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Dear DC, I Fixed Your Universe… AGAIN! (DC Universe)

Film Theory

Film Theory

Tv & Film

4.8894 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Join former Film Theory Host MatPat as he SAVES the DC cinematic universe!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The DC universe is broken.

0:02.2

Superman is lost.

0:03.4

Black Adam stayed in the red.

0:05.1

Cyborg has been silenced.

0:06.6

Wonder Woman has vanished into thin air.

0:08.4

And the Flash has gotten into so much trouble that DC wishes he'd just run his way into an entirely new timeline.

0:13.8

But there's still hope for the future, my friends.

0:16.1

And the key to solving all of it?

0:18.1

Cartoons.

0:19.0

The solving all of it? Cartoons.

0:38.3

Hello internet. Welcome to film theory. Now it might be difficult to remember, but there was a time not too long ago when DC was the top dog when it came to superhero movies.

0:44.3

Remember the Dark Night trilogy? Those movies made over $2.4 billion at the box office.

0:49.3

One of them was so good that when it wasn't nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, the Academy literally

0:54.2

changed their rules to avoid anything like that ever happening again.

0:57.8

But in the following years, yeah, yeah, not so much.

1:00.7

The DCEU, which officially started with Man of Steel 10 years ago, has been an absolute mess.

1:07.0

And that's not meant to be a judgment caller measure of quality.

1:09.5

I mean, just as a point of fact, right now there are three different Batman and two separate jokers running around at the same time.

1:16.3

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

1:17.6

Since the DCEU started, it's been a nightmare of hiring, firing, and rehiring multiple directors for the same project.

1:23.9

Actors being let go, brought back again, only to be let go again. There's been public

1:28.3

fallout over bad behavior by studio executives, constant cameos and teases for films that'll

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