10 Signs Warner Bros. Have No Clue About Batman V Superman

7. Female Robin

There's nothing wrong with a female Robin as an idea. There's a precedent in the comics for the Boy Wonder to be a Girl Wonder, but being used in Batman V Superman is whacks of being different for the sake of being different. Man Of Steel had a lot working against it, but it was certainly hurt by its desire to be unique. Presenting a new take on Superman is a fine (and almost necessary) approach, but in the reboot there was no real purpose to the changes to convention beyond being forcible new: the Fortress of Solitude is a space-ship because it wasn't in the Christopher Reeve movies; Pa Kent dies in a hurricane because he didn't in the Christopher Reeve movies; Superman doesn't call himself Superman because he did in the Christopher Reeve movies. Jena Malone's presence on set has got everyone expectant for her to play Carrie Kelley (although that could have been fan-boy guesswork), which is just another case of the series varying from the norm with no justification for doing so. Maybe there's a purpose to a young Lex Luthor, older Batman and a female Robin, but at the moment it's not been seen.