Could coronavirus spell the end for superhero movies?

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From Wonder Woman to Superman, Black Widow to Black Panther, superheroes can vanquish aliens, androids and Nazis. They’re less super in a pandemic

After the massive 2019 hits Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far from Home, it seemed a safe bet that the Marvel Cinematic Universe would go on for ever. The high-flying blockbusters with their tight costumes, digital effects and insouciant quips could pack cinemas until the apocalypse. There would never again be a year without superheroes.

 

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Here is hoping. Although they can always double down and fight the evil chinese/arabs who made the virus to bug AMURICAH

FallenHeroNo6 From this worthless rag comes yet another inane and irrelevant article...dear god!

Wonder Nurse, Super Doc and Cashier Man?

I think someone had a wet dream about something they hate and are now guilt attacking it.

As long as the Superhero can become the size of the Coronavirus and fights it! Haha...

Hope so

For fucks sake who cares

I jolly well hope so! 🧐

I hope this means people will finally pay their respects to the biologists and health practitioners who've kept us safe from all previous viral attacks. Or else the real coronathanos will snap its fingers goodbye.

Unlikely, they will just carry on making them after this all over. Has coronavirus spelt the end to men being the majority working full time and paying taxes? Or will that just go back to normal when this is all over

That would be an Easter miracle to rival all others!

I would have thought over saturation be the end of the superhero

Oh yes

hopefully!

Let's hope so...

IBiande uh ... nevermind

Sure this may help many adult males could break out of their arrest development.

Will a lost summer stop studios producing films that regularly gross over $1b? It's a head scratcher.

We can but hope. Said the 32 year old nerd, lifelong marvel, star wars, lotr and 40k fan. Y'all can get off my lawn and I'll get my cool stuff back.

You defeated Thanos, but you could not stop me--the Mexican beer, the ruler of your bowels and destroyer of toilets--Corona!!

What? No. The answer is no. Hero movies aren't meant to serve as commentary on what is actual. Society will have its moments of collective trauma, and continue to find comfort in simple, superhuman mythos. We need heroes to worship when everything is shite. See josephcampbell

...no?

يا ريت تتبطوا و تسكتوا عشان انتو بوز فقر و بالونه منفوخه هوا

Ee can only hope. The place for them is on paper and ink and in our imaginations...

The most ridiculous article. How did this get published? Hilarious lol

No

Some newspapers (sic) deserve to go out of business

If you don't like to watch them, and, you don't want them to continue, does that mean you were kidnapped on each new film release, forced to watch them and now you've come forward to open up to all or... that it makes no difference to 'you' because you don't watch them anyway?

Why ? I'm not reading the article

Hope not. I like Spider-Man films. superhero movies are not really meant to be realistic. They are pure escapism. And there is nothing wrong in that. That doesn't mean that there haven't been too many superhero films recently, however.

Bro Tony Stark solved time travel over a glass of Cabernet.

Oh dear Doom, Doom and More Doom!

I was thinking this

one thing for sure is that the Covid19 has supercharged stupid headlines from news organizations

Avirus Assembles

Dr Strange can

XD

Why, for goodness sake? They’re just what we need right now!

They said exactly the same thing after 9/11

Yes now, they can not save us in reality!

Please for the love of god

As if Disney would give up doing them when that's the whole point of them owning Marvel, right? 😆

I bet the Guardian would love that to happen!

what a load of bollocks

No

No. Next?

Read Geof Johns Avengers Red Zone.

At least something good might come out of the pandemic. Scorsese was right, they're not legitimate films.

I'm taking it that the new Black Widow is no relation to the film noir film with the same title

Apparently there is a scientific link between coronavirus and superhero movies. Spread the news!

But you’ve got the perfect super villain 🦹‍♀️ ‘Korona Virus’

No

Not only superhero movies, everyone's rethinking about the contribution these people actually do to the society. I'm not targeting any specific person but entire movie industry. They do entertain us, that's it.

Ran out of things to talk about? Dashed my hopes of Captain Marvel coming to my rescue though 😩

Yes please I'm tired of these shitty Marvel movies just making trash movies and minting millions

I hope so.

nothing else to write about today - ffs.

I doubt that superhero movies will end anytime soon. They are a fun escape from reality. They survived the 1957 influenza pandemic, too, which was far more deadly than this one has been thus far.

A man can dream.

Why? Because they're based on such a convincing reality now? Ridiculous.

No.

There's always hope.

Why? We need heroes now. We nees to defeat Thanos and corona :D

You have to persevere, but if you are patient the article builds up to its final paragraph where as usual can't help but shoehorn tory bashing into a totally unrelated article.

If cinema reflected real life, there would be tons of movies where American political leadership were evil over-the-top villains. They're not making too many of those films.

This is...such a bizarre piece of writing. What was the angle here?

Who cares? The only priority for now is for people to avoid infection

I hope so. I can’t handle anymore of this slop. Haven’t been to a mainstream theatre in years because all the movies are created for 12 year olds.

I’d shed no tears if it did.

Nope it will just lead to more superheroes movies with chemical weapons plots and virus plots. Look how the Bond franchise reflects the fears of the era each film was made

Osmosis Jones might make a comeback.

The answer to every question asked in the form of newspaper headline is always... NO

I think they are referring to the end of stupidity and a wake up call to the American society but in a polite manner... I HOPE SO!!!

I don't know, I'm still waiting for my movie about that guy who got bitten by a radioactive Skypechat to become Captain Teleconferencing to be honest.

I want to see the first GroceryStoreMan movie first!

Ant-Man vs. Covid-19 is already in production.

I sure hope so but I'm not holding my breath waiting for Hollywood to make good movies that are actually about something other than explosions.

Ironman=NHS workers. Batman=Carers. Superman=Scientists. The Flash=cleaners. Spiderman=Grocery workers. Hulk=Dustman & Thor=Bankers. Yes, I think we can relax on the movies, thank you.

No.

One positive thing about the whole situation!

Why would it

Please.

Not if John Malkovitch has anything to do with it.

Lol do you know how many I’ve watched because of this? And how many I wish for because of it? Grow up

God, I hope so!

The childish hero: superman, god, marvilla, etc, en reality doesn't apply. Reality is complex, not a fairytale.

No

Well, every cloud...

One can only hope.

oh christ, i hope so

no

Fucking hope so

I hope so

Nope

Don’t threaten me with a good time

I love how there's so many people here hating on superhero films. Go watch something else. Hell, it's not Marvel's fault cinema outside of superhero film is crap. In fact, without the MCU cinema would be crashing and burning right now.

it would be super if it does

/ Well Emmerdale & Coronation Street Are only making Rare Appearances ! So Super Heroes are also a Ingredients of Soup !!!

No

Have you heard of green screens and CGI?

What? Why? Is not going to happen. Can't wait for Black Widow (when is safe of course!)

I hope it spells the end of Hollywood.

Do you realise this describes every action movie? They're a staple because they're escapism and people like to watch films to escape what's going on around them. And maybe the Avengers will face the Brood or the Phalanx next - alien virus type characters.

Hope so!

I'd like to see movies about the ordinary men or women do extrodinary things with no help from superpowers. As a means of inspiration and hope. At the end, fantasy won't undo the calamity we're facing, it's hard work, sweat and tears.

A bonus at last

It could spell the end of movies period.

I hope so

QTWTAIN

That would rule

Couldn’t happen any sooner

Could coronavirus spell the end for shite news articles?

Please, dear god.

So the article itself concludes the premise of the article is unlikely to happen and is less a thing about the business of the industry and more about some pseudo-circular reasoning as to why it might be. If you think my tweet makes no sense read the article for more of that...

I really hope, no more USA shit to the world. I understand some people around the world are addicts to it.

Pls God... Terrible movies 🎥. They should stay in Comics 💭

Hasn’t the tedious Woke nonsense inserted into them already done that?

irrelevant.

Lets hope it does

That article is utter garbage and there was no need to write it and then print it... All you're doing is highlighting how superheroes can't fight a pandemic, something we all knew..

Nice fantasy but reality can wipe it out in a nanosecond.

I'd have never thought that some good may come from even a global pandemic.

Sadly not

No, Boris is the new one, don't ya know? The only ICU patient who is in good spirits!!! 😉

I prefer the headline ' Is coronavirus the kryptonite for superhero movies?' Pay me later

It should be the birth of the doctors, nurses and health team as heroes.

coronavirus definitely dispelled the spell of sup3r heros .

Spoiler alert; No.

This is an incredibly stupid article. The title, the article itself...maybe the writer, who knows? Stupidity is the running theme however.

don't give us false hope

Fuckin’ hope so!

I doubt it but I’m sure you’d be thrilled as your film critic hates the genre anyway

Superman could absolutely kill the Coronavirus. Read a book .

No. Thank you and move on to the next soft news article.

Oh, shut up! he, he

ONE MIGHT HOPE

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