DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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Some jokes die hard.
They took the perfect guy for Lobo and turned him into Aquaman.
Now they finally made him Lobo 10 years later.
Being a DC movie fan is suffering at best.
As for WB execs they have no idea what the fans want.
Man of Steel didn't get a proper sequel, Shazam did. Tells us all we need to know.
That their original plan went awry, and by the time Shazam 2 came around they'd long since given up the first plan?
So WB is run by morons is what you're saying.
They can't read basic numbers / stats.
Shh, he just went to live on a water farm very far away.
Which is why it was more interesting to cast him as Aquaman. It let them reinvent Aquaman in a way that counteracted the perception of the character and made him more popular.
The Sgt Rock movie is dead for now.
But we actually get a few story crumbs about it. Rather than being a straightforward war movie it was going to involve the Spear of Destiny, which in DC Comics history was used by Hitler to stop superheroes ending WWII in a day.
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But we actually get a few story crumbs about it. Rather than being a straightforward war movie it was going to involve the Spear of Destiny, which in DC Comics history was used by Hitler to stop superheroes ending WWII in a day.
DC Studios’ Luca Guadagnino Movie ‘Sgt. Rock’ Not Moving Forward
Colin Farrell was to play the DC soldier in a feature that had Guadagnino on board to direct.
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Spear of Destiny
The spear has had many different owners throughout the years. The Spear's most pivotal role came in World War II, as it fell into the hands of Adolf Hitler. The control of the Spear by the Third Reich prevented American superheroes, particularly those with magic-baseThe Spear of Destiny... wow...
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Mlle. Marie must have been the French Resistance fighter,The Sgt Rock movie is dead for now.
But we actually get a few story crumbs about it. Rather than being a straightforward war movie it was going to involve the Spear of Destiny, which in DC Comics history was used by Hitler to stop superheroes ending WWII in a day.
DC Studios’ Luca Guadagnino Movie ‘Sgt. Rock’ Not Moving Forward
Colin Farrell was to play the DC soldier in a feature that had Guadagnino on board to direct.
Spear of Destiny
The spear has had many different owners throughout the years. The Spear's most pivotal role came in World War II, as it fell into the hands of Adolf Hitler. The control of the Spear by the Third Reich prevented American superheroes, particularly those with magic-baseThe Spear of Destiny... wow...
Sounds good - a bit Indiana Jones/Captain America. Hopefully it’s not dead, only resting.The Sgt Rock movie is dead for now.
But we actually get a few story crumbs about it. Rather than being a straightforward war movie it was going to involve the Spear of Destiny, which in DC Comics history was used by Hitler to stop superheroes ending WWII in a day.
DC Studios’ Luca Guadagnino Movie ‘Sgt. Rock’ Not Moving Forward
Colin Farrell was to play the DC soldier in a feature that had Guadagnino on board to direct.
Spear of Destiny
The spear has had many different owners throughout the years. The Spear's most pivotal role came in World War II, as it fell into the hands of Adolf Hitler. The control of the Spear by the Third Reich prevented American superheroes, particularly those with magic-baseThe Spear of Destiny... wow...
Hmm... Modern comics writers often feel they have to justify why superheroes didn't fight in WWII and end it all themselves, but if you actually read the comics and listen to the radio stories from WWII itself, their conceit was that the heroes were kept busy fighting infiltrators, saboteurs, and fifth columnists in the US, or taking on fictional countries, mad scientists, secret underground kingdoms, aliens, etc. that sided with the Axis. So the heroes did fight in the war, but it was a bigger, more expansive war that required dividing labor between the armed forces fighting overseas and the superheroes protecting the home front and tackling more exotic threats.
For instance, I'm pretty sure the idea of Captain America fighting WWII in Europe was a retcon from the '60s and after, and that the Golden Age comics had Steve and Bucky operating out of a stateside army base and fighting enemy agents and saboteurs on US soil. After Pearl Harbor, the Superman radio series had Clark Kent recruited by the government to join a task force weeding out spies and saboteurs on the home front, although when the series went on hiatus for several months and was then semi-rebooted, that status quo was overwritten.
Modern comics? This idea was introduced in 1977.
The Spear of Destiny thing is from the 80s in Roy Thomas' All-Star Squadron. I guess that counts as modern.
Cap's flashback adventures from the 60s do take place behind enemy lines That's where Peggy Carter was first introduced.
Which is modern compared to the comics and radio dramas produced during World War II itself, which was my point.
Besides, I was born in 1968, so 1977 is modern to me.
The late Darwyn Cooke used the Mid-Century styled trunks, instead of the Underoos-style in his landmark DC: The New Frontier (2004):
Yep--Aquaman of the comics had several powers which justified his being viewed as a top hero, and while Filmation's late 1960's Superman - Aquaman Hour of Adventure / Aquaman animated series did not explore all of his powers, he was still a formidable character....until he was turned into little more than a glorified lifeguard thanks to Hanna-Barbera's piss-poor Super Friends series of shows.
It was that series which reimagined Aquaman as being a useless character (when he certainly was not in his own title, or his Adventure Comics feature in the 1970s), which was satirized in the opening moments of an old Cartoon Network spot:
Nice! was that the only time that Boxer Briefs ever showed up as Super Man's External UnderWear?The late Darwyn Cooke used the Mid-Century styled trunks, instead of the Underoos-style in his landmark DC: The New Frontier (2004):
Has he ever worn the Bicycle Shorts style where the legging portions are longer?
Who the heck is "Super Man?"
My bad, SuperMan.
Superman, same as it's been since 1938.
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