Can Superheroes Ever Be Happy? | Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness EXPLAINED 

Scott Lang. His life improved in pretty much every way BECAUSE he became a super hero.

Pretty much nope, it seems.

If you’re Steve Rogers, sure. Man got to live a happy life, while leaving everyone else behind to deal with the problems.

The reason these movies work is because they are relatable. And the whole superhero phenomenon is a way for normal people to feel powerful because they feel like the characters are just like us only super. So no heroes can't be happy because they have to fight to get to the happy part. Like the rest of us.

Your header says HAPPY but you end up confusing love and lust. Live is putting in the time. Lust is the desire to make someone yours. If anything McAdams shows that Stephen is incapable of love.

I mean. Endgame? Paul Rudds subtle sadness and desperation when he re appears was honestly heartbreaking. Eclipsed by "I am Iron Man" by the end of course but yeah. That whole bit hit me. Him seeing his daughter grown up without him. And then grasping at time travel just to get Hope back even though he doesnt understand it. Idk he can't be jolly all the time.

It's because he has Luis in his life

Ant-man hasn’t really lost much. I mean he lost 5 years of his daughters life but he kinda threw away the first few years of her life by going to prison. So? And the 5 years felt like 5 hours to him. And he lost Hope for idk a month at best. Cap, Tony, Thor, Wanda , all of them lost everyone they loved Ant-mans gotten off easy

@@RegularRegs very true. However, Endgame was essentially the cataclysmic event that affected everyone so everyone would understandably be a bit more melancholy. It also helped that he was able to see an albeit a 5 year older version Cassie. [I read that reunion as them both being overjoyed to see each other. Remember, they both thought the other was dead. Also a VERY necessary scene after seeing everyone in a depressed state in the beginning of Endgame] Also, throughout the process, Scott's, again, largely upbeat in the process of learning about the stones [smiling during Thor's unfocused rambling that's bewildering & frustrating everyone else] & prepping for & performing said time heist [Hot Tub Time Machine, coining America's Ass]. It's literally the same energy he's carried through his individual movies. Even when he's at risk of losing the chance to see his daughter [I miss little Cassie already], going back to prison, confined under house arrest, shrinking to a subatomic level. Maybe its due his stakes being smaller in comparison [but still not any less valid], maybe its due to the charms of Paul Rudd, maybe its because he's got Luis in his corner as @Edgbarra pointed out. Whatever the reasoning, he's mostly carried through the process with an air of levity that most heroes don't.

And Ant-Man has his own podcast as well. How cool is that

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Since it's been announced that Daredevil and Kingpin will be appearing in Echo, it's not likely Clint will be back. He may have a hand in the Young or West Coast Avengers, whichever is in the pipe for the future.

No they’re must always come sacrificed to being a hero even if you want to save everyone you can’t save everyone

They can never be happy as long as they get screen time

*Yes & No, since life is not that easy* *Great powers comes with great responsibilities & sacrifices*

Not truly. Not on earth not with a full family and provide true safety is a pipe dream

Yes, they can be. The problem is that a happy superhero isn’t as relatable as a struggling superhero, so those stories rarely succeed

that's exactly the line I responded to as well. guess, there's more than just superheroes in there somewhere, heh?

But neglecting the past doesn’t do it either. It’s what the present and future are built on

Guess she can’t really alter reality after all.

You obviously don't understand Spider-Man then... Because it's not about not trusting law enforcement, it's about using his abilities to serve and protect, willingly. Cause let's be honest, being a police officer is still a career/profession, a job that cops are paid to do. And not one cop would do it for free. Peter serves the public FOR FREE... No handouts, no expecting payment, or praise in return. Sure... It'd be nice to get a little praise now and then, but that's not why Peter does what he does. Looking out for the little guy... For people who can't look out for themselves or don't have the means to properly. Cops can't be everywhere, and can't see everything... And for those times where they cannot, Peter (As Spider-Man) can. It's him, doing HIS part, as a good person, not just as a superhero. We all saw what being selfish and ignorant got him, the death of someone close to him. If you have the power to do something good, then you should. And disregarding that because you think Peter doesn't trust law enforcement makes you ignorant to the character, and what he represents... From the people who created him.

You are 100% right. I mean the first comment not the guy that answer u. The problem with a lot of fans of spiderman and a lot of superheroes us that they use their heroes to act like they are some kind of perfect example of how to act. The problem with spiderman "power=responsabiliy" is that you also have a responsability of taking care of yourself and the people you love. Spiderman is always sacrificing himself and the people near him to save random people because he's a "hero" but the problem is that he's not God. He can't save everyone, but he can save a lot of people but if he want to do that he first need to learn to take care of himself. What people call heroism and self sacrifice is something that easily can turn into a god complex, narcissim and ego. When u can't love yourself enough to sometimes stop this love will become a unhealthy control freak.

@@TheKuroSheep Or that compulsive heroism could be driven by suicide through combat. It becomes preferable to run through by Norman's glider then get scolded by your girlfriend for missing their birthday party that you promised to be at.

@@Charolette21 Is a real thing that we can apply to real man. This reason I love spiderman, the idea of heroes/soldier/young men having to fight until their last breath is just a sad reality of a world were young men are treat as a assets. When see that many number in story of wars started by power hungry and rich narscicitic people is disgusting. Because of that I don't like when people use the "responsability=powers" to excuse toxic traits that peter have because of the ideals he have of the people he care and admire. Is one of the best things about him but we as audience should understand not excuse like some people like to do. With this stories we learn the lesson of the heroes without having to lose nothing. Bcs doesn't matter his power he still a teenager who have and should take space in his hero life to be that: a teenager. The Heroe journey leads to loneliness, depression, anger and even narcissim who finally ends in a villain. The motto ur die a hero or live enough to become the villain, is only true if the heroe don't accept his human half and just like a normal human, undertand that we do our best, maybe is not enough for others or not what we wished for. Only matter is we know we did what we could and didn't sacrifice ur life for it, because what kind of hero can save everyone but not himself?So excited to Peter future. is a good message

I think it just requires more of a balance. One problem he has is constantly making too many social commitments. Too many people expect him to show up for them. I wouldn’t put that expectation on anyone. Also, he should start hanging out with more people like him. Super smart or super powered, so he doesn’t have to worry so much about their safety. Don’t tell me he would be in a much better place with Black Cat as his girlfriend

Steve Rogers grew old with Peggy Carter and found happiness.

He also got his happy ending by leaving everyone else behind

This is why I think The Boys is more like it would be in the real world if we had supes.

@@sleinadb I totally agree!!

@@thetotaldramaking5427 Like...be careful what you wish for!

Young Justice has to be in my top 3 superhero shows ever. The nuance in the character writing and development is amazing e.g Vandal Savage

@@balogungaa2301 for me as well... it's such an incredible show! And like you said it, very well writen!

The key is balance and support. Families tend to isolate themselves from others and as a result put a lot more pressure on themselves when they could have more help. In tribal communities, everyone looks out for each other more closely and everyone knows the roles they have to play in order to live. If you look at the FF, they not only have each other, but also many people they can look to support them, even a giant robot Dragon man. Also, they embrace what they are and what they do in its entirety. There is no division of identity, and as a result the are complete as both individuals and as a unit

I'll like to think that Natasha was pretty happy after bringing everyone back.

That's western philosophy. Eastern philosophy has been meditating about the elusive nature of happiness for a lot longer and realized that the chase is in it of itself the illusion. They practice contemplation of one's place in the big picture, and contentment of being a small, almost insignificant part of it. So, inner peace is achieved, and that is the mature state of true happiness.

@@enicot I get that. Iay need to think in it more. I don't equate peace being happiness, but maybe it is.

except the pursuit of happiness is a fallacy that was never entertained until the Greek era. Purpose was the ideal to strive towards. The foundation to build your life on. Everything else is temporary

These days it's more teenagers preferring the villains,

Well Heroes and Villains are almost the same they have similar painful backstory but the difference were how they cope with that pain on the effects of it on their personality like heroes doesn't want others to feel the pain he had felt and the villain wanting to destroy the world whom inflicted pain towards him.

@@edward2815 very true, which is why I find both heroes and villains interesting and I don’t really like heroes and villains that are just “pure good” or “pure evil” because that’s just bland and uninteresting unless there is some complexity thrown in there or it’s executed very well.

@@edward2815 as an adult we can understand both, but we should be on the side of the hero as they have coped with their pain in a much better manner

That’s not the aspect of happiness he was talking about.

@@jakeman025 Nah I'm talking in general, man used to make us laugh in the hardest situations

@@itz_yeastic yeah I know and that’s not what he’s talking about in the video at all.

I agree, that being said it’s important to note that as long as the story continues, there will always be problems. People want happily ever after, but it’s just not real. Stories are about solving the days problems and going to the next. Which is what life is all about. Not to say the stories should be depressing, but if you look at one’s like Star Wars or Dune it’s just like real life: you live till you die. Like a biopic basically

Who's to say that Cap sat back and watched? Who's to say that all of his knowledge, he didn't use to prevent things from happening, by being able to inform someone who could...? Maybe even give hints or point people in the right direction if he felt he couldn't quite say it directly. Steve had to go through a lot to find his happy. It wasn't instant, and it took a bit. Not only was he worthy of lifting "Mjollnir", but worthy of a happy life. His second chance to live it with the woman he loves. And FYI, NWH is NOT falling into a comic book trap, as that is the life of "Peter Parker" being "Spider-Man". His career as Spider-Man doesn't allow for him to have the happy he wants ALL the time. If you've read any Spider-Man comic, you would know that he's had happy moments. Marrying MJ, having kids with her, but, he has also suffered loss, that of course, isn't happy or a happy moment... But that's life. I think the point of this video, or the real question of this video is: "What IS Happiness?"... How would the heroes define "Happy", or "Being Happy"?

@@Kal824 no, that is illusion of "Peter Parker being Spider-Man" created by Marvel editors over the years. Almost every tragic event over Spidey's career has been the result of Marvel editorial going: "Spidey sure is in a good place, huh? He has family, a girlfriend/wife, friends, and allies. You, writer, get rid of them."

My theory is that he knew he had to let things happen as they did in order to get the correct outcome. Self serving some...yes...because it also meant he would eventually get to go back and be...him.

@@elenadirectorofmiiss7942 But that's the entire point of Peter's story. That's how "HE"S" been written, FOR YEARS! And that's how he'll always be written... This isn't new. You obviously haven't read a Spider-Man comic book.

@@Kal824 Precisley, Maybe Old Man Cap was the one who Called Fury about Nat and save her from the Red Room. Keep in mind that Steve would know when and where exactly Nat was when she was saved by Clint and Coulson. Maybe Old Man Cap as Peggy Husband Called Fury on that day and explain to him about Nat's and her Situation. It's doesn't even need to just been about Natasha. Clint, Coulson, Even Maria Hill to a extent, Maybe it was old Man Cap who brought them into SHIELD.

Correct but if people lived forever we would have a different approach to "living" and what that actually means.

Oh gosh, cry me a river dude. She's a menace and needs to pay for her crimes!