Let me ask you this: if the MCU was truly creatively bankrupt, would something like WandaVision or Loki have ever gotten made? Those aren't just sequels—they're totally different genres, playing with sitcom history and time-travel bureaucracy. Sure, there are formulaic elements, but that's the framework, not the entire story. Every franchise has a structure; even Shakespeare had recurring themes. The MCU's been expanding into cosmic horror with Eternals, political thrillers with Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and even martial arts epics with Shang-Chi. That's not a lack of ideas—that's a deliberate choice to vary tone and style while keeping a shared universe coherent. Creatively bankrupt would mean rehashing the exact same plot in the exact same way. The MCU's doing the opposite.
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