'Before I knew it, I was watching Chris Pratt break out of space jail with a tree alien who can only say one word. It was terrible, and also utter bliss.'
Photo-Illustration: The Cut. Photos: Marvel It started with WandaVision. The miniseries came out in early 2021, starring Elizabeth Olsen and her eyeliner as Wanda Maximoff, a witchy Avenger from a fictional Eastern European country who is inexplicably trapped in a time-traveling sitcom. As the mystery slowly unraveled, I found myself eagerly anticipating each week’s episode.
If you are someone whose eyes glaze over at the mention of anything superhero-related, let me catch you up: The Avengers are a group of comic-book characters — some have superhuman abilities, others are normally powered people with fancy gear — who try to save the world together.
If it sounds more like a blockbuster sausage factory than a film series, you’re right. It’s no secret that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a vaguely propagandist series of glorified action movies that refashioned the American flag into a spandex suit to showcase Chris Evans’s butt. The movies are filled with dumb little winks and quips, which are supposed to please Marvel’s very loud and constantly angry fan base, and they’re all designed to spawn even more spinoffs and sequels.
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