At what point exactly did you finally become sick and tired of 'le multiverse' in any form of media?
I was fine with the concept for years in comics and video games and etc. but now it's fricking everywhere and I'm just done with the idea. It's hard to pinpoint exactly when though it finally went from being this well of interesting possibilities into shark-jumping nihilistic bullshit
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Into the Spiderverse was probably the point for me, I realized that it's just another safe space to hide bad writing. For example-
>Spiderman does something out of character like rob a bank
>Writers "subvert expectations" and say it's a spiderman from another universe.
Got an emotional connection to an IP we own? Yeah we're gonna milk the multiverse on it and then leave it on a hospital bed with a prolapsed anus for a few years.
It's everywhere because it just lets lazy executives dredge out nostalgia bullshit and write shit without consequences and/or shelf shit if it doesn't work.
It's the easiest avenue for lazy noncommittal boardroom-driven stories, which is why modern media uses it so much.
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Ready Player One.
That soulless marketing crap is when it was clear there was gonna be a million crossovers and multiverse stories for the next decade.
Having the sequel to Ready Player One come and seeing literally everyone shit on it relentlessly was an indicator that there is still some taste people have. I don't blame the audience for all the lazy bullshit executives try to pull on them.
It seemed more like they knew it would be a one or two shot ticket grab movie because it had a totally basic death race plot.
Ready playera one isnt a multiverse story it takes place in a videogame where the cameos are user avatars. Still a shit book.
>has a box of time travel stuff on a shelf to symbolize time travel being overdone or “on the shelf”
>the multiverse becomes a more and more played out concept as your series goes along
This was karma, wasn’t it?
The MCU and DCU ruined it. MCU has like several multiverses or some shit and the rules are all over the place, DCU just keeps frick up. Both of them just use the multiverse for nostalgia bait. They made me appreciate Rick and Morty more. Rick and Morty uses its multiverse for infinite story potential and some characterization for Rick. The superhero genre doesn't, and they pile on a bunch of dogshit rules too, Spiderverse being a recent offender.
I like the concept of a multiverse a lot, I just hate it when it's different timelines or alternate versions of the same reality with the same characters "but different". I'd rather see a bunch of totally different worlds.
Literally back with the original Spiderverse story. The comic one with the lame vampire guy.
>video games
Crash Bandicoot is one of the best examples of utilizing the multiverse and as neutered as pic related was, the small bits of it that were made into the final version were cool. It was also the next logical step for the franchise to take since Warped was dealing with time travel and as controversial as Toys for Bob's take on the series is, all of that shit could be easily retconned if desired. I'm also sure that they will use the multiverse as a way to explain crossing over with Spyro since I don't believe they've explicitly mentioned that at any point but if they did, that would be alright with me. Any other examples of the multiverse in entertainment media that you guys liked?
I thought Rick and Morty had a fine premise regarding the multiverse stuff. Being able to drop into different realities was just the excuse to explore whatever weird stories and sci-fi concepts struck them at the time, and there's a lot of fun to be had with that. It was the execution of the actual characters and meta humor mocking the audience for trying to care about anyting that slowly brought the show down for me.
Rick and Morty is actually pretty interesting with it. But after the show got popular everything started talking about the multiverse and I got kinda tired ot it.
I'm not sure if I hate multiverse theory as a concept, but I struggle to think of a story where I genuinely enjoyed it. I guess I liked Back to the Future if that counts?
I liked the first Spiderverse, but I actually liked it despite the multiverse theme, not because of it. I felt like the alternate reality frickery and acknowledgement of countless other comic book runs I'll never read featuring a disjointed cast of characters with no room for their own character arcs detracted a bit from just telling a standalone story. Miles, Gwen, and Peter felt like the only real characters, while the other Spideys were just kind of there to uphold the multiverse gimmick.
But I guess if you're actually a real junkie for the comics and the idea of exploring every possible version of a character with the same name then you'd feel differently.
I never really liked it in comics. I used to watch the show Sliders and that was okay as an episodic thing exploring alternate history. I also liked 'What if?' and 'Elseworlds' exploring alternate worlds. The problem is when people cross into other worlds too regularly in comics it gives an excuse for nothing to matter. Also these recent things like Flash and Spider-man reek of desperation. And feel like they're vandalizing the work of previous creators.
I'm okay with alternate worlds existing but they should mostly not impact one another or even interact with one another.
The multiverse has been relevant in comics since the 80s, you whiny fricking zoomer homosexuals
Yeah and it always sucked.
Yeah but it wasn't as big in pop culture in the past. Now you see all kinds of TV shows and movies about the multiverse.
Comics haven't been entirely relevant to pop culture until MCU though.
Multiverse can mean a lot of things. I like when it's used in cosmic horror themes to highlight different planes of existance and otherworldly threats poking holes through reality.
Stories that treat it more like a timeline where every possible choice that can ever be made causes reality to split seem to be harder to pull off.
When I learn many years ago that DC and Marvel had a shiton of universes so they reboot their same series again and again making them fricking stupid to follow because they could kill everyone and just restart spiderman in another universe.
The multiverse is a great concept and existed even when incels like HP Lovecraft wrote about it.
I fricking hate Dr Who though.
But the multiverse has next to nothing to do with Doctor Who. Doctor who is all about time travel.
Sliders is kino