserves in this regard.

[@AmandaFromWisconsin]

What do you mean by “you reap what you sow” in this context?

[@Jayde0007]

I didn't know there was others who thought Flash was a good movie. 🎉 Supergirl was phenomenal.

[@disgruntledjedi7352]

Taking the hindsight is 20/20 view here, but a big factor to the box office failure is they told the wrong story. What do audiences want from the MCU? X-Men!! What Carol Danvers story involves an X-Men character? Rogue!! Before she was an X-Man, she stole Captain Marvel’s powers. If the MCU pulled from this story, there would’ve been a different conversation in this video.

[@samanthamaclean1430]

I agree with you, John, but I also disagree about you saying the TV characters cannot make it to the big screen. We just haven’t had a really good set up for these characters to earn their big screen appearance, and that I do agree in Agents of Shield start changing from it, not being involved in the MCU towards the last seasons of the show.

[@ksisniipez]

They just need to replace the actor for captain marvel cause people are going to hate her mcu films everytime 🤦‍♂️

[@DannyBeigal]

I think John is missing the point of people not seeing it. It’s not because people didn’t watch the Disney+ stuff. It’s because the mainstream moviegoer is not interested in Ms Marvel, Captain Marvel or Monica Rambeau. The Captain Marvel movie made a lot of money because it was shoehorned in between infinity war and endgame and was ok, but didn’t excite the average moviegoer like the marvel a-list characters do. Believe me, if they had the same writers, same concepts, same marketing, same strikes going on and the movie had Storm, Rogue and Cyclops… it would’ve done bank.

[@queenjohnson5097]

Idk I would have to disagree... They said that the avengers were not "mainstream" enough to make movies about but here we are 😂 They definitely need to revamp though but there are definitely external factors and hand and Disney + isn't helping. The movie was literally 10 times better than the first one 😂 But it's 60% on rotten tomatoes and the first one has 80% 🤔 Like make it make sense haha

[@benm5970]

“It made a lot of money because it was shoehorned between Infinity War and Endgame” Yeah yeah, keep telling yourself that

[@DannyBeigal]

@@benm5970 All movies at the height of the infinity saga did well due to the popularity of the MCU. If a Captain marvel movie came out now outside of the infinity saga, it probably wouldn’t do as well… hold up… a captain marvel movie did come out that wasn’t shoehorned in the infinity saga… it was called the Marvels. Please have several seats. The data has presented itself. Be mad at facts if you want.

[@benm5970]

@@DannyBeigal Neither did Ant Man 3 but people love that character

[@DannyBeigal]

@@benm5970 ah… now moving the goal post. Nice.

[@rollind2456]

The Meowvels trailer was a banger. Maybe if the cast could have gone on late night cable shows there would be $200 million more demand 🤔

[@thehacker4012]

I'm sorry, but I just don't buy people didn't see this movie because it had Marvel character from Disney+. If people didn't feel the need to watch every Marvel film to understand an Avengers movie, then why do they feel the need to watch Disney+ Marvel shows to understand what is going on in The Marvels. The logic just doesn't make much sense, especially when most of Disney+ Marvel shows are very self-contained stories.

[@timothyolguin4401]

I like ant man better than this movie. I could care less about the Marvel's. And I'm a marvel fan

[@archdogg879]

I thought Ant-man 3 was much better than all of their 2022 movies: Doctor Strange 2, Thor 4, Black Panther 2.

[@AmandaFromWisconsin]

*couldn’t care less

[@PopCultureBuddy]

These corporations forget that many times “Less is more”. Maybe if they only did one MCU show and 1-2 movies per year the quality would improve because they can devote far more resources and time into making them awesome. One billion dollar movie is better than 3 movies combined barely making a billion. Like John always says “The MCU movies used to be an event”.

[@CVal012]

Iger started this with Disney plus and thebother other Bob went and did worse. So Iger has to blame himself too.

[@xonfire1]

When she hulk was going, a lot of fans said how bad it was. I’ve been watching this show for a decade, even during the AMC days, but you kept on defending She Hulk and even insulted some of the fans who criticized it. So I feel its a bit hypocritical to now tell us its bad when I remember the tone was very different.

[@AstroRocket]

WTF are you talking about? He didn't even finish She-Hulk and dropped it because he thought the humor was so bad

[@xonfire1]

@@AstroRocket Please watch some of the videos when She hulk episodes 1-5 aired.

[@AstroRocket]

@@xonfire1 Christ, it's not enough that the man ultimately agreed with you, now he's a hypocrite because it took him too many episodes to do so? I see why so many youtubers just start ignoring their comment sections...

[@ArtSawce]

This is probably Bob Chapeks fault as he was trying to go full ham on the streaming wars, so he probably forced Feige to make the movie and tv stories intertwine together. Bob was betting on that people would watch Disney+ before they go to the movies. Only problem is the marvel tv series has been bad except for Wandavision

[@Azrael__]

Bro really said "I read this ... on Threads" 💀

[@chuckvalentine]

Hawkeye was garbage. And that's where they lost me.

[@lukesmale24]

But was Hela a really good villain in Ragnarok? I remember people complaining about it at the time

[@Brandon_4272]

No way this was better than Quantumania bro... Both suck but at least Quantumania had some consistency, The Marvels is ALL OVER THE PLACE

[@rockbusterproductions]

I think The Flash now deserves a bit more credit lol

[@KrSwag51]

Subpar content, bad marketing/press, social media situations, coming off a bad show in secret invasion and ok first movie regardless if loki was good they was concurrent to each other so nobody knew how itd play out yet. This movie was set up to fail.

[@camm8642]

all this focus on large ramifications on the larger universe instead of just the focus being on the movie being made is a big part of the problem who cares about connections and crossovers when your not invested or even really care about the characters onscreen.....and when almost everything is played for a joke and the default personality for most of these characters contrary to the comics is quippy and snarky.....these movies have alot of issues imo.

[@willarth9186]

Mmm, Star Wars 9 and Thor LaT gave me only a hint of the taste of bile in my throat. It was Nick Fury in The Marvels yelling, "BLACK GIRL MAGIC!" that had me actually tasting bile and giving me Irritable Bowel Syndrome for a week where I called it quits on Disney. Afterwards, thankfully a friend steered me to the series 1883 and I found that incredible writing and acting still does exist. If you would like to cleanse your palate after The Marvels and Star Wars, I suggest watching just the first four minutes of EP 1 of 1883. I had to binge watch the entire season with Sam Elliot, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Isabel May with cameos by Tom Hanks and Billy Bob Thornton just to find out more. Then I binged on 1923 with Harrison Ford and Yellowstone with Kevin Costner to round out the trilogy. Now? Disney is only an occasional nightmare of mine.

[@AGrant-dy8rh]

AOS was good, i remembered that series finale when they jumping through different dimensions they mentioned the villians they said we can't go back to their time bc its being attacked. They was referring to Thanos and infinity wars!

[@SuperSnowMoonVODs]

Big break for comic book movies next year, hopefully they learn from their mistakes and rebound in 2025

[@rocoz23]

Can we tell the truth, its characters people do not care about or don’t know. People keep asking when Captain America or Iron Man will be back. They may need to do a soft reboot Like DC

[@ML-yn9yu]

@@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom this.

[@rocoz23]

@@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom you’re not wrong but what characters do people care more about the boys-guardians or the marvels ? They did a better job with the characters only thing people know about Captain Marvel is that’s where rogue got her powers from in the X-Men cartoon show from the 90’s

[@blackdragon6]

I think people expect Disney to "course correct", but i doubt they'll do that. They'll probably change the business model but not the content model.

[@splitfinger7719]

Clearly they need more executives on set 😂😂😂😂

[@captaincorona9488]

Deadpool 3 had better be a GREAT movie if Disney needs to rebound next year. If not, the MCU will slide even further going into Captain America 4.

[@knucle01]

No one cares about 3 super hero chicks….plain facts.

[@spicymemes7458]

Bigoted af the way that sounds

[@hemantks4353]

​@@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdomNot when actress herself is unlikable

[@Skegnessexpress]

it would have been better at beginning that it was just captain marvel and miss marvel swopping and Monica came in at the end the freeway did not work

[@melvinlee9263]

I don't have Disney+ and have no idea who these characters are, other than Nick Fury and Goose...

[@Rockscissorspaper]

Did you know all the characters beforehand in the other mcu movies you watched?

[@tuckerhall5617]

I honestly think they mishandled what to do with Disney Plus. I’m not saying that putting original content on Disney plus was wrong but I think Disney plus was made to make stuff like the Guardians holiday special, what if and so on. They’re fun but also side stories. Introduce your new characters that are important to the bigger picture on the big screen. Things like Moon Knight, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, both seasons of Loki all were good shows but would’ve worked better as movies. Someone told me the other day that Loki introduced the plot point and the villain if it’s next big saga on Disney plus. That should’ve been a movie event. Absolutely nothing wrong with 3 good movies that moves the real narrative forward and 1 or 2 side stories on Disney plus a year.

[@omerkulaksiz1993]

Robert explained it perfectly

[@austinnajar]

Obviously Marvel being subpar and the TV characters turning people away are factors, but the biggest reason no one wanted to go to this is the first movie is bad and Brie Larson is an unlikeable human playing an unlikeable character so a lot of people don't care to support it. I've seen every single Marvel movie from Iron Man 1 to Guardians 3 in theaters and this one I just skipped because I couldn't care less about Captain Marvel.

[@reikiwizard7778]

For me it was a string of bad movies and Thor love and thunder was the last straw.

[@thezackme]

Great Movie: Theater Ok Movie: Streaming Bad movie: Never Watch

[@nikunjdixit1175]

I'll be honest, I didn't think The Marvels was that bad. It wasn't amazing, but it was breezy entertainment. I just think it suffered the consequences of too much mediocre MCU content leading up to it and it didn't have the must see factor of the previous Captain Marvel film. Its certainly very odd to watch this movie after having watched Secret Invasion. MCU right now needs a slew of Shang-Chi, NWH level acclaimed films/tv shows to break out of this spiral.

[@lukesmale24]

I honestly think people are remembering MCU phase 2 and 3 for being better than it actually was. We had some great movies. But for me Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Guardians 2, Ant Man 2, Thor 2, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain Marvel and Spider-Man: Far from Home were pretty underwhelming. I think take them out of the build up to Thanos and people would see just how average they are as movies. Just my opinion.

[@taki75]

Phase 1 is definitely viewed with rose-colored glasses. Apart from the Avengers I found every other film (even Iron Man) at best ok.

[@captaincorona9488]

It shows to prove that nothing lasts forever. Sometime in the far future, you will see the Statue of Liberty becoming reduced to rubble. The almighty MCU has started to descend.

[@brucewilson3226]

Guys this isn’t different from the comics. EVERYBODY is not going to like EVERYTHING that comes out. With all the characters that marvel has, there were series of comic books that I had no interest in reading. The movies are no different. The “run” people keep talking about had a lot of to do with the story about characters that were very popular. Just think everybody is not going to gravitate to some of these “other” heroes.

[@baam25th31]

FNAF and Meg 2 are movies that delivered what they promised. People expect something big from Marvel especially with the high budgets yet the products look like they were made for Disney +.

[@zuriyel5368]

It's also pretty telling that in 2023, the most popular superhero content on Disney Plus in Asia has been a Korean show called Moving. And it's been getting rave reviews and sweeping awards left and right.

[@EuskadiJoloMas]

Don't worry, the Agatha series will totally save the MCU!

[@JezzaBondiBeach]

LMFAOOOOOO

[@george.js9090]

Can't remember which was last but after No Way Home/Falcon Winter Soldier. The boredom finally hit me. After those ive only seem Dr Strange 2 which i thought it was meh. And the only reason i went to see The Marvels was because i was invited and i thought it was boring.

[@36090pburke]

Movie was always going to flop but no doubt love and thunder qauntumania and secret invasion hurt it

[@ARTCreationsOfficial]

If marvel, make 3 great movies consecutively they will come back. Right now, marvel make one good movie then an okay movie or bad movie then again good movie then again, an okay movie.

[@Kenkoopa44]

Disney did the same thing to Marvel that they did with Star Wars, quantity over quality sucking every dollar out they could with what felt like 0 regard for quality of the content. In addition to pushing their social agenda. Fans thankfully have demonstrated their disapproval with sales. Both franchises went downhill as soon as Disney got their claws into them. Unfortunate.

[@hemantks4353]

The fact that u still think Captain Marvel is a popular character says u haven't learnt anything

[@theomazingomar357]

Transformers rise of the beast made 470 million

[@annonymously331]

They should have built on the character we had after endgame instead of introducing so many new ones and dropping so many shows on D+. That really diluted the brand and caused people to just give up on marvel content all together. Disney needs to get Bob Iger and his crew out and start doing some serious planning for the rest of phase 5. Sadly however I don’t think Iger will face any consequences for his mistakes (see chapek) and Disney will be down for the rest of the decade until the pendulum swings back again in the 2030s