The future of the MCU — and all of pop culture
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Video game and tech culture has long been obsessed with “generations.” We mark milestones with new consoles or the numbers on an iPhone. It’s a helpful way to measure progress that moves at an unpredictable pace.
Once a year, Polygon expands this fixation on generations to explore the next generation ofeverything.
This is one of our favorite annual projects, because it benefits from procrastination. We wait until the month or so before publish so that we can tell stories about the nascent creeks of pop culture that could become raging rivers, redirecting the flow of global entertainment. This isn’t speculative fiction about a time 50 years from now; it’s a hint at where the world will be trending next month or next year.
Here are just a few stories we think you’ll love, but you should check out the full package!
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This week on YouTube | The Super Mario Bros. movie is famously bad — so bad it killed the hopes of any good video game movie adaptations for YEARS. Or… so they say. But what if Super Mario Bros. wasn’t actually that bad? Jenna Stoeber digs into the history of the Super Mario Bros. movie and gets the answers about why it’s so reviled. And why, just maybe, you should watch it for yourself.
The MCU’s future lies with those it previously neglected: teen girls | “The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe lies in Disney’s ability to gain the loyalty of the most progressive and skeptical generation yet, and there is only one ‘safe,’ new axis of diversity for Marvel Studios to lean into: women.”
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