“Morbius,” starring Jared Leto as a vampire in some kind of Spider-Man universe, tanked at the box office. But fans continue to celebrate this very silly film—and we can all learn from that.
In telling a story about complicated mother-daughter relationships and generational trauma, “Everything Everywhere” delivers on the promise of the multiverse in a way Marvel hasn’t.
The danger with returning to characters who have struggled to find their way and earned their success is that if you don’t have a new story worthy of them, you risk undermining all that they have achieved.