10 Ways Suicide Squad Shows The DCEU Is Irreversibly F*cked

I have no idea any more what the desired tone of the DCEU is meant to be. Man Of Steel was The Dark Knight crossed with Watchmen, Batman V Superman that but with more violent moping, and Suicide Squad was the Batman side of that, but with jokes and 90s "irreverence". But as an overall series, what it's felt like it a desperate attempt to be moody without quite following through, something Suicide Squad shows in abundance.

The situation seems to be that DC want to be a dark alternative to Marvel, yet there's a pervasive fear that to actually do that would require alienating a sizeable chunk of the audience, so they're having to rein things in at the last minute. It's most prominent in Suicide Squad, which unites a punch of villains and yet feels incredibly sanitised (saying people are "bad guys" doesn't immediately make them bad), and is set to continue with the joke-infested Justice League.

They need to pick a tone, at least within a single movie, and stick to it, not spend the entire time pretending to be dark, but instead getting cold feet and coming across as a teenage goth who doesn't really like heavy metal.