Sidekicks add too much an air of ‘campiness’. And that’s something both Mah-vel and DC have been dancing away from - DC has been getting dramatic and Mah-vel has been getting bigger. The ‘closest’ we’ll get is what they did with Robin in the last Batman. Sidekick in nature of saving the situation, some ties in name, but we won’t see a true sidekick riding next to Bats in the Batcycle - with a costume on.
I’m probably really stretching the science here but if his heat vision uses infrared and the mirror is made of glass, glass will reflect/absorb infrared depending on varying parameters. Of course we don’t know jack about his heat vision since it’s a comic book, so stuff like wavelengths and rules of optics are probably thrown out regardless. Hell the way superman exerts his strength in a uniform manner while some how remaining as dense as any other human defies physics so I’m probably just wasting my time trying to give some semblance of sense.
I’m not entirely sure about that. Are you sure, it’s just not the past example with Forever and Batman & Robin that makes you feel that way?
I don’t know much about Iron Man, but is War Machine/Iron Patriot his sidekick? Though in those movies he seemed to work alone for the most part. Especially in 3 when I was hoping we could see more of them together. I don’t even think he had a real fight in that suit 1 time. I actually can’t think of really any other sidekicks in marvel, do they even have that many compared to DC?
I think it could be handled well if someone takes it seriously unless those 2 jokes mentioned earlier and if they treat the sidekick more like a team than hero and sidekick. I can agree that having a teen sidekick would always have a campy feel to it, but with man of Steel since Supergirl is the same age, we wouldn’t have to worry about that.
WM isn’t a typical sidekick, but his direction is the direction they will most likely go hence fourth. Same as Robin in Batman/Dark Knight (whatever the one with Bane is called). All the series have made strides to be better movies, and typically deeper movies with a focus on the individual hero - short of Avengers. There just isn’t the focus or screen time to truly develop that ‘sidekick’ in the campy sense of it. Which isn’t a bad thing IMO. Doesn’t mean we won’t see them and they won’t fight together…but I wouldn’t expect another ‘Batman & Robin’
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Finally a trailer that tells me about the plot. All I knew was ‘Zod’. Officially excited and on notice. Hopefully all that epic doesn’t amount to just 5 minutes of footage…