WC: Currently, DC’s cinematic universe is without a doubt playing catch-up to Marvel. Man of Steel was a disappointing Superman reboot while Guardians of the Galaxy, a film based around characters that the majority of cinema-goers didn’t even recognise, was the highest grossing superhero film of 2014. The Dawn of Justice is barely breaking, while Marvel will be fighting fans away after Infinity War. DC are completely beaten, right?
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I think both of these universes are relly good and I'm watching both of them!
The list of reasons why DC could beat Marvel made me lol. Especially the #1 reason lol, "Because I'm Batman" on a serious note, Marvel is winning and DC has lots of catching up to do.
DC can hardly choose a decent cast to portray their comic book heroes, so I doubt they'll be able to build anything meaningful, especially with a terrible director like Zack Snyder at the helm.
I'm not a fan of the newer stuff, but the DC animated straight-to-DVDs were awesome; better than a lot of the DC AND Marvel feature films.
Ultimately, the heads at DC have no idea what made their classic characters great and both the comics and movies have suffered for it.
Like Superman; his character is interesting because his powers grow as time goes along, he has to struggle with making decisions and dealing with how people (especially Luthor) react to his presence, all while keeping to a strict moral code.
What do they do in the new 52 comics (specifically Action comics)? Give him ridiculous powers from basically the start, like reading 'all of the medical books in 5 minutes' and performing an operation himself immediately after. And the story is absolutely all over the place.
The movies? They give him no personality, make him break an ideal that should have been taught to him by his adopted parents, and have him punch the bad guys and their machine really hard.
DCAU's writers had a better idea of what made Superman great than 90% of people that have written Superman.
Lest we forget, the MCU did have a rough go of it early on. The Incredible Hulk, Captain America The First Avenger, Thor. Had Iron Man not been such a success so early on who knows if we would have made it to an Avenger's film.