Superhero movies were once thought of as endless action sequences where the good guy pummels the bad guy. However, with the rise of franchises such as Marvel and DC, audiences have also matured to become pickier about the movies they watch. But, this doesn't mean that audiences have become immune to superhero fatigue.
Superhero fatigue is a term one will often hear these days when movies based on comic book characters don't do well at the box office. Some say there are just too many superhero movies that audiences get tired of having to see each one.
The debate has once again come up to the surface as superhero movies like Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and DC's Shazam: Fury of the Gods struggled at the box office. Even the heavily hyped Black Adam movie starring Dwayne Johnson flopped, questioning the long-term prospects of superhero movies.
Is superhero fatigue real? Well, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn thinks that it is a thing but it also isn't a thing.
