dc ass at keeping the film moving & giving backstory at the same time
take a bunch of fire characters & make them feel generic
their pen trash
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Same thing happens in their comics, and it's the biggest advantage Marvel has always had over them: character development. Before Marvel went full tilt with the events, their strongest comics were the ones in between the events themselves. Hero, villain, antihero, whoever...they took the time to flesh out a character's backstory and explain the why of things. They've nailed that target for damn near half a century, and it works. So even when they switch up the formula in the MCU, even casual fans will at least have a passing knowledge of character motivations and be able to compare between comic and film. That sparks further discussions about what could have been done better, what was done right, which version they prefer, etc.
DC? Outside of hardcore DC stans, casual viewers have no idea what's going on once you move beyond the tentpole JL characters and (maaaaaybe) their villains. Everything suffers as a result, comics, DCEU, all of it. The one division where they've had undisputed success is in animation, and that's because McDuffie/Timm gave them a focus and reputation - better writing, better storylines, better character arcs, better everything - that they've been coasting on ever since.
DC
refuses to learn. They're going to keep getting their lunch money snatched until they smarten the hell up.
