The implication is Warner Bros./DC can’t just make a Justice League-they have to make a Justice League that serves as the crown in a mighty kingdom of DC superhero franchise movies, a Justice League that is more The Avengers than The Avengers. Every DC media property that has been released from 2012 onwards, including the TV series Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl, and the Superman movies Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, has been assumed to be in response to the Marvel movieverse and The Avengers in particular. People have been talking about the DC movieverse as if it were an inevitability ever since The Avengers was such a breakaway hit. Which was bad news for the Justice League. Before that, it was all tease and promise held together by post–credits sequences and glimpses of Samuel L Jackson.Įverything hinged on whether or not The Avengers was any good.īut in that golden age of Marvel movies, between the unexpected delight that was The Avengers, and that sigh of disappointment that was Avengers: Age Of Ultron, The Avengers came to define what a successful superhero team movie should look like. The release of The Avengers (2012) was the first time the Marvel movieverse began to make sense in the heads of fans. What, you say, it’s not dead yet? It won’t even be released until next year? Yeah. But I think it’s time we stop holding up The Avengers as the textbook example of how to make the perfect superhero team movie.īecause, you know. I love many of the characters and the franchises.
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