Marvel is funny and non serious

>Marvel is funny and non serious
>DC movies shouldn't try to be like Marvel, they shouldn't try to be light hearted or funny or else they are copying marvel
Why do casuals think DC is somehow serious universe?

Because all they know about DC is Batman.

Nolan's batman primarily, maybe exposure to certain TAS series which is odd because even the leonized BTAS had its goofy moments. This is a perception that wasn't helped with Man of Steel trying to copy Nolan's formula down to making the movies as ugly and brown as possible, turning his parents into self centered pricks, and the final act into destruction porn.

Honestly I doubt a lot of casuals even know who Billy Batson is and would ask why Shazam and flash share a logo.

Because most of them have only been exposed to Batman and the newer mainstream portrayals of Superman, The Flash and Green Arrow which are pretty dark and serious (except for Flash, occasionally).

>Why do casuals think DC is somehow serious universe?
They've only really seen the DCEU movies, funnily enough. So they're not just casuals, they're UBER casuals who think dark and serious is all there is to the DCU.

Funny, because the DCU has also traditionally been more fun than the MU. But they don't care because they've only really been exposed to the DCU through Snyder's movies and only really want mature superhero stories for mature nerds such as themselves.

Dark Knight was too successful for it's own good. It's the cause of all this.

Because they don't read comics or watch cartoons.

Batman, Watchmen, Vertigo, Nolan, MoS, BvS

because of the huge exposure batman gets compared to other heroes, along with the recent movies

Would a DC Cinematic Universe be actually good in a world where we never got TDK?

re-arrange the words and you'll get it
>Because they all know DC is about Batman

Yes. At least it would be early 2000nds superman movie decent.

TDK is like Watchmen.

Fantastic on its own but its influence was cancerous.

Not even close. It would have been even worse because we would have never had even just one good movie.

>Why do casuals think
ha

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Because the only people who read comics are on Sup Forums and even then that's only half of us

The casual movie audience only know the characters from movies, cultural osmosis, and maybe a few episodes of a a cartoon from 20 years ago

Before Iron Man nobody knew who Tony Stark was they only knew Hulk from the 70's tv show and Thor was a name they only heard of in history class

DC characters the public knows are limited to two characters Batman and Superman and they only know what Richard Donner and Tim Burton decided they should know about them

Hasn't one of the major criticisms against DC's movies been that they've been too grim and serious? I just don't feel I've seen this situation you're describing in practice.

Plenty of people on Sup Forums say the exact thing OP is accusing some people of doing.

These people do not actually read comic books.

This.
I've read a lot of DC and I still think is more serious than Marvel. I haven't read a lot of Marvel though.

recent DC or pre reboot DC? because there have been huge tone shifts across the years

Because they're casuals.

They also think Marvel is more progressive than DC.

>Thor was a name they only heard of in history class
>Thor
->history class
Uh..

Because there hasn't been a Blue and Gold animated series. Johns' Booster run is almost identical in tone to Nova's solo pre-SW, even down to the amount of suffering included.

No because you have to remember that the last DC movie before TDK came out that was actually popular and well liked was Batman Returns so instead of building a cinematic universe from the TDK trilogy, they'd be going back as far as that.

Though, more importantly, we have to remember that Green Lantern was the first attempt at the cinematic universe thing

You never had cultural mythology brought up in history class?

The actual problem is that the movies they've released so far, man of steel and BvsS are actual comic book movies.
While marvel has been making movies.
They're focusing too much on the comic part of them and not making them good enough movies.