13 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About The DC Movie Universe

2. It Risks Following Marvel's Template Too Closely

The Problem: To Marvel's eternal credit, they've done a terrific job building a living, breathing world that manages to be both financially successful and critically acclaimed. As such, it's not too surprising that, as they follow in their footsteps, Warner might want to take a similar approach with the DCEU. Marvel have their big bad final boss, Thanos, for Avengers: Infinity War, and they have their carefully demarcated "phases", but hopefully the DCEU won't just transparently copy the same template, but actually opt for something more daring and unique. What that will end up as is anyone's guess, but if the DCEU just sets up Darkseid as its ultimate antagonist and divides its slate into phases, it's going to feel mightily underwhelming. How To Fix It: Given that Marvel's big problem from movie to movie is their lack of compelling villains, this is an area upon which the DC films can capitalise. Rather than settle for a generic villain and plot you won't remember in a week, focus on bringing out the iconography of the biggest, baddest DC villains in each movie, and don't just make them circle in a holding pattern until the next big event film. Of all the issues in this list, this is perhaps the one where DC could really show Marvel a thing or two.