Marvel's subversive humour is now predictable and cliché

We all love that moment in The Avengers when Hulk interrupts Loki's monologue by grabbing him and smashing him repeatedly into the ground. We didn't expect it and it's genuinely funny. It works because it parodies the trope of the villain over-explaining himself to the heroes for expositional purposes. Marvel clearly understood what made that scene work because they have used the same pattern of subverting the expectations of a scene by using comedy in so many of their other films in the MCU.But now I think they are over-using it to the point where I expect any serious scene in a Marvel film to be immediately followed by an ironic joke. What was once unexpected and fresh is now unoriginal and predictable.Take this scene from Infinity War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VncZ1cmOZ24It's a beautiful, poignant scene full of character conflict and emotion. It should have ended right after they kissed. Yet for some reason it continues and is ruined by a (in my opinion) stupid joke by Drax. Instead of leaving the audience with a bittersweet reflection of their relationship (along with some foreshadowing), the scene undercuts the drama with comedy. Why do this?Their more comedic films like Guardians Of The Galaxy and Thor:Ragnarok are jam-packed with this kind of humour although it is more forgiving in these films as it fits the overall tone. But their more serious films like Black Panther still suffer from this such as here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAd-9GE0S98 where the joke feels awkwardly shoved in to stop the scene from being too dramatic or when M'Baku yawns after T'Challa reunites with his family.With Captain Marvel and Endgame coming out this year, I fully expect this sort of humour to continue interrupting dramatic scenes. It would be probably be subversive now to just let these scenes end as seriously as they begin. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2tR5BOJ