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"Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor"

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Arad is selling a sequel the way a producer sells any upgraded product: less setup, more payoff. The “origin story” line isn’t just a plot note, it’s a meta-wink at audience fatigue. Superhero cinema trained people to treat backstory as obligatory vegetables before dessert; Arad’s pitch is that the vegetables are gone now, so the movie can finally taste like something.

The phrasing is tellingly managerial. “Delve deeper” and “their lives and characters and angst” sound like a checklist of prestige ingredients, the kind that reassure fans and financiers alike that the franchise is “maturing.” He’s signaling a shift from mechanics (how they got powers) to maintenance (what it costs to live with them). “Angst” does double duty: it promises emotional stakes while staying safely generic, a PG-13 word for suffering that won’t scare off four-quadrant audiences.

Then comes the real KPI: “more heart, more humor.” That’s the modern blockbuster’s trust fall. Heart is the claim to legitimacy, the alibi that this isn’t just IP extraction. Humor is the guarantee of accessibility, the pressure valve that keeps angst from getting heavy and keeps the brand from feeling self-serious. Read between the lines and you can see the post-origin mandate of franchise storytelling: once the brand is established, you’re expected to deepen without darkening, to evolve without alienating. It’s not an artistic manifesto so much as a calibration statement - a producer’s promise that character will be the engine, but entertainment will remain the fuel.

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Arad, Avi. (2026, January 15). Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/once-we-got-over-the-origin-story-we-could-really-140285/

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Arad, Avi. "Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/once-we-got-over-the-origin-story-we-could-really-140285/.

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"Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/once-we-got-over-the-origin-story-we-could-really-140285/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Avi Arad (born 1948) is a Businessman from Israel.

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