Seriously, how? They’ve been trying to kill of superheroes for years (Watchmen, the Boys) but nothing seems to stick.
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a genre does not die when it has been well satirized or thoroughly deconstructed
a genre dies when those who control the medium believe that genre will not make enough money anymore
Well yeah. I don’t think anyone here thinks the satire itself is what kills a genre. When a work of satire becomes a cultural phenomenon and no one can take the genre seriously anymore, it stops being profitable.
Genres die when it becomes impossible to create original work within it but rather only metacommentary on the genre itself.
Take the Noir genre. You can write a neo-Noir (like Brick) or a self-conscious imitation (Chinatown, Mank) or a parody but what you cannot do is make a straight ahead Noir.
A scathing work of satire that manages to get insanely popular and become a cultural phenomenon.
That was Don Quixote which killed chivalric romances, and that was Blazing Saddles which killed whitewashed TV Westerns.
what killed zombies? they were really popular for awhile
Like superheroes, IMO zombies aren’t a genre, they’re an element — they exist within a genre (often action, horror, or thriller especially) but aren’t one unto themselves.
I think the Walking Dead having a good first season or two that a lot of people watched and then quickly becoming unwatchable garbage wore people out on them.
