Originally Posted by
Sutekh
Rather than retread what that other company is doing, I wonder if DC could go in another direction and *not* focus on crossover movies, but instead take advantage of the wide range of tones and themes available in the DCU to tell several different styles of story.
Batman is gritty and a little bit noir, and I love that about him. But his corner of the DCU has always been drawn in a darker palette.
Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Flash are very much four-color and not even a little bit grim or gritty or dark, and I feel like attempts to 'darken' them up and make them heavy and ponderous robs them of what makes them super and wonderful and flashy and all that.
There are plenty of properties that could fit very nicely into a darker Bat-tone, like the Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey, but, as the saying goes, 'It can't rain all the time,' and it seems to me that making *all* of the DCU fit the weighty and oh-so-terribly-serious tone of Gotham is throwing out the 90% of the DCU that wasn't designed around Gotham, where the only person who ever smiles or laughs is a killer clown. In this case, leaning too heavily on a shared world, to the extent of making it a shared singular monochromatic staggering-under-the-weight-of-it's-own-terrible-seriousness *tone,* perhaps limits the range of possibilities.