It's like if you use the fake death too many times (hi DC and Marvel comics!), if you use them too many times, not only going to buy it eventually, but get annoyed we're going through this song and dance again of it becomes a meme like with Optimus Prime.īut this isn't just a Marvel thing and bathos has been used since the times ancient Greek plays in Athens.
People (and looking right at you Hollywood itself) forget that writing comedy is MUCH harder than writing tragedy and/or drama because it's far much subjective and everything is held together by the timing, performance and the quality of the writing which makes it very noticeable when something is off. To be clear, 'Marvel writing' here means Bathos right?īathos like anything in writing is a tool that can be done well and wrong and should be used sparingly otherwise it's affect loses its touch or you end up affecting how your audience views your work of fiction, in this case not to take anything seriously or sincerely.