Avengers Endgame Is The Best Comic Book Movie Ever

2. It's A True Love Letter To Comics, Just Like Spider-Verse

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Although Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse didn't pioneer the concept of embracing comic books with unrelenting enthusiasm, it did manage to perfect it. Sony animation's Oscar-winning film is a classic in the making, boundless in its vision and breathtaking in its execution. It thrives by writing a love letter both to comics and animation, and due to being an animated film, there's pretty much nowhere that it can't go.

Live action, on the other hand, is a different story. There are limits, both budgetary and otherwise, that restrict comic book movies in particular from going that extra mile. Endgame manages to have none of those concerns, and while it can't quite match the scope of Spider-Verse, it is epic in the truest sense.

Whether it's by replicating the connection between Marvel and its readers for the big screen, or in delivering on some of the most brilliant (and yet oh so bonkers) concepts from the comics themselves, Endgame is a pure and unabashed celebration of Marvel, superheroes, and the comic book medium.

The film is a living testament to the creativity Marvel's books exhibit, and have exhibited, pretty much since the 1940s. The legacies of dozens of different creatives can be found in the film, and though this aspect is certainly diminished by the fact many of those figures will never see the kind of success those involved in the films have, in replicating the most captivating elements of the Marvel mythos, Endgame is a cut above the rest.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.