The difference between MCU and DC villains.
Oct 30, 2017 6:34:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2017 6:34:53 GMT
Some of that I agree with. But you are talking about a different group of people. The fans of the genre of course know about Brainiac. But I was talking about the general public.
I mean...I watched every single episode of Smallville. It was a terrible show at times (Lana..ugh) but I stuck it out till the end. (I'll watch anything with Superman in it) I could be convinced that Tom Welling is the best Supes ever.
Check out the Smallville ratings: smallville.wikia.com/wiki/RatingsIt peaked at 7.8 million and #113 and was down to 2+ million in the final couple of seasons. So we really are talking about the geek community here.
The problem with the general public with Superman villains is the writers of ‘Superman’ movies only used Lex Luthor in the majority of movies and left out the other villains and if they had made movies with villains like Atomic Skull, Braniac, Bizarrio, Parasite, the Eradicator, Imperiex, Lobo and Maxima years ago those villains would be well known to the public now. This is why so many journalists have said Superman is overpowered and hard to make villains for ‘cause his only weakness is Kryptonite when there have been hundreds of villains in the comic books that didn’t need Kryptonite to hurt or kill Superman and some of them were far more powerful than Superman like Gog who was the second villain to kill him in the comics and his death lead to Doomsday having an epiphany and becoming a superhero to take over for Superman and protect the humans. There are a lot of Superman villains and we haven't even had a quarter of his biggest ones on screen.
Movies make villains and superheroes well known to the general public and up until the MCU and DCEU the most well-known superheroes were Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, The Phantom, X Men, Supergirl, Batgirl, Robin, the Incredible Hulk, Spawn, The Crow, The Mask, Witchblade, Captain Planet, the Fantastic Four and Buffy and that was ‘cause they had their own movies and TV shows. Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Richie Rich, Dennis the Menace, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, Josie and the Pussycats, Annie, the Addams Family, Archie and Garfield are other comic book characters that were well known thanks to multiple adaptions on screen but a lot of people didn’t know some of those were comic books. Superheroes like Iron Man, Ant Man, Thor, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Cyborg, Black Panther etc were all obscure characters only a handful of people knew of outside of comic book fans in the 90s and a lot of people I know think Cyborg is a Robocop knockoff or it is a remake of the Van Damme movie. For DC villains and superheroes to be well known to the public more of them need to be used on screen.
That being said, 'Smallville' was one of the top 10 most watched shows of the week here in Australia when it was on Channel 10 in Seasons 3, 4, 5 and 6 and at one point they were airing two episodes of 'Smallville' a week at 7:30 pm on Channel 10 so it was not just the geek community but both 'Dawson's Creek' and 'Alias' were far more popular here than they were in America and 'Dawson's Creek' dominated and was the number one most watched show on free to air TV in the late 90s/ early 00s. 'Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' was huge though and when they had Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher on Sunrise recently they said it was not only one of the most watched shows of the 90s it was one of the most watched shows in the history of television so I would put Tempus on the list of well known Superman supervillains depending on the age group.
