Originally Posted by
Sutekh
I think Mads Mikkelson really sold that, and the exchange, 'It's Strange.' 'Perhaps. Who am I to judge?' because it was all kind of straight, and not intentionally funny from the character, like one of Stark's quips. It's a fine line. Some saw not enough humor and want everything to be Guardians of the Galaxy/Deadpool level funny, others want more Nolan Batfilm level serious. (I found the comedy bits with the cape of levitation to be a bit much, personally. But it didn't ruin the movie for me or anything!)
And I'd hope that anything funny about WandaVision stems from the surreal nature of the situation they are in, and some whacky 'Vizh doesn't get X' fish-out-of-water moments (like Cap often got, but delivered in such a way that it didn't make *him* look like a whacky guy).
There have occasionally been some fun moments, but they have become fewer and further apart, IMO. I remember some from the '80s, often involving the X-Men (bowl of egg salad to the face! football game gone awry as the half-dozen overzealous ball-chasers all collide with each other and the wheelchair-bound Professor! Maddy's reaction upon being handed Kitty Pryde's 'cat' (actually a small dragon) to hold.) but also the Avengers (random passerby with a mohawk meets Thor on the sidewalk and offers to give him a haircut, and he looks at her mohawk and says, 'But how would my helmet stay on?').
I feel like some the change comes from today's writers feeling like they have less turnaround time, and the 'storytelling' being tied to events, and feeling like they have to cram in X amount of story, while servicing all sorts of external agendas, such as setting up for the next big event, or dealing with crossover characters / editorially-mandated guest-stars, etc. and not having as much page space to devote to the characters kind of goofing off. So we don't get to see the X-Men having their annual baseball/football/basketball games, or Ben Grimm hosting his one-time regular poker games, at which Wonder Man, Beast, Nick Fury, Carol Danvers, She-Hulk, etc. were semi-regular players (also creating a non-sinister-Illuminati gathering of heroes from different corners of the MU, some X, some FF, some A, etc.).