I Will Never Understand Why People Clap During Comic Book Movies

thegamer.com:

Nerds love to showcase the fact that they are, in fact, giant nerds. For years we have loved to work pastimes into our overall identities, whether it be films, television, games, hobbies, or whatever else you love doing in your spare time alone or with friends. We don’t just show this with our words, we show it with Funko Pops, fan castings, and paying to see Morbius twenty times like giving all of our money to a fictional vampire makes us better people.

That’s awesome, and people shouldn’t be ashamed to show happiness for the things they enjoy, but it feels like with the growing monopolization of corporations like Disney we are beginning to put too much of ourselves into fictional universes. The MCU is a perfect example of this, usurping the cringe capacity of Disney adults to become one of the most obnoxious subcultures both on the internet and throughout the real world.

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Kevin Fiege and company have worked tirelessly to bring the comic book universe to life on the silver screen, beginning with a relative gamble in Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man before growing into the most dominant cinematic force we’ve ever seen. Characters that once only existed in legendary comics and forgotten video games became household names, be it Captain America, Thor, or Hawkeye. Everybody knows them now, and none of this would have been possible without the delicate artistry that went into crafting the MCU.

But with this success came millions of fans, and a fervent section who hold Marvel films up alongside prestige cinema and believe they are worthy of greater value purely because they’re popular and everybody happens to like them. I love a good comic book film and those which centre on