Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2017 4:23:02 GMT
Both studios only have 1 flagship villain each: Joker and Loki. They're the only villains who get instant recognition from even just the casual moviegoer.
I disagree. The majority of people I know who don't watch superhero movies or read comic books KNOW who Lex Luthor and the Penguin are. Along with the Joker and the Riddler I would say they are two of the most well known comic book villains of all time and most of that has to do with them appearing in multiple movies and TV shows. It is like how a lot of people who don't watch Horror movies know who Freddy, Jason and Michael are 'cause they are a big part of the genre. That being said both the DCEU and MCU have been pretty bad at handling villains so far and neither company can brag about being better than the other 'cause the reality is they both stink in that department. The version of the Shocker we saw in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming was by far the worst adaption I have ever seen of a comic book villain on screen and an insult to the character. If that is how the MCU is going to write the rest of Spider-Man's villains I am glad Sony is keeping the Sinister Six but maybe they might turn it around in the following movie and not ruin another villain. 'Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice's' version of Doomsday was very disappointing too and I would have liked to have seen him as his OWN villain instead of just some monster like creature Lex Luthor created with Zod’s DNA.
Doomsday is real alien and he actually talks and has a personality (he even became a hero in the comic books at one point and liked humans) and I think he would have been better handled if they had followed the 'Smallville' path and had Doomsday as the son of Zod looking for revenge on Superman for killing his Father and they could have had him start out in the human form of Davis Bloom but with him fully aware of who he was so he could transform in to the Doomsday form anytime he wanted to ‘cause that would have made him more dangerous and given him a form to walk around in throughout the movie without leaving him to the last five minutes. The Enchantress was poorly written too but I believe it was a mistake to make a movie of 'Suicide Squad' so early in the DCEU and it should have been left for later AFTER Teen Titans, Birds of Prey, JSA, Legion, Justice League etc which are all bigger selling series.
The difference between the DCEU and the MCU though is the DCEU are still very young and we have yet to see a lot of their superheroes and supervillains on screen. We haven't even seen the first solo 'Batman' movie yet so the DCEU have the chance to turn it around with better writers but looking at the full line up of villains in the DCEU and MCU now I would take Braniac in 'Smallville' any day over all of them along with 'Smallville's versions of Lex Luthor, Zod, Bizarrio and 'Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman's versions of Lex Luthor and Tempus. All of them were far more memorable and 'entertaining' which is a word the movie writers just can't seem to get right. If the 'Arkham' games were movies they would slaughter both the DCEU and MCU with their villains 'cause they actually have great versions of villains but 'Arkham Asylum' and 'Arkham City' had the advantage of being written by Paul Dinni who can write villains and created Harley Quinn.
