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[Nique]

While DC's characters are conceptually interesting, most of their A list remain thematically boring with little or no meaningful characterization driving them in their most iconic stories. While writers have certainly imbued these characters with clever and well developed traits in certain stories, the fact that their inception was mostly concept/ spectacle provides and inherent barrier in defining the character in anything but the most simplistic terms.

This is part of what makes the transition from comics to film very confusing and messy for DC. This is also influenced by the temptation for filmakers to utilize origin stories almost exclusively when making Superhero films, but Marvel shares that particular hurdle. Marvel's films have prevailed in no small part because their heroes driving traits come from the story and personalities of those characters which are perhaps just as iconic as their powers and appearance.

This is why DC live action films have always been bad to mediocre, and why there are so few of them. The latest Batman installments are, of course, the only exception to this rule. Even the Richard Donnor Superman films, while visually stunning at the time, were pretty cheesy and unsophisticated. Smallville might be the BEST example of Superman, or any DC property aside from Batman, being done as a live action piece.

I realize I'm just kinda ranting and maybe not bringing in a bunch of new thoughts here. I guess what I'm getting at is that Justice League is probably going to suck in every way that Avengers didn't.