Marvel Decline in Movies
By Marcelino Acosta, Jan 24th 2025
In 2008 Marvel released one of their biggest movies Iron Man when became a huge success for them making $585.2 million for their worldwide release this movie's success would become the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But now it seems these Marvel movies are declining and becoming similar to how the DC movies struggled causing them to reboot their movie franchise.
One main problem that the newer Marvel movies have is they want to introduce their characters too quickly causing characters to not have any story for them in the movies. Another problem there is that when Marvel originally started making movies is they usually would build on each other using each movie give story top the next.
Marvel movies such as Eternals and Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania didn’t do good because in these movies they had multiple stories happening at the same time. These movies are similar to how DC had too much story happening all at the same in their movie the Justice League.
Another problem that Marvel has is not having strong stories and characters that are well developed anymore but in earlier movies they had both of those qualities. Now in newer movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder were less interesting than the movies for these characters that came before, another problem is these movies relied on CGI and had too many visual effects. This is similar to Batman v. Superman Dawn of Justice relying on mostly CGI and visual effects.
Another problem these movies face is Marvel relying on older characters and actors that have been in movies before. One of these actors is Robert Downy Jr. who played Iron Man this character dies in Avengers: Endgame this actor will come back to play a new character Doctor Doom. Another character Marvel wants to keep using is Spider-Man giving him multiple new movies and TV shows like how DC uses Batman giving him multiple different actors to play in movies and TV shows.
Marvel is having some of the same problems that DC had which caused DC to do a full reboot for their movie universe. These problems could lead to the Marvel universe being rebooted in the future, but it is unlikely marvel would try and reboot their universe they would most likely use different characters to add better or newer stories into their universe.
