How would/could you adapt Mr. Mxyzptlk for the DCEU?
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How would/could you adapt Mr. Mxyzptlk for the DCEU?
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Step 1: I completely get rid of any concept of a “DCEU”
Step 2: I make a series of animated cg Superman movies with Silver Age elements
Step 3: one of the movies has Mxyzptlk in it
That's too easy.
I'm not familiar with his work. How would that go down?
Godfrey is GOAT but I think there are a bunch of younger actors who can be just as/even more obnoxious.
He only did some acting, and a lot more voice acting if you count him being the narrator for his own audiobooks. He also voiced the antagonist of the video game I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, based on his own short story.
Harlan Ellison was a prankster, just a very serious one.
Here's the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_hekYXWiw , but the short version is:
When a publisher didn't honor the contract they had with him, he demanded they release his book's publishing rights back to him. The publisher refused.
At first Ellison sent a polite letter, but nothing came of it.
Keep in mind this was in the 60s or 70s. Ellison then started mailing bricks, each one individually packed and stamped to the publisher. They ask him why the hell he's sending bricks to the publisher, and he says
>"will you give me back my book or do I have to send you the rest of the shithouse?"
The publisher still refused.
So one day he shoots a gopher dead, puts it in a box and mails that to the publisher. It stunk up the entire the office, it didn't even get to the main guy in charge.
So the secretary calls him up days later and complains how the publisher is an old man, he's got a condition and went into a hospital, he can't handle this shit. Ellison says
>"well I hope he recovers."
The secretary yells
>"Why?! So you can torment him?!"
>"No, he needs the strength to give me back my book."
>"Don't you ever give up?!"
>"That's the message."
And that's just one story about the guy. Another one is that Richard Nixon had his house tapped.
>adapt
With zero changes. CGI imp who does magic from another dimension. Stop changing shit.
This. But without
>animated.
No need just mark Superman with trunks again.
If he were alive and at least 50 years younger, I'd have Harlan Ellison portray Mxyztplk.
Ha, that would actually be pretty good. More of the snarky prick take on the character than the wacky prankster
>no Gilbert
>no watch
Maybe Weird AL would do a good job I guess.
Take a few notes from Dr Who. Make him look like a normal person, but have something be off about him at first glance.
I mean, we COULD talk about how any one of us would do it.
...but it's DCEU so Mxy would be some dark brooding edgy demon monster from nightmare limbo that might take the form of a brooding guy with glowy eyes and possibly a black trenchcoat. And he would do ironic evil Wishmaster shit to random people until Superman took notice of him.
I would just want Superman end up in Zrfff at some point in the movie.
I'd set Danny Devito lose on the set and tell him to act how he normally does and just film that.
If he's not around, I'd get George Costanza.
I hate normies like you. Frick off back to Twitter.
>shows up as a normal person , uses magic to help people
>reveals himself as a cartoonish imp who was messing with people the entire time
>superman has to stop him but ends up in his wacky dimension
>now Mr.Myx is portrayed as actually evil (or at least scarier so he's comes off as an actual threat for the audience)
>superman stops him
>Movie ends with everything back to normal
>"normal human" Myx walks past clark and Lois in metropolis and winks at the camera.
Redesign him to look like a really strange and creepy old man who masters black magic and likes to annoy humans. Then in the final battle, make him show his true form: a fricking 2D cartoon.
>Then in the final battle, make him show his true form: a fricking 2D cartoon.
This really is the only way. They got to Roger Rabbit him into the movie.
Both Mxy and Batmite get the Twin Peaks treatment
No Batmite turns the feature into Adam West Batman complete with big cartoony sound effect panels every time something happens.
He occasionally shows up helping other villains throughout the series of films and generally influencing them to cause mayhem or other trouble for the heroes by telling them plotlines from the comics and only directly challenging Superman when it doesn't work. A stand in for people who want superhero movies to adapt thirty stories in one film and shove as much continuity and sequel baiting into one movie rather than just telling original stories where the characters already have the proper backstories and personalities. It flies over people's heads until some neckbeard autist makes a youtube video explaining it and everyone eats it up as meta commentary is currently the hot new thing
Make him Moore's multidimensional murder monster.
That only works if he was previously set up as a goofy character