You suggest that the "shared universe" might "protect" us from a repeat of the origin story as if a remade origin story in ten years would be a bad thing - I'm not so sure. Stories get retold - every few years you get a new Robin Hood, or a new King Arthur, for example. From my limited knowledge of comics I understand that Spider-Man's origin story wasn't just written, used in the first ever Spider-Man issue and then never revisited. Heck, can you imagine the sort of mess panto producers (or LARP plotwriters) would be in if the same stories couldn't be told afresh every few years?
There doesn't need to be protection from reworkings of old stories, because new versions of an old tale aren't necessarily a bad thing.
Maybe protect was too strong a word. I am on board with the idea of stories being retold. I think there is room in the world for Adam West, Michael Keaton and Christian Bale as Batman, so I certainly don't have a problem with incarnations of Robin Hood and King Arthur
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There doesn't need to be protection from reworkings of old stories, because new versions of an old tale aren't necessarily a bad thing.
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