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.
Most superheroes have a lot of non-iconic villains. Everyone knows the Green Goblin and Doc Ock, fewer know of... White Rabbit? Huh, there was a whole gang of animal-themed villains called the Menagerie that were duds. For every Vulture or Rhino, there was a Walrus or Squid that never became popular.
Don't worry, they can still do Black Cat horribly and race swap Felicia just like has happened in the current Ultimate Spider-Man so that's she's actually black. Or at least half black since her dad is still the original white guy.
Oh and because that comic is set 10-20 or so years ahead with an aged up Peter it's his son who is hooking up with Felicia now.
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.
Most superheroes have a lot of non-iconic villains. Everyone knows the Green Goblin and Doc Ock, fewer know of... White Rabbit? Huh, there was a whole gang of animal-themed villains called the Menagerie that were duds. For every Vulture or Rhino, there was a Walrus or Squid that never became popular.
Don't worry, they can still do Black Cat horribly and race swap Felicia just like has happened in the current Ultimate Spider-Man so that's she's actually black. Or at least half black since her dad is still the original white guy.
Oh and because that comic is set 10-20 or so years ahead with an aged up Peter it's his son who is hooking up with Felicia now.