In 2012 Spider-Man was rebooted, in 2013 Superman will be rebooted for the second time in less than a decade, in a year or so we’ll get a Fantastic Four reboot, and now that the rebooted Batman Trilogy has ended, it’s only a matter of time until that’s rebooted too.
I don’t think there is anything objectionable about this — if you have an interesting character why not keep telling new stories?
But what doesn’t make sense is the obsession with retelling the same origin story over and over again.
For starters, when everyone knows the character’s origin, do we really need to waste screen time with this material?
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