But how do they reboot Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and Thor? No way will they ever let pretenders take those roles, it's FAR too hard to get any superhero other than the top 5 into the public awareness. We've tolerated new spidermen quite well, and new Hulks to some extent, I think they can just keep on rolling with new actors playing those roles but if they want death to mean anything then they do gotta give 'dead' characters a good 15 year rest. X-men is a good opportunity to focus on popular characters (hopefully with new stproes than what we've seen in the past few xmen) and then they can cycle back around to avengers again.
They don’t need to reboot Tony or Steve, at least not until after the MCU concludes. Also Thor is alive and they set up for a 5th movie for him, so not sure why you’re lumping him in with the first two.
See, it’s funny you say “popular characters”. The Avengers were not as popular as Spidey or the X-men pre-2008. Hell, before you say, “well, the latter two already had some movies”, no, the Avengers weren’t even as popular as Spidey or the X-men pre-2000 (hell, in the 90’s comic Marvel vs DC, Tony was not in the main matchups or the secondary matchups! But of course Spidey and several X-men were!) But it’s shown that good movies can change that. Guardians of the Galaxy was a name that would have meant nothing to most people pre-2014. It’s not that hard, it’s called making good content (and a little bit of luck).
DC as well, normies did not appreciate Wonder Woman back in the day (you still get some basic haters now, all these punks complaining about Diana getting her first AAA game, yeah how “dare” she!), but then 2017 rolls around and they’re all, “holy shit, her movie was great! Maybe there’s hope for DC movies after all!”
Oh, and hmm, what was the highest grossing movie of the DCEU? I mean, surely it couldn’t be a character that ignorant people define as “useless” based on his Superfriends version, a cartoon all the way back in the 70’s? Nah, that would be just ridiculo-
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Public perception can be changed. Stop making shows with rushed effects and bad action directors, and give them proper movies. The first four MCU shows (WandaVision, Falcon, Loki, and Hawkeye) worked for the most part, but it helped those were prior established characters. Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel should have been films, the former should have had sick intense action against a legit threatening villain (nothing against Ethan Hawke, great actor, but his role was a character who had only appeared in ONE issue of Moon Knight, why not use a more threatening villain?!) and Ms Marvel should have been a fun romp with her establishing herself as a hero in Jersey City as she fights her first comic villain The Inventor, a human bird hybrid clone of Thomas Edison (for real, comics are insane and I love it. Gorilla Grodd when, DC?!) rather than the show’s random ass villains who had nothing to do with the comics and looked lame visually as they’re just a bunch of humans with basic ass powers.
And Secret Invasion? Fuck man, that should have been a big movie extravaganza, Skrull forces infiltrating everywhere as Fury gathers what few heroes he can that he knows aren’t imposters and we get a Rogue One style “few heroes have to take on a far larger force using attrition and such”. Instead, we got the stupidity we got.
James Gunn has said the plan for DC moving forward is 2 movies and 2 shows max per year. I think Marvel is headed for a similar approach in 2025 and beyond. Give the films more time to be worked on, and save shows for stories that warrant it rather than rushing out a ton of them.
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