Sorry, I like doing pitches.
I could really enjoy that. I think Circe and Cheetah is the way to go, and doing Circe as someone friendly ose in a way could be really cool and unique. Having both of her coworkers being the supervillains seems a bit much though.
I also like doing pitches, no apologies necessary.
Cheetah = very fast, sharp claws, animalistic. People would be afraid if a cheetah was coming at them. Are cheetahs superhumanly strong? No, but neither are people, and yet Diana works fine.
A werecat is much more intimidating than somebody who looks like the fourth member of Josie and the Pussycats.
Diana's not a person though, she's a god. And to show that she's a god, they don't make her look like an animal, or a milkman, they make her look like all the other gods we've seen, which happens to look just like a person, incidentally.
Yes, Minerva is more intimidating than Rich, but when I look at Cheetah vs Wonder Woman fights even in animation, Wonder Woman looks nerfed in order to maintain the idea that a werecat is going toe to toe with the woman who killed Ares.
Again, it is doable: it is possible to create the idea of a cheetah god with an avatar in Minerva for the audience as something new and different. But you have to keep in mind that you're creating this to appeal to the audience in a new way, just as the creators of the Hellenistic gods did. If Homer had just come out with the Illiad as if the audience's job is to have imagination, modern literature would be quite different.
I hope you guys are right. Cause I have the funny feeling that the green light on Cheetah will go down for the same reason we still haven't had a fully speaking Hulk. Talking animal monsters look ridiculous. Like Bebop/Rocksteady level threatening.
Wolfman in the shadows growling is scary.
Wolfman in daylight talking angry is Beauty and the Beast (Ron Perlman version).
Hehe, yeah, talking animals can go cartoony real easily.
The DCEU already has Killer Croc in it, and that didn't seem to be a problem.
Killer Croc doesn't actually look like a crocodile, it was just the skin. A guy with a croc-like snout would have been hilarious. Of course, Croc was mostly played for comedy anyway with his minimal lines. IIRC, his main contribution to the team was not superior strength, like in comics, but using his croc-powers of swimming to plant a bomb.
Some people seem to mistake "I personally think that it looks ridiculous" with "the audience as a whole will." And sorry, but those aren't the same thing. And we've done this same thing over and over and over and over and over again. Fans claimed that "the audience will never buy that, it looks too goofy/ridiculous." And then, the audience DOES end up buying it and said fans look foolish.
You'd think that after this has happened so many times that fans would learn to stop making knee-jerk assumptions like that. But they never seem to learn their lesson apparently.
So, I'm sure there are knee jerk reactions out there, my reaction comes from an analysis of how Cheetah is adapted in cartoons, and how other animal characters are adapted into live action films. That is how I developed my solution to the problem others have failed or neglected to solve, which is not what we usually see when people dismissively say "that will never work." It has little to do with my personal views on what is silly or not. I have no problem with little bunny rabbits suplexing the man of steel, I would certainly enjoy that kind of ridiculousness to no end. However, I also understand why some characters tend to be comedic to audiences, and why comedic characters are so rare in dark heavy dramas.
