Who should the 7th member of the movie Justice League be?

[trustyside-kick]

People know who Aquaman is. And thanks to misinterpretation of the character, a good majority view him poorly. DC cannot pass up the chance of showing the mainstream media that isn't just a fish out of water. That is the most important reason why he should be there instead of Hawkgirl.

The other reasons, aside from him being a founder member, sticking around with the team for so long, leading the team at one point...it's Hawkgirl. I love Hawkman a lot, and Hawkgirl is cool and all...but it is Hawkgirl. Of all the people Orin could be competing for a slot he deserves Hawkgirl should not be that person.

I think too many people view Hawkgirl as her JLU counterpart which is nothing like she is in the comics. It annoyed the hell out of me, as a Hawks fan, that they made her more than she was. Some people think there should be a second female cast to have more "girls" on the team, but you shouldn't ask them to take someone who deserves to be there for that. That is as dumb as DC lately replacing iconic and classic characters, to appeal to certain "minorities".

Heck, I love Martian Manhunter but Aquaman is more known by the average person than MM and Aquaman is the one fighting for a spot on the team? When you think of JLA, you don't even think about Hawkgirl unless all you know is the JLU Timmverse cartoon. Which was an awesome show but incorrect in so many ways.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

I actually came up with a ten member line-up for the league now that I think about it

Replace Plastic Man with Hawkiman or Zatanna (preferably Zatanna) and I'm with ya. t:

 

[Heretic]

I'm down with Aquaman, because he's a classic and because people need to know how awesome he can be.

Superman
Batman
Wonder Woman
Green Lantern
Flash
Aquaman
My 7th spot goes to whichever other character gets a movie. The public has no freaking clue who Martian Manhunter is, so count him out or else you'll spend half the movie explaining him. Green Arrow and Shazam (just change his name DC) seem like possible films, though the general public wouldnt understand the differences between Superman and Shazam. Despite my disliking for Plastic Man, a family friendly movie made on the cheap might do fairly well.

 

[Matt]

Manhunter. The first movie is going to need to introduce the League, show their interactions, etc. To do that you need a simplistic villain, one who moves the story along without distracting from the main attraction (The Justice League) without a requirement for much explanation or development, but is also a big enough of a threat to require the unification of a League. Superman cannot be able to take them on alone.

Darkseid and an Apokolips invasion would require too much explanation and focus aay from the League. The White Martians on the other hand would not. And due to their shape shifting, they wouldn't even eat up too much of the effects budget. To make the White Martians work, you also need Manhunter. So yeah, he is a plot neccessity in my opinion.

 

[Heretic]

Manhunter. The first movie is going to need to introduce the League, show their interactions, etc. To do that you need a simplistic villain, one who moves the story along without distracting from the main attraction (The Justice League) without a requirement for much explanation or development, but is also a big enough of a threat to require the unification of a League. Superman cannot be able to take them on alone.

Darkseid and an Apokolips invasion would require too much explanation and focus aay from the League. The White Martians on the other hand would not. And due to their shape shifting, they wouldn't even eat up too much of the effects budget. To make the White Martians work, you also need Manhunter. So yeah, he is a plot neccessity in my opinion.

Thats precisely why he should not be in the movie.

You set all of the other characters up in their own movies ...and then spend the first large chunk of Justice league introducing Martian Manhunter and explaining that he is the sole survivor of the planet Mars...then you bring in an entire army of Martians in the same film. You pretty much have to turn Manhunter into a bad guy since from an outside, non comics fans perspective, it is impossible to be both the last Martian, and be fighting an entire armada of Martians...especially in the span of an hour and a half.

 

[Sawyer]

Booster Gold

 

[Matt]

Thats precisely why he should not be in the movie.

You set all of the other characters up in their own movies ...and then spend the first large chunk of Justice league introducing Martian Manhunter and explaining that he is the sole survivor of the planet Mars...then you bring in an entire army of Martians in the same film. You pretty much have to turn Manhunter into a bad guy since from an outside, non comics fans perspective, it is impossible to be both the last Martian, and be fighting an entire armada of Martians...especially in the span of an hour and a half.

I'm really not sure I understand your criticism. Manhunter would not take that long to establish. Look at the pilot of the JLA cartoon from a few years back. White Martians were the villains, but Manhunter did not monopolize the hour and a half premiere.

As for the general public not understanding, I think you greatly underestimate the intelligence of the people. Manhunter could simply be the last survivor of his race (green martians) who were victims of what can be portrayed as a genocide at the hands of the white martians. It could actually be quite emotional.

 

[Heretic]

I'm really not sure I understand your criticism. Manhunter would not take that long to establish. Look at the pilot of the JLA cartoon from a few years back. White Martians were the villains, but Manhunter did not monopolize the hour and a half premiere.

As for the general public not understanding, I think you greatly underestimate the intelligence of the people. Manhunter could simply be the last survivor of his race (green martians) who were victims of what can be portrayed as a genocide at the hands of the white martians. It could actually be quite emotional.

WB would be insane to make Martian Manhunter the central character/emotional center of a JLA movie.

 

[Savage]

Why's that? He's pretty much the outsider that brings everybody together in most if not all incarnations of the JLA. Everybody else will probably have been established in their own movies by then. He'd be the noobie that the audience connects to.

 

[Matt]

WB would be insane to make Martian Manhunter the central character/emotional center of a JLA movie.

I'm not saying he has to be the emotional center, but finding out that the White Martians pretty much committed a planet-wide genocide of his people and he is the last survivor, fighting to keep Earth from the same fate could be incredibly touching and powerful. The best scene in the entire X-Men series in my opinion, is the first one. Magneto in the concentration camp. It gives the audience an emotional connection right off the bat and makes us understand what could be at stake for mutants if someone like Senator Kelly gets his way. Does that make Magneto the emotional center of the movie? No, but it is a touching scene.

Why's that? He's pretty much the outsider that brings everybody together in most if not all incarnations of the JLA. Everybody else will probably have been established in their own movies by then. He'd be the noobie that the audience connects to.

Exactly.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Booster Gold

Ya know, I always thought the JLA movie should have Booster, not as a member but in an antagonist role. Where hes the glory hound new hotshot hero covered in endorsements who ends up way over his head. An injection of comic relief and a symbol of the responisbility needed.

 

[Matt]

Ya know, I always thought the JLA movie should have Booster, not as a member but in an antagonist role. Where hes the glory hound new hotshot hero covered in endorsements who ends up way over his head. An injection of comic relief and a symbol of the responisbility needed.

It would certainly be an amusing cameo, maybe. Just to have a fake news report or something about an endorsement, PR hero being arrested for endangering life he was trying to protect or something along those lines. Maybe when Manhunter first arrives on Earth he could see such a report and it could cause him to shy away from forming allies, initially.

 

[protocida]

I Always pictured a big alien invasion, where, while the Justice League (Superman, Batman, Wonder-Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter) fought the invaders, whe saw cameos of several heroes fighting the invaders on different spots of the world, like, during a invasion in Chicago, whe could see Plastic Man receveing a missile and bouncing it back to the shooter and etc.

 

[cerealkiller182]

I think Plastic Man should be part of the movie JLA. I feel like that might be his most viable chance at being on screen faithfully. The Wachowski script sounded like they brought down a lot of the goofball antics (which might be a necessary evil when trying to make a feature length film about the character) but with him sharing the reigns of the movie with the rest of the league he could be free to be himself.

 

[Matt]

I love the idea of Plastic Man in a JLA movie. He was a charter member of the post-crisis league, wasn't he? Yet he never gets any respect.

 

[protocida]

I would love to see Plastic Man on a Justice League movie, he was great during Mark Waid's run. But i think it would be hard, because whe'd alredy have seven heroes that MUST be in, some coadjuvants and the villains.

 

[Heretic]

Why's that? He's pretty much the outsider that brings everybody together in most if not all incarnations of the JLA. Everybody else will probably have been established in their own movies by then. He'd be the noobie that the audience connects to.

This may sound hard to believe, but to the outside world, Martian manhunter does not exist. No one even knows who he is. You are suggesting that WB spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a movie featuring its biggest icons, and then bases that movie around a guy no one has ever heard of...oh yeah, and this guy that is supposed to connect with the public is a green Martian. Most incarnations of the JLA mean nothing in this situation. If a JLA movie were to be made, there would be more money riding on it than just about every comic book appearance of Martian manhunter combined.

And, Im sorry...but introducing him and telling his story WOULD take up a chunk of the movie...AND then hed be the emotional center of the battle against the white Martians...

No...its a bad idea financially for the studio. A JLA movie, DONE RIGHT, could end up being the most expensive movie ever made. You dont risk that on the green guy that is sometimes in the coloring books with Batman and Superman.