{"id":1593100,"date":"2022-08-07T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1593100"},"modified":"2022-08-07T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:34:48","slug":"americans-are-growing-tired-of-superhero-movies-disney-blames-pandemic-for-marvel-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-are-growing-tired-of-superhero-movies-disney-blames-pandemic-for-marvel-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Are Growing Tired Of Superhero Movies, Disney Blames Pandemic For Marvel &#8220;Fatigue&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericans-are-growing-tired-of-superhero-movies-disney-blames-pandemic-for-marvel-fatigue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1593100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">While studios continue to make spin-off, sequels, prequels, reboots, and remakes of superhero movies no one asked for \u2014 each seemingly more woke than the last, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/10\/29\/nolte-marvels-woke-eternals-must-really-suck-to-get-these-reviews\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/03\/21\/marvels-the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-goes-woke-black-superhero-denied-bank-loan\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/07\/06\/dean-cain-slams-marvels-woke-anti-american-captain-america-its-fashionable-to-bash-america\/\">here<\/a> \u2014 Americans\u2019 enthusiasm for men and women in capes is waning, a Morning Consult survey\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/2022\/08\/04\/marvel-superhero-movies-fatigue\/\">found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The poll data shows that \u201cenjoyment of the seemingly never-ending stream of superhero content continues to drop among U.S. adults \u2014 and among even self-identified Marvel fans,\u201d the report states. Between November 2021 and July 2022 the share of adults who say they enjoy superhero movies plunged five percentage points, from 64 percent to 59 percent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>At the same time, the number of adults who do not enjoy superhero movies increased 5 points, 36 percent to 41 percent. That number has increased 9 points since the survey was conducted in <a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180416-Avengers-Crosstabs.pdf\">2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_10229157\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Captain-Marvel.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Carol Danvers (Brie Larson, center) searches for hidden alien Skrulls in \u201cCaptain Marvel.\u201d (Photo: MARVEL STUDIOS)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Self-identified Marvel fans are still overwhelmingly dedicated to superhero movies at 82 percent, though that number is down five points from 87 percent in November. One-third (31 percent) of those fans say they are \u201cgetting a little tired of so many of them.\u201d Notably, the number of Marvel fans who do not like superhero movies rose from 13 percent to 18 percent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20930247\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/doctorstrange2BO1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20930247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/doctorstrange2BO1.jpg\" alt=\"The Benedict Cumberbatch-Elizabeth Olsen Marvel adventure, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $185 million this weekend in its debut, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Benedict Cumberbatch-Elizabeth Olsen Marvel adventure, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, is the No. 1 movie in North America. (Marvel Studios)<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Morning Consult noted that the July survey was conducted after Marvel Studio President Kevin Feige <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/marvel-studios-comic-con-phase-5-1235185316\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0 at San Diego Comic-Con plans for phases five and six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The announcement included news of two more Avengers films slated for 2025. The survey was conducted July 30-31 with 2,200 U.S. adults and has a margin of error of \u00b12 percentage points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>The news came amid\u00a0a rare slump\u00a0for the Walt Disney Co.-owned property: Many of Marvel Studios\u2019 latest films, including \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/07\/08\/thor-love-and-thunder-review-kinda-woke-and-kinda-stinks\/\">Thor: Love and Thunder<\/a>,\u201d have underwhelmed at the box office,\u201d according to the report. \u201cWhile the coronavirus pandemic and rise of streaming options have certainly been factors, the slump may stem in part from a tangible increase in\u00a0superhero fatigue\u00a0among moviegoers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a late-July statement to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/marvel-studios-box-office-slump-shows-limits-of-disneys-superhero-universe-11659107453\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>a Walt Disney Co. spokesperson blamed recent lackluster box office results on the coronavirus pandemic. However, data shows that Americans were experiencing \u201csuperhero fatigue\u201d before the pandemic, Morning Consult countered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While studios continue to make spin-off, sequels, prequels, reboots, and remakes of superhero movies no one asked for \u2014 each seemingly more woke than the last, see here, here, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}