8. Canon is Canon
Canon. Say it in a whisper. For it is canon that guides the laws of the universe. Respect it. Learn it. Feed upon its essence. All of the superhero movies are made on the most popular characters. Those very same characters also inevitably have the most canon that must be navigated with utmost caution like a jungle minefield. You'd think that with $100 million dollars, the studio could afford to bring in the local comic book store owner for some tips or facts. And you'd be wrong. Let's examine
Fantastic Four (2005), directed by Tim Story. I want to specifically focus on Victor Von Doom. In the film, Reed Richards convinces his former MIT classmate, Doom, to aid him in an experiment on cosmic energy in space. Doom accompanies them on the mission. All of them gain superpowers because the space station's shielding is down with the cosmic energy hits. Afterwards, Victor starts to mutate into living metal with superhuman strength and is capable of
firing lightning bolts. Say what? There is so much bullshit stuffed into that plot that I almost don't even know where to begin. I'll grant a pass that von Doom is somehow a billionaire industrialist (rather than a mystic Roma). I'll even turn a blind eye that he was on the space shuttle that created the Fantastic Four as a cheap plot device. But now we're making him into the T-1000 with a car battery shoved up his ass? That's where I draw the line.
