#fanboy of aliens even while invasion Danny

[satoshy12]

Vlad ends up joining the Legion of Doom.

All his fellow villains think his enemy is really a Badger.

I mean, Vlad explained that he is tiny, white-haired, aggressive, and attacks the other villains without fear! To be fair, Danny. He is behaving kind of like one.

- I mean, look at Danny vs. Massive and Taller Ghosts, and then look at this picture; it's the same.

So the whole Legion of Doom thinks all the scars and how he was beaten up were by a tiny Badger.

Well, they learned the truth as the tiny white-haired child, who kind of behaved like one, attacked the Legion of Doom... and attacked all the villains till he found Vlad. And he attacked the heroes too.

To Danny's defense:. He had no idea who those people were, but he knows Vlad!

He sent that 10,000+ box to him! It's just fair that he beat him up! He had to find Box Ghost in all those boxes in the city, like Wack a Mole!! It was Vlad way to make danny not follow him. +

And Amity Park doesn't talk about heroes or villains outside, as they have to join the JL and have no time to protect their town all the time. So Amity Park adults made sure their hero didn't find out, so no talk about the outside world." I mean, Phantom protected Amity Park on the Alien Invasion post fanboying about them, while other cities got badly destroyed!

++ Gorilla Grodd looking at all the Chaos the boy did:" Well it makes sense he is called a Badger." Atomic Skull:" IfPlasmius wants to return, he won't piss of that Badger first." Giganta:" He kind of was cute. And very strong." Giganta was kicked into a new room by the boy.

[odanurr87]

My thoughts on... Justice League

This is gonna be quick and painful: Justice League didn’t do it for me, not one bit. Go ahead and denounce me as a Marvel fanboy, I’ll wait. Done? Good, let’s talk about the movie. Fortunately, I’ve only just rewatched it what with the digital release so everything’s fresh on my mind. Where to begin?

As always, reader beware, spoilers ahead.

I’ll skip going into a lot of detail about the plot since we’re all aware of how the story goes. Steppenwolf decides to conquer Earth now that Superman is out of the way (incidentally, he was out of the way for a long period of Earth’s history) so Bruce decides to put a team together to stop him. This right here is one of the most glaring problems with the film as, in trying to play catch up to the Marvel Universe, the DCEU decided to skip the origin stories for our three newest heroes (Aquaman, Cyborg, Flash), throw them all together, and let the chips fall where they may, with mixed results at best. Seeing the Justice League come together did not evoke the same feelings as seeing the Avengers come together. In fact, it did not evoke any feelings at all, but maybe I’m just burned out on superhero movies?

Of course, Justice League has some baggage to deal with that Avengers didn’t when it released and that’s the fallout from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, yet another movie that coalesced multiple storylines (deserving of their own standalone films) into one incoherent mess that left fans split right down the middle. I wasn’t a fan of BvS but, then again, I wasn’t much of a fan of Man of Steel either, which is why I found the scenes in Justice League with Clark and Lois to lack any emotional resonance whatsoever. I never felt they had any chemistry in Man of Steel and I remain unconvinced three movies down the line. So it should not surprise anyone than when Bruce told Alfred he had a contingency plan in case Superman’s return was anything but hopeful I thought maybe he meant kryptonite or Martha, it never occurred to me he meant Lois. But let me ramble a bit about Bruce/Batman now.

I won’t deny the suit looks good on him.

My hopes for his character were never high to begin with and I was forced to lower them after watching BvS and realizing this Batman was a bit more muscles and money than brain. This film somehow managed to lower them even further. Placing a tracking device on Aquaman’s coat? Seriously? What part of Aquaman do you not understand? Also, how about Bruce’s contingency plan? Are you seriously gonna tell me your contingency was entirely dependent on Lois somehow persuading Clark not to murder everyone around him? What if he had lasered Lois’ head off? What then? Oops, I guess having a bit of kryptonite lying around would not have hurt, huh? It’s a gamble with Lois’ life on the line. Batman would’ve used kryptonite to make sure Clark was subdued, and only then bring out Lois. And, Jesus H. Christ, the motherboxes containing money? Not realizing Cyborg was standing only a few feet away from him and Diana? This is on top of some of the poor dialogue lines he’s given (”I don’t... not...”) but, to be fair, everyone in this movie gets their fair share of poor/bad dialogue, like that one time Steppenwolf grabs a missile midair and muses, “Primitive beings.” Seriously? That is not only clichéd as fuck, but also mighty stupid coming from a guy who wields an axe. I didn’t hear you complain about the Amazons being primitive beings when they shot at you with arrows, did I?

But let’s talk about the elephant in the room: Superman. Put bluntly, Superman’s way too powerful in this movie, and that takes away any suspense or fear that the heroes might lose. In fact, you could do away with the entire Justice League (minus Cyborg for plot reasons) and Superman could’ve single-handedly saved the day. The only reason he doesn’t, besides the fact that he needed someone to resurrect him, is so as to give the rest of the team a chance to do something. The movie clearly showed us that Steppenwolf was more than a match for at least two of the League’s members, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, and they were working in tandem! It also showed us, in no uncertain terms, Superman beating the crap out of the Justice League (one could argue they were holding back). I’ll admit it was an entertaining (if a little jarring) scene, particularly when Barry realizes that Superman can move as fast as he. I was a bit surprised nobody figured out Superman’s identity considering how many times they say, “Clark,” (except Diana, she addresses him as Kal-el, ‘cause someone needs to be the brains of this outfit) in front of witnesses.

There’s something else this movie is missing, to my mind, and it’s this:

Understand? No? It’s a little difficult to explain but I’ll try. This scene is indicative of a few things. One of them is the point I made earlier about how rewarding it was to see the Avengers coming together, something that shows down to the soundtrack used, “Avengers Assemble,” composed by Alan Silvestri. Compare it against the equivalent scene in Justice League when Batman’s troop carrier lands on Chernobyl Porzenov, the ramp lowers, and the League is presented to Danny Elfman’s “Justice League United.” See the difference? The scene in Avengers is built up while in Justice League it’s there but for the briefest instant and then it’s gone, almost as if it were ashamed.

There’s also the issue of stakes. Simply put, saving the world in film doesn’t carry the same weight if you’re doing it in Siberia as opposed to some bustling metropolis like New York. It’s unfair but it’s true. It’s nice that the creators of BvS tried to atone for Superman having destroyed half of Metropolis in the previous film by having him fight Doomsday somewhere a bit more secluded. Even so we could see that the world was watching and that at least the US government was being proactive about it, with disastrous results. What I mean is that if we are to feel the world is at risk of being destroyed, then we need to see the world interact with the event in question. Avengers does this, Justice League does not. Our heroes are practically cut off from the rest of the world, and that one family we’re shown throughout the film does nothing to convince me otherwise. You can imagine that empty building Superman is carrying around on his shoulders did even less. They could’ve been fighting on Mars for all I knew or cared.

If you’re going to use the iconic John Williams’ theme you have to commit to it.

What brings me to my last point: Superman’s return. You would think that after mourning his loss across the world entire the movie would have made a bigger deal about his resurrection, not to mention he now has a bunch of super-powered friends (being obscenely rich counts as a superpower). Yet there was nothing, absolutely nothing, to show how the world reacts to Superman’s return and the Justice League’s existence (no, Lois’ generic ending monologue doesn’t count). I mean, come on, even Justice League: War did better than this. In fact, the animated movie did a lot better than this one in several aspects, such as its depiction of Batman and the inclusion of Green Lantern. I’ve seen a couple of deleted scenes that certainly flesh out Superman’s return, such as his visit to the Kryptonian ship and the brief appearance of the black Superman suit, or his chat with Alfred. I understand why they might’ve been cut but, overall, I’d rather they were part of the film.

The long and short of it is that Justice League is too short for what it’s trying to accomplish. Batman v Superman was 3 hours’ long and it was only handling 2 superheroes for the most part (Wonder Woman’s screentime was far less than her counterparts). Justice League on the other hand, clocks in at 2 hours and it has to handle 6. That’s not nearly enough time for us to get to know them and see them play off each other, more so considering three of these superheroes are just being introduced. And, like I said before, Justice League feels too small for a movie where the heroes are trying to save the world from an alien invasion. It reminds me of the showdown in Thor’s first movie and how it took place in some godforsaken place that practically screamed “destructible with few casualties!”

Where do we go from here? Secret Society of Supervillains (or Anti-Justice League) according to the end credits scene, what isn’t exactly encouraging considering the only confirmed member we’ve seen so far is Lex Luthor (we haven’t seen Deathstroke in a film yet) and he didn’t exactly work out in Batman v Superman. To make matters worse, there are rumors going around that Ben Affleck might be done with Batman, something I find unforgivable, not so much because of the loss of Ben Affleck but because it’d mean Bruce Wayne would no longer be Batman and I’ll be damned if I don’t get a good (I’m not even asking for great) Bruce Wayne Batman movie before Affleck leaves! Whatever the case, the future of the DCEU isn’t looking too good right now. Hopefully, the next couple of years will prove me wrong.