Their primary villain is Doctor Doom, so since the next Avengers movies are going to be revolving around him as the main villain, they kind of have to bring them in. I think that the existence of Marvel Rivals, the upcoming ArcSys Marvel fighting game and more proves that there is still a massive audience for Marvel content, they just can't fuck up their biggest cash cow anymore than they already have.
Good villains are required to have good heroes.
Batman & Spiderman have villains as memorable as they themselves are, popular too! Superman's villains are bloody boring.
FF fought Namor (The Sub Mariner) in #4 of the comic, and Doctor Doom in #5. Galactus in #48. All in all their enemies ranged from really interesting to downright generic.
Batman takes the cake. Comic book people can all rattle off some Spiderman villains, but even normies can name half a dozen Batman villains. They are all memorable. Joker, Riddler, two face, penguin, cat woman, poison ivy, Mr freeze, and those are the ones anyone can name. His B line is still super memorable, scare crow, bane, Clayface, Harley Quinn, killer croc, raz aghul.
The F4 are not as popular with general audiences than comic people and execs think.
Their primary villain is Doctor Doom, so since the next Avengers movies are going to be revolving around him as the main villain, they kind of have to bring them in. I think that the existence of Marvel Rivals, the upcoming ArcSys Marvel fighting game and more proves that there is still a massive audience for Marvel content, they just can't fuck up their biggest cash cow anymore than they already have.
Good villains are required to have good heroes.
Batman & Spiderman have villains as memorable as they themselves are, popular too! Superman's villains are bloody boring.
FF fought Namor (The Sub Mariner) in #4 of the comic, and Doctor Doom in #5. Galactus in #48. All in all their enemies ranged from really interesting to downright generic.
Batman takes the cake. Comic book people can all rattle off some Spiderman villains, but even normies can name half a dozen Batman villains. They are all memorable. Joker, Riddler, two face, penguin, cat woman, poison ivy, Mr freeze, and those are the ones anyone can name. His B line is still super memorable, scare crow, bane, Clayface, Harley Quinn, killer croc, raz aghul.