"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does? - Gaff Blade Runner
"In a short time, this will be a long time ago." - Werner Slow West
"One of the biggest problems in the industry is apathy right now." - Dan Didio Co-Publisher of I Wonder Why That Is Comics
Well, Wonder Woman was just shown to be a very inspirational character with a of virtues and good will toward mankind and the masses loved her movie and her. Maybe that's what audiences want, heroes larger than life who are good and who can save the world from evil even if just in a fictional world. It makes people feel good and gives them hope. It's great escapism.
Audiences weren't very thrilled with a very human Superman full of doubt and angst with the Snyder movies.
I think it's more that the WW movie actually executed the whole thing far better than Snyder's Superman did. It presented her as flawed and needing character arc, but still struck the right balance with making her a larger than life superheroine. Arthur is pretty much the same.
In comparison, Snyder's Superman's arc isn't as well realized. He saved the world, but clearly audiences connected with her more than him. If they did, that means the former product worked and the latter didn't. At least for enough people. I still like MOS, but the potential was squandered, and it was shaky to begin with. Fans just simply want that for Superman, when it is clearly not too difficult to do for other characters.
Smallville paved the way for modern superhero TV. Not Arrow like some say lately..
He got a show because of his popularity in Smallville.
Depends on how one defines modern. I would say Adventures of Superman paved the way for Superhero TV. For it's time that would have been modern, with TV being dominated by westerns at the time.
Without Superman on TV would TV executives been as likely to have Batman, The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Lois and Clark on TV in the years following. I don't think Smallville existed in a vacuum,
Adventures of Superman and Lois and Clark sort of paved the way to making Superman acceptable on TV. Without their legacy I wonder if anyone would have even considered Smallville.
I think the outcome of Crisis On Infinite Earths hurt DC in the long run.
Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow is the most overrated Superman story ever written.
No matter how many reboots, new origins, reinterpretations or suit redesigns. In the end, he will always be SUPERMAN
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Yeah... I'm a huge Fan of Blade, but I think that movie gets too much credit for 'starting the comic boom'. It was a vampire movie. It was advertised as a vampire movie. It was horror. People who had no idea whatsoever about Blade... including actual comic book fans went to see it because it was a kick-butt vampire action movie.
Blade may as well have been an independent character for all the reputation he had. It stood on it's own merits... like the Crow or The Mask or the Losers as one of those cool fun concepts that audiences were surprised was originally a comic.
Even in the trailer no mention whatsoever of comics, marvel or anything... Just a mention of Stan Lee as an executive producer in tiny blurry letters in the credits.
X-Men on the other hands.. were superheroes. They were the #1 best selling Comic, the most popular Saturday morning cartoon... Non-fans may still find them a bit unknown... but they were OUT there. Blade? Not so much.
Gotta side with DrNewGod here. COIE hurt DC in the long run.
But a part of me might have been ok with that being the last Superman story. It was the tail end of his reign as the mightiest and most popular superhero. it may have been better to have him bow out with a good story and a happy ending with Lois and let the genre and DCU move forward. Yeah the reboot kept him around, but the various attempts to "fix" him afterwards have only done further damage. It's like they parade out his corpse to keep the brand going and continue to make money without much regard for the character himself and he's never reached that height of popularity again. Making everything a more level playing field for their brands is good in theory, but 1. They had to scale and gut his history and lore to do it and 2. it just shifted to Batman.