584 Superman Success & Best/Worst Legacy Comic Characters

The Weekly Planet

James

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5 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Now that we’re between the big releases of Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps, it's time for another topic episode! This time it’s best and worst legacy characters which at this point pretty much encompasses everything superhero character ever. We also talk Fantastic Four news including its runtime and the removal John Malkovich’s Red Ghost, casting for the live action Legend of Zelda movie, a trailer for Stranger Things Season 5, another long wait for the next season of The Last of Us and Severance, updates of the Clayface movie, Superman’s Box Office, fast tracking a Wonder Woman solo movie and the first poster for Supergirl releasing in 2026. Thanks for listening!

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00:00 The Start

04:11 Fantastic Four: First Steps Runtime & Cut Character

08:00 New Leader of The Avengers in MCU Revealed

12:43 The Legend of Zelda Movie Casting

18:24 Mortal Kombat Sequel Teaser

21:26 Stranger Things S5 Trailer

27:20 Why Are Shows Taking So Long?

31:22 Clayface Movie in Superman DCU

33:38 Superman Box Office & Sequels Latest

40:45 Black Adam Character Returning

42:02 Supergirl Teaser Poster

43:44 Best & Worst Legacy Comic Characters

01:23:43 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read

01:36:50 Letters, It's Time For Letters (Some Superman Spoilers)

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0:00.0	The Weekly Planet, the Weekly Planet.
0:03.2	Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday. Nick Mason, you're here. It's me. I'm here. That's right. That's right. I wasn't going to do the Austin Powers thing again because, you know, I guess... What do you mean in the Austin Powers thing? You know how sometimes Austin Powers visits? he's done that for the last couple of weeks
0:01.5	Yeah I figured but if he keeps visiting
0:03.4	I'll have to keep acknowledging that
0:05.4	You might have to start paying him. Yeah, or no. And then, but you know how like, I'll do a thing? And then I can't stop doing it. Yeah, yeah. And then when anybody says, hey, I'm kind of tired of this bit, then that gives me life. Out of spite, you decide to keep it going forever. Yeah, if one person says it one time.
0:22.6	That's correct, yeah. kind of tired of this bit, then you, out of spite, you decide to keep it going forever.
0:38.8	Yeah, if one person says it one time.
0:40.7	That's correct, yeah.
0:41.4	Like, well, this is every day.
0:42.6	Yeah, I'm going to ruin everything forever now.
0:44.5	That's correct, yes.
0:45.7	Also, you'd probably have to...
0:46.5	That's growth, by the way.
0:47.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:48.4	You either have to pay him in like old British money or Swedish penis pumps or whatever.
0:53.1	Absolutely. That's what he likes.
0:55.4	Can I borrow yours?
0:57.3	My British money.
0:58.7	No, it's all mine.
0:59.9	But you could give him one of your Swedish penis pumps.
1:02.2	Dude, I would never.
1:03.3	That's what I thought.
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