When Marvel started their multiverse idea, this is, of course, an idea that has been there in comics for a very long time, but when they put it into the movie world, I became a little worried, I guess more than worried.

I had the impression that they were going to use this multiverse notion to bring about, you know, the kind of diversity, inclusion, equity stuff that is so popular now,

and that they would use it as a way to replace characters with everything that is kind of

in line with the current political thinking. And we had a little bit of glimpse of that where

in the Loki series, they seem to be using the

multiverse notion to replace the male Loki with the female Loki and as the

series goes on you know this female Loki becomes more and more prominent and at

the end it seems like the series is about her or something and you saw that also

in the animated what if series where every episode seems to be about

something like that.

And so I was, of course, thinking that it was kind of a postmodern tool because the whole

multiverse idea is a kind of postmodern tool in itself.

But then I was quite surprised when I saw the recent Spider-Man movie No Way Home. And in the Spider-Man

movie No Way Home, I saw something that I've been thinking about for a very long time,

that I've been meditating on, which is the possibility of turning post-modernism against itself

or rather transforming the chaos and the fragmentation and the meta awareness

and the irony and the comment upon comment

that you find in postmodernism

and turning it into something like

an apocalyptic type of storytelling.

So I think that it's surprisingly enough

in the No Way Home movie, we get a glimpse of that.

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