5. Supermans Near Defeat
When you tell a comic book ensemble story like the Avengers or of course the upcoming Justice League movie, youve got a choice to make. Who wins the day? It might have been tempting for Joss Whedon to say Hulk or Thor clearly possesses the greatest intrinsic power, so either one of them stops the Chitauri invasion. But instead, Whedon chose to take the human character, Iron Man, the only guy who hasnt technically been physiologically altered or otherwise imbued with god-like power, and have him effectively end the movie. The same temptation might be there in the Justice League movie, to say Hey, Superman is clearly the guy to save the day. Whos more powerful than Superman? My argument is this: Superman should not save the day; in fact, he should be somehow incapacitated in the final conflict, leaving the technically weaker members of the League to address the crisis without their supposed MVP. In a final twist, suddenly Supermans power would be taken out of the game, and although Id happily see him come back from the brink to strike the final blow, I argue itd be a more satisfying experience on the whole if the rest of the League, directed by Batman of course, had to act without him.