Has introducing a multiverse story ever made anything better?

[winb83]

Maybe the Spider-Man multiverse from the Sony animated movies. I can’t really think of anything else even close.

After playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth I’m convinced the multiverse as a story telling concept needs to be given a long rest. Most of the time multiverses are either used to undo a character’s death or muddy the waters of what’s going on.

The infinite worlds theory is especially poor. Maybe the Spider-Man movie works better because the other worlds are different. In one world Miles is Spider-Man and in another world it’s Peter and in another it’s Gwen.

I remember watching Infinity War / Endgame and they literally kill off a character (actually multiple characters) then pluck the same character from another world and drop them in and it’s like they effectively didn’t even die.

 

[Neuromancer]

Crisis on Infinite Earths.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[HoldThisL]

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

I need to finish deadpool and wolverine..

 

[DaSk8D00D]

It’s cool if executed well but in the modern era it definitely feels like it’s being overused as a cheap plot device to milk IPs for spinoffs and reboots

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Yes

 

[Fatboi1]

Judging by everyone else's replies it's fine for fun, non serious games often. In cases like Final Fantasy or other serious stories, multiverse shenanigans can convolute the story and just muddy the water.

 

[JuvenileHell]

multiverse stuff ruined Mortal Kombat

 

[Kaydigi]

fukk no ….

Sony has their Miles Morales voice actors saying they haven’t recorded dialog in two years.,,

 

[Novembruh]

the issue comes down to stakes.
If you introduce a multiversal issue, you immediately neuter it's importance. "so what if things go terrible in this timeline. There are others ' becomes the immediate response, even if it's subconscious.
So, either it becomes a 'save all the universes' in which case the scope gets too big, or it's a big-ass Ye Shrug when stuff starts getting tough because all the important characters can just relocate to a less-bad timeline, since we know they exist now.

It's just better for the telling of a story to keep it grounded in, at least, a singular reality.

this in terms of telling a story with conflict. If it's more of a plot device in the background of a slice-of-life, romance or just an adventure it can be fine. But if you're trying to give it gravitas, quickest way to not do that is to have a multiverse. It's a nihilism dream being told that the whole universe as you know it is 1 of many and yours doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

I’d take KH off this list as the multiverse has completely destroyed the story.

 

[pez]

It's fun when used right. It should be done sparingly. It's cool once in awhile to just bring different characters together and have a moment. It's mostly positive though. Spider-verse with Miles cartoon is amazing.