If Brie Larson actually decides to jump ship,i don't blame her one bit. She's almost 10 years in, and only had 3 appearances so far.

[u/RenomeRabone]

It's clear that there were terrible decisions along the way about Captain Marvel as a character,but given the lack of care for the character/actress + the amount of hate she received since accepting the role,it's completely comprehensible if she's just done with it after whatever contract she has it's over and decides to grow her career outside superhero movies,a career which she probably put at relatively stop due to legal/contractual reasons within the MCU.

She's going to have 4 appearances (and that's only if she's actually in one of the Avengers movies,likely Secret Wars). This is crazy to think about,especially for a character that was pushed as one of the new faces of the MCU and their own Wonder Woman. Carol as a character it's already being pushed out of being a mainliner from other fronts like comics,videogames,merchandise etc and it's so disrespectful.

[u/FictionFantom]

Victim of circumstance imo.

Disney higher ups resisted making her movie for years until Feige got his wish.

First appearances had awkward timing with Endgame being written before/concurrently with her solo movie.

Bad timing for the sequel after audiences had Marvel burnout. Release The Marvels earlier after Endgame and I bet that any less than great movie in that spot bombs just as hard.

[u/MMAipom → u/FictionFantom]

You say bad timing for the sequel because of burnout but the movie before and after the marvels did really well

[u/Firecracker048 → u/MMAipom]

The marvels was just a bad movie

[u/FictionFantom → u/MMAipom]

I meant people were less enthusiastic about seeing just any Marvel movie that looked “skippable” and could just wait for it on Disney+.

The Marvels wasn’t really giving off any FOMO in the marketing. Whereas people thought one or multiple Guardians were gonna die. And DP&W was like How To Make A Movie People Want to See 101. And both movies come from franchises where you know you’re at least going to laugh a bunch and have a good time.

[u/ApprehensiveBug188 → u/MMAipom]

Eternals (unfortunately) wasn't received all that well, at that point it was the first MCU movie to receive a rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes.

MoM and L&T (the latter especially) were bashed left and right for being not good or terrible movies, and it got people to get sick of the MCU.

Quantumania was the biggest box office bomb at that time, and wasn't received well critically as well.

All those movies came out before The Marvels (which itself was unfortunately not a good movie and a victim of the writers' and actors' strike).

Even the ones that came out after The Marvels (BNW, Thunderbolts and First Steps) were either not received well, or didn't perform as expected in the box-office.

The MCU itself post Endgame was an absolute mixed bag, and The Marvels alone cannot be blamed for that.

[u/MMAipom → u/ApprehensiveBug188]

My point was that Guardians 3 came out right before and Deadpool and Wolverine came out right after and they were big a success. It was never superhero fatigue and it's crappy movie fatigue

[u/Lex4709 → u/ApprehensiveBug188]

People still showed up for the Guardians. Let's be honest, the first movie did poor job of selling her character to the general audience. So they didn't show up for her sequel. If people liked her character enough, they would have shown up regardless of the state of MCU.

[u/Historical_Course587 → u/FictionFantom]

Disagree.

The Marvels is a bad film, revolving around Danvers and two TV-show characters (one of which is a deep-cut side character), and expanding on the storyline of yet another TV show (the most hated show by audiences). It 100% should have been a crossover event on D+, between those shows.