Editorial: Is Superheroes Always Saving The World Becoming a Tired Plot?

Hello Everyone,

The success of many comic book films has been rising greatly. With Marvel and DC both challenging the impossible in terms of ideas it's looks to be another great few years ahead. Superhero movies have always been changing the formula greatly. What I want to discuss mainly today in is relation to the certain formula. Are heroes always saving the world or some certain plot becoming a tired tread. I am talking about in mainstream hero verse today that is ongoing now.

It happens in nearly every single time. It is just predictable so why are people still anticipating the ending when 100% it's just going to be another happy ending. The Avengers saves the world from an alien invasion and none of the heroes die. What is it that draws people to this kind of predictable formula, is it the anticipation to see these heroes in action or is the anticipation of enjoying them winning and fighting for a cause not people will do in real life. Could it be the story telling which draws people in also.

Despite a few struggles that happens in the middle of most feels such as the usual heroes have sudden sense of emotional realization or the generically I don't want to be the hero anymore we just know at the end some how they are going to put their shit together. I've always wondered with these huge main stream heroes with films like The Avengers or Batman is what if they were defeated at the end and the villain finally won. Wouldn't it make a much more emotionally impacting story. The Dark Knight Rises could have implemented the formula but it did it so poorly instead we were revived the generic hero formula. Honestly what if the bomb did go off and Batman including Gotham City was gone. Just end the film like that and you have a better end to a trilogy than just leaving a plain annoying open ending.

The Dark Knight Rises had the chance to stray from the different with Nolan's own realistic and grounded portrayals of film making but still ended up with the same tedious ending as all of them. I know you can make it an argument the aliens and Loki winning in The Avengers would prevent from other films but at least they could have gave them a more higher advantage than just making it feel the characters are their just to get thrown around on the screen the entire time. I like to watch comic book films I really do it is just that I believe some of them should stray far more from the predictable ending and plot formula. The Dark Knight Rises ruined a great trilogy in my opinion because of the ending. You can make an argument too that yes a few offside characters die in the end like Captain Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man sacrificing his life to help him but that was done so poorly it adds little emotional impact. That was extremely poorly done also in one of the most ridiculous situations I have ever seen in a film. Eventually Spider-Man did save New York the end as he is going to do again in the sequel. The Avengers are going to assemble once again to save the Earth. In Man of Steel the great hero Superman is going to defeat the villain and save Metropolis.



Dark endings have been done in comics so why wouldn't it work for a main stream comic book film. Is it just people won't understand why and they would just refuse for it to happen. Not many people here I blatant to change and I know that for sure. If you want to see a great example of a perfect dark ending not in a comic book film look at the movie American Psycho with Christian Bale, also one of my favorite movies of all time. It gives the perfect example of how a character progresses and falls in the end. It gives an example how to work the storytelling into something different.

I am not generally saying it needs a dark ending but an ending that restrains the values of what was reflected through the entire movie. An ending which brings light to a deeper emotion of thought. If I wrote a comic book film such as Batman I can guarantee the ending would dive into the psychosis of the entire movie. I think comic book films today need to bring a new light to a not so perfect reality displayed today.

Thank you for reading and as always please comment on your opinions in light of my editorial. I will try to respond to your comments as always.