The superhero fatigue has been a topic of debate for a few months now, with many people thinking that the cinematic industry should leave the men and women wearing capes behind at least for a while. Arrowverse creator Marc Guggenheim does not a gree, but he does believe something is happening, and shares his opinion about it.

Superheros have been invading both the small and big screen since forever, but the new millennium came with a large quantity of productions related to comic book characters, especially since Marvel Studios started to develop their extended universe, which resulted in an enormous success that every studio wanted to imitate, especially Warner Bros.

In the middle of that battle to dominate the world of cinema with superheroes, The CW built its own franchise after what they have achieved thanks to Smallville, bringing the Green Arrow to television with Arrow, which became the first of a total of eight shows, most of them very well received even beyond the major crossovers that included almost every hero in the franchise, which were defintely the biggest draw.

So when it comes to the superhero genre, Marc Guggenheim, one of the few men behind the Arrowverse is more than a qualified voice to share his thought on what's going on nowadays with these type of movies and tv shows that are still a hit, but not as effective as they used to be.

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Superhero Fatigue Is About Some "Not Particularlly Good" Movies

During an interview witht the The Aarthi and Siriam Show podcast, Guggenheim was asked about the so-called superhero fatigue, and shared his point of view on the whole matter, blaming it on some particular projects instead of the whole genre itself:

"One of the most successful movies of this year is Across the Spider-Verse which is a [movie] with all the tropes including the multiverse and it’s a huge hit. Why is it such a huge hit? Because it’s done so well. I mean, it’s so good. So, I personally don’t think of it in terms of the audience is tired or not tired. I think what the audience is basically telling us with their dollars is to us, for a long time, superhero movies that were not particularly good were doing gangbuster business because of just the flywheel and everything."

Guggenheim thoughts are similar to the approach James Gunn has on the matter. DC Studios co-CEO and Guardians of the Galaxy director also spoke about all of this in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine not so long ago:

I think it doesn’t have anything to do with superheroes. It has to do with the kind of stories that get to be told, and if you lose your eye on the ball, which is character. We love Superman. We love Batman. We love Iron Man. Because they’re these incredible characters that we have in our hearts. And if it becomes just a bunch of nonsense on-screen, it gets really boring. If you don’t have a story at the base of it, just watching things bash each other, no matter how clever those bashing moments are, no matter how clever the designs and the VFX are, it just gets fatiguing, and I think that’s very, very real."