To be fair, that gay guy in Endgame was a nameless one-line cameo for one of the directors, while Alysia Yeoh is an actual character from the Batgirl comics.
DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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Movies get the headlines while the tv shows get zip. It’s just how it is.
If Dreamer is not acknowledged (and we're supposed to think there's a "multiverse" that includes those TV series), then the answer is no, which suggests the TV shows are not as integrated as some believe.
I dunno, I see pretty regular coverage of DC and Marvel TV shows in the entertainment media. They're just saying this is the first openly trans character in the DCEU films, and that is a step that deserves acknowledgment and encouragement, given how backward feature films still are when it comes to inclusion.
Yeah, with TV shows, you're making 10-22 or so texts a year. Feature films it's one every 2-3 years.
Representation has caught up far, far quicker on TV as a result. But movies are sort of starting to pull their socks up and get there.
You saw loads of headlines for this with TV, a decade or so ago.
Representation has caught up far, far quicker on TV as a result. But movies are sort of starting to pull their socks up and get there.
You saw loads of headlines for this with TV, a decade or so ago.
I don't think it's about the quantity of material, I think it's just that the feature industry is more conservative and slower to take chances because there's so much more money at stake. And because it depends on overseas box office in parts of the world that are not very progressive about women, LGBTQ people, etc., such as China and the Middle East.
I mean, if you want to compare quantities, there are four Legendary MonsterVerse movies and five MonsterVerse comic book tie-ins, the last of which is told from Godzilla's own POV and has no human protagonists. So the quantities are equal, four to four, in terms of human lead characters. All four MonsterVerse movies have white male leads (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tom Hiddleston, Kyle Chandler, Alexander Skarsgård), while all four relevant MonsterVerse comics have non-white or female leads (Ishiro Serizawa and his father, Houston Brooks and his son, Emma Russell, and an original female character named Burns). Granted, the movies often have women or people of color in significant roles, e.g. Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe, Samuel L. Jackson, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, and Rebecca Hall, but they still felt compelled to stick white men in the lead roles even though all of them were much less interesting than the other characters around them. But the comics were content to let women and people of color carry the stories without the need for token white male leads.
With a lot of movies needing to perform BIG outside of the US, I sometimes get the idea that studios are more careful with adding non-binary characters because they don't want their movies getting blocked in certain countries.
Although it had nothing to do with sexuality, China released an altered-ending version of Fight Club to conform to their standards.
I'm not saying this is a fact, it's just a thought. But with more international demand for representation in movies, studios are realizing that inclusion or exclusion, they're going to face consequences anyway. And right now, there's a much higher demand for inclusion so they're trying to catch up, as it is. Which I'm more than happy with, even though it is a little too late.
Although it had nothing to do with sexuality, China released an altered-ending version of Fight Club to conform to their standards.
I'm not saying this is a fact, it's just a thought. But with more international demand for representation in movies, studios are realizing that inclusion or exclusion, they're going to face consequences anyway. And right now, there's a much higher demand for inclusion so they're trying to catch up, as it is. Which I'm more than happy with, even though it is a little too late.
That ending made me want to barf.
Tyler: I have to go back to my home planet
(Tyler died on his way back to his home planet)
Intriguing cuts so far. As noted some time ago, I'm glad to see the best live action Flash earn a stage of his own in the DCEU.
Wait wait wait... first Michael Keaton... and now you're saying John Wesley Shipp is in this, too?
I get more and more excited for this as time goes on!
Schipp as the the best live action Flash?...now that's comedy.
Don't judge. 
WB uploaded a combined DC Movie teaser with footage from The Batman, Black Adam, The Flash and Aquaman 2 to YouTube, but has already taken it down again. My guess is it's a Superbowl ad that somebody uploaded by mistake.
Got to see it before it was taken down, and we get some good shots of Ezra Miller's new Flash costume (which includes retractable eye lenses), also Black Adam talking about being saved by his son, footage of Hawkman, Atom Smasher and Doctor Fate with and without helmet, and Aquaman sitting on his throne. I'm honestly not sure if there was any new footage from The Batman, most of that seemed like we saw it in previous trailers, but it was only a minute and I only saw it once.
Got to see it before it was taken down, and we get some good shots of Ezra Miller's new Flash costume (which includes retractable eye lenses), also Black Adam talking about being saved by his son, footage of Hawkman, Atom Smasher and Doctor Fate with and without helmet, and Aquaman sitting on his throne. I'm honestly not sure if there was any new footage from The Batman, most of that seemed like we saw it in previous trailers, but it was only a minute and I only saw it once.
From that description, it sounds like WB still doesn’t realize the new Supergirl is by far the most important thing about any of these movies. 
I think it’s more likely that who the identity of this new Supergirl is going to be a carefully guarded secret until the movie is out.
I found the new teaser easily on Twitter posted by Dwayne “The Rock Johnson “ himself. That is about as official as it gets! LOL
Isn’t already known to be the daughter of Superman?
This Supergirl being Superman’s daughter is a widespread assumption. But even if that is true that would not be the full story. Who is the mother? Is she from the future? An alternate Earth or timeline? I suspect we will not see her heavily part of the marketing until they reveal more of the plot. Which is probably many months away.