Overview

When these universes started getting adapted from the comics to the big screen of film a lot of people had mixed opinions on which was better. I feel like Marvel was off to a really hot start when they had the Infinity Saga (phases 1-3) end with the massive hits of Avengers: Infinity War  and Avengers: Endgame. DC in my opinion has just begun heating up and I feel like it has already passed Marvel since 2020. With films like The Suicide Squad, The Joker, and The Batman all being massive hits in my household and films we can watch over and over again.

 

Marvel

Like I said in the intro, I think that this universe started off really well and smooth, it was just the later projects that have been kind of discouraging. The better films being: Thor Ragnarok, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity war, and of course Captain America: Civil War. These movies were original at the time and I really loved the heroes that were portrayed in these movies.

 However, there is a big problem when it comes to the recently released phase 4 that just ended. Phase 4 has a runtime that is greater than all of the phases (1-3) that came before it COMBINED! This is by far the longest phases and it’s not even close. Most of the added runtime came from shows on Disney+ like Hawkeye, WandaVision, and my favorite Loki. These were one season (so far) tv shows that usually consisted of 8 45-60 minute episodes. That would add a maximum of 8 hours per show! 

Personally I think it would kind of suck to be a Marvel fan and then Disney+ starts having some very important content that is only available on that platform. For example if you haven’t see Loki the end credits scenes of the new movie: Ant Man And The Wasp: Quantamania will nt make sense at all because you thought Loki died in Avengers: Infinity War. 

Marvel needs to slow down and make more quality content, but I would like to see some of those shows on Disney+ continued into the future of the MCU. I would like to see a disney+ show of the multiverse more explored and kind of explained. So, I’m hoping when the 2nd season of What If come out soon that they will explore more recent topics about Kang. I find his character to be very interesting.

 

DC

This universe started off very slow for me. Although, looking back on this now I realize my mistakes. I was so into the Marvel Universe that I never gave te Dark Knight trilogy a chance, and I just watched the first two movies a few weeks ago and I was so surprised that I hadn’t found time to watch them before. I’m hoping to watch the Dark Knight Rises soon. 

With the new film the Joker I was a lot more happy with this movie because of the darkness incorporated with it. This movie didn’t feel like a villains movie it felt like a solemn depressing origin story to a broken man. I like that it kind of shows that Bruce Wayne had it super good and his dad treated Arthur very bad. I hope people start making more movies like this because it shows how the heroes aren’t heroes for everyone and there is more than one perspective to everything. 

The Suicide Squad was crazy good too. I was expecting it to be kind of normal kind of like the first movie was but this is so much better. This is a perfect blend of comedy and storytelling and gory action. The entire movie is kind of a joke: obviously with the main bad guy being a giant starfish. I still thought there were some good serious moments filtered here in there that explored the depths of loyalty and friendship.

I took a very long time to finally watch The Dark Knight. I can’t believe I waited this long, the Joker is the best villain of all time and no person on this planet can say any different even if they had good evidence.