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DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)

It's how Nightcrawler ended up in the X-Men instead of Legion of Superheroes.
As well as Storm and Colossus. Artist Dave Cockrum created the three for Legion membership when he was drawing that book, but DC didn't run with it. When Cockrum got the X-Men gig at Marvel, he took those characters with him. With modifications, of course. Storm originally had the power to turn into a cat, hence the shape of her eyes.
Damn, I didn't know any of that. Pretty neat bit of trivia, particularly about Storm's eyes.

I did know about the Kirby's New Gods in relation to Marvel, which isn't a surprise considering his body of work for both Marvel and DC.

That seems like a useless power to have.
I beg to differ. Obviously I'm biased as a cat person but I think that's a great ability. If nothing else, it helps one be stealthy and observe others in plain sight, or even subtly effect situations.
 
Yeah, I've always assumed that was why there ended up being so many similar characters at both Marvel & DC, because as the writers went back and forth, they went back to unused ideas from one publisher's characters for the other company's.
Superman launched a ton of imitators. As did Batman and Captain America.

Swamp Thing and Man-Thing launched around the same time. And IIRC, their creators were roommates at the time. Both deny influenecing each other, though.

When Steve Englehart was fired from the Avengers, he reworked some of his plots into JLA stories. Includiing transforming his creation Mantis into the very similar Willow.

Kirby was rather fond of the Gods/Children of the Gods. We see hints of that in the Inhumans. The New Gods and the Eternals.

Kirby also worked on Green Arrow in the 50s. Which might have influenced the creation of Hawkeye.
 
Swamp Thing and Man-Thing launched around the same time. And IIRC, their creators were roommates at the time. Both deny influenecing each other, though.
In that case it was almost certainly a case of common inspiration. Probably had a copy of Theodore Sturgeon's short story "It!" and/or issues of Hillman's Airboy Comics featuring The Heap lying around the house.
The timing also comes down to the relaxation of the Comics Code.
 
You know a movie is bad when Honest Trailers apologized for it.

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You know a movie must be bad when some of the funniest parts of the honest trailer are the clips from the movie, and it's not a comedy.
 
We watched the Gadot movie.

It was okay. She was fine.

By the numbers thriller, as you'd expect. The reveal at the end was unexpected, but stretched credibilty too far.
 
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