# Refuted memes that won't stay dead

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**Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuted-memes-that-wont-stay-dead/1020488/207 "2025-07-11T03:34:11Z")

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> [@Superman (2025)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-2025/1011886/154):
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> At least two of them (Dr. Strange and Thor: Ragnarok) involved the heroes resolving the problem by losing a big violent fight.

For bonus points, Strange’s sequel doesn’t involve a problem getting resolved by dint of the antagonist being zapped into a coma — or beaten to death, or trapped in some alternate realm, or whatever — but, in the end, by dint of getting her to realize the error of her ways.

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