6 DC Movie Sins Batman V Superman Will Probably Commit
6. Trying To Be Too Much Like Marvel
The film opens with an establishing character moment for our arrogant protagonist, who has recently bedded a young and attractive blonde, showing us, the audience, that he is a ladies man who has a revolving door to his bedroom. Who am I describing? Tony Stark? No! Hal Jordan, of course! Green Lantern was criticised, rightly so, for making Hal Jordan seem too much like Iron Man. While much of the Marvel Universe is made up of thinly veiled rip-offs of DC characters (Marvel returned to making superhero comics in the 1960s solely because of the success of the then-new Justice League; also, for example, Hawkeye is a rip-off of Green Arrow, who himself was a rip-off of Batman so thats like a xerox of a xerox.), DC has a habit of blatantly copying Marvels good steps (the very idea of a shared universe for one, heroes having relatable problems for another). Its been recently rumoured that Ares, the god of War from Greek mythology and long-time Wonder Woman villain, will be the thread the ties all of the DC Cinematic movies together, kind of like Thanos. Rather than keeping their movie franchises separate, which would not only help differentiate them from the Marvel movies, but also avoid some of the same pitfalls, theyre rushing to play catch up and shove everyone into that Justice League movie, whether it feels organic or not. Marvel blazed the trail and DC is trying very hard to follow, but failing at it. Remember that post-credits sequence after Green Lantern where Sinestro, despite being on the side of good for the whole movie (with the exception of kind of being a dick), suddenly and for no reason turns to evil in order to tease the Sinestro Corps War that thankfully never came? Thats all you need to know about how well DC will follow in Marvels footsteps when it comes to the shared cinematic universe.
