Doomsday will be the physical villain, with Luthor pulling the strings. http://comicbook.com/2015/05/17/batman-v-superman-details-on-doomsday-a-dream-sequence-/ Been conjectured for awhile.
Sweet! Was talking to my kids last night about this movie and particularly the fight with Batman angle. We are already pretty excited, but this really ups the ante.
It's a lighting thing, streets always look better wet. Same reason car ads almost always have wet roads/surfaces.
How does that sound awful? It's basically saying that Batman fights Superman and that there's also another bad guy. Reflexively bashing DC is becoming as tiresome.
I'm not a "DC basher", so you can drop that bullshit right away. The only two superheros I ever gave a shit about were these two. I want to see them done well, and that description doesn't inspire me, nor does the thousand and one characters that are seemingly being crammed into it. Plus I still have the sour taste of Man of Steel in my mouth.
What would you like to see? There bis a lot of drama in a conflict between two heroes, but it's hard to establish a reason for such conflict in the first place. The concepts of humanity, alienation, fear of the unknown give us a viable reason. The fight will be epic, showcasing the strengths and weaknesses of each, and in the end, we get an alliance against the real threat. Sounds good to me.
This movie is a disaster in the making. It will be an Ishtar-level disaster. A John Carter / Lone Ranger level disaster. WB's attempt to cold-start it's own Avengers flick using this one film, whereas Marvel grew it's universe organically over multiple films taking several years, will be a cosmic disaster. Their Wonder Woman is terrible, their Aquaman is terrible, BatFleck was a joke the instant it was announced. Poor Henry Cavill, I actually liked him as Superman. But he was saddled with a lame origin movie, and now his sequel gets hijacked by trying to make Justice League Lite.
I'm pretty sure that Wonder Woman and Aquaman are just getting cameos. Hardly rises even to the level of Justice League Lite.
Actually, I think having all these other heroes popping up for "cameos" is the very definition of Justice League Lite.
I was having this discussion with a friend recently and told him that all Superman has to do to beat you in a fight is look at you. Heat vision is, in many ways, Superman's most awesome super power.
The comics added a new one. It's a variation on heat vision though. He can release all his stored energy as a destructive starburst, but it drains his powers dry, and he has to slowly build up to and from golden age level powers again.
Yep, I've been reading Superman. That's one of the few New 52 lines I've stuck with. I like the concept of the "Super Flare," especially that it's price is Supes being depowered for a day or so.
They just ripped off Human Torch's "nova" burst power. And I don't like the modern conceptualization of Superman as nothing but solar-powered battery that can "run down." Superman's invulnerability comes from Earth's lighter gravity, not solar power.
speaking for myself, I'm completely turned off by the whole flipping the script so that Batman is a tool of the status quo and Superman is the scarey untrusted one. The only way this scenario works for me is if they give Bruce some other motivation to go after him that makes sense rater than being the White Knight (nevermind the idea that Supes managed to defeat three of his own race and an unpowered human thinks he can take him? I'd like to see an explanation for that besides "Powered suit bitches")
Huh? The sun-powers thing has been around at least since the silver age. It flows through every Superman-related title.
He never really got the better of Faora. It took sucking her up into a wormhole, or else she'd still be throwing him around. Kryptonite, magic, a broken heart, and karate are all Supes weaknesses.
Even the great ones get it wrong sometimes. My favorite artist from back in the day (and still working!) is Neal Adams, and I find it oddly comforting when I see one of his drawings with an anatomical mistake. It shows that even great artists don't nail it 100% of the time.
Doesn't sound like Batman is being anyone's tool. Somebody has rocked up, capable of flight, practically indestructible and with a great deal of power at his disposal. Yeah, the most paranoid hero in DC's roster is going to let that one fly by him without pause for thought. In the comics he planned mechanisms for taking out the rest of the JL, his friends. An unknown is going to get very short shrift.
having a plan IF somone proves a threat is much different than wading in on someone the first time you learn of their existence
True. This could be saved, however, if they take seriously the devastation wrought in the last movie.
