DC Comics Multimedia General - A crisis of infinite fuck ups

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The Doom Slayer said:
I don't dislike the castings, but holy shit they have truly learned absolutely nothing yet again. Just make a simple fucking solo Superman movie without cramming an army of other characters in. Why is this so difficult?

I am so sick of Hollywood retards insisting every single movie has to be an Avengers crossover multiverse clusterfuck.
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This is giving me Batman vs. Superman vibes. And that film was dumb as hell.
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Mildly off topic since it is not related to the DC universes but it's interesting that the last Batman film, which I did not dislike even if I liked it less than any of the other Batman run's first efforts, seems to have been and gone with minimal attention.

I enjoyed him in Gotham, he could manage it.
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Carrigan's pretty good. Wish he got more work.
 
Calandrino said:
10/10 if author is taking the piss. Imagine anyone using "elgy beaty queue-aii" in a real sentence.
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Here's the author, you decide

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Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed said:
Carrigan's pretty good. Wish he got more work.
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He was a joy-killing anti-joke in Bill & Ted 3 but maybe that was actually a brilliant example of getting into the heart of the role.


Guess we'll see if they cast him for the shape of his head or his ability to portray two-fisted manly adventurer Rex Mason.
 
I forgot they had made a Blue Beetle movie, they released a new trailer and It's amazing, almost impressive how badly they fuck this stuff up. It's cheap pulp entertainment. No, they can't even get that right.


In the trailer alone, we get some Mexican kid being scared while he is a superhero, which was done to death in every Spiderman reboot. We see him being incompetent for comedic effect, which has been done to death, again. Hispanics using Spanish words in case anyone forgets they are "Latinx" ("You're a superhero, cabron!" is such a bad line, almost too on the nose). There's also a fat Mexican chick in problem glasses, who will be the sassy, cynical, wisecracking chick that will be "literally me'd" by various obnoxious fat nerd girls.

The best part is the fat Mexican grandma with the laser weapon. You know how this will probably go down in the actual film, the hero(es) find themselves about to be jumped by a horde of villains and it looks bad for our protagonists, until grandma steps out with her laser weapon and mows down the bad guys in yet another shower of bland CGI FX. Our nominal hero says "nana?" in a quizzical tone as seen in the trailer. Grandma will then have an action movie quote, like "Nobody messes with mi familia." This scene will be in the movie so that Mexican grandmas (mostly women in their thirties) will get a laugh and a "don't mess with abuelas!" moment, so they can say "JAJAJAJA that's abulita with her choncla!"
 
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dont pay attention to the live action movies. everyone knows the animated movies are where its at. and some of the comics. not everyone, but theres a few decent ones out there
 
Commander X said:
I forgot they had made a Blue Beetle movie, they released a new trailer and It's amazing, almost impressive how badly they fuck this stuff up. It's cheap pulp entertainment. No, they can't even get that right.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0aoi8-EGn9U
In the trailer alone, we get some Mexican kid being scared while he is a superhero, which was done to death in every Spiderman reboot. We see him being incompetent for comedic effect, which has been done to death, again. Hispanics using Spanish words in case anyone forgets they are "Latinx" ("You're a superhero, cabron!" is such a bad line, almost too on the nose). There's also a fat Mexican chick in problem glasses, who will be the sassy, cynical, wisecracking chick that will be "literally me'd" by various obnoxious fat nerd girls.

The best part is the fat Mexican grandma with the laser weapon. You know how this will probably go down in the actual film, the hero(es) find themselves about to be jumped by a horde of villains and it looks bad for our protagonists, until grandma steps out with her laser weapon and mows down the bad guys in yet another shower of bland CGI FX. Our nominal hero says "nana?" in a quizzical tone as seen in the trailer. Grandma will then have an action movie quote, like "Nobody messes with mi familia." This scene will be in the movie so that Mexican grandmas (mostly women in their thirties) will get a laugh and a "don't mess with abuelas!" moment, so they can say "JAJAJAJA that's abulita with her choncla!"
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I like Jaime Reyes' Blue Beetle, but that movie looks super mid, at best. They're still trying way too hard to make it Marvel quippy when people are sick and tired of that formula.
 
Commander X said:
I forgot they had made a Blue Beetle movie, they released a new trailer and It's amazing, almost impressive how badly they fuck this stuff up. It's cheap pulp entertainment. No, they can't even get that right.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0aoi8-EGn9U
In the trailer alone, we get some Mexican kid being scared while he is a superhero, which was done to death in every Spiderman reboot. We see him being incompetent for comedic effect, which has been done to death, again. Hispanics using Spanish words in case anyone forgets they are "Latinx" ("You're a superhero, cabron!" is such a bad line, almost too on the nose). There's also a fat Mexican chick in problem glasses, who will be the sassy, cynical, wisecracking chick that will be "literally me'd" by various obnoxious fat nerd girls.

The best part is the fat Mexican grandma with the laser weapon. You know how this will probably go down in the actual film, the hero(es) find themselves about to be jumped by a horde of villains and it looks bad for our protagonists, until grandma steps out with her laser weapon and mows down the bad guys in yet another shower of bland CGI FX. Our nominal hero says "nana?" in a quizzical tone as seen in the trailer. Grandma will then have an action movie quote, like "Nobody messes with mi familia." This scene will be in the movie so that Mexican grandmas (mostly women in their thirties) will get a laugh and a "don't mess with abuelas!" moment, so they can say "JAJAJAJA that's abulita with her choncla!"
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They took the the "inside the helmet" mode and final battle with a mirror suit from Iron Man, the symbiotic relationship and villain wants (possible) alien power for themselves from Venom, and snarky dialogue from the MCU Spider-Man (along with other MCU entries) to make...whatever this is. I guess Warner Bros. is hoping Mexican audiences flock to see this since Black Panther was successful with its targeted demographic.
 
ArthuriusMartyrius said:
That's been the case with Superman media since fucking forever, you can never have a solo Superman outing, many of Superman's "classic" stories have half the DC universe stuffed in there as well.
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Even Superman: the Animated Series, easily the last time Superman had a quality solo outing, had a ton of DC universe cameos as episode-of-the-day stuff. Batman's series had a couple too, but only a literal couple if I remember right.

Superman really needs that quality series he's never gonna get to 100% be about anything and everything "Superman" only and not include anything but bare hints on the rest of the DCU. I can genuinely see the rest of the Justice League founders outside Martian Manhunter holding an animated series focused entirely on characters and plots from their own comics, even Wonder Woman and Aquaman. But somehow it's rough trying to imagine Superman's world standing on its own in this day and age. You can accidentally bloat his supporting cast too much, for example - I LIKE Ma and Pa Kent and Lana, but Perry can handle fatherly advice and Lois is the obvious love interest. Or even trying to differentiate his major villains' stock powers... Lex and Brainiac are geniuses! So is Toyman! But Lex can have super strength via his mecha suit!....but a strong mechanical body is Metallo's thing! Also Brainiac, Metallo, and Atomic Skull are skull motifed! All of them, Lex, and even Parasite are smooth headed even! etc. I've got plenty of ideas for redesigns or ability shifts for them myself, but eh.
 
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What DC writers have done with Poison Ivy over the past two decades fills me with incomprehensible rage whenever I think about it. And to think that all this started because Timm and Dini wanted to put an "under the radar" gay joke with her and Harley in Batman: The Animated Series.

If I ever get to be a DC writer, I'm immediately retconning all of this dumb lesbian shit they heaped upon poor Ivy and going back to basics with her as a femme fatale eco-terrorist with a love-hate relationship with Batman. Fuck, when's the last time Bat-writers even remembered the core aspects of her character? Or is it all about her being Harley's gay BFF now?
Mayor Cody Travers said:
Even Superman: the Animated Series, easily the last time Superman had a quality solo outing, had a ton of DC universe cameos as episode-of-the-day stuff. Batman's series had a couple too, but only a literal couple if I remember right.

Superman really needs that quality series he's never gonna get to 100% be about anything and everything "Superman" only and not include anything but bare hints on the rest of the DCU. I can genuinely see the rest of the Justice League founders outside Martian Manhunter holding an animated series focused entirely on characters and plots from their own comics, even Wonder Woman and Aquaman. But somehow it's rough trying to imagine Superman's world standing on its own in this day and age. You can accidentally bloat his supporting cast too much, for example - I LIKE Ma and Pa Kent and Lana, but Perry can handle fatherly advice and Lois is the obvious love interest. Or even trying to differentiate his major villains' stock powers... Lex and Brainiac are geniuses! So is Toyman! But Lex can have super strength via his mecha suit!....but a strong mechanical body is Metallo's thing! Also Brainiac, Metallo, and Atomic Skull are skull motifed! All of them, Lex, and even Parasite are smooth headed even! etc. I've got plenty of ideas for redesigns or ability shifts for them myself, but eh.
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There's absolutely no reason why Superman cannot have a story that is in a self-contained universe. You don't need Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Aquaman or whoever the fuck to be in there. If anything having them in there massively reduces the amount of stories you can tell as opposed to when Superman is sole caped wonder flying around. Stories like Red Son ESPECIALLY suffer massively from the need to include other major DC heroes in the plot.

As for Superman's rogues' gallery, I'll be honest and say that most of them suck ass outside of a handful like Lex, Brainiac, Parasite, Atomic Skull and underappreciated ones like Mongul. Toyman shouldn't even be a Superman villain, he's always been massively out of place in that world and would be much better off as a higher-tier threat when fighting someone like Batman. I'm not even going to get into absolutely bizarre choices like Livewire who shouldn't even be a fucking threat to Supes unless they retcon in yet ANOTHER weakness for Kryptonians to electricity because lazy writing.
 
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I liked the early Jaime Blue Beetle comics but it was always obvious he was just "Hispanic Spider-Man" created for diversity's sake alone.
 
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