I understand you're excited about this, but you're loosing hindsight of the broad spectrum.
The Avengers comics wouldn't exist without the JLA. The Avengers movie wouldn't exist without DC's/Warner Brothers first launching the genre into the modern age with Richard Donner's Superman & 1989's Batman. Richard Donner Produced The X-men, which by the way was a Super Hero team that actually worked well as a movie. Thor, Iron-Man, Captain America, all walked the middle of the road, and didn't do anything outstanding Film-Wise the way Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner, T2, Matrix all have done. You're acting like a group of super heroes has never worked on screen, X-Men, Watchmen, Sin-City (Old Town), Hellboy (It is a team), 300...and the best of all Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There have been great movies before this about Teams of Heroes, and the reason why this is popular already is because 5 movies prior were mangled as promotion for this movie in cross-shaming promotion that made the law preventing a toy company like Hasbro from making cartoons back in the 1980s seem laughable. I'm sorry, but with 5 movies to set up these characters we end up with "catch the football" plot that makes Michael Bay's Transformers Trilogy seem legit and we get 90 minutes of bitchery dialogue as pay off for blowing up Sky Captain's Space Fortress? *facepalm*
I think a JLA Movie can exist without interlocking single-issue films, with a better Director at helm it is possible. Ridley Scott had an amazing group in Black Hawk Down, Miike Takashi killed it with 13 Assassins, Tarantino with Inglorious Basterds did an amazing job, but also and the best example of an ensemble epic - Lord of The Rings. Heck, even the Longest Day managed to have John Wayne, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda and Paul Anka in one epic movie without pandering to any ego and that was back in the early 60s. Besides, the whole point of a hero movie is to inspire, not to sell underwear with stupid Mickey Mouse's face on it. The Xmen inspired me to tolerance, Spiderman to work harder at being social, Superman to being the best I can, Batman to be social aware, but The Avengers inspired me to see Transformers again.
I think fanatics need to chill out, and besides the only hero that has inspired people lately is our beloved V from the movie V-for Vendetta, just ask anonymous.
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