Why are the latest superhero movies so super similar?

“Batman v Superman”

“Captain America: Civil War”

“X-Men: Apocalypse”

Teams

The title says it all.

Cap & friends vs. Iron Man & friends.

Professor X and optimistic mutants vs. Magneto

and pessimists.

Why so angry?

Metropolis was destroyed, and

what’s to stop Supes from

doing worse?

New York was destroyed, and what’s

to stop Avengers from doing worse?

Humanity sucks and should be destroyed.

Manipulative villain

Tech mogul Lex Luthor.

Scientist Baron Zemo.

Ancient mutant Apocalypse.

Look! New characters

for future movies!

Wonder Woman,

Ben Affleck as Batman.

Black Panther, Tom Holland

as Spider-Man.

Psylocke and young versions of Nightcrawler,

Cyclops, Storm and Jean Grey.

Dragged-out

climactic battle

All over Gotham and Metropolis

Outside an airport terminal

At an ancient Egyptian temple