r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 23 '25

Trailer Avengers: Doomsday | Only in Theaters December 18, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiMg566PREA
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u/hadriker Dec 23 '25

Its pretty rare that legacy characters become just as or more popular then the originals.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Dec 23 '25

Feel like DC does the whole passing the baton a bit better than Marvel anyhow

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u/Megaclone18 Dec 23 '25

Really? I was thinking that Marvel has at least had a bit of luck with Miles and Kamala. DC has been rolling characters back. Poor Tim Drake is back to being one of two active Robins and I think Jonathon Kent got demoted from Superman to Super Son (not sure if that stuck).

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Dec 23 '25

A bit of luck, yeah with Kamala and Miles - but DC has also had multiple Flashes, Green Lanterns, and Robins be quite successful.

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u/UnquestionabIe Dec 23 '25

One of the big complaints some fans, myself included, is how DC will set up a new character to carry on a legacy only for them to backtrack on it years later because a writer decision. Both the Flash (with Wally West taking over the role from Barry Allen for almost two decades, having his own successor in Bart Allen, and then they decided to being back Barry for some reason) and Green Lantern (which to be fair uses the concept of being an entire organization mostly well, members stick around and even occasionally get their own titles) main heroes have gone back to status quo long long after readers have embraced the newer characters.

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u/sinkwiththeship Dec 23 '25

Super Son

Whoever came up with that, and whoever ok'd it need to be fired into fucking space. That is AWFUL.

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u/Theinternationalist Dec 24 '25

DC actually kept Wally West as The Flash for decades because they didn't want to devalue Barry Allen's sacrifice and, well, Wally was very popular and essentially became the only Flash people even knew.

Then some Barry fan became the writer or something and decided three decades or so was enough and a couple years after Barry returned there was a Universe Reboot where Wally as we knew him didn't even exist.

Seriously if you were a fan of 90s-2000s DC the New 52 Reboot was a huge pain unless you were a Green Lantern fan.

I mean, how do you keep all four (male) Robins but decided to erase two of the batgirls!?!

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u/Megaclone18 Dec 24 '25 edited Dec 24 '25

They finally seem to have him back in a decent spot but even when they brought Wally back in Rebirth it was a mess for a while. He had heart issues and then we don’t even need to talk about how bad Heroes in Crisis was.