People are talking about "Whos gonna win 2025 DC or Marvel? Superman or Fantastic Four?" I've always been a believer in liking both sides, I think the fan rivalry is stupid. However on the corporate side I think the rivalry is lowkey very important when it comes to getting quality content. I do think Superman is gonna smoke Fantastic Four and I think it'll be for the better of Marvel and DC in the long run. The friendly competition between the two is going to lead to a new silver age of comic book movies because with actual competition, Marvel will actually have to fight to one up DC for ticket sales and cultural relevance again. When the MCU started it was competing with The Dark Knight Trilogy, one of the most renowned Superhero trilogies still to this day and because of that they needed to work hard to get on that pedestal that they lived on for a long time, but with DC fumbling the bag in the snyderverse era, and Sony doing whatever they're doing, there was no reason to fight. Marvel became stable and the defacto leader in the CBM game. They didn't have to fight for ticket sales anymore, but that stability lead to stagnation and that stagnation lead to degrading quality of content. People started getting disinterested and Marvel started slipping.
Basically, now that DC is back in the game, Marvel has to get their footing back and keep it up or lose it to the new guy (James Gunn)
