Antony Starr Throws Subtle Shade on MCU by Hinting Gunn Is the Answer to Superhero Fatigue: “The audience is hungry”

‘The Boys’ Season 4 recently finished airing, and so far the reactions have been amazing with Amazon publishing record viewership for the final episode. Being a superhero series itself, the show managed to be somewhat immune to the phenomenon of ‘superhero fatigue.” Mostly due to its vastly different take on the whole genre and its themes.

Antony Starr, the star of the show whose portrayal of Homelander has been praised and compared to Heath Ledger’s Joker, recently commented on superhero fatigue and joined other influential names in the industry.

Superhero fatigue is most often connected to MCU, whose projects, with the exception of ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ were met with mixed-to-negative reviews in the last few years. The theory states that people are tired of the oversaturation of superhero media, and things get even worse with similar plotlines, character arcs, or tropes. In the context of the MCU, some proponents of the theory claim that MCU’s projects are not badly written and executed, the people are just suffering from superhero fatigue.

Antony Starr recently joined the debate, the actor claims that there is no superhero fatigue, the audiences are hungry for superhero content and he can’t wait to see what happens with Gunn’s upcoming DCU projects:

No, not at all. Actually, I question where the fatigue lies. And I think, without digging into the specifics of anything that has or hasn’t been successful, I’m very curious to see what happens around any notion of superhero fatigue when James Gunn’s superhero [projects] come out. I don’t think the audience is fatigued, let me put it that way. I think the audience is hungry. We were just down in Mexico doing a CCXP down there. And they are hungry as hell for superhero content.

Gunn and Starr are good friends, which in recent times prompted numerous rumors that the actor will be cast in the DCU, notably as Booster Gold, something that the actor himself debunked.

Gunn himself commented on Starr’s statement, naturally, he agrees with him:

“I did [see Starr’s comments] and, as usual, and unsurprisingly, I’m on board with Antony.”

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