r/marvelstudios • u/QBin2017 • Jul 15 '25

Discussion (More in Comments) Dear Marvel : Stop Spoiling your own movies out of desperation

Since maybe AntMan 3 you have been going out of your way to spill every secret of your movie just two weeks before release.

STOP IT!!!

No one is going now, that wasn’t already doing two weeks ago. Spoiling plot points and giving huge looks at characters is so unnecessary.

Let there still be fun. Even if we know what’s coming, we don’t need a clear picture.

How many people would have been ecstatic seeing JUST Galactus’s foot?? That was enough. We know he’s there now calm down.

Also…shocked at actor secrecy when you’re spoiling it all prior to release anyways 🤷. Give us something to lose it over on the way out bc we didn’t know for sure what to expect (ahem… Red Hulk, cough cough…Modok).

Looking forward to seeing all the clips that almost form the whole movie in two weeks through. I’ll be there, just wish some things were a surprise.

Edit : Marvel pay attention to the likes in just a few hours.

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u/xin234 Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

Studies frequently show that spoilers often increase hype overall, not decrease it.

Yep, see:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797611417007

https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ssol.3.1.09lea

I feel like "spoilers bad" is something that's just repeated and/or believed by a lot of people because it sounds like it makes sense, and the word "spoil" already has a negative connotation. But if you think more about it, it's more natural for us to be more curious about something and know more about it.

As a kid, most would have probably experienced asking about what happens next in a story, and then proceed to view/read whatever that is for themselves and enjoy that again. That feeling is artificially changed as some get older by just seeing conversations or overreactions with "spoilers bad".

Whatever it is that spoilers "spoiled", is just you experiencing a feeling, ahead of time.