The Worlds of DC, the cinematic universe formerly known as the DCEU, may have had its struggles
over the years, but there is hope on the horizon!
Warner Brothers and the comic giant have been working away to rebrand this cinematic franchise,
and DC fans are curious to see how the next several films in the pipeline pan out.
Especially since their trailers seem quite promising.
So today, we’re breaking down the top 10 DC fan theories, pertaining to the movies!
Let’s jump in!
10 Crisis on Infinite Earths There are many questions as to how the Worlds
of DC will transition over from the DCEU, with DC and Warner Brothers having announced
that they will be rebranding the cinematic universe.
And fair enough, there’s been a lot of problems with it over the years, with Batman vs Superman
and the Justice League not only disappointing fans, but tanking it in terms of their expected
box office profits.
So how does one revamp a cinematic universe with so much prior work gone into it?
Well, luckily for DC, it’s got a whole slew of stories thanks to the comics resetting
over the years, too.
Seeing a trend, anyone?
Cheekiness aside, there’s potential to reset the Worlds of DC by using some of these time
altering, world resetting story arcs, with one of the most prominent being Crisis on
Infinite Earths.
Crisis, which was a comic event spanning from April 1985 to March 1986, was spearheaded
by dream team George Perez and Marvel Wolfman, and it spawned out of Wolfman’s desire to
abandon the DC multiverse and create a single unified DC Universe.
The Anti-Monitor goes around the multiverse and destroys various Earths, and is known
for having one of the highest death counts in comics, killing off the likes of Barry
Allen and Supergirl in the process.
So, all in all, much of the damage that has been done to the DCEU could be revised through
a massive storyline like Crisis, if all the pieces are set up correctly, that is.
9 Arrowverse This theory suggests that the characters from
the Arrowverse will eventually tie into the DC cinematic universe.
Many fans were hopeful this would be the case when the Arrowverse initially started, with
the promise of a shared TV and movie universe (considering they got the jump on Marvel a
year before Marvel released Agents of SHIELD).
Now that the Multiverse has been established, and that the Flash series has been dabbling
into some major multiverse events, fans have been hypothesizing that perhaps there may
be a spill over into the cinematic universe, which would merge both the universes.
From a producer standpoint, that may make things pretty messy, having the recast bunch
of characters and reestablish parts of these alternate realities, but at times thats been
DC’s schtick in the comics.
Here’s hoping that if it does happen, they won’t mess it up.
8 Injustice The Injustice games and comics take place
on an alternate earth, one in which the Joker manipulated Superman into a pregnant Lois
Lane.
Upon realizing what’s happened, Superman murders the Joker, and creates something called
the Regime; a totalitarian government in which Superman reigns, being the ultimate justice,
and many of the heroes and villains in the DC universe had pledged their allegiance to
him.
And people believe that the Worlds of DC universe will eventually lead into the Injustice story
line.
It’s a pretty solid theory when you consider what has happened so far.
Superman is a much darker version of himself, and he straight up murdered General Zod, something
that many fans criticized, but is much more in line with the Superman that appears in
the Injustice reality.
Zack Synder, who directed Batman v Superman, has noted that his aim was never to adapt
Injustice, but used it’s alternate dystopian narrative as an influence in his design choices.
But hey, who knows what direction Warner Brothers and DC may want to take the story world.
Go big or go home, right?
It’s also would be one hell of an event to build up to if DC were to FINALLY take
a page out of the MCU’’s book at give that structure a try.
Just saying.
7 The Russian Girl There’s a sub plot in the Justice League
film that left fans a little baffled.
In order to further explain its presence and relevance, some fans have hypothesized that
it will have some sort of greater meaning.
So in the movie, there’s a Russian family that are hiding from Parademons.
These scenes that broke up the story were added in by Joss Whedon in an attempt to depict
how civilians were dealing with the traumatic event.
This theory suggests that the young girl in the family will eventually grow up to be a
superhero in her own right, similar to how in the MCU we saw Spider-Man as a young boy
being rescued by Tony Stark at the Stark Expo.
Fans believe that she may be Terra, whose famous from her involvement with the Teen
Titans and being pivotal in the Judas Contract story arc.
6 Parallax One of the most notable absences in the DCEU
was Hal Jordan.
While that could be chalked up to how disastrous Hal’s previous adaptation was (god bless
Ryan Reynolds), others think it may be because the cinematic universe is gearing up to have
him enter in another way.
The reason why Hal hans’t appeared so far, despite being one of the founding members
of the Justice League, is that he’s already become Parallax, as he does in the Emerald
Twilight story line in Green Lantern volume 3 issue 48 back in 1994.
After Coast City was destroyed, Hal looses his sh*t, tries to rebuild it, gets in trouble
by the Corp for acting out of personal desires, destroys the Green Lantern Corps and kills
a bunch of his friends, and then it’s revealed that he’s actually Parallax, who is a demonic
parasitic entity, the sentient embodiment of fear.
5 Nightwing Replaces Batman The rumours about Ben Affleck departing the
Worlds of DC have been quite prominent for a while now.
That’s raised a lot of questions concerning who will take over as the Dark Knight.
While one of the popular theories is that the continuity of the Worlds of DC will change
based off an event in the story world, like Crisis on Infinite Earths, another popular
theory is that Affleck’s Bruce Wayne will be replaced by Dick Grayson, aka Nightwing.
In the comics, Nightwing is no stranger to the cape and cowl of his mentor.
With tall that the Bat Family will be further explored in upcoming projects, there’s a
whole lot of speculation that Nightwing will pick up the mantle after Affleck’s Bruce
departs.
Considering that Titans won’t exist as part of the Worlds of Dc, a cinematic introduction
to Nightwing isn’t totally implausible.
4 Bane’s Venom Remember Doctor Poison in the Wonder Woman
feature film?
Aside from having a bit of a silly name, her purpose was a poignant one in the movie, creating
a mysterious but deadly poison gas.
There’s a theory suggesting that the gas in Wonder Woman that Doctor Poison crafted
is the predecessor for Bane’s venom.
Bane, who hasn’t appeared yet in the Worlds of DC, uses a venom that is essentially a
super powered steroid that gives him his super strength.
The gas that Doctor Poison made acts in a similar fashion as Bane’s venom does, and
it even has a similar green colour.
How the two will connect is still a major question mark, but could make for an interesting
plot point.
3 Vandal Savage Vandal Savage first hit the scene in 1943
in Green Lantern issue 10, and he’s made his way into a slew of different DC media
over the years, but compared to other immortal villains that Bats has faced, like Ras Al
Ghul, Vandal is a little less of a household name.
That might change though if this theory pans out.
In Batman vs Superman, there’s scene where Bruce and Diana are in a museum, and they
make a note of a sword, the sword of Alexander, that’s on display, and that it’s not the
real one; rather, the real one, as they say, “hangs over the bed of the Sultan of Hajar.”
Fans have speculated that the sultan they’re referring to is Vandal Savage.
There’s not a whole lot of evidence to back this one up, aside from some fanciful speculating
of fans connecting the sword to Savage, and even to Lex Luthor, but hey, if it does pan
out, that would make for an interesting story.
2 The Joker is Jason Todd In Batman v Superman, fans noticed a detail
that spawned our next theory; a Robin suit that was all damaged, defaced with the words
“Ha ha joke’s on you Batman”.
This is no doubt a reference to Jason Todd, the second Robin who was brutally murdered
by the Joker in one of the most controversial events to ever happen in DC’s comic history.
Back then, since Robin was receiving the kind of reception DC wanted, they gave readers
the option to call in and vote whether Todd would be killed off.
It’s a move that has been criticized by a lot of comics creators over the years, and
eventually Todd was resurrected, despite the massive impact that his death had left on
Bruce Wayne.
Seeing this costume in the film has prompted theories speculating that Todd perhaps replaced
the Joker, and that the scars on Jared Leto’s Joker’s face are covered up by the excessive
tattoos.
This would also explain those tattoos; something fans were really critical of in terms of the
Joker’s characterization.
Perhaps Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, that will appear in the same universe but as an origin
film following the villain, will be the original Joker, and we’ll learn that Leto’s is
actually Jason Todd, who has become a parody of the man who murdered the person he was
when he was Batman’s Robin.
1 Flashpoint Back in the day, there were some serious rumours
that a Flashpoint film in the DCEU was in the works.
While those rumours have been somewhat squashed, others still believe that part of the Flashpoint
storyline will be integrated into the Flash’s upcoming solo film, and therefore still reset
part of the DCEU, or rather, set up the Worlds of DC and its adjusted continuity.
In the 2011 cross over story arc Flashpoint, Flash runs back in time to save his mother
and prevent her murder.
In the process, he goofs up pretty bad and alters the timeline, resulting in Cyborg being
the quintessential hero in the world, Superman being a lab rat imprisoned by the United States
government, Thomas Wayne being Batman and Wonder Woman and Aquaman at war over in Europe.
The result of this story arc is what led to the New 52, where the DC Universe was reset
and a bunch of stuff was retconned, with all of DC’s titles returning to issue #1.
Anywho, if Flashpoint is explored in the Flash’s film, it would allow for a lot of the changes
that execs over at Warner Brothers and Dc want, including replacing Ben Affleck as Batman
and Henry Cavill as Superman.
There we have it friends!
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