Nicolas Cage, who once played a Spider-Man in a universe where the web-slinger wore a trench coat and smoked cigars, has just dropped a mic on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At Fan Expo Dallas, the man behind Ghost Rider and Spider-Noir didn’t mince words: the MCU, he said, is now a ‘well-funded and glorified WWE’. The comment landed with the weight of a punchline — but it came from someone who’s lived inside superhero lore, not just watched it from the sidelines. He wasn’t mocking the franchise’s scale or its fans. He was mourning something he once believed in: storytelling that built worlds, not just fight sequences. 'It started out terrific,' he admitted. 'Some of the early stories were marvelous.' But lately? 'Cutting to the fight', that’s all anyone sees. No more threads. Just spectacle. And Cage, a man who once named his son Kal-El, isn’t wrong about the shift. His own Spider-Noir series lasted one season. Canceled, not because of quality, but because the machine moved on. Still, he called it perfect. 'Onwards, upwards, inwards.' That’s the vibe. Not bitterness. A quiet pivot. He still loves movies, the 80s and 90s kind, the kind with real stakes, real sweat, real people. Die Hard. Speed. Rocky IV. He even listed Andrew Garfield as his favorite Spider-Man. Not Tom Holland. Not Tobey Maguire. Garfield. The one who made Peter Parker feel like a kid with a broken heart and a bad job. So when Cage says the MCU feels like wrestling, you don’t hear cynicism. You hear nostalgia. For a time when heroes weren’t just costumes, but characters. Now, they’re just bodies in spandex waiting for the next match. And the world keeps watching. But what happens next? The next phase of Marvel is already being written. Whether Cage’s words will ripple through it. Or just fade into the noise, remains to be seen.