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Marvel shit in the multiverse they didn’t even take it to heart Everything everywhere all at once is one of the few multiverse things you should take serious. 
Also fuck marvel everything they drop is straight garbage, certified visual junk food.
There exists a universe where the multiverse is interesting >

Jjba >

Multiverses destroy stakes and consequences. Almost as ridiculous to use as time travel. >

Time travel / multiverse done right is an effective combination 
steins gate for example >

In another genre, Everything Everywhere All At Once is pretty freaking great >

anime isnt a genre.. its a medium >

Steins gate is a scifi-drama, everything everywhere is a comedy... >

It's a science fiction comedy. >

Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV. >

Where Marvel uses the multiverse to just expand the cow to milk, >

wait, besides EEAAO and dr Strange, what else is using multiverse as plot point in movies? >

Almost every superhero has gone into it at some point (superman, flash, Spider-Man, venom, etc).  
Star Trek, Shrek, Dr. Who, Phineas and Ferb, Twilight Zone, Futurama, Simpsons, Pokemon, Buffy, Community, even My Little Pony has done it. 
In terms of movies you got Back to the Future, Another Earth, Butterfly Effect, About Time, Mr. Nobody. >

Pokemon hasn't really covered alternate universes besides having a few throwaway lines in a remake referencing the original version of the game. The rest has been heavy fan speculation (besides Ultra Space, but I'm not even sure if that counts).
Doctor Who has had two TV stories since the revival in 2005 that were related to parallel universes, and even those stories were connected.
Shrek was time travel, not multiverse. >

Pokemon is absolutely multiverse, even if we ignore Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon, in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire you send an asteroid about to hit the earth to another universe and the people from that universe enters yours and tells you off for it. >

That's not actually quite what happened. That was the "throwaway line" dialogue I was referring to.
What happens is there is a meteor hurdling towards Earth. One NPC in the game (Zinnia) insists that the only way to handle it is by capturing Rayquaza and enabling it to Mega Evolve to destroy the meteor. Plenty of others, though, (namely actual scientists) insist on the much safer method of using the Pokemon trade "Link Cable" system to essentially open a wormhole and send it to what they assume to be another universe.
The only actual mention of a potential multiverse is when Zinnia insists that the scientists can't just send the meteor to another universe, because in our universe, we know for a fact that we have other means to destroy the meteor (Mega Evolution), but for all we know, we could be sending it to another universe just like our own but without Mega Evolution. A little tongue-in-cheek nod to the original Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald games. >

What else would you call that if not a different parallel universe? >

I didn't call it anything else. All I said is that they haven't exactly delved into the concept of alternate universes beyond a couple throwaway lines in ORAS, and also the Ultra Space stuff in USUM. Beyond that, Pokemon has not touched the concept of the multiverse in the slightest (which I think is a massive loss since there's a lot of potential there). >

Marvel killed the multiverse by making it boring >

“Its called the Multiverse of Madness? And its a horror movie? Oooo I wonder if we’ll see like an evil demonic looking Doctor Strange, or a being that makes up the entire universe like Dormamu, or Lovecraft stuff. That would be dope as fuck.”
Marvel: “Yeah so we got the evil Doctor Strange, he has a third eye! WOOoOoOo.. Uh, Scarlet Witch is the main antagonist. We basically treated the multiverse like set pieces rather than anything else. Huh, damn your ideas were a lot better than ours…” >

Also we’re gonna pretend to kill off the scarlet witch in an obviously bait and switch death, because we can’t give any character a full arc when they can print money >

I mean, come on, it's a comic book movie. >

i love multiple universes in the sense of like, totally different dimensions that aren't alternate timelines, but instead different realms of existence altogether. i do love alternate timelines as a concept, but most people are very bad at making anything involving time travel or multiple timelines. >

Definitely agree with this. Too many sci-fi shows start of good then run out of ideas and the writers think "let's just have them meet themselves in a parallel world" etc. >

I commend the writers on Lost for not succumbing to that. They were really scraping the bottom of the barrel by S7 but still pulled it off >

Instead, they fell back on “everyone’s dead and this is the afterlife.” >

Haha ya but I mean even before that. The time travel and physics stuff 
It was teetering pretty close on multiverse and then they did a total 180 with all the religious stuff >

I agree, honestly I enjoyed the multiverse stuff in Rick and Morty but that's because it's a pretty significant part of the show (at least in later seasons) after marvel did their multiverse stuff I stopped enjoying when other medias do hat type of content. >

Not unpopular. This take is on this sub all the time. >

There exists a universe where the multiverse is interesting >

Thank you for your unique and interesting take. >

ooh Jeez rick >

Community and their Darkest Timeline. Star Trek's Mirror Universe.  It's been around a long time. >

Remedial Chaos Theory is like my favorite episode of Community. It's streets ahead. >

Fringe was so good though. >

The MCU has become infinitely more confusing since they threw in multiverse. Now there’s an infinite number of universes where Thanos never snapped, or Tony never dies, or Natasha never dies, or any character that died is still alive. It removes all stakes >

Then should they have instead added more stakes by, say, brainwashing actors to believe they're their characters for the duration of the shoot and killing the actors when the characters die >

I would be very upset with this, but you better believe i'd be glued to that screen. >

It’s an easy way to retcon things away. >

Oh, so that means you avoid a minority of media then? >

Yep. Marvel is betting big on it and I just don’t see it having legs. >

I like it, makes anything possible >

I appreciate this. I don’t hate it across the board. Simpsons did it with a toaster and I’ve loved the concept ever since… just sad watching it get pummeled to death lately. >

"Multiverse" is creative writing gone amuck.  Star Trek Discovery, The Flash, and myriads of other franchises are destroyed from this lazy concept. >

As a physics student, I can guarantee there are plenty of much more interesting topics you can base a movie off. Interstellar did it right >

Somewhere out in the multiverse there is a version of you that finds it very entertaining >

I’m deeply sorry to have disappointed you. I’ll carry that shame with me all day. Maybe there’s a universe where I’m interesting. >

Agreed. It a lazy way to retcon missing storylines into the current one. How do we explain missing characters from the original comics or series and tie them together? Multiverse! Easy!
Another one I hope fades more and more is zombies in every goddamn video game. >

Well, kinda, but Marvel has the opportunity to do something different with Secret Wars (which is basically the end of the multiverse) IF they follow the 2015 comic >

Name literally one thing in media/storytelling that hasn’t been done completely to death at this point. There’s nothing left to do that someone won’t think is boring. >


Name literally one thing in media/storytelling that hasn’t been done completely to death at this point.

Weird stuff like Legion + Doom Patrol. >

Well I haven’t seen Legion, and I haven’t finished doom patrol, but like a band of heroes coming together to save the world? You sure that hasn’t been done like a whole lot? 
Remember we’re just talking in broad terms here because that’s what OP did. They just said “multiverses” so for those examples, to simplify them in the same way that OP is, it just becomes “super heroes” which yeah, I think we’ve definitely done a whole lot (and I’m not mad about it) >

Multiverses and time travel are cop outs for bad writing imo >

EEAAO, Rick and Morty, MCU, Into The Spider-Verse, the Arrowverse.
Five major properties that have recently used the multiverse trope. If that counts as overused to you, you need to broaden your media horizon.
Avatar, Top Gun, The Batman, Glass Onion, The Menu, The Northman, Pinocchio, Nope, Elvis, Bullet Train, Prey, The Black Phone. Those are just movies from last year. Think about all the popular TV shows from last year that also did not have a multiverse plot. >

Point gotten but invalid comparison as Top Gun, Glass Onion, Elvis and iirc even Bullet Train and The Menu didn't have any sci-fi or fantasy elements within them (sure, fantastical things, but not in the same way) that a multiverse plot could be hung upon and Elvis was a freakin' biopic >

That doesn’t make them invalid examples. OP said the multiverse was overused in media, not in sci-fi media. >

If you are not gonna do a crossover/team-up or you re not rick and morty, just dont do it. (Havent seen EEAAO yet, but that seems to be the exception) >

watch it, it's great! Where Marvel uses the multiverse to just expand the cow to milk, EEAAO uses it as a very clever "stage trick" to drive the main character's arc. >

Does The Cosmere count as multiverse? Because it is quite good. >

My issue with them is that the core earth is always the focus and the other earths feel inferior. So if the heroes or citizens die on the "other" earths, it doesn't hit as hard as if it happened on the "prime" earth. This is a huge, lazy trope that writers fall into. >

Way less over-used than the concept of heaven, hell, and an all seeing creator, that took the form of a primate and focused ‘his’ entire attention on a little speck of rock that takes up 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003% of the known universe. >

the man in the high castle is exempt from this scrutiny. 
unless your qualm with multiple dimensions is that there are possibilities for anything, then I cant really help you, because all movies are like alternative realities in their own way, even for example; a documentary that fails to bring all the facts, or a misrepresentation of a true event, could be a perfect depiction in another dimension (or time). >

You should check out His Dark Materials. They actually managed to make a pretty kick ass multiverse fantassy show. 
I've been thinking the same thing recently but that show changed my mind. >

Agreed.   It's essentially a bad/lazy writer cheat code now.