Westerns could be Deep st least. Most hero flicks are pandering garbage.
The vast, vast majority of Westerns are/were pandering garbage, too, breh. The only genre more pandering than Westerns was war movies that were outright propaganda.
Also, a lot of Westerns were parables or whatever that used the Western setting as framing.
Most infamously, Star Trek was called "Wagon Train to the Stars" because the premise of Wagon Train was that the said Wagon Train would show up somewhere and whatever could happen, it didn't have to be a Western trope because the Wagon Train could be there just for the episode. (Something Star Trek took to the extreme with NAZI PLANET and GANGSTER PLANET.) That's why many of the Westerns had a SHERIFF main character, so he could do crime shit like investigate a murder or bank robbers.
Some of the comic films do this already, Guardians 1 was basically a Star Wars film and 2 wasn't too far removed from that honestly even if it was shitty (so closer to a Star Wars film?), while I make fun of it for the political thriller meme, Winter Soldier still was pretty close to something like a Bourne film. Comic everything hasn't quite reached the saturation point where it's doing this like Westerns were, though some of the TV shows are already there. Arrow had an entire episode set in the corporate boardroom discussing the Queen companies financials and debating the upcoming product line. (I wish.)
To use a modern example, Deadwood is a Western, it uses every single trope of the genre. Many them are literal, not stand-ins for something else. It's still original because, one it's on HBO so it can actually be literal with a lot of the tropes like say, whores, two it has decades worth of ground to mine from everywhere else and bring it into a Western.
There are three "wait I'll give you the stone!" moments in the movie.
Loki doing it for Thor
Gamora for her "sister" (what)
Strange for Stark
At least in FFVII, Sephiroth uses mind control to control Cloud, here everyone gives him what he wants willingly.
One of these is for the deus ex machina in the sequel. The movie even pointed it out.
I'll admit the Loki one was kinda odd honestly. Even for him basically being a hero in these films he both revealed he had the gem and gave it up pretty damn fast.