DC's New Animated Universe Makes The DCEU's Failure Even Worse
DC and Warner Bros. Animation are crafting a new shared universe of animated films, and the first entries highlight the live-action DCEU's biggest flaw. With the release ofSuperman: Man of Tomorrow for home video in 2020, DC began a new chronology of animated films that replaced the New-52-inspired DC Animated Movie Universe, also known as the DCAMU. Unlike the strategy adopted between The Flashpoint Paradox and the brutal Justice League Dark: Apokolips, this new DC animated universe does not strictly follow any specific comic book era, and it is instead blending adaptations with original stories.
In addition to Superman: Man of Tomorrow, this universe includes Justice Society: World War II, Batman: The Long Halloween Part One, Batman: The Long Halloween, Part 2, and the upcoming Green Lantern: Beware My Power. While there was initially no confirmation that these films would be set in the same universe, things like Man of Tomorrow's Superman appearing in Justice Society and the Flash from that same film appearing in the post-credits scene of The Long Halloween, Part 2 proved that the films indeed took place in the same chronology. The trailer for Green Lantern: Beware My Power, for example, reveals that the Man of Tomorrow's Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow, and Hawkgirl will be present during John Stewart's story.
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All this interconnectivity, especially how it was created, further exposes how wrong the DCEU's approach to its shared universe was. In the theatrical films, the franchise jumped from the introduction of Superman in Man of Steel to the entire Justice League appearing on-screen during Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. On the other hand,
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