Top 10 Reasons Why the Multiverse is Getting Boring as a Plot Device

I'm aware that there are always going to be trends and things that are followed. But this is another example of Hollywood being out of touch and losing ideas, a rather blatant demonstration that every franchise needs to have this storyline. When in reality, it isn't needed or warranted at all.

There are only so many times you can make a multiverse storyline with so many different properties before it starts to get stale. It's a rather tiresome trend that becomes insufferable after a while. It's fine in small bursts, but it's when it becomes perpetually overdone that I find it annoying.

For any franchise that's run out of ideas or has been run into the ground, it is a last-resort scenario. A means of ensuring a quick buck when they have no clue what else to do with a series. It's become so commonplace that it's honestly irritating.

There are only so many times you can rehash a multiverse storyline before people get tired of it. I don't consider this interesting or intriguing as a whole, especially when it's done the same way for so long. Sometimes a stand-alone story contained in one universe is fine. When you constantly keep making multiverse storylines, it becomes less and less interesting.

How many times are we going to see this reused over and over again? It becomes less creative the more it becomes oversaturated. Now, granted, I understand that corporations are going to want to earn money, but you can still earn money and not resort to using a multiverse idea while doing so.

Sometimes, it's rather redundant to see something get a multiverse when it doesn't enrich a storyline or isn't needed for a particular series. Multiverses only work for certain properties, so when you try to enforce it onto something that doesn't need it, it feels like cashing in for the sake of profit and not for making an interesting movie.

The more people push for multiverse stories, the more bland stories will become. Granted, this isn't necessarily the case all the time, but its oversaturation leads to bland stories over time. Stories that either don't make much sense or just seem to be borderline stupid. Don't get me wrong, bland stories will always exist, and multiverse stories can be extremely bland.

If anything, having a multiverse or alternate reality in a book series, TV show, or movie franchise is just screaming, "We're running out of ideas!"

When it was exclusively Back to the Future II, it was cool and creative. Now that the MCU, the Terminator franchise, Captain Underpants, Phineas and Ferb, and every book series written by Rick Riordan (just to name a few) have either used the idea once or are milking it, it's gotten pretty easy to predict what to expect.

Different versions of the main character - or characters - come together to fight the villains from Universes A and B. It's an epic battle. The good guys win but come close to failing.

It is about as cliche as action movies having people walk away from an explosion, about as cliche as an undead horror movie villain who keeps coming back, and about as cliche as a Seth MacFarlane show, if not more so. It's another cliche that's getting old. There are only so many times you can make a multiverse storyline before it starts to lose steam and become redundant.

I used to love the concept of a multiverse because it was new and original. However, after Marvel used it and now every franchise is trying to do the same as Marvel, it is becoming more unoriginal and starting to become a cliché.