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I'm not the same guy who asked earlier, but in terms of movies, don't you think the better known characters (Spidey, Supes, Bats) could have new film franchises that don't spend a lot of time on origin stories, since almost everyone knows it anyways? Just gloss over it, like Grant Morrison did on the first page of All-Star Superman, before spending the rest of the series focusing on telling a great story that didn't rely on your knowledge of the origin.
I think there’s a difference between “gloss over it” and “Don’t tell the origin at all.” I also think that assuming that people who are not as invested in these characters as we are know everything important about them is a good way to lose the mainstream audience that you need to make a film like that successful. Again, BATMAN in 1989 is a good example of how you could do this, it opens with Batman as fait accompli, but then unravels the circumstances of his origin along the path of the film. Had they not done that, though, I don’t think that movie would have worked, or been the draw that it was. The fact that you can understand the trauma that motivates batman is part of what makes him compelling, as a character and a person even more than as an action hero.
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