With the titanic tedium of Batman and Superman having left the studio’s vision in mortal danger, execs have recognised it’s time for the boys to step aside
It’s probably fair to say that Supergirl – likely to be the next costumed titan to get their own movie – is not the first DC superhero who springs to mind for the average comic-book fan. Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman occupy far taller plinths on the pantheon than Kara Zor-El, who, prior to the current TV series starring Melissa Benoist, was best known for the 1984 movie so terrible that the character’s fellow Kryptonians were probably happy to be dead and buried so they didn’t have to watch it.
Yet there is a problem with DC’s holy trinity. DC has ruined its plans for a shared universe centred around the three superheroes, with the heavy metal cacophony of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice having jarred horribly with the prosaic lilt of Justice League. If the studio, Warner Bros, has any plans to to get the gang back together again, it will have to do a much better job of getting audiences interested in its characters before trying to unite them in a money-spinning, Marvel-style mega-team.
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