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That was the first Joker's Daughter, and even then years before the 2011 reboot she was revealed to actually be the daughter of the female Two face of another dimension and her Dad was called The Jokester, and was basically a color reversed (green suit and purple hair) good guy version of The Joker. This revelation actually happened after she was pointlessly killed off in the first issue of Countdown to Final Crisis for no reason, but the issue that revealed it was an actually very good tie in to Countdown (one of the very few things even remotely related to Countdown to be anything but colorful toilet paper) that was about the world she came from (and focused on The Jokester, aka her Dad, the heroic version of Joker on his world).
Nowadays the current DC Comics version of Joker's Daughter is a random psycho who wears the skin off of one of The Joker's faces (because there are actually three seperate Jokers in the DC Comics universe apparently, although it hasn't been elaborated on since the JL issue that revealed the fact and it might have been retconned away with Rebirth) on her own face, and she's a pretty shit character.
Wow. Comics.
Yeah
To be fair, the issue with her Dad that revealed her origins (the focus being on her Dad and that universe and her being his daughter was just a brief part of the issue) was a great one shot and probably the best thing related to the character in a long time.As for the version that wears the peeled off face of (one of the) Joker's on her face...I really have nothing more to add. The bit I've read with her was just bad, and I mostly tried to ignore her after she got established (not that she was used that much, it doesn't seem to be a popular character for probably obvious reasons and she might have just disappeared with Rebirth)
Casey Affleck Says Ben Affleck Is Done With Batman
Honestly, I find all these Ben Affleck is leaving or not rumors to be more entertaining than all boring the JL reshoot rumors.
Time for Batman to slip into a Lazarus Pit and come out looking like a much younger version of himself played by a new actor?
I'd imagine Ben wants to beat the crap out of Casey right now, or at least he regrets telling this news to the guy.
Ben likely gets a percentage of how much JL makes, so he needs the movie to do great. News of him leaving will not be a good thing.
Honestly, I find all these Ben Affleck is leaving or not rumors to be more entertaining than all boring the JL reshoot rumors.
Time for Batman to slip into a Lazarus Pit and come out looking like a much younger version of himself played by a new actor?
I'd imagine Ben wants to beat the crap out of Casey right now, or at least he regrets telling this news to the guy.
Ben likely gets a percentage of how much JL makes, so he needs the movie to do great. News of him leaving will not be a good thing.
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No need to go to James Bond for that, the '90s Batman movies already did that, twice.
So did the MCU with James "Rhodey" Rhodes / War Machine. See? People have already forgotten about Terrence Howard!
They also did it with Bruce Banner.
As much as I love The Incredible Hulk and Ed Norton's performance, I find myself wishing Mark Ruffalo was in it instead because he's an even better Banner.
I definitely wish Don Cheadle was in Iron Man. I can't stand Terrence Howard.
I definitely wish Don Cheadle was in Iron Man. I can't stand Terrence Howard.
THR also reporting the same news
Ben Affleck Not Returning as Batman, Says Brother Casey
Ben Affleck Not Returning as Batman, Says Brother Casey
What's the point of linking it twice? They're citing the same source...
Casey Affleck Says Ben Affleck Is Done With Batman
Honestly, I find all these Ben Affleck is leaving or not rumors to be more entertaining than all boring the JL reshoot rumors.
Time for Batman to slip into a Lazarus Pit and come out looking like a much younger version of himself played by a new actor?
I'd imagine Ben wants to beat the crap out of Casey right now, or at least he regrets telling this news to the guy.
Ben likely gets a percentage of how much JL makes, so he needs the movie to do great. News of him leaving will not be a good thing.
In the video of the interview, Casey says he made it up. They were joking around.
In other non-news, did you know Zack Snyder's 300 is responsible for presaging the rise and politics of the Alt-Right?
https://twitter.com/TheAVClub/status/896239589299556354
I'm waiting for the day when people in the media declare Snyder to be the Devil himself. Because calling someone Hitler isn't enough anymore.
You mean Frank Miller's 300. The politics and ideology of the work are Miller's. All Snyder did was make a very expensive motion comic out of it.
Who knows if he was really joking around? He could have let that news slip accidentally. Everyone was denying all the rumors about Ben not directing The Batman, until Matt Reeves was announced as director.
I don't think Snyder is the devil, but he was completely the wrong person to be the architect of the entire DCEU. The man is no Kevin Feige.
Snyder is the guy that does grimdark superhero flicks, and he should have stuck to what he does best. The man doesn't understand Superman AT ALL.
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Last month, Ben said he's not going anywhere as Batman during the SDCC panel.
Don't you find it odd that Snyder seems to draw such criticism and discussion, even though he's not presently in the news. I mean, someone at the AV Club wrote the aforementioned piece, submitted to their editor and the editor decided it was worth publishing. The timing of it's release coinciding with the recent protest and tragedy in Charllottesville VA. Somehow, someway, this is Zack Snyder's fault.
The line between criticism and demagoguery and ad hominem has been blurred by people, critics and commentators on the internet. How the author connected the director of a 10 year old movie, based on a graphic novel, to the current rash of far right demonstrations and bigotry we are currently seeing, I have no idea.
People would argue that he does, and people would argue that he doesn't. What I've noticed is that people in Hollywood and internet journalists and critics don't seem to like Zack Snyder as a person and use his films as a way to assert their dislike for his ideas and interpretations. I wouldn't be surprise if WB noticed that Snyder is a bigger distraction to the DCEU films, than a help. It could have factored into Snyder and his wife Deb bowing out, alongside their grief of losing a child.
I don't know the man. I don't presume to.
But I haven't liked any of Snyder's movies with the exception of Dawn of the Dead and the Watchmen director's cut.
And in so doing, co-signed those politics and ideology.
That article was posted last Friday, before the Charlottesville rally, and is part of a series called "A History of Violence", in which "Tom Breihan picks the most important action movie of every year, starting with the genre’s birth and moving right up to whatever Vin Diesel’s doing this very minute." Articles have been published roughly every two weeks since January 2016, and by last Friday, it was 2007's turn, hence the discussion of 300.
Did you read the piece? The literal demonizing of brown-skinned peoples, plus slandering them as gay pedophiles while completely omitting the Spartan history of doing that very thing, seems to me a pretty direct correlation to the hatreds of white supremacists. (Though I do ding the article for not discussing the fact that the Iraq War was at its height when the movie was made, and modern-day Persia, Iran, was part of W.'s "Axis of Evil", so there were obvious contemporary political undertones to the movie, also.)
One can justifiably argue that the movie is a historical parable that should be taken strictly in its own, ancient context, though as history it's pretty shaky. (No, the Spartans did not fight bare-chested, nor did the Battle of Thermopylae feature any kind of elephants, let alone massive ones, plus the aforementioned institutionalized child-rape thing.) One can say that ancient peoples used racism so casually and naturally that the racist elements of the movie are merely honest to the spirit of their times. But to deny that 300 is a racist work is silly.
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