Literally every writer in the present day wants to rip off Marvel goyslop by adding "Muh infinite timelines and universes" into their stories.
"It is popular so we will copy it."
From an objective standpoint, introducing "Muh infinite everything" is like introducing time travel into a plot:
It makes the story feel like worthless goyslop, and also insipid due to how much it gets copied now.
"There are infinite versions of everything, so we can revive and re-hash anything that happens! Here is a version of this character from a universe where he has pink hair, here is version of him from a universe where he is actually a girl, here is a version of him from a universe where he is a nigger!"
You cannot escape this insipid goyslop. Literally the only reason it seems to exist is so that they can sell more toys. Just print the same action figure but with the color palette changed so they can sell more toys with less effort to be unique.
Good stories end. Things like time travel and alternate/infinite realties ensure that the writers can just keep things going on forever because they can endlessly re-hash old plots, bring back dead characters, ect.
It hurts actual story telling. It removes the stakes if every character has infinite echoes and thus can be revived ad nauseum.
There was a time when time travel and "muh infinite everything" were unique ideas.
HG Wells "The time machine" and the HP Lovecraft story where everything is revealed to be an echo of a greater self, which means everything is a reflection of Yog-Sothoth.
But now all nuance is gone because it got copied too many times to be unique. Now it has lost all uniqueness.
Marvel has "muh infinite everything", but i stopped watching movies long ago so whatever. Dungeons and Dragons decided to put "muh infinite everything" in recently, and we all know how faggotized DND has become, sadly. Another big example would be that certain goyslop cartoon that I will not even mention by name due to how soy it is.
DR Who is another example of a goyslop show that added time travel and "Muh infinite timelines" for the sole purpose of dragging their shekel cow out for as many seasons as possible.
Animorphs may have been one of the earlier examples of a story incorporating both time travel and multiverses, just so they could stretch that book series out for as long as they could, but I actually like Animorphs. It felt more unique when they did it, and unlike the examples above, Animorphs eventually ended.
All good stories must end, after all.
Anyway, what do you guys think?
Is anyone else wary of the insipid goyslop story telling in the modern age?
It feels so.... copy paste, no?
On one hand if you have characters and plots that are interesting, it is not necessarily a bad idea to have alternate stories about them, so that you can map out multiple possibilities.
But to force it into a "multiverse" is indeed just a trash solution. Also completely irrational. If there are differences, it must have occurred billions of years ago, not yesterday on Earth. Thus that change in the past causes compounding differences into the future. It can be something like humanity is completely reconfigured, different people exist with a different set of genes, or humanity doesn't exist at all, or humanity existed a mere 1 millions years earlier, or Earth doesn't exist.
It is also true that it is best to keep things simple. To have a good story and not play around needlessly, diluting the relevance of the character. For example the movie Watchmen was good as it is - there is no need to rearrange the plot.
It's a cheap device for movies. But actually I do not mind having a divergence of events in a specific point in time, leading to a whole another plot. But that's not what they're doing. Instead it's BATMAN classic, BATMAN but old, BATMAN but extra lame, etc.
I am glad to see that people here also have a distaste for the modern bad story telling.