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The Franchise Recap: Big Fight Over Glowy Thing
This week, The Franchise puts the superhero cameo in its crosshairs.
Each episode is going to be focused on some terrible ill committed by comic-book movies as we know and love them: Last week, faux feminism and “women’s problems,” and before that, how awfully some of the most absurd superhero concepts translate to the big screen. With meet-ups and crossovers dominating superhero filmmaking in the half-decade since Avengers: Endgame threw every single Marvel hero into a blender and set it to “pulverize” — critics often point to the reliance on cameos and their diminishing returns as the premier failing of the multiverse era — this feels like the timeliest topic for The Franchise to tackle yet. It sends him into an apoplectic rage and — to quote — he goes full 9/11 on the Centurios 2 set, ramming the central soundstage in a golf cart while a thinly veiled Nick Fury parody rattles off some nonsensical exposition about the power of resourcium, etc.
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