Joss Whedon wrote for film before television, including an early draft of Toy Story that earned him an Academy Award nomination, and worked extensively as a script doctor at Disney.
The dialogue style, self-aware, rhythmic and deflecting into a joke at the moment of feeling, became so widely imitated across the 2010s that critics named it after him. The Avengers is where it entered blockbuster filmmaking.
Multiple collaborators, including Charisma Carpenter and Ray Fisher, have described abusive conduct on his productions. He has largely not worked since, and the reappraisal of the writing has been substantial.