King Koopa
All Star
This is true, but the other major Marvel characters (Cap, Thor, and Hulk) still debuted with their own movies. Then the Avengers movie happened. Here we just got Man of Steel and then Man of Steel 2 with Batman in it, and now Wonder Woman. Even if Wonder Woman's cameo is small, there's still gonna be a Superman movie featuring Batman. They fukked up making a Supes movie too early if they weren't gonna gonna make it apart of the Nolan Batman universe. Should have waited a couple more years to plan it out.There is no Marvel Blueprint.
This is what Marvel did. They cast Downey Jr. as Iron Man and he was tremendous in the role. Then Downey carried the Iron Man success over to the Avengers film where "oh look, a Marvel super team! Fun!!!" happened...
Now all of the movies are seeing a post-Avengers bump at the box office. But none of this happens without Downey Jr. being as engaging as he was/is in the Tony Stark role.
Cap and Thor were successful but nowhere near what the Iron Man movies and especially Avengers did..
Now all of a sudden Thor: Dark World is going to do $600M+ worldwide which is more than $150M than the original. Cap will see a similar bump.
This was all Downey Jr. with a little of "awesome, all of these heroes in the same film!!" mixed in.
Origins movies had almost nothing to do with the success Marvel is having right now. Cap, first Thor and Hulk were all forgettable.
It could've been like:
Man of Steel
Man of Steel 2 (without Batman, maybe just a small cameo if anything)
Batman reboot movie
Justice League movie - Darkseid could make a cameo at the end of Man of Steel 2, and be the villian for this movie.
Then Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (REBOOT - Reynolds), Flash, Aquaman, and whatever super hero movies afterwards.
Man of Steel 3 - Darkseid returns and Supes settles things. Maybe Doomsday makes it in the movie?
Batman 2
Justice League 2 movie
But money talks . DC wanted to rush things and now this could be a clusterfukk waiting to happen.