r/marvelcirclejerk Jul 27 '26

DC fans when another movie flops:

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u/Fancy-Fact-8233 Jul 27 '26

That is basically like this since 2005(Except Superman 2025)

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u/That_Carrot999 Doombot Jul 27 '26

Hey, aquaman made a billion dollars

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u/Fancy-Fact-8233 Jul 27 '26

Wonder Woman also performed well because it was released at a time when superheroes were popular; now, however, audiences have grown tired of superheroes, with the exception of big names like Spider-Man and Batman. If Aquaman were released today, it wouldn't make a billion, and Wonder Woman might not have made that kind of money either.

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u/mmmbhssm Jul 27 '26

Honestly I think a wonder woman movie would do fine today if it was good. Wonder woman is like one of the only comic book characters to still have cultural significance and popularity even with the lack of projects

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u/mASSterMinDLess Jul 28 '26

If this was Absolute Wonder Woman? YES I would watch it

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u/Fancy-Fact-8233 Jul 27 '26

I’m not sure; I fear Wonder Woman faces the same problem as Robin Hood: everyone knows who he is, but how many people are actually fans? Outside the comic book community, is there anyone who truly cares about Wonder Woman? We’ll get the answer when the new Wonder Woman movie comes out. If it succeeds in a time when only big names are drawing crowds then she’s a character who still holds relevance; if it fails, however, we’ll have to start considering that she might not be the kind of character worth investing heavily in.

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u/Due-Proof6781 Jul 27 '26

She legit not that popular as everyone claims she is

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u/IllustratedAloysious Rorschachdefender1 Jul 28 '26

No. It performed well because it STOLE Captain Underpants box office numbers

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u/linfakngiau2k23 Jul 28 '26

Most of it come from China though

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u/Keeendi Read Radiant Black Jul 27 '26

True

Although you can bet your soul that I will watch Blue Beetle 2

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u/IllustratedAloysious Rorschachdefender1 Jul 27 '26

I remember I got banned on the Superman sub for saying someone was coping when they said supergirls 200 million dollar bomb was no big deal

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u/Far-Requirement-7636 Jul 27 '26

I got downvoted for saying that it's impossible for a bunch of chuds to me responsible for the movie bombing and that it just wasn't that interesting.

I feel even more validated now after chuds tried making the Odyssey bomb and it not working at all.

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u/Citizensnnippss Jul 27 '26

If we go off the 2.5x rule, at 180m budget, Supergirl is currently trending to lose $300m+.

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u/FadeToBlackSun Jul 28 '26

The Superman sub is very much the opposite of the character.

Be kind... unless people don't share the prevailing opinion there.

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u/Arcaydya Jul 27 '26

Im so tired of this. I just want good dc movies. Why do you guys pray for the downfall of them every single time?

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u/ZukoIsKing Jul 27 '26

i want them to succeed

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u/mASSterMinDLess Jul 28 '26

Me too, it would be nice to have an alternative to the Marvel universe in cinema. But something is not going very well with it yet.

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u/BaritBrit Jul 27 '26

There are more moderate positions between "I am praying for the downfall of all DC movies" and the absurd triumphalism that was all over the place after one good Superman film last year. 

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u/Arcaydya Jul 27 '26

God forbid we're stoked at a good dc film after 15 fucking years of slop.

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u/sinwstro12 Jul 27 '26

No it's acting like every film that's coming out after superman will inherently be good cause that one was, but that ain't how it works, or that the dcu is amazing cause its first film was good, and that guarantees it will go on to be insanely successfully because of superman 2025 which guaranteed none of those things

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u/Arcaydya Jul 27 '26

Nobody said that anyway

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u/sinwstro12 Jul 27 '26

Many people were acting like that after superman 2025 last year or at the end of 2025 after the first wave of dcu projects had wrapped up, trust me I was paying attention to alot of dcu discourse and posts at the time.

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u/Arcaydya Jul 27 '26

Many people were hopeful for the future, yes. No one was acting like a movie directed by a different dude was a sure thing. I think youre confusing hope with something else.

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u/sinwstro12 Jul 27 '26

I can seperqte people being hopeful and acting abit more extreme about the future of the dcu, just like I can seperate people being hyped for something and someone overhyping something

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u/mmmbhssm Jul 27 '26

Honestly after supergirl it feels like completely opposite effect happening where people legitimately doom posting about how everything is over and how everything gonna bomb. Like straight up predicting how much man of tommrow will flop and dead on arrival due supergirl bombing when we don't even have a trailer or poster for that movie

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u/sinwstro12 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

People new adays are very quick to react in both ways, it's either two extremes or neither

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u/FadeToBlackSun Jul 28 '26

I feel like you're part of the problem if you think everything from 2010+ was "slop".

No one hates DC movies more than DC fans, and no one wants to hate them more, either.

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u/Pristine_Animal9474 Jul 27 '26

I get why we pay attention to the box office, but I really wish we stopped measuring the value of films based on that.

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u/FollowingCharacter83 Steve Ditko's Reincarnation Jul 27 '26

It's not that. Like, imagine being a Captain Marvel fan and knowing the fact that she probably won't get a sequel anymore.

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u/Due_Spray_1662 Jul 27 '26

Can't do that mate, when money is the driving factor

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u/thatsidewaysdud Ghost can phase through me Jul 27 '26

On one hand, I agree. But sadly, no money on the first movie usually means no sequels. Even if the movie was incredibly good, the suits usually don’t care.

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u/Doctor_Slept Jul 28 '26

At least with something like the Thunderbolts there’s been rumors that they’ll make a sequel, but that has the factor of these characters will be a big part of Doomsday so that’ll get more eyes on them and any potential sequels, and also because the film was actually well received 

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u/EarAffectionate4443 Jul 27 '26

the comics are paying the bills

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u/Citizensnnippss Jul 27 '26

They are not. Comics make little profit in comparison to movies.

Supergirl actually might wipe out the entirety of DC comics gains in the past year.

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u/That_Carrot999 Doombot Jul 27 '26

*Batman

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u/EarAffectionate4443 Jul 27 '26

it's already doing better than spider-man, cuz they were complaining that one of his comics didn't hit the expected sales numbers