A rip of Dr. Horrible was in my YT recommended videos, and I let myself watch it in the first time in forever. Now Whedon is obviously awful for real concrete reasons that leak through into the writing here and I could spend a while dissecting the many ways this did not hold up, but one thing it made me realize, and explains why Whedon should never have been handed the reins to every fucking cinematic superhero, is he treats camp as a negative trait. There was a surprising amount of queerphobia in this. The closest thing he has to a queer coded character in the Avengers is the way he writes Loki, and it's such a bad version of that character. You cannot have a cape setting that pushes back against it's weirder, queerer roots and come back with anything other than a 13-yo boy's power fantasy.
Superheroes are either queer or reactionary. The stories either about finding family and community despite being set unavoidably apart from the rest of humanity, or about restoring the status quo by violently punishing threats to it.
Often both at once, but I say this to agree that it's the queer side that must be embraced.