The DCAU (1992-2006) is a better adaptation of that universe than any other movie or TV show, despite the limitations of animation and BS&P. Why is that? Why are WB executives so braindead when it comes to the movies especially? I don't expect the James Gunn stuff to be good at all.
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New stuff on the block.
What came before was beatable.
90's were more cynic.
Were asked to be darker and base it on Burton's movie.
Batman had 50 years and more with many more stories to adapt.
They had it easy.
well the DCAU crew faced challenges from executives and focus groups (who probably never touched a comic book in their lives)
>The DCAU (1992-2006) is a better adaptation of that universe than any other movie or TV show, despite the limitations of animation and BS&P. Why is that?
It's not. The first three seasons of BTAS sure, but the writers gave less and less of a shit about the material as the years went by. Of course, the viewers ate it up because they never read a comic but it's only held up as the peak because it's the only time WB cared enough to invent into an animated universe.
>It's not.
What is?
>What is?
The Batman cartoon.
>The Batman cartoon.
Why?
The last season treated the JL with more respect than Timm and his buddies did.
Besides the low hanging fruit of Batwank, what did you dislike about the Justice League show?
>what did you dislike about the Justice League show?
I really dislike how everyone never truly gets to shine. Martian Manhunter is one of the OG JL, he's been there since the beginning and in multiple renditions, and I think his origin story is incredibly tragic, but he never gets a break. The dude is basically Worfed. Flash isn't even a real character, he's a mishmash of Barry and Wally and for some reason a massive airhead.
>[Manhunter] never gets a break.
Not even when he fricks off to live with his trad Asian GILF wife at the end of JLU?
>Flash isn't even a real character, he's a mishmash of Barry and Wally and for some reason a massive airhead.
Is that why Batman and eventually Orion come to respect him so much?
It just came too late.
Regarding Flash, I can think of a few more examples:
>being a role model to the kids in the holiday episode from season 2
>going Speed Force Super Saiyan on the Luthor/Brainiac Hybrid
>The Great Brain Robbery
>The lightspeed run with Green Lantern's help to reignite the sun
Manhunter:
>Giving up the power of the Philosopher's stone to defeat Morgaine Le Faye, succeeding where Etrigan failed
>Telepathically overpowering that one Thanagarian with the really strong defenses
>Figuring out what was going on in the JSA homage episode before anyone else
>Saving everyone else in the Doctor Destiny episode
What did they see in each other?
She respected his status as a founding member of the League and liked his shy, innocent vibe. He obviously finds tall, charming Brazilian women with big boobs and DSLs attractive.
Imagine the pounding he could do to that ass.
>he's a mishmash of Barry and Wally
And that's why he's the best version of Flash.
ehhhhh no and I like this flash
Sorry but you're wrong.
J'onn is an OG member of the 1960s JLA, the OG team for DC Comics is the JSA so in that sense, he's not an OG the way Batgod, Supes or Diana are.
Plus which he was OG because Supes and Batman still couldn't be fully used in the same way the Fantastic Four were not founding members of the Avengers.
Some of you comic imbeciles act like Mort or Julie or Whitney or someone else came down from Mount DC with a set of stone tablets and said, THIS IS CANON.
There was no plan.
They made this shit up as they went along. That's how important it was and should be treated in certain respects.
Everyone got to shine. You're simply wrong.
I think something is seriously wrong with that anon. He’s in every DCAU thread spreading the same rhetoric. He some of sort of victim complex and his brain is stuck in negative mode. He’s clearly mentally ill and is trying his hardest to spread his misery everywhere.
This, why doesn't he suck Timm's wiener like the rest of us?
Meds.
If anything, they didn't give a shit about the original B:TAS barring a few exceptions like Mr. Freeze because they had to limit themselves to a semi-realistic setting and endure the Fox censors. Once they got more freedom on Kids WB, they acted as if TAS never existed.
The movies have to please a billion masters. The DCAU just had to target boys, the original audience of these characters. It was also a time you could adapt these characters straight without needing to change the formula too much. There's some reinterpretations, but not like what you'd see later.
On another note, I can completely get why people here would hate it but it's honestly amazing to me that the CW verse managed to adapt so much on a channel aimed at teenage girls. The shows are for teenage girls sure, but they fact that they managed to put characters like Rip hunter on TV is so bizarre to me.
Why is the DCUA JL so fricking dogshit compared to the actual peak of JL?
What do you think the later seasons were trying to loosely adapt?
And it sucked.
Superhero cartoons don't have to rework the designs into "realistic" tacticool slop and aren't under the pressure of "Kill the popular supervillain so we can move onto the next popular supervillain since its not like we can have celebrity actor wear a superhero suit to fight them forever".
I feel like the entire project got lazier and lazier as it went on. until the JLA days when they brought everything down to 3 body types for the entire cast.
it's weird now going back and seeing some 92 Batman episodes where everyone was unique and then checking out a JLU episode where everything is so cookie cutter.
I was just reminded that the cookie cutter body shapes are probably a result of streamlining for toy production.
It's not really lazy- at least not on Timm and his team's part -it's also that you are outsourcing this animation to animators who are not going to keep 60+ distinct body types in line.
Toys are also a factor, too, I'm sure
I disagree because I'm not a Batgay
>I disagree because I'm not a Batgay
I have faith on Gunn
He high up his ass pitching terrible ideas is he?
>limitations of animation
live action is more limiting.
>Why is that?
Love.