10 Reasons We've Already Given Up On The DC Cinematic Universe

7. The Boring Superheroes

Marvel has a space Viking, a brilliant scientist with uncontrollable rage issues, an out-of-time super-soldier and a talking, gun-toting raccoon. And yeah, Captain America has been accused of being one of the more boring superheroes out there, but he's at least refreshingly bereft of the gloomy outlook of all the DCCU characters to date, and Marvel at least had the good sense to build two of its best, most fun movies around ol' Cap. Man of Steel, by comparison, featured probably DC's least interesting 'name' superhero (an invincible alien whose alter-ego is open to just as much threat and intrigue), and the film he featured in was moody at best, inert at worst. It's not that DC has boring superheroes, but its cinematic interpretations of them so far haven't exactly inspired. DC's characters are also at a disadvantage, in that they're liable to repeat what the already successful cinematic superheroes of the age are doing. Superman is a nigh-on indestructible extraterrestrial made a fish-out-of-water on Earth? So is Thor. Batman is an eccentric billionaire with psychological issues? So is Iron Man. Wonder Woman is the token female superhero begrudgingly included in the universe by execs trying to deflect cries of sexism? So is Black Widow. No matter what DC does now, it may all just be too late; originality still reigns superior for movie audiences, and there's only so many movies in which cinemagoers want to see a depressed billionaire cry over his lavish lifestyle, or a super-heroine be neglected so the men can get on with doing everything important.