Robserecaps Twenty Five – episode 58 the Multiverse Mainstreamed
by Joe
Allow the Rob to be your guide through the Marvel, DC, Star Trek and Doctor Who multiverses! As always, check out the episode for yourself, this is a shorter one.
- When the Rob hears ‘multiverse’ he’s reminded of a dog food commercial from the early 2000’s where the dog would say ‘multigrain’
- The Rob uses both ‘Other Earth’ and ‘Counter Earth’ when talking about the Avengers/Squadron Supreme crossover for this first exposure to multiverses in comics
- When the Rob would attend conventions when he was 12, tons of people would be dressed as Doctor Who, his first exposure to the BBC series
- “Wander into your local gun store and get some ammo and if you can walk out in 15 minutes without hearing some of the very best {redacted} theories, then you have done something impressive.”
- ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ was done by DC to clean up their multiverse problem, but the Rob, like many fans felt it was unnecessary
- A lot of the rumors for casting for the ‘Flashpoint’ movie are discussed, the Rob is a big fan of the Ben Affleck Batman
- the CW Crisis crossover and Into the Spider-Verse laid the groundwork for presenting multiple earths to a general audience, making it mainstream
- the most overused words in TV and movies are ‘grounded’ and ‘relatable’
- The only good example the Rob can think of of a ‘grounded’ character in Sci Fi/fantasy films is Luke Skywalker
- The Rob also relates being ‘grounded’ and ‘relatable’ to Poison’s video for ‘Fallen Angel’
- the current generation who grew up on videos games like Halo and Call of Duty live in a world of the fantastic so they don’t need ‘grounded’ and ‘relatable’ movie or TV characters
- ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ winning an Oscar kicked down the door for all these future movies mashing up the older versions of Batman and Spider-Man in the same films
- “DC did get a little drunk on multiple earths”
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