“Superhero fatigue” can be a loaded phrase that generally raises the hackles of fandom. For one, it’s been weaponized, used, seemingly for years, like a Cassandra in the streets foretelling doom, to no avail—superhero films have ruled the box office for nearly two decades now and have rarely shown signs of slowing down (the pandemic box-office hit, notwithstanding, but everyone took a beating there).
And so, fandom, for years, has had to endlessly hear and endure the portentous gloom and doom of predictors and naysayers, only to see their films reign victoriously at the box office—it’s understandable why they’d eventually tune out this overused and worn-out phrase that has lost most of its meaning.
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