First Promo Image of Superman From Dawn of Justice

[Mr. Q]

Oh, good. For a moment, I thought the monkeys in charge of this movie forgot to put in Superman what with all the hype and hoopla on Batman and the other casting decisions.

This photo does little to get me hyped. It's almost the same outfit from Man of Steel but with minor tweaks, mostly around the belt area (still no red portions around the belt area to break up the blue onesie). Can't tell if they improved on the colors because THEY USED A DREARY AS FUCK STORM SETTING WITH ZERO LIGHTING! Even the actor doesn't look all that happy to be in this, for crying out loud! Henry Cavill is looking at the cameraman like he's gonna ask "Are we done with this?! I'm starting to get severe hypothermia from this shoot!" And don't tell me "It's in Gotham. It's always dark and depressing." because THE SAME CAN BE SAID FOR MAN OF STEEL! Maybe this is what Metropolis is after Superman (and with a little help from Zod) Hiroshima-fied it beyond repair.

If this was suppose to get us excited about Superman in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (were there really no other options for a better title or is the market department at DC/WB that fucking brain dead?), then I think this clip sums it up...


And if you are excited by this, I'm guessing I could easily entertain you by jingling a set of car keys in front of your face.

 

[K12]

My first thought when I saw this was that Superman was thinking "shit I should have brought an umbrella". The darker coloured costume and broody look just looks funny in the rain.

 

[Lieju]

Similarly, no matter how dark they make Batman, he's always a man dressed up as a mouse with wings.

Nonono, bats look nothing like mice, this sort of thing really annoys me.

You know, this shouldn't really need to be said, but it's okay to have a single franchise out there that isn't dark and broody. Not everyone needs to be Batmanified. Especially Superman.

I mean, it's fine if you don't like Superman. But he needs to be dark and gritty about as much as My Little Pony does.

Yes, and it annoys me that apparently we can only have 'dark' themes if everything is 'realistic' and gloomy and gritty.
Superman's backstory inherently includes some pretty darn dark things, like his whole species dying off.

Making things colourful and including fun and happy things will only give the darker things much needed contrast.

 

[Kerethos]

Honestly, I don't see what the problem with the costume is. Man of Steel had many many problems, but Superman's outfit was not one of them. Also, isn't it a bit silly to complain about a superhero having a slightly different costume, when most superheroes go through so many costume changes during their lifetime that it requires a wiki to keep track of it all? The costume is fine, the red shorts would look needlessly silly to uninitiated audiences, since their origin (carnival strongmen) has long since departed from the mainstream cultural consciousness and would simply come off as a guy wearing his underwear outside his pants.

You Sir have accurately summed up my opinions on this subject. I'd give you a cookie, but I ate them all myself. Suit = fine.

As for the rest:
The Superman movie was a good destruction spectacle, but not a good Superman movie; because it doesn't understand that Superman tries to be the beacon of justice and hope personified, and that his struggles and sacrifices comes from trying to live up to that ideal. Which very much includes not purposely killing his enemies, even though he's most certainly able to.

I've never read the comics and have only seen a few episodes of the justice league cartoon (years ago), and even I know that. Batman is the brooding angry man with issues, not Superman.

Edit: Too accurate not to include

 

[Makabriel]

Okay, so why does he look twenty years older than in the previous film? Wasn't Batman supposed to be the older one?

I was wondering if I was the only one that saw that.. I swear his temples are a little grey, and is that a white streak as well?

 

[RealRT]

Okay, so why does he look twenty years older than in the previous film? Wasn't Batman supposed to be the older one?

Isn't everyone supposed to be older? I thought it was supposed to be set quite a while after MoS. I could be wrong though.

No, as far as I can tell it wasn't supposed to be set that many years after MoS. It's Batman and Superman's first meeting and Bats is supposed to be some kind of a mentor for Supes.

 

[Baresark]

I hate this promo image... mostly because I hate the effects Zack Snyder uses in every single one of his movies, at this point. I also liked the imagery we got on the Man of Steel promo stuff rather than what was presented in the movie. At the end of the movie, we got to see some of that confident happy boyscout Superman tends to be.

I also don't feel that every single DC movie now needs to be like the Christopher Nolan Batman films. It makes sense to be that way in reference to Batman, it's a comic that is meant to have a very different feeling than Superman.

 

[elvor0]

Okay, so why does he look twenty years older than in the previous film? Wasn't Batman supposed to be the older one?

Isn't everyone supposed to be older? I thought it was supposed to be set quite a while after MoS. I could be wrong though.

No, as far as I can tell it wasn't supposed to be set that many years after MoS. It's Batman and Superman's first meeting and Bats is supposed to be some kind of a mentor for Supes.

Oh well bugger me. We'll blame whoever came up with that overly broody image then.

 

[Something Amyss]

Nonono, bats look nothing like mice, this sort of thing really annoys me.

It's just glibness for effect. Same with "rats with wings." I just like "mice" because more people like mice and think they're cute. Makes it easier to mock the silliness of a guy in a cape and cowl.

Yes, and it annoys me that apparently we can only have 'dark' themes if everything is 'realistic' and gloomy and gritty.
Superman's backstory inherently includes some pretty darn dark things, like his whole species dying off.

Making things colourful and including fun and happy things will only give the darker things much needed contrast.

I would think being the last of your kind would definitely be a dark issue. And it's been played as such in the comics without sacrificing his whole hopeful symbolism and the like. But yeah. People see bright colours and associate it with stuff for children and insist that things need to be more "mature," which means more violent with more blood and more nudity and more "grit" and literal darkness (muted colours, emphasis on shadow, etc).

Continuing from that, I think you can have a mature Superman story that involves both bright colours and things like hope with the heavier stuff Supes has to deal with.

"Dark" and "gritty" became a thing because it was counter-culture, and at this point, I would even welcome bright and cheery as counter-counter-culture, because I'm a little tired of it.

But what I really want is rich stories told with a mixture of bright and dark, colour and black/white, etc. I know it's a bit much to ask from superhero movies, but a decade ago I thought the idea of an Avengers team-up was too much to ask.