Over the previous few weeks, Marvel trailers have been unimaginable to keep away from. Every of the teasers for Avengers: Doomsday absolutely embraces superhero extra, promising over-the-top adventures with acquainted faces. The teasers have been about bringing again favorites from motion pictures previous, together with Captain America, Thor, and the X-Males.
However earlier than we get to Doomsday, we get to satisfy Simon Williams, the primary characeter of the Disney+ miniseries Surprise Man. And if the present’s newest trailer is any indication, Surprise Man is making an attempt to be all the things that Doomsday will not be. With font and music decisions that really feel much less like a Marvel film and extra like a Wes Anderson movie, the trailer exhibits how struggling actor Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and the one-time Mandarin Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley) put together to star in eccentric auteur Von Kovak’s (Zlatko Burić of Triangle of Unhappiness and Superman) massive display screen model of the cult TV present Surprise Man. Alongside the best way, the trailer raises the query of superhero fatuige, the very phenomenon that Marvel created.
For the uninitiated, superhero fatigue is the time period used to explain the explanation that MCU and DCEU have ceased to dominate the field workplace like they as soon as did. The time period means that followers who as soon as fortunately lined as much as watch even deep-cut characters just like the Guardians of the Galaxy and made outright disasters like Suicide Squad into field workplace phenomenons received’t even take a look at good Marvel exhibits resembling Loki season 2. Particularly, audiences don’t come any extra as a result of superhero motion pictures have grow to be overblown, formulaic, and convoluted; making individuals really feel like they’re doing homework when watching the movies, not having fun with themselves.
Surprise Man appears to deal with the problem of superhero fatigue not simply by having characters discuss in regards to the concern, but additionally by downplaying the superheroic components. Whereas there’s a quick point out to the truth that Trevor appeared in Iron Man 3 because the false Mandarin, there are not any ideas of bigger connections to the MCU: no Avengers, no Physician Doom, no Spider-Man. You don’t even must know who the Division of Injury Management is to comply with the plot. Furthermore, the teaser downplays Simon’s powers a lot that nobody watching the trailer essentially understands what Surprise Man can do.
