The big problem with comic book movies now, they are too convoluted

[Venom 1988]

As for Barbie, the character's been a feminist icon since her creation, so making a movie about her was always going to reflect that. But I was still surprised it was such a big hit. The Flash did poorly mainly due to Ezra Miller's legal problems, and I think the same was true with Jonathan Majors for Ant-Man. As for Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones, I'd only be guessing, so commenting at this point is rather self-defeating.

As far as Barbie is concerned, no it wasn't always going to reflect that. That was all Greta Gerwig. Most of the general public had no idea about the Ezra stuff and the Majors controversay happened over a month after Ant-Man was released. That box office damage has already been done by that point.