10 Biggest Mistakes In The DC Extended Universe We Can't Forgive
It's been a rough ride for the DCEU, but these mistakes are truly unforgivable...
The DC Extended Universe wasn't even really a thing when Man of Steel was released in 2013, and whereas Iron Man was always supposed to launch a shared world for Marvel Studios, Superman's origin story being a launching platform for something bigger was never really in the cards.
In fact, it wasn't until Comic-Con a couple of years later when Batman v Superman was announced that the "DCEU" started taking shape, and it's since been something of a rough ride for Warner Bros. While the Marvel Cinematic Universe spawns hit after hit, the response to many of the DC Comics adaptations has been mixed, with questionable creative decisions and a number of big mistakes.
That may actually be an understatement for some of these, because not only are they big mistakes...they're downright unforgivable! They should never have been allowed to happen, and had they not, the DCEU would probably be in a much better position than it is today.
Sure, things are slowly starting to look up for this shared world, but undoing the damage caused by these blunders is no easy feat, and the ramifications are likely to continue being felt for years to come. Whatever mistakes potentially come next, however, surely can't be as bad as these...
10. Superman: Coward
Man of Steel offered an overhauled origin story for Superman, revealing that this version of Clark Kent didn't suit up until his late 20s/early 30s. That didn't paint a picture of someone desperate to be a superhero, and it was the way he allowed his father, Jonathan, to sacrifice himself which really proved to be a sticking point for a lot of fans.
With a tornado tearing through Smallville, Jonathan rushes to save the family dog, leaving Clark to protect his mother. However, when he became trapped and stuck standing in the path of that natural disaster, he shook his head and stopped his son from saving him.
Why? Well, to stop the world from discovering he has superpowers, but it was a moment which simply did not work. There were a myriad of ways Clark could have stopped his father from dying, and this just made the future Superman look like a coward, not to mention a character it was hard to root for when he did eventually bother to don that iconic costume and cape for the first time.