Nicolas Cage isn’t just playing a Spider-Man in a noir universe — he’s calling out the MCU for becoming a glorified WWE. At Fan Expo Dallas, the actor, who recently wrapped his role as Ben Reilly in Prime Video’s Spider-Noir, didn’t hold back. 'It’s hard for me not to be reminded that the MCU is becoming a well-funded and glorified WWE,' he said during a Q&A, lamenting the franchise’s shift from storytelling to spectacle. He wasn’t talking about any one film, just the rhythm of recent installments, where ‘cutting all to the fight’ feels like the only narrative left. The Oscar winner, who’s never been in an MCU movie, pointed to his own work on Spider-Noir as proof that Marvel stories can still breathe: 'It was a detective story. There was a mystery there.' That version of Spider-Man wasn’t swinging through cities. It was chasing shadows. And Cage wants more of that. His comments echo earlier critiques, most famously Martin Scorsese’s 2019 claim that superhero films are ‘not cinema.’ Jessica Lange added her voice in 2023, saying comic-book movies have sacrificed art for profit. But this time, it’s Cage, the man who once played a flaming motorcycle demon in Ghost Rider. Who’s sounding off. And with Marvel’s next reboot, Ghost Rider, set for July 28, 2028, starring Ryan Gosling, the irony isn’t lost on anyone. The studio’s building its next big spectacle while a former Marvel player calls the whole thing a wrestling match in spandex. So what comes next? A return to character-driven plots, or another round of CGI carnage?