Official Justice League Movie

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Originally Posted by Galactus

I imagine whatever story Snyder had planned could easily have been told with GL and MM there also.

Nah, not right out of the gate. Again, it was always supposed to be that Kal-El's example was WHY J'onn finally reveals himself. If J'onn's already a "Superman-Type Guy" who can ALSO read minds and turn invisible and shape-shift, AND he's already functioning as a super-hero by this point so early on, WHY is Superman suddenly necessary for this story? You've got a guy who can do Everything he can do and a bunch of stuff he can't. Whoops, now the story's broken. Same thing happens if you suddenly include a guy with a "magic" ring that can do absolutely anything.

The ENTIRE arc of Snyder's DC films was about Superman's emergence, its effect on the world, and how it gradually drew these other characters out into becoming heroes in their own right. That's the story, and he's at the center of it. Every other creative choice, including which characters were in play and at what point in their "journey" we find them at, was made in service to That Specific Story. If people feel like their own version of it would have been better or more thought out, that's certainly their prerogative but that doesn't mean they're correct.

Nobody ever feels like they have to meet the storyteller halfway and accept the "Why" behind their choices, because they think their own ideas are better. Well, for one thing, you do have to because it's not your project, and for another, once again those people do a great job of illustrating their obstinate refusal to take things for what they Are rather than what they Wish They Had Instead, but very little else.

I see a LOT of people online try and come up with a way to explain how their own version of a JL movie would have been way, way better and easily made a billion dollars, because clearly they know better than the guy who actually made the movie. Well, when they prove it, I'll accept it as more than conjecture and wishful thinking.

The story as-is and the entire plan they had was Perfectly Fine. There's no reason people couldn't wait ONE more movie to get Green Lantern and goddamn Martian Manhunter. People wanted to stomp their feet and pout about how they want it NOW, and in the end we get nothing. Next time, people ought'a be patient and not pout. Things have a way of working themselves out.