Watchmen & Crisis On Infinite Earths Animated Movies Announced

[ZariusTwo]

https://twitter.com/Dcanimatedmovie/status/1682639858911543297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1682639858911543297%7Ctwgr% 5E7cb5b53961a29d03039149c87be9ebeb2abc6c38%7Ctwcon %5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftoonado.com%2Fmovies%2Fwatch men-and-crisis-on-infinite-earths-animated-movies-announced-at-san-diego-comic-con-a7744

[sdp]

I'm pretty sure watchmen as an R rated animated watchmen movie was announced in 2017 and after a quick google searc i'm right it was even called "faithful", so by the time it releases it will have been 7 years since the original announcemnt and release: https://www.cbr.com/watchmen-r-rated-animated-movie/

I wonder what direction they'll go with Crisis on infinite earths, an adaptation of the comic with liberties taken like their other direct to movies? Or will they actually go out and have team ups from the different DC cartoons, now that would get me excited as hell, I don't care if they can't get the VAs back, I'll take that over a generic adaptation, what makes crisis cool is seeing the different characters you've loved in a mission together. if you don't know them it can be a fun story but not nerdgasm fun.

I mean, it would just have more impact to have DCAU Supergirl die instead of a "new" supergirl for this movie. Have superboy from the failed legion of superhero cartoon set up as Superboy Prime instead of a generic superboy. Those would give you some emotion since you actually watched them before and they had a story. They're shows have been dead for years, no reason not to do something creative with them.

[ZariusTwo]

The Crisis movie will be part of the recent DC animated movie universe that began with Superman: Man of Tomorrow, Supergirl featured in a recent movie about the Legion so I expect if they're being faithful, they'll kill off the version from that film

[neatoman]

Anyone remember when the live-action movie came out and all people could talk about was Manhattan's dong?

[Autbot_Benz]

Crisis Pt 1 of 3 teaser trailer

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[Autbot_Benz]

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[Bahamut810]

A watchmen cartoon you say?

https://youtu.be/YDDHHrt6l4w?si=owg25cRyyFsqrNEC

[Andrew NDB]

Watchmen -- what Snyder did, but animated, with the space squid restored. *yawn*

[IMJ]

Watchmen -- what Snyder did, but animated, with the space squid restored. *yawn*

The Snyder movie was really good - ahead of it's time in many ways for film. But I'll most likely support the Watchmen animated flick too - the grassroots comic book sensibility of the whole thing could be fun.

[ZariusTwo]

Crisis Part Three will conclude the current animated universe

https://thedirect.com/article/warner-bros-dc-tomorrowverse-movie

[Coola Yagami]

Crisis Part Three will conclude the current animated universe

https://thedirect.com/article/warner-bros-dc-tomorrowverse-movie

What movies were even part of the 'Tomorrowverse'.

[Autbot_Benz]

What movies were even part of the 'Tomorrowverse'.

Superman Man Of Tomorrow
Justice Society World War 2
Batman The Long Halloween Pts 1 and 2
Green Lantern Beware My Power
Legion of Superheroes
Justice League Warworld

[Allio]

Didn’t even know there was much of a “verse” with these animated film.

[Drose18]

The first three are so good, especially the Long Halloween. I would’ve loved to see more comic adaption movies rather than another reset but oh well

[ZariusTwo]

Spoilers for the third Crisis movie


It's quite a bit of fanwank, establishing the Tomorrowverse was indeed the previous animated movie universe that Barry reset at the end of Apocalypse War. It's also revealed that this DC animated movie universe was the creation point of the entire multiverse. There's some plot thread revealing Constantine's true motif was to send Barry back into the past to kill Darksied as a child, with Barry failing and it ended up setting up the creation of the Anti-Monitor.

Lex betrays everyone to try and spare his world and determine a weakness in the Anti-Monitor. Supergirl dies trying to stop the Anti-Monitor but it's all for nothing as there an infinite number of them.

Here's the downer, every animated DC universe, the DCAU, the Superfriends, Teen Titans 2003, all of it, is destroyed. We see DCAU Batman one last time (voiced by Kevin Conroy) spending his last moments battling The Joker, and we finally get closure to John Stewart and Hawkgirl's love story from JLU as they kiss at the end of the world.

Everyone's last chance rests on a device that will merge all Earths into one and Wonder Woman's immortality is the key to it functioning. They pull it off just in time and a new universe is created. Diana is seen on her island as a child playing with her mother who reminds her nobody is immortal

[oldmanwinters]

Spoilers for the third Crisis movie


It's also revealed that this DC animated movie universe was the creation point of the entire multiverse.

It seems to me to be the peak of hubris when some recently created incarnation of long-running franchises decides THEIR version will be the O.G. "Prime" corner of said Multi-verse. Like, yeah, anybody think we'll be wistfully reminiscing about this take on the DC Universe 15 years later? Heck, I would have thought by now that more folks would look back on the fledging early years (c.2007-2013) of these DTV DC Animated Movies as their personal "good old days," but if that nostalgia exists I haven't come across it.

Much as I loved the 90s Marvel kiddie comics that adapted and expanded upon the 90s FOX X-Men/Spider-man cartoons, the final issue of the X-Men tie-in went with the whole "universe-reset" angle and suggested that event's aftermath somehow created 1963's "The X-Men #1". Com'on, man!

If comic book brass wants to get serious about all this (ridiculous) Earth-Twenty-O-Zillion indexing, then they need to just assign every new print or media project a number from the beginning and say "this is what you are, deal with it. You'll only be able to introduce new earths inside your respective storytelling when we tell you what it is." And, if not, then let's not even bother.

[sdp]

So the Tomorrowverse is just the rebooted earth from the previous DC animated nu52 movies and it only had basically 6 stories told of that universe before it reset and now everything is only one universe going forward again.

It feels comic accurate to reboot every 5 years, again while cool to see some cameos it would've been better to just have what I preivously wrote, the actual heroes from previous cartoons show up:

Crisis on infinite earths is cool because you see all the infinite earths and heroes get destroyed. If it doesn't include the animated characters we've gotten to known over the last decades it feels pointless, it' not that good of a story. Even the CW adaptation understood that. It's not like its going to be a faithful retelling of the comic story either, or that that one mattered if it didn't include earth's people cared about.
This really might be the most pointless movie they've made, even more than remaking the death of superman a second time and still doing it wrong.

Just imagine the free marketing and buzz it would've gotten if the trailer had BTAS Batman interacting with Fleischer Superman, Aquaman from Brave and the Bold, Robin from Teen Titans, and Wonder Woman from Young Justice. Killing Supergirl from the DCAU we know and love would have a huge impact etc. It could've been fun, I mean it's a cartoon, they could've made the different art styles work.

I hope Watchmen is treated better.


I understand the difficulty of making Crisis on infinte earths in live action with a TV budget but animation shouldn't have had that problem. I stopped looking forward to these movies so long ago, hell DC animatino just doesn't excite me, the best years are long past gone, even the same creative teams can't come up with something better.

[oldmanwinters]

Here's some screencaps:
https://i.imgur.com/r238nn9.jpg


Also for TT:
https://x.com/wil77073/status/1813302561853825035

Never understood why anyone at DC/WB would want to "kill" their whole Multiverse concept to the point where it discourages drawing from it in future storylines (not the first time they'd done this either).
A multi-verse reserve pile seems to work REALLY well for TMNT, MCU, Spider-verse, etc. these days.
And DC more-or-less invented the idea way back as a means to explain all their buy-ups of previously unrelated IPs like Captain Marvel/Shazam. It's like their distinct contribution to comic book history.

[Drose18]

Part one was great

Part two was eh

Part three was good

[CyberCubed]

It's obvious the universes don't stay erased (for B:TAS to make sense, Batman Beyond still happens which is 40+ years later).

Also the next DC animated movies are standalone again, with Batman Aztec, a sequel to the Batman Ninja movie, etc. So they're making more standalone universes in movies again.

This is not even counting the cartoons like the upcoming Batman Caped Crusader or the already airing My Adventures with Superman or the Harley-Quinn show.

[oldmanwinters]

It's obvious the universes don't stay erased (for B:TAS to make sense, Batman Beyond still happens which is 40+ years later).

Maybe it was just the particular art style of seasons 1-3 that got erased and TNBA et al came out of an inevitable future crisis?

For Teen Titans, that ending almost makes sense as the original finale’s last shot is Beast Boy running into a light answering an emergency call from Robin. But then there is the Trouble in Tokyo DTV movie and the crossovers with the TT Go! reality.

At best, just consider this DTV project a casserole of cameos to get easy publicity, which has worked.

[oldmanwinters]

YT probably does this more justice than the actual movie:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpqO2Yxtgj8

[sdp]

That first batman cartoon is meant to be part of the Superfriends continuity right? So are the Ruby Spears Superman cartoons?


Maybe it was just the particular art style of seasons 1-3 that got erased and TNBA et al came out of an inevitable future crisis?

I love this as an explanation to the change in art style and penguin design but sadly I guess even though it's the BTAS design it has to take place in the "DCAU present" since we see Hal/Hawkgirl but since we know Batman Beyond exists it gets resolved offscreen somehow.

For Teen Titans, that ending almost makes sense as the original finale’s last shot is Beast Boy running into a light answering an emergency call from Robin. But then there is the Trouble in Tokyo DTV movie and the crossovers with the TT Go! reality.
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Trouble in Tokyo takes place before the last season even if it came out after. The Go crossovers do mess with this but yeah eventually everything gets resolved offscreen, no biggie, Superboy animated Prime just punches reality after the Tomorrowverse finishes.