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>The Justice Gang is a group of particularly colorful personalities. Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner is the boldest by far. A member of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic organization that polices various sectors of the cosmos, Guy wields a power ring, one of the mightiest objects in existence. Fueled by pure will, he can create just about anything he can imagine. When he touches down amid the Boravian conflict, a flick of his wrist conjures a giant green hand out of the ground to slap away a troupe of soldiers.

>"I love the idea that if you have an emergency and you need a Green Lantern — there's thousands of them out there in the galaxy — this is the last one you want," Fillion says of this iteration. "What is very true about Guy Gardner, and what James understands very well, is you don't have to be good and pure of heart to be a Green Lantern. You just have to be fearless. You just have to have the will. And Guy Gardner thinks he can take on Superman. That's how fearless he is. No, you can't take on Superman, dude."

>By comparison, Mister Terrific is "one of the most philosophically compelling heroes in DC," according to Edi Gathegi. As one of the most intelligent individuals on Earth, Michael Holt uses T-spheres, computerized floating orbs that respond to his voice, for a variety of purposes, including force field creation and hologram projection.

>"He's an atheist who believes in justice," Gathegi describes his character. "He loses his wife, and he found meaning in knowledge. He saw that, while the universe might be cruel, intelligence, science, and innovation could make it better. He chose to become hope rather than succumbing to the despair of losing his wife."

>Isabela Merced's Hawkgirl, who has wings sprouting from her back and a mace at the ready, is the warrior of the gang. "You don't really get to know her that well, and I think that's good," Merced says. "James isn't showing all of his cards. He's saving a lot of that."

>Lex Luthor is the head of tech company LuthorCorp. James Gunn has described the character as a sorcerer of science, capable of engineering the most fantastical gadgets and technology to achieve his goals. "Lex is connected to everything," Gunn reveals. "There's nothing bad happening in Metropolis during this movie that doesn't have some connection to Lex Luthor."

>In Lex's pursuit to defeat Superman, he needs to pinpoint his vulnerabilities. One of them, as anyone can tell you, is kryptonite, the green mineral that can substantially weaken and even harm the bulletproof man. But where does Lex get it? Well, there's this guy, Rex Mason AKA Metamorpho, who can change his body mass into any natural element — including, you guessed it, kryptonite. He just needs a compelling enough reason to persuade Rex to do this for him.

>There are certain clues that hint at Metamorpho's origin story, like the presence of Stagg Industries, a company that's intertwined with the character in the comics. However, audiences will meet Metamorpho in the film "in full swing of who he is," Anthony Carrigan notes. "You're in a situation where it's having to hurt someone, having to be an agent of the bad guy. And at the same time, there's this struggle to want to be good. What the film does brilliantly is it puts you in this situation of, 'Oh! He has no choice.' He has to be doing this, and you see how painful it is."

>Luthor's girlfriend is played by Sara Sampaio. Eve Teschmacher was a character originally created purely for Richard Donner's Superman films, but here she's big into social media. If a kaiju invades Metropolis, she's likely in the background broadcasting the moment on Instagram Live. "She's just very for herself and her content," Sampaio explains of Eve. "She's sometimes out of notion with what's happening or what's appropriate, but she does have a heart. At the end of the day, everything is just so exciting for her. She's just in a whole different world."

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looks a little overloaded

>In the comics, Angela Spica AKA The Engineer is depicted as a woman made of liquid machinery who can morph her body into different weapons. This incarnation of the character, played by Maria Gabriela de Faría, isn't quite like that, instead using nanotechnology to alter herself. One sequence in the film — a sprawling battle that plays out in a baseball field and is orchestrated from afar by Luthor — sees Angela summon swarms of nanobots running throughout her body to create razor-sharp throwing discs.

>De Faría describes the Engineer as having "an edge" to her. "I imagined that Lex and Angie had this work relationship where they respect each other so much," she says. "Angela highly believes in Lex's idea of making the world a better place. She's practically given her life to Lex for this greater good. But at the same time, I feel like there's an element of an underlying relationship going on between the two of them. It's not in the movie," she clarifies, but de Faría remembers telling Gunn, "I feel like these guys fuck!”

>There's also a mysterious figure on Team Lex, called Ultraman, whose entire body is covered by a black suit. Gunn continues this air of mystery, but the character has comparable abilities to Superman, including laser vision, strength, and flight. When asked if Ultraman is Luthor's attempt to create his own Man of Steel, the filmmaker replies, "I think that's close. Ultraman is sort of Lex's thug, and is pretty powerful."

>>211380286
Mercybros, our responce?

>>211380158 (OP)
Nathan Fillion if his mom cut his hair

i'm looking forward to some green lantern action
mr terrific was almost cool, his face is just damn ugly

>>211380389
I thought the T was retarded at first but it's kind of grown on me. at least it's unique

>>211380183
>one of the most intelligent individuals on Earth

Is this film 3 hours long or something? Why so many characters?

>>211380507
those are just 7-8 characters

>>211380334
>Literally ripping off "The Boys"
That's pathetic.

>>211380543
Those are just the hero and villain characters. There should be 12 more normal human characters. Way too many.

>Heroes (plural)
>Villains (plural)

In a fucking Superman movie.

James Gunn literally can't help himself.

>>211380302
A Little overloaded? A Little?

>>211380507
not really that many characters given 90% of them are just supporting side characters

>>211380183
>Mister T
>his power is that he's smart
You could say he pities the fool.

>>211380670
Dude you're talking out of your butt, there's 20 characters in this movie that'll demand screen time. Gunn shat the bed, Hard!

>>211380742
why would they demand screentime? they probably show up like twice

How do you fit Superman in all this

>>211380778
Gunn's giving all of them ample time to raise the stakes.

>>211380158 (OP)
DEI all over this pos, I'll never watch it.

>>211380553
It's going to end up being Bizarro

>>211380234
I like that they've combined the ruthless businessman Luthor from the 80s/90s with the old mad scientist Luthor, maybe they'll hint at him building his purple and green armor

>>211380158 (OP)
>Overconfident white guy is the loser

>>211380183
>Black man is super intelligent

>>211380207
>Woman is the muscle

Downright cliche at this point.

>>211380302
>looks a little overloaded
Gunn is using 2h20m to throw as much shit on the wall to see what sticks. This is not a Superman movie, this is a DCU concept trailer.

>>211380992
Like BvsS

>>211381054
BvsS, but ten times worse. just look how many characters there are. Gunn seems to hope we like one of them, so we can get a movie in 5 years when it's too late.

>>211380207
>He's saving a lot of that
Cute that she thinks there will be more movies

>>211380311
>Spica
Nice

>>211380311
Why does Lex Luthor, a guy who can engineer anything imaginable, need someone called The Engineer, who is just a worse version of himself?

>>211380265
The weird baby Joey is his son. That's why he has to work for Lex Luthor as a prisoner producing kryptonite. Superman rescue the baby.

>>211380343
it's over

>>211380965
Guy usually talks a big game, looks the fool but comes through when it counts the most.

>>211380158 (OP)
is this bowl cut going to be the next alphoomer betoomer fashion

>>211380343
This isn't the "Mercy" character.
I think the Engineer is going to fill that role.
I don't think we'll ever get a decent Mercy. I mean maybe Gunn is waiting to introduce the Amazons/WW and go with that interpretation but I doubt it.

>>211380183
>As one of the most intelligent individuals on Earth,

>>211380158 (OP)
Raven

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>>211380183
>philosophically compelling
>He's an atheist who believes in justice
lol

>>211380286
She's probably can't act but I don't mind it.

>>211380389
>his face is just damn ugly
Ayo cracka, das rasis.

>>211380207
>"You don't really get to know her that well, and I think that's good," Merced says.

"I think that's good when female characters are so underwritten you don't get to know them that well," said the cute shallow actress as she flipped her long hair playfully and ran her hand up and down her spandex outfit.

>>211380183
Is being an atheist really the "smart" position in the DC universe where there is clearly crazy shit going on constantly?

>>211380158 (OP)
>only one Isabela photo

fuck. she's a bit part.

>>211380207
inwardly wishing she was still getting soulfully fingerbanged by Bella Ramsey.

>>211382773
well the Gods aren't gods, they're advanced aliens, so basically yes its the only logical position to have.

>>211380158 (OP)
>just give me the spock haircut

>>211382859
That's only at Marvel, in the DC they're actually supernatural entities.

>>211380183
if the atheist line is dropped i'm suing Gunn for religious persecution

>>211380183
>make the black one shoot dice

>>211382859
The Spectre.

>>211380158 (OP)
Does Fillion look like Leonard Nimoy to anybody else?

>>211382859
but Superman is Jesus

>>211383183
jobbing meme character who only exists to get worfed by the new big bad. if that chump existed IRL i'd think God wasn't real too.

>>211380158 (OP)

>Beany Martin, the adolescent copyboy at the Daily Planet office is played by announcer Jackson Beck. Beany helps the staff, relays copy to the print room, and provides minor comic relief, but mostly on Thursdays when the actor playing Jimmy Olsen has a conflict.

>Says Beck: "I'm the guy who yells FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET! and narrates the story, but the studio didn't want James Gunn anywhere near a teenage boy, so I have to play this part, too."

>>211382859
What? How did you even come to that conclusion?

>>211383068
Wrong retard. Gods are supernatural entities at marvel as well. They are still literally aliens in both brands. They don't originate from earth. This they are fucking aliens. Dipshit

>>211383424
esay. I don't read comics.

>>211380183
>an atheist
>in a universe where the Gods and various afterlives definitively exist
so he's one of the dumbest individuals on Earth?

>>211383460
Earth is the centerpiece in the DC cosmology because Christ was born there, and a literal fucking angel was part of the Justice League. The Green Lantern comics established that life in the universe originated on Earth.

>>211380965
>Woman is the muscle
Not in a team with Guy lol

>>211380843
NIGGER!!!!

>>211383533
If your gods are just super powered individuals just as fallible and volatile as humans, are they really gods worthy of worship?

>>211383324
I don't care what you think, piggy. I care what my friends and I think.

Why doesn't Earth's yellow sun cripple Green Lantern? If it strong enough to give Superman his strength surely its strong enough to sap Green Lantern of his?

>>211383771
doesn't work like that anymore grandpa

>>211383725
People like you always conveniently leave metaphysics out of these conversations. You'll never once bother to try and disprove concepts like the Cosmic Egg/The Monad. Your modus operandi is nothing more but following whatever is written in grade school textbooks. Dumb cattle be lead.

>>211383870
>Dumb cattle be lead
Good play on words

>>211382789
It's just as well she'll be wearing a mask. The abuela bloat has begun. A year from now, she'll look like the Michelin Man.

>>211383725
No you are right. Gods are not God. God is a maximally great being by definition. Anything that doesn't meet that standard cannot be God.

>>211380334
Kinda lame that Gunn went with this, and not a proper 'Me am Bizarro'. We're getting a room full with CGI monkeys typing on computers, but not Bizarro.

>>211380286
Imagine she was the size of a kaiju instead ha ha ha

>>211380158 (OP)
>he can create just about anything he can imagine
how about a cure for cancer?
can he imagine that?

>>211385147
and ate people and got a belly from it - some physical comedy i think the audience would appreciate

>>211383870
Hey buddy we're talking about comic book characters here

>>211380286
I WILL watch for SHE.

>>211385226
Case in point. Lazy, cowardly, weak individual.

>>211380158 (OP)
who approved this

>>211385188
Yes and there can be a funny scene inside her belly as people try to escape

Holy fucking CAPESLOP lol.

>>211380158 (OP)
Tell me more Mr Marketer! I must know all there is about these two dimensional characters who share a movie with Superman since they can't think up enough content to fill two hours with Superman alone!

>>211385333
Trips of Toofh

>>211385296
i did

>>211380183
>Mister Terrific is "one of the most philosophically compelling heroes in DC
Lmao

>>211383480
Fair enough

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Mr. Terrific is cited in the comics as “The World’s Third Smartest Man.” It’s widely accepted that Lex is one of the top 2, but the other is unclear.

>>211385397
two dimension is good, dummy

>>211380207
>She's just there to look pretty and not do anything
Lmao

>>211385951
I've heard both Batman or Sivana cited as the #2, with Lex as the #1.

>>211380158 (OP)
im more curious to watch guy gardner than superman in this movie

>>211380183
>one of the most intelligent individuals
>is an atheist
lmao

>>211380334
>Lex’s entire character is that he’s insanely arrogant to the point of using all of his resources to prove that humans are better than aliens like Superman
>the culmination of his intelligence is…a clone of Superman
Is the irony lost on him? It at least makes sense when he develops that funky power armor or kryptonite weaponry because he’s still at the helm of it, but he’s basically saying “yeah the only way I can prove I’m better than Superman is to use an alternate version of Superman so I win”
Huh?
Isn’t Ultraman from another dimension or something too? What did Lex even do?
For all the hate it gets, at least BvS had Lex literally create Doomsday

>>211380579
>There should be 12 more normal human characters.
Why? Its a super hero movie. You need a couple at most.

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>Lex and Rex
Who writes this shit

>>211387391
>at least BvS had Lex literally create Doomsday
I think this version of Ultraman will actually be purely Lex's creation.

>>211380183
Look at this dude.
I bet he doesn't even know about the god of hedgehogs.

>>211380334
How would /tv/ react if Ultraman is revealed as Cavill?

At least Lois actually looks like she wants to fuck Superman in this. Snyder's Superman it felt like he was holding her hostage in every scene.

>>211387391
you know Lex created Bizarro too in canon right

>>211388509
This. I'm sorry I really wanted the Snyder movies to be good but this already looks like it mogs it hard. I even liked Eisneberg's Luthor but Gunn has an immaculate track record with capeshit frankly.

>Corenswet searches for the right music to set the tone for the shoot. He likes jazz, but not just any jazz, at least not for this occasion. Mostly "upbeat instrumental jazz," he offers, the stuff you'd find in the Great American Songbook.

>Gunn, the film's writer/director and the co-head of DC Studios, prefers the sound of rock band Foxy Shazam. He playfully jabs at his Super star, calling him "the biggest square that ever lived." Gunn shouts from across the room to whoever's DJing the Spotify playlist, "He likes Dean Martin s---!"

Don't forget Guy Gardner for awhile after that became "Warrior".

But I doubt we will get that version of him as Nathan Fillion. Hell, unless he's wearing a silicone muscle chest and silicone legs which are then translated into a realistic buff body by AI reinterpreting.

Of course, that is one other bonus in AI ART is you can fake a convincing body builder physique without fake rubber muscles and the face too. The difference in choices is basically, "the closer you are visually to the end result" the easier it is for the AI. So you can cast for face primarily (the hardest aspect to sell to an audience) then AI fake the desired voice. To some degree, you can create AI VIDEO redo magic simply by having a cloth of the right color and shape.

You could create a metallic spike ball fist with a simple red balloon, but the spikes may travel and move erratically when AI rerendered. A better choice is a paper mache ball with spikes made of cardboard toilet paper tubes. Paint it red and you can beat the inconsistent factors of AI redos.

>>211383870
You are epistemically unhygienic.

>>211390562
that shit was always retarded and only done because they didn't know what to do with him and DC was trying to mandate only Kyle could be Green Lantern

>>211388543
He's thirdie minded. He asks passive aggressive questions as a way of arguing. He's not curious. You don't need to fulfill a want of knowledge because there is none. Just giving you a heads up.

>>211381777
>>As one of the most intelligent individuals on Earth

And he calls himself PHASTOS (FATSOS).
Well at least he can honestly look at himself in a mirror.

>>211380158 (OP)
>LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!