DC Comics Multimedia General - A crisis of infinite fuck ups

[Incecticyder]

BTAS left a massive impact that largely usurped any Batman content that came after, rightfully or not. The Batman was frequently left in its shadow. Even LEGO Batman, which came out in 2008, largely based itself around BTAS rather than the much more relevant 04 series - with the exception of using Firefly from 04 in the DS versions and later LB3.

Also, the 2000s DC cartoons were weirdly unimpactful till recently. One would think the large success of Teen Titans would mean the originals added to the rogues gallery would be transferred over to comics, but strangely no? Wasn't until very recently we started seeing DC mainstream the likes of Cinderblock or Red X in the comics.

Batman Brave & The Bold is arguably the most impactful, and that is mainly relegated to Bat-Mite returning and The Music Meister being increasingly more used.

I know but it is such a shame that the best version of Clayface has been so overshadowed.

If Rian Johnson can get work after Star Wars Episode 8, anyone can keep working after sabotaging a movie.

IIRC, Roundhead is mainly working on his own IPs. He hasn't touched IPs of others but I might be wrong.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

LEGO just dropped some new teasers first up, Absolute Batman & Catwoman:

I know it's just marketing talk, but are we really talking like reskinning a lego figure and adding spikes was a big ordeal for the development team?

The theme for the early seasons was also my favourite Bat theme, again, biased cause that was my Batman growing up and those are the voices I “hear” when reading Bat-stuff. Wish there were more comics that had the tone of that series.

I love the second theme and like how it's basically the theme growing alongside Bruce and becoming more optimistic as Bruce opens up and expands his trust circle.

 

[OutInTheRain]

I might give it a shot in October, but... yeah, this doesn't seem like it will do well financially.

While Clayface isn't a no-name villain, he's not exactly an A-lister who's interesting enough to warrant a solo outing like the Joker, Penguin, or even Catwoman.

Say what you will about Marvel scraping the bottom of the barrel for heroes to put in the MCU, but they only got there because they already exhausted most of the big names. Here, we haven't even gotten a Batman movie in this new universe, yet they decided to make a Clayface movie first?

The funny thing is if the franchise was healthy I don't think there is anything wrong about making a smaller movie based around a villain. You see their struggles, their fall and then eventual turn to unforgiveable evil. Hint at Batman being involved through the entire movie and have him show up in the third act. For some you can make it the final step in their tragedy. For others it's a righteous takedown in the villain's moment of triumph.

I don't think Clayface is the movie to do it though.

 

[OutInTheRain]

I might give it a shot in October, but... yeah, this doesn't seem like it will do well financially.

While Clayface isn't a no-name villain, he's not exactly an A-lister who's interesting enough to warrant a solo outing like the Joker, Penguin, or even Catwoman.

Say what you will about Marvel scraping the bottom of the barrel for heroes to put in the MCU, but they only got there because they already exhausted most of the big names. Here, we haven't even gotten a Batman movie in this new universe, yet they decided to make a Clayface movie first?

The funny thing is if the franchise was healthy I don't think there is anything wrong about making a smaller movie based around a villain. You see their struggles, their fall and then eventual turn to unforgiveable evil. Hint at Batman being involved through the entire movie and have him show up in the third act. For some you can make it the final step in their tragedy. For others it's a righteous takedown in the villain's moment of triumph.

I don't think Clayface is the movie to do it though.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

BTAS left a massive impact that largely usurped any Batman content that came after, rightfully or not

ngl I can't think of a take on an existing IP that so thoroughly dominated the zeitgeist afterwards

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

The funny thing is if the franchise was healthy I don't think there is anything wrong about making a smaller movie based around a villain. You see their struggles, their fall and then eventual turn to unforgiveable evil. Hint at Batman being involved through the entire movie and have him show up in the third act. For some you can make it the final step in their tragedy. For others it's a righteous takedown in the villain's moment of triumph.

I don't think Clayface is the movie to do it though.

If DC was smart, they would make their villain movie off the most obvious choice:

Lex already hijacks most Justice League plots into becoming the main character, let alone Superman. If there was ever an easy win with this concept, it would be a film exploring Lex. The template is even already there thanks to Smallville. Just go into Lex’s daddy drama, him forming his company, his long term desire to make his high school rock band Sex Luthor a platinum hit, his government weapon dealings, his presidency - there is quite a lot there.

 

[OutInTheRain]

If DC was smart, they would make their villain movie off the most obvious choice:
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Lex already hijacks most Justice League plots into becoming the main character, let alone Superman. If there was ever an easy win with this concept, it would be a film exploring Lex. The template is even already there thanks to Smallville. Just go into Lex’s daddy drama, him forming his company, his long term desire to make his high school rock band Sex Luthor a platinum hit, his government weapon dealings, his presidency - there is quite a lot there.

Make it like the The Founder. His rise and then descent. Every dirty deal, every immoral action he needs to take to succeed. At the point where Lex seems triumphant, he is the Superior Man, the greatest man of an age, overcoming his Father, building an industrial juggernaut about to revolutionize the world. Superman shows up and steals his thunder.

No one is talking about Lex anymore which drives him crazy. He starts losing arms contracts because Superman exists and now his existence has become the greatest deterrent of all. Lex's company begins to fail. But most of all Lex will soon be forgotten in the wake of Superman. That becomes the real tragedy, Lex's fall is he can't stand that someone is better than him, that his belief that someone as earnest as Superman possibly exist, and all he has to do is show the world that Superman is just like Lex.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I personally like every The Batman redesign, and yes that includes Maryln Mansion Ridder and Uncomfortably Sexual Killer Croc

 

[strumpets exeunt]

Uncomfortably Sexual Killer Croc

I miss dapper Killer Croc the most.

If DC was smart, they would make their villain movie off the most obvious choice:

I enjoyed the Lex Luthor: Man of Steel take on things. How the whole story played out kind of like the arc with the minor characters in Watchmen where you see how he interacts with all these smaller people (even maybe trying to do right by some of them) who just wind up becoming collateral damage in yet another plan to tarnish Superman's reputation.

 

[Beelzebub's Lawyer]

Teaser for the Clayface movie written by Mike Flanagan just dropped
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6IxPD-jNdwM

It's OK but I absolutely hate the sound mixing on this trailer.
That bassy WOMP sound was really hurting my ears.

Regarding Clayface himself, I think he's a good 1 time villain.
That 2 parter in Batman TAS was perfect from start to finish.
After that, Clayface should have never been used again but people liked him a lot so he's now a regular recurring villain.
He also doesn't fit the DC universe that Gunn made, I really hope this won't be in any way connected to it and will be a standalone thing.

I think this will do fine, the budget is only $40 million so if it makes $100 million, it's already making a profit.
The only way this will bomb is if it sucks which... is a possibility.
I'm hoping we won't get some generic shit like The Crow remake.

When is this thing coming out?
That's the important thing, it will determine what the competition is...


9/11?!?

 

[Humble Architect]

I miss dapper Killer Croc the most.
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I enjoyed the Lex Luthor: Man of Steel take on things. How the whole story played out kind of like the arc with the minor characters in Watchmen where you see how he interacts with all these smaller people (even maybe trying to do right by some of them) who just wind up becoming collateral damage in yet another plan to tarnish Superman's reputation.

Dapper Croc reminds me of Joe Fixit and that’s always a W.

Lex Luthor: Man of Steel is fun because it takes so many Lex scheme cliches and completely changes their tone and presentation with Lex’s POV and the inhuman, alien way he actually thinks.

“There is an idea of an Alexander Luthor, some kind of abstraction……..”

Make it like the The Founder. His rise and then descent. Every dirty deal, every immoral action he needs to take to succeed. At the point where Lex seems triumphant, he is the Superior Man, the greatest man of an age, overcoming his Father, building an industrial juggernaut about to revolutionize the world. Superman shows up and steals his thunder.

No one is talking about Lex anymore which drives him crazy. He starts losing arms contracts because Superman exists and now his existence has become the greatest deterrent of all. Lex's company begins to fail. But most of all Lex will soon be forgotten in the wake of Superman. That becomes the real tragedy, Lex's fall is he can't stand that someone is better than him, that his belief that someone as earnest as Superman possibly exist, and all he has to do is show the world that Superman is just like Lex.

I’d thrown in some Wolf of Wall Street, with the outside image, the billionaire rockstar image but behind closed doors, Lex works out religiously, reads a book a day (minimum) and is in bed by nine. Keep Lex’s “the perfect human isn’t human at all inside,” schtick that he has mirrored with Supes. Also Batman parallels with the outer image being a sham for a headcase rich guy with issues.

Lex is the guy who has the societal hallmarks of success but he’s indifferent because nothing will never satisfy his ego. Men wanting to be Superman instead of being Lex? That can’t stand. Lex is the type of guy who genuinely cannot stomach that the bar of greatness just got moved up by a few notches……. and he’s never going to reach it, despite having everything a man could want. Hollow.

I personally like every The Batman redesign, and yes that includes Maryln Mansion Ridder and Uncomfortably Sexual Killer Croc

It takes balls to redesign everyone so thoroughly, again, especially following up BTAS. It worked, The Batman’s designs make it a pretty good period piece for early 2000s cartoons. The wave is pulling back from the shit 90s cartoons got away with (the dyke whores in BTAS and all the suggested things) but it’s still present in a diminished form with the designs.

 

[OutInTheRain]

I’d thrown in some Wolf of Wall Street, with the outside image, the billionaire rockstar image but behind closed doors, Lex works out religiously, reads a book a day (minimum) and is in bed by nine. Keep Lex’s “the perfect human isn’t human at all inside,” schtick that he has mirrored with Supes. Also Batman parallels with the outer image being a sham for a headcase rich guy with issues.

Lex is the guy who has the societal hallmarks of success but he’s indifferent because nothing will never satisfy his ego. Men wanting to be Superman instead of being Lex? That can’t stand. Lex is the type of guy who genuinely cannot stomach that the bar of greatness just got moved up by a few notches……. and he’s never going to reach it, despite having everything a man could want. Hollow.

I was thinking Wolf of Wall Street as well. You could have the final confrontation between the two just being a war of the words. Lex unable to understand the Supes is just genuine in what he says and believes. Lex being unable to understand that no, Superman deep down is not like him. Pair that with Supes saying something to needle Lex and you have the meltdown and the reason the Superior Man decides he's going to build a green and purple suit and start robbing banks.

 

[Humble Architect]

I was thinking Wolf of Wall Street as well. You could have the final confrontation between the two just being a war of the words. Lex unable to understand the Supes is just genuine in what he says and believes. Lex being unable to understand that no, Superman deep down is not like him. Pair that with Supes saying something to needle Lex and you have the meltdown and the reason the Superior Man decides he's going to build a green and purple suit and start robbing banks.

Honestly the yacht scene where Agent Denham (Hi Hal) and another agent almost catch Jordan on his boneheaded attempt to bribe them is peak Lex and Clark. The showboating, the arrogance, that paper-thin veneer of charm, the deception from Denham downplaying his character, followed by ego death and a meltdown from Jordan. That’s closer to the proper dynamic than anything live action DC has shat out since Smallville, which is the best live-action Lex. Not as unhinged as I like but the best.

Like obviously Lex isn’t near the hedonism (despite being a freak) but the fragile self-image, vanity, utter disregard for law and decency, combined with a probably extremely competitive environment at LexCorp? Yeah, that fits. Post-Crisis Lex was based on the peak era of Wall Street yuppie shitheads that Jordan was a part of, the same batch American Psycho was birthed from.

 

[OutInTheRain]

Honestly the yacht scene where Agent Denham (Hi Hal) and another agent almost catch Jordan on his boneheaded attempt to bribe them is peak Lex and Clark. The showboating, the arrogance, thst paper-thin veneer of charm, the deception from Denham downplaying his character, followed by ego death and a meltdown from Jordan. That’s closer to the proper dynamic than anything live action DC has shat out since Smallville, which is the best live-action Lex. Not as unhinged as I like but the best.

One of the things I hated in James Gunn's Superman was Supes having the meltdown in Lex's office. If it was a calm back and forth, that ended with Lex in a panic over what Superman knows. It would have gone over way better, instead of Superman looking like a bitch.

 

[God of Nothing]

I miss dapper Killer Croc the most.

a super crime lord you can trust

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

One of the things I hated in James Gunn's Superman was Supes having the meltdown in Lex's office. If it was a calm back and forth, that ended with Lex in a panic over what Superman knows. It would have gone over way better, instead of Superman looking like a bitch.

I mean, that's basically all of Gunn's Supes' scenes, dude is constantly stomping around like a pouty teenager despite being the hero who's supposed to have the most control because of how dangerous he'd be if he didn't regulate himself.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

I personally like every The Batman redesign, and yes that includes Maryln Mansion Ridder and Uncomfortably Sexual Killer Croc

Agree

The only ‘bad’ (not really) redesign I can think of is Ivy, just for the weirdness in them not really specifying her age well. It is a little bizarre to have traditional seductress Ivy, but they clearly design her to be jailbait. Very strange design decisions, wish she was a little more mature as I think many elements are still good.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I mean, that's basically all of Gunn's Supes' scenes, dude is constantly stomping around like a pouty teenager despite being the hero who's supposed to have the most control because of how dangerous he'd be if he didn't regulate himself.

If Superman acted in the comics the way he does in the Gunn movie, Batman would put a kryptonite dart between his eyes within five minutes.

 

[el bandito loco]

Pennyworth I'm watching on and off, and it's a somewhat based at times show, very odd considering it's somewhat modern. It shows a super-authoritarian England... That doesn't look too bad, honestly, especially compared to RL England.

It's a really fascinatingly weird ass show. I like it a lot.

If Superman acted in the comics the way he does in the Gunn movie, Batman would put a kryptonite dart between his eyes within five minutes.

I know I'm always whining and being a faggot because we've never gotten the Superman wank movie, but is it really too much to ask for a movie where Superman is a competent man? Not even the hard ass with a sense of humor I'd want, just a dude who isn't either a sad mopey sack of shit or a whiny baby sack of shit?

I want a Superman movie where Luthor goes into a 5 minute monologue breaking him down into pieces and Superman just stares at him flatly the whole time and hits him with a "you fucking done? I do what I do, because it's the right thing to do. That's it, nothing else to it. You serve yourself, I serve everyone else" then knocks his ass out and throws him in jail himself.

A Superman who in that conversation with Lois in the movie would basically just say "I saved lives, you or anyone else doesnt like it? tough shit. better leaving just people pissed off at me than leaving orphaned children and broken families. People are always going to disagree with me but as long as I have the power to help, I'm going to. they know where to find me, if they want to stop me they're welcome to try, they won't. you disagree with me? Fine. No sweat off my back. I dont like the fact you're always getting yourself thrown off roofs and out of helicopters but you dont hear me bitching about it"

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

It was originally tied to Reeves, but got moved to being part of Gunn’s universe as a way to introduce Gotham and play into Gunn’s whole “the DCEU is an art house of different genres.”

It is evident that Clayface was originally designed within the Matt Reeves universe. The set features various elements from the Batman franchise, including the Bat-symbol and newspapers referencing fictional drugs from the Batman and the penguin. P.S who the hell thinks Clayface a good way to start Cinematic universe?