#Warner brothers DCU

[silveragelovechild]

Days of Warner/DC Future-Past

[kollectorsrus]

[straightouttablackgate]

[bruce-lau-98]

Milly Alcock Supergirl to Comic

David Corenswet Superman

[psychicbluebirdmiracle]

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav 2023 Pay Package Rises to $50M

Oh I see you dont have money in the budget to release coyote vs acme or batgirl but you can give yourself $49.7 million along with giving all your buddies tens of millions as well yeah totally get why you had to ruin everyone's hard work and possibly their careers

[unpoetic-justice29]

thinking about how the marvel and dc verse kinda just handed over their franchise to Disney/ WB and sony and let them take over… if you say your a fan of marvel, we must confirm if it’s tv or the comics cause they’re two very different serials now…

[wolrith]

i feel like there needs to be some sorta study about the way opinions on games work, and this weird hatefully dependant relationship gamers have with game reviews, sites like ign and shit. i noticed it particularly on the new suicide squad game - for those out of the loop, the new "Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League" game is out, with a pretty disastrous pre-launch, and worse launch. Before games come out, normally early copies are given out to reviewers so they play it and give out their impressions before release, so people know whether to buy them or not. on paper this concept is good, and can heavily affect the launch of the game and the way people perceive it. however, this concept doesn't always, or even usually, work, because reviews are so skewed and biased. games like cyberpunk 2077 had one of the worst releases ever seen in gaming, with a completely broken mess of a game that didnt pack half of the features promised, yet pre-launch reviews were top tier, with 5/5s and 9/10s all over (screenrant compilation of reviews). so obviously, either most polished and minimized versions are given out at times to hide the mess, or reviewers are paid off or just plain stupid.

now, not for those reasons, the suicide squad game's early copies were not given out to reviewers. this was likely because the game isn't very good, or at least doesn't meet expectations, and the studio didn't want to showcase it before launch, so people still buy it. This could be because the studio didnt want to pay reviewers off, or they weren't confident that reviewers would be dumb enough to give good reviews. Alternatively its because they thought their reputation would be even further tarnished if a well reviewed game turned out to be an utter piece of shit again. obviously this all backfired and the review embargo was incessantly spoken of and speculations about the games shittiness rose.

few days later, game comes out - only people seen to be having a good time? I've seen people saying to not believe reviews and to play the game yourself - no one is saying its an amazing, reality shattering masterpiece, but its a fun looter-shooter. it has some cool designs and ideas, and the gameplay is pretty fluid (I haven't played it, im quoting people ive seen, who aren't qualified reviewers). launch is pretty tame comparatively, and is honestly one of the better releases the studio could've hoped for probably. it performs pretty mediocre on day one, but pre-launch was a weird clusterfuck so its not surprising. overall, for a game most people dubbed 7/10 at best, with terrible expectations and advertising, launch is great.

and the come the reviews. IGN has given the game 5/10 - which, for IGN, is basically a 1/10. IGN is notorious for very rarely dipping below 7/10, giving some of the biggest pieces of shit, truly 1/10 games, passable scores. On recent reviews i had to scroll pretty far to find a game below 6 (and was plenty surprised to find a 1/10 game, The Day Before), and those with 5s and below are normally minor, non-AAA games like Bluey: The Game, or some weird fortnite festival with a 4/10. Games with horrendous reviews from people I've spoken to, and some game critics on youtube, like avatar: frontiers of pandora, have survived with a 7/10 despite underwhelming launches and mid-to-terrible gameplay and story. What I'm getting at basically, is that Suicide Squad is one of the few triple-A games I've seen in a long time to get a bad score, when normally IGN sucks big studios like warner brothers off.

So, could this be because the game is shit? Unlikely, since as I said, people were enjoying it. If you disagree with that because you didn't enjoy it, then disregard and remember that significantly bigger pieces of shit still got better scores than suicide squad.

REMEMBER THE CYBERPUNK LAUNCH (9/10 UwU) [Editors note: Editors note 2: Update: Editors note:]).

So no, i don't believe IGN gave suicide squad a 5/10 just because its a bad game. Following a careful analysis and bonking my head with a brick until I got a concussion, i do believe IGN only gave suicide squad a bad score because of the review embargo. Frankly if you told me the reviewers didn't even play the game, i would probably believe you, because it seems like the most agenda-fueled, hate-stirring vengeful move IGN has done in a while, even going so far as to use the memory of the late Kevin Conroy, batman's voice actor, to stir hate by calling his performance in the suicide squad game 'a waste', despite kevin stating before he enjoyed playing an evil batman. IGN literally used a dead guy's performance in a game to indicate the game is a waste and not worth the effort, to stir hate in players and push their salty agenda. Why? Presumably, because they didn't get early review copies. Because they want to discourage this in future releases, because their entire website is built on getting bribed to suck off bad games and save them from terrible launches. They know they've been failing in recent years. With shitshows like cyberpunk not passing under the gamer radar anymore, studios know that a few paid off reviewers wont do enough to salvage their half-assed pieces of shit, so either they gotta make good games with effort, or polish them afterwards anyways, and either way reviewers aren't a worthwhile investment anymore.

On a sidenote, I'd love to come up here at the climax of my post with hard evidence IGN gets bribed for good scores. I have some old articles from like 2012, and a bunch of people on reddit who said so, but not really any hard evidence. There were allegations thrown around regarding starfield, another terrible game with good scores, that IGN got bribed by microsoft to give it a good review. IGN chief pledged to quit his job if evidence was brought forwards, and i dont think that happened. I can't prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt that IGN is bribed to be so skewed; at the very least, it seems like a profitable cycle of investments. Game is terrible and cheap, studios pay IGN to put a bandaid on it, release is profitable, the end. But with no evidence, its only really a theory... a... a... nay, i shan't.

So what did we learn? It seems like IGN is intentionally trying to tank the Suicide Squad launch, because they're salty over being cut out of the scam. It seems like journalistic integrity is thrown even farther out of the window, with IGN trying to act like mafia loan sharks by roughing up the game for not coming with a share of the profits, and discouraging future games from following suit. IGN right now seems like a parasite on the gaming industry, a leech that's been profiting off this perpetuating cycle of the industry dying with terrible cheap games that kill the genre's artistry. Now it looks a bit like the game industry is healing, and the IGN leech is starting to peel off, no longer able to cash in on failure games like the tabloid scum they are.

Don't let IGN discourage you from playing good games. This isn't an advertisement for the Suicide Squad, I barely even know if its actually good. IGN is clearly biased though, and so are most other game review sites. Do not trust reviews from corpo-sites, simply said.

[xarliclub]

CreatureCommandos Marca el inicio del nuevo Universo de #DCcomics bajo la dirección de #JamesGunn Se estrena el 5 de dic.

xarliclub #movie #movies #cine #cinema #film #films #peli #pelis #pelicula #peliculas #tv #cinemastodon #filmsky 🎬#animation #DCU

[lureofthesea]

Source: supermanandloisverse

#SupermanAndLois Season 4 - Final Trailer

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[randofics]

James Gunn, my guy! How could you not want to make a Batman Beyond movie!? Like what are you on?

Fans would absolutely love this!!!

UGH!!!

You can make money from this!!! Think of the toy sales!!! Merch sales!!!

Look at how much money spiderverse made!!!

Why would this be a "Never" ?! Yall are so stupid!!!

I've been hoping for a good Batman Beyond movie for several years now. Those idiots at Warner Brothers should be fired!!!

Quit making movies that people don't want to watch!!! Are yall allergic to money?!

SO STUPID!!!

JUST DO A STAND ALONE FILM! IT DOESN'T HAVE TO LINE UP WITH THE DCU!!!

[silveragelovechild]

Early review for “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” are t looking too good.

“The best parts of this new movie are drowned out by pointless CGI monsters and tedious action sequences.” (The Wrap)

“Coasts on the residual good vibes and talented cast of its much-superior predecessor.” (Screen rush)

“May be a shoddily made Skittles ad masquerading as a superhero riff” (Tribune news)

“Messy and mirthless” (Daily Beast)

“Shazam! Fury of the Gods is a film with close-to-zero nutritional value.” (Little White Lies)

“An exhausting, dull and convoluted superhero comedy that's low on wit, laughs and palpable thrills.” (NYC Movie Guru)

“(Helen Mirren) a troublemaker on an ominous but generic mission” (Variety)

[kollectorsrus]

[straightouttablackgate]

[glapplebloom]

I know you guys know, but someone apparently doesn't.

So a hot month ago, someone got blasted for complaining about Reboot Series. Ignoring a LOT of the problems that pretty much everyone already brought up, I wanna focus on the person's inability to tell a Reboot Series from a Sequel Series. So for this Research Bin, I'm going to define it as well as bring up examples of such. Some are really easy to tell, others are not. So let's begin.

A Reboot Series is a Series that takes an original concept and makes changes to it to tell a different version of that Series. A good example, which is a big duh for anyone reading this Tumblr, is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It took the original ideas from the previous three generations (I think, Generation 2 gets skipped a lot) and changes them to fit the new series' ideologies. Like Rainbow Dash being "Dressing in Style" to "Awesome as I wanna be". A bad example is the Velma series by a popular celebrity who basically made herself into Velma and outside the most surface level jokes about the franchise is filled with pop culture references and more violence and "adult" content. Next week I'll focus on the positives of hated reboots but for now you can tell by these two examples of someone who wanted to do something different Vs someone who just wanted to wear the skin of it (or Warner Brothers forcing her to do this, I wouldn't put it past them).

A Sequel Series is a Series that continues from the original. A great example is Batman Beyond takes place in the far future of Batman: the Animated Series as well as the DCU. Bruce Wayne was shaped by the events that happened in that series as well as the time difference between the two timelines. I honestly don't know many bad sequel series due to not watching any I would consider bad, but Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is an example that is a sequel to a great movie and completely fumbles the ball by not keeping the quality and making things much worse. Well, now that you know the definition, let's see what these four series are.

Fairly Odd Parents: A New Wish - It takes place a long time after the original. Where AJ is an adult while Crocker and Vickie are older. This is a Sequel Series.

She-Ra from Netflix - New designs, new personalities, taking it to places the original didn't. This is a Reboot Series.

Now the two hardest to figure out...

Powerpuff Girls 2016 - New cast, new animation style, but still kept a majority of the same actors. They also make references to the past series as if it took place in their history and the old villains like Mojo Jojo and HIM do not get introductions unlike the new villains. Basically, this is a Sequel Series. Outside personalities, which could be explained as this is now an older iteration of the cast, there isn't really much that makes it a reboot. So at worst it’s a Dragon Ball GT situation: it's their future unless the original creator changes it in a way it can’t. 

MLP: Generation 5 - Honestly, this is a lot harder. While it is billed as a sequel series, there are a ton of changes that makes it hard to see it as such. There’s no magic, but the Sun and Moon can move on their own, the Weather goes on its own, fusion animals are the norm and not magical, Cutie Marks still work despite no Magic. New locations. The Map doesn’t seem to fit the old one. It pretty much contradicts FIM’s ending. Spike is a quadruped now and conveniently does not remember many of the past events outside certain things...

The closest we get is the IDW comics with Discord telling how things were in the past, which is just how the Unity Crystals were made. We still have no idea what happened to the other creatures, what caused them to split outside Opaline, and the Sea Ponies are back to being an undiscovered phenomenon. So is this a reboot or a sequel series? The answer: yes. At this point, I think Generation 5 is both. It's a sequel as it takes a lot of the elements of G4 and treats it as history while making a lot of changes to fit its own ideologies. 

And unlike A New Wish, the changes don't have any logical reason behind it. Why is Time Wishes needed to go through Father Time instead of the Fairies just doing it? Well, there’s a certain Secret Wish that definitely needs to be outsourced to someone who can actually keep time. Why are all the creatures now suddenly out of the picture? We don’t know. It's why Multiverse Theory is such an easy answer.

[paulsebert]

Loony Toons Tiny Toon Adventures, I Love Lucy, and Night Court exist in the DC Multiverse: Prove Me Wrong!

Wile E. Coyote appears in the 1990 episode "Still Another Day In the Life." Night Court is fairly unique among televised sitcoms of it's era in that it does not take place in any known sitcom universe (Nickelodeon Cinematic Universe, TGIF Universe, Snow Globe Universe, Hurricane Saturday Universe, etc.) However I Love Lucy did meet Superman in the 1957 episode "Lucy and Superman." This was Pre-Crisis but it may suggest that Night Court is connected to it in the Post-Crisis continuity. In 1992 Superman would appear in the direct-to-video animated film "How I Spent My Vacation." The timing of the Night Court appearance and How I Spent My Vacation occur during the post-Crisis/Pre-Zero Hour period suggesting that Night Court and Loony Toons/Tiny Toon Adventures all took place in the mainline DCU. Somewhat confusingly pre-crisis cartoons like "Super-Rabbit" and "Stupor Duck" take place on a world where the DC Superheroes are all fictional (not unlike Earth Prime) however The Plucky Duck Show pilot "Batduck" appears to take place in a world where Batman exists but is apathetic to Plucky's efforts to get cast in "Batman Returns" a film that perhaps Bruce Wayne is financing. Batman does however make a cameo in the "Dance of Doom" pilot of Freakazoid adding evidence the existence that these shows shared an earth. Some will argue that this is proves that the Warner Brothers series and Night Court exist on Earth-12 however remember this appearance is post Zero-Hour. Also Earth-12 wasn't officially introduced until after Flashpoint.

In the 2000 comic mini-series Superman & Bugs Bunny (written by the great Mark Evanier) the Loony Toons are brought to earth by Mr Mxyzptlk. In this comic the Loony Toons are from a parallel world. Given that this book was published after both Zero Hour and The Kingdom we must assume that Hypertime is involved.

DC Meets Loony Toons comics suggest that there in fact multiple Warner Brothers Cartoon worlds some of which the The Loony Toons and the DC Superheros co-inhabit and some don't. My theory is that these worlds were split after the events of Flashpoint and the various Loony Toons (as well as Night Court and I Love Lucy) were taken dome worlds by Braniac. Somewhat confusingly this was published post Rebirth but clearly takes place during the prior Convergence event. This would also also account for the Hanna-Barbera Beyond event as well as the Flintstones and Snagglepuss comics from the era.

The Loony Toons would once again meet the DC Superheroes in 2021's Space Jam: A New Legacy the Loony Toons (and many other cartoons) exist on one single earth. Somewhat confusingly they encounter superheroes twice while Bugs is rounding up the gang. I believe this means that Daffy was playing Superhero on Earth 12 while Lola was training with the Post-Rebirth Wonder Woman. Something confirmed by the fact that the Loony Toons jump into a literal comic to recruit Lola. The Loony Toons continue to have a mostly shared earth but 2022's Jellystone and the upcoming Tiny Toons Looniversity exist in their own parallel pocket dimensions.

As for Night Court despite John Larroquette returning to the 2022 reboot we have overt references to Dan Fielding's successful prosecution of Wile E. Coyote however the fact that the charges in the episode were dropped from attempted murder to harassment in the 1990 episode reflect Fielding's personal growth and softening of a character. It appears to once again be on it's own pocket universe separate from all superhero, cartoon, and sitcom universes unless it is confirmed to be the future of I Love Lucy.

[bookdragonlibrary]

Hey !

Longtime follower here ! I'd love to get your insight on an issue, and I know I can count on you, when I read all your detailed and well written responses.

One issue plaguing the YJ community is the infamous debate of the timeskips, I personally think it didn't do any favors for YJ. I would have preferred to keep the one season, one year format, while progressing in the main subplot (Vandal savage VS Darkseid VS JL& The Team).

What's your take on this ? What would your plan of each season look like ?

Thank you for your ask and following me :)

As you could have seen, I love Young Justice writing! That's why it's even funnier and more interesting to analyse!

About the time format, I think YJ shouldn't limit the story to happen in one year just to mimick the first season, but has a rythmn according to the story's needs. But I can see the appeal of keeping the same formule so to speak to write the story. But I wouldn't let limit me and my creativity to tell the story and the pace it needs. As a writer, let's say the series is a book saga and the tied-comics like short novels to explore more the universe and the characters but with stories that are shorters than for the main saga. That is what I'm planning for my own work :)

That was the short answer, let's keep going for the long one! :D

For the timeskip. There is good and a bad consequences from it. The good is it's flesh out YJ world and make the DC lore in one coherent world. The characters continue to grow between big events happening in seasons, just like real people.

The bad consequence is for us, viewers, as we are a little lost at the beginning of the season about the changes. But we need to keep in mind that YJ was supposed to be a multicanal storyline with the series but also videogame (where Tula dies) and comics. Young Justice should have more tied-comics to explain and explore the stories between seasons and to develop more specitic characters who don't have a lot of screen time. But the main problem is DC Universe now Warners Brothers don't invest much in Young Justice but instead make DCU movies and we know the quality of them compared to YJ and the animated films (that I 100% recomand if you didn't watch them yet!!).

My plan is the last season seems to be a building for a supposed (let's hope!) five season with Darkseid and Vandal as the main antagonists and each sub-story of the 4th season was to build it up and explain to us the many changes there will be between season 3 and 5 so we won't be lost like at the beginning of season 2 and 3. So it feels like season 4 was the first part of season 5 if you see what I mean?

I don't know if you know this series as it's a French one but Wakfu (it's on Netflix if you want to try it ;) ) has a similar storyline with a main series which will end with its 4th season on January, OST that could be a long film and a manga series. But the same universe also has an online videogame WOW-like called Dofus, a manga series with the same name, films and series with different characters, sometimes at different time periods. You can read the Dofus manga or watch only Wakfu and you won't feel lost about the story. Because it's not made like the MCU where you have to see multiple series on Disney+ just to watch one film on theatre...

Wakfu works because it's the same studio who makes all of that (their name is Ankama). Young Justice is a gold pile the producers are sitting on because they don't invest on it... If the writers have the whole freedom than Anakama has, we wouldn't feel bad about the timeskips because we would have more content to fill the gap :)

I hope that answer your ask and give you another point of view :p