# Refuted memes that won't stay dead

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**Created:** [July 4, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuted-memes-that-wont-stay-dead/1020488 "2025-07-04T15:48:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuted-memes-that-wont-stay-dead/1020488/217 "2025-07-18T20:25:35Z")

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The observation that “MCU movies always end in a big fight” is accurate, but phrasing it as a criticism is a little ridiculous. Yes, the action movie is going to end with an action scene. That’s the genre. It’s like complaining about how musicals always end with a song-and-dance number.

But the _actual_ criticism in the Superman thread, which @Chronos was originally responding to, wasn’t “always ends in a fight,” but more specifically:

> [@Superman (2025)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-2025/1011886/105):
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> The “bad guy is a threat and good guy punches them until they are knocked out” story is kind of inherently bad anyway.

Which was just a general comment on what kind of stories make good stories. A second poster said that described the MCU, and Chronos correctly pointed out that it’s wrong, and that a lot of MCU films _don’t_ end with the hero successfully overpowering the bad guy, even though there’s always a big action scene in the third act. (Because, again, they’re action movies.)

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