Can someone explain DC to me please?

Here's something to think about. In the same Universe that Thanos lounges about on his futuristic La-Z-Boy, that the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy are striving so hard to save and where Frank Castle is doling out his own style of justice, Howard the Duck is being a grumpy cynic and practising his Quack-fu.
 
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Jonny2284 said:
Then it probably still isn't for you, it's fun, it's certainly better than it was, but it's still taking huge liberties with just about every non-original character.
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I really dont mind re writing of characters I know ( I've a comic where Batman was made as a Frankenstein monster and loved it lol), it just shows like aArrow that then poo all over them.
 
Malevolence said:
Here's something to think about. In the same Universe that Deadpool inhabits, that the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy are striving so hard to save and where Frank Castle is doling out his own style of justice, Howard the Duck is being a grumpy cynic and practising his Quack-fu.
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Deadpool is not in that universe :p
 
In the comics he has, but on screen when they cast him and use him he'll be X-men only, and considering the ridiculousness of his backstory I don't see him ever getting much beyond "HEY KIDS, HERE'S CABLE" in the Deadpool sequel.
 
Marvel is simple? Erm, nope.

In addition to the examples above... Quicksilver. He's in that second retro X Men film, and he's in that Age of Ultron, except he's not, but he is.
 
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cu3ed said:
So in Civil War that was a mini introduction for the new actor playing Peter Parker, showing Marvel got him back, and will star in his own movie called Spiderman Homecoming.
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It's more complicated than that.
Marvel did not get the rights back from Sony, they just have a contract that says Sony own the rights and can make films with Spiderman (Marvel get no money from it), and Marvel can use Spiderman in their films (Sony get no money from them).

I guess they have an agreement that says they will use the same actors at the moment.

Plus, I believe Marvel still owns the rights to X-Men if they made a TV show with them :confused:

Oh, and what universe is Daredevil in?
 
Tv show rights are not the same as film rights.

Daredevil and all the Netflix properties are by Marvel licensed to Netflix. They're technically in the MCU but it's unlikely you'll see many crossovers if any.
 
Dont forget Gotham may be in the same setting as Arrow and The Flash but its in the past.
Bruce Wayne is still a teenager there is no Batman yet. Hence why everything looks lower tech, eg phones and 70's style vehicles

As for Daredevil it is in the same universe as the movies for sure. In series 2 Karen Page takes over Ben Urich's office and quite clearly in the background are newspaper cuttings of "The Battle of New York" (amongst others) which we know is the story we see in The Avengers film.
 
See I thought the Suicide Squad in the films was from the same universe as of that in Arrow, just that they were using A-list actors for the film rather than those from the TV show.

Looks like I was wrong :p
 
El_Watcher said:
Oh, and what universe is Daredevil in?
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Take a guess. ;)

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varkanoid said:
Dont forget Gotham may be in the same setting as Arrow and The Flash but its in the past.
Bruce Wayne is still a teenager there is no Batman yet. Hence why everything looks lower tech, eg phones and 70's style vehicles
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Considering the arrowverse stuff is a separate production company to the one making Gotham, with an entirely different crew, from different networks with no link besides them being based on DC properties I wouldn't hold out any hope of them ever being considered in the same universe.
 
Gotham sits in a stylised universe that is timeframe agnostic. Cars are 70s looking yet they have mobiles from the 2000s. There's a deliberate lack of any use of computers or mentioning of any dates, but the computers that do exist (Bruce's house) are clearly bang up to date style machines.

Arkham uses therapies that would have been considered outdated in the 60s, yet has technology that is more advanced than we have today.

Gotham sits in its own world where it's not meant to exist in any single recognisable point in time.

Spuj said:
See I thought the Suicide Squad in the films was from the same universe as of that in Arrow, just that they were using A-list actors for the film rather than those from the TV show.

Looks like I was wrong :p
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This is what started to throw me. They are in Arrow but that isn't who is in the film. The Flash in Justice League isn't the one in the TV show, yet both will be on at the same time. Deadshot is still floating around the Arrow/Flash universe isn't he?

Marvel have some conflicts which are quite well handled (the removal of 'mutant' as a term from the MCU and 'the twins' never being called Quicksilver or The Scarlet Witch so it avoids the casual viewer (my GF) getting confused). DC just seem to be handing out franchises all over the place, pushing out as much as possible across as many platforms as possible and its confusing (me anyway) more than helpful.

And then there's Deadpool who just 4th walls his way through all of it, mocking the other version of himself and the Green Lantern, the licensing and generally being awesome lol.
 
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DC's is a lot easier to digest if you just consider nothing connected unless otherwise seen on screen (like Flash being the spin off of Arrow which in turn also crossed with LoT and Supergirl) and on the film side BvS setting up a bunch of future solo films.

Marvel is probably worse for this for casual fans when you have Marvel Studios films (the MCU) and then the like of the Fox efforts which have a Marvel logo but not the Marvel Studios one.
 
Well one thing for sure, Marvel Movies are better than DC Movies (so far) and DC TV is way way way way better than Marvel's efforts (even though I like Agents..). Really looking forward to Luke Cage and Iron Fist later in the area. Will there be anymore Jessica Jones?
Claire Temple is already in 3 of these wonder if she will appear in Iron Fist ?
 
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