Ohjaajat Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott ja Francis Ford Coppola ovat kaikki ilmaisseet oman kritiikkinsä koskien Marvelin supersankarielokuvia. Mielipiteitä on tietenkin monia, mutta tietynlaista uupumusta supersankarielokuvien ja -sarjojen runsaasta tarjonnasta johtuen on havaittavissa. Saman lajityypin rymistelyjä saadaan silti jatkossakin varsin tasaiseen tahtiin.
Ohjaaja James Gunn on kommentoinut tilannetta Geek Tyrantille. Hänen mukaansa kyse ei ole lajityypistä vaan siitä, millaisia tarinoita katsojille kerrotaan.
"I think there is such a thing as superhero fatigue. I think it doesn't have anything to do with superheroes. It has to do with the kind of stories that get to be told, and if you lose your eye on the ball, which is character. We love Superman. We love Batman. We love Iron Man. Because they're these incredible characters that we have in our hearts. And if it becomes just a bunch of nonsense onscreen, it gets really boring. But I get fatigued by most spectacle films, by the grind of not having an emotionally grounded story. It doesn't have anything to do with whether they're superhero movies or not. If you don't have a story at the base of it, just watching things bash each other, no matter how clever those bashing moments are, no matter how clever the designs and the VFX are, it just gets fatiguing, and I think that's very, very real."
