10 Reasons The DC Cinematic Universe Could Beat Marvels'

3. Marvel Turns Heroes Into Villains

In the plot of Civil War, audiences are going to have to come to terms with the idea that Iron Man (directly or indirectly) is responsible for the *spoiler alert* death of Captain America. Naturally, this is going to divide superhero fans over which 'side' of the civil war was in the right, and hopefully lead to some nuanced debate. However, not all of the audience is going to be on board. Imagine a child whose favourite Avenger is Iron Man - how are they going to react to infighting between superheroes? Are they going to see differing ideologies, or just a film where their favourite hero becomes bad? DC doesn't have that problem. Not that they haven't had heroes be the antagonist of a narrative. Superman has been the villain during the Infinite Earth's plot or recently in the Injustice comic books, but they have never been the 'real' Superman. Batman has been the 'villain', in "The Dark Knight Falls" from anger. Green Lantern Hal Jordan famously became evil in the Emerald Twilight series, but that eventually got rewritten by explaining that he was possessed by Parallax. However, the examples above are all based on superheroes being motivated by reasons audiences can empathise with like anger, insanity and, uh, being taken over by a yellow space insect embodying fear. But never something as silly as political ideology. Besides, we had the Civil War plotline in X-Men 3: The Last Stand. And we all know how that turned out.