Post by formersamhmd on Nov 1, 2017 2:31:59 GMT
Batman was around long enough that the common layman would've known about him. He doesn't need to be a reporter to know and formulate opinions.
As for why Wonder Woman didn't do anything in Man of Steel can apply to comics in general. Individual heroes are always dealing with big problems in comics without other heroes showing up to help all the time.
And the movies in a shared Universe are meant to be written and developed in such a way to avert this and give explanations.
Where were The Avengers when the Dark Elves were wrecking London
The battle with the Elves took place over only a few hours (maybe shorter), it was resolved by the time they had assembled a team of whoever was available (It probably would've just been Steve, Natasha and Clint available that fast since Tony was still dealing with the aftermath of IM3 and no one knew where Banner was but him).
or when Hydra were using helicarriors to almost kill a million people in Washington?
Winter Soldier took place over like 2 or 3 days, and Hydra made sure to keep Cap and Widow from communicating with anyone to warn them of the truth. SPECIFICALLY the Avengers.
MOS simply didn't KNOW that WW was out there and thus never bothered with any explanation.
Also the Phase 1 MCU movies realized that the best way to introduce all the characters without having them meet until the end of Phase 1 would be to NOT make their first movies all involve planetary level stuff that should've attracted all superbeings and instead made them smaller more personal stuff with SHIELD (and Coulson) being the link.