Marvel rolls the dice after Endgame: enter Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio

Spider-Man: Far from Home sees the franchise on familiar turf – but the arrival of a shady new character throws up questionsThis article contains spoilers for Avengers: EndgameStan Lee’s great genius, in the early Marvel comics, was to give superheroes psyches.

Where Batman and Superman felt in their early decades like superficial entities shut off from everyday problems, Peter Parker was as likely to be worrying about Aunt May’s ability to pay the bills as the next supervillain on his radar.Similarly, much of the joy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been its ability to make us see its superheroes as real people, with the same issues as the rest of us.

In the wake of 2012’s Avengers, Tony Stark’s Iron Man emerged as a Ptsd-afflicted wreck of his former brash and bold self, and we liked him even better for it.

Thor has been

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