I figured, Why MCU is still relevant after 14 years!! (Probably)
I was watching this video of a very popular philosophy channel Wisecrack on youtube where they explained the Key difference between DCEU and MCU and I instantly inferred something new!
The MCU is capable making cash off the ideas and characters that they established decades ago is because of relevance. Their superheroes, supervillains and even the side characters are still relevant after so much time.
But why is that?
I believe the reason here is constant jump from one archetype to other.
For example:- Tony started as an innocent in Iron man 1, becomes an orphan, a wonderer and a warrior in the same film. But by the second film, he suddenly becomes an altruist when he learns about his upcoming death, converts into a wonderer again when meets with fury and again a warrior by the end of the film. Later, in avengers 1 we see him as an innocent in the beggining (a rich genius with a powerful suit, wanting to do some philanthropy), altruist in the middle and finally a martyr in the end. Over the course of next 10 years we see him in various other projects playing a different archetype each time and finally dying a magician in Endgame.
This constant archetype movement can be seen in almost every other character in MCU's inventory and it is working for them. This is because the audience knows that everytime a new project comes along, they will be seeing their favourite characters in a new archetype supporting or following a completely new cause or course of event.
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