I had to get some work done on my phone at Best Buy yesterday and while I was waiting I wandered around the different shops in the area and found a comic book store I was t aware of. I bought some back issues and I saw the High Republic comics in the bargain bin.
Still cracks me up to realize that Disney bought Star Wars and Marvel to appeal to boys. I honestly thought that was a joke when I first heard it.
What’s even funnier is that I thought Disney would do a good job with Star Wars and was even holding out hope for a sequel retcon. I no longer believe this and have since cancelled Disney plus
Their first mistake there was thinking their same approach of Disney-ifying these would work. I was never into Marvel as a kid so I have no idea what they've done to their legacy audience, but I guess I could argue their constant releases of mediocre flashy movies have been really a money printer for them. I lost interest about the time of the first Avengers movie. I just don't like superheroes to be honest.
Star Wars I was into as a kid, and in my opinion they totally have no idea why Star Wars even had fans and thought that the same old let's make a shit-ton of flashy mediocre movies would work. They are way too attached to existing characters and drop them in just like they drop the Iron Man into a movie where you're supposed to ooo and ahh over Luke Skywalker showing up.
This all aside to the woke cancer going on at Disney that just makes them even worse.
Or they crap on characters that people care about and act shocked when there is a negative reaction. There is a way to respect the past characters while setting up new characters
Batman Beyond is my go-to example for this. Bruce may be too old to keep going out and being Batman anymore, but he's still Batman. Whether he's coaching Terry from the Batcave, or he actually has to go out and do some work in the field, he's still as awesome as ever, even if a bit more fragile.
And then, of course, Terry wasn't created solely to one-up Batman. A recurring theme for the series is how Terry has a lot to learn, but he's also got his own perspective and talents that bring something new and different to the table.
Of course, it helps that it was made by the same people who made Batman TAS, so they had the respect for their past works by default. That's the missing ingredient that causes everything Disney touches to crumble to dust.
Absolutely.
My favorite part of "The Return of the Joker" was Terry getting flustered by Joker calling him a fake, and having Bruce in his ear saying "Ignore him and power on through" but then realizing "Hey-- I like to talk, too" and mocking the hell out of the Joker.
Batman Beyond is perfect example of how to use "the mantle" of a superhero to introduce a new character and not end up with shit like Fem-thor or Ghostbusters (2016).
Perfect summation.
Remember that Marvel and Star Wars are Disney now, so this most certainly applies.