8 Critical Mistakes The DC Film Universe Has Made

8. Too Weird, Too Early

Suicide Squad seemed out of place ever since it was first announced, sandwiched between the likes of Wonder Woman and Batman v Superman. A group of largely unknown 'bad guy' characters teaming up and heading off on a top-secret mission? How will that be received, when the DCEU is still in its infancy?

Sadly, as it turns out, rather poorly. But had Suicide Squad come in a few years, after Warner Bros. has drip-fed audiences standalone films based around some of their more popular characters - Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash - a movie about a rag-tag group of anti-heroes, largely disconnected from the main arc of the cinematic universe, would have fared much better. Just ask Guardians Of The Galaxy.

For starters, Warner Bros. would have had more than two movies to hook us in with familiar characters and fully establish the DCEU's tone, before hitting us with the crazy and the irreverent. Man Of Steel was dark and grim and Batman v Superman followed suit, but Suicide Squad, at times... felt like a music video?

Tonally, it was out of place, and story-wise - at least in terms of laying the DCEU's groundwork when it came to Darkseid and the Mother Boxes - it was out of place, but the actual film isn't fully to blame; part of the responsibility lies with how early Warner Bros. placed it in their slate.