Who Should Join The Movie Justice League?

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Who Should Join The Movie Justice League?  

If Warners and DC Entertainment have their collective corporate hearts set on building a movie Justice League, then what characters should be part of the team? We’ve had a Green Lantern movie, we’re used to cinematic Batmen and Man of Steel is coming out next year. But which other DC Universe characters should make their celluloid debuts in order to graduate to the Big League?

With a movie based on The Flash reportedly already at the script stage, it’s safe to say that DC’s Fastest Man Alive will be making a movie debut sooner rather than later, so that makes four members of the team who’ll potentially be around. Green Arrow, a long-standing Leaguer in the comics, would appear to be tied up on television with his new CW series Arrow debuting in a couple of months, so he’s likely out. But what about the other heroes who have served with the Justice League throughout its long (52 years and counting) history?

Below is a list of the entire membership of the various incarnations of the team across the years (For ease of use, the superhero identities are being presumed to be more important than the secret identities, so the multiple Green Lanterns that have served are all being covered by “Green Lantern”; sorry, Kyle Rayner fans who hate Hal Jordan, and vice versa); what I’d like to see is you, dear reader, choose your dream line-up of seven characters for a movie incarnation of the Justice League… and, in the process, democratically find out which seven characters the collective SpinOff mindset believes would make the most interesting, worthwhile cinematic superhero team in the DC Movie Universe. As ever, feel free to explain your choices in the comments below.

  • Hyena

    Trinity plus Flash and GL.  Zatanna and Canary to up the female count and maybe introduce a new character to hook in the masses.  Stargirl would be a good one too.

  • Rufus Clutch

    Who thinks the Jay/Barry/Wally confusion us getting old?

  • MetalArtois

    There isnt any point in trying to complicate it. WB should commit to a JL film before The Man of Steel is released, then at least we know whats going to happen and then at least there is character development before hand so that the JL films isnt wasted telling tedious origin stories. 

  • WonderScott

    I think it needs to expand from 7 members to something larger to get some more gender and racial diversity in the cast.  Not all the characters need to get the same focus, some can be supporting characters and still have amazing moments of sharing and showing their intelligence, powers and heroic spirit.

    1. Superman
    2. Wonder Woman
    3. Batman
    4. Flash
    5. Green Lantern
    6. Black Canary
    7. Cyborg
    8. Black Lightning
    9. Vixen
    10. Hawkman
    11. Hawkwoman
    12. Green Arrow
    13. Zatanna
    14. Atom

    Treat it like the Young Justice animated show.  They give you a lot flavor with other characters while focusing on 3-5 at a time.  

  • Another Ian

    Hawkman, Power Girl, Blue Beetle, Mister Miracle, Big Barda, Rocket Red and Starman…that’s who I voted for…but I’d have thrown a few other randoms in there if I could.  Dr. Fate, Vixen, maybe Cyborg.  Just make it the most ridiculous team of mashed up characters as possible…who cares?  Really, choose the randoms and make them whatever race/sex/etc. as you please and away you go. 

  • http://twitter.com/p_keely Patrick Keely

    JL should be Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, GL, Aquaman, and Cyborg.  If they do the reverse of Marvel (like the original plan) and have the Justice League movie then solo films, the movie will need to be told through mainly one team members perspective and the best choice for that would be Cyborg.  Follow the new origin that Cyborg is the result of the Apokolips invasion and be the character that everyone can relate to.  I originally thought Green Arrow for this role, but I think Cyborg will have a better emotional impact, especially if he’s only created halfway through the film after a failed repulsion of the Apokoliptan forces by the other members of the Justice League.

  • HispaNerd

    I went half Dream JLA and half “Match the Avengers”, so I picked Martian Manhunter/Nightwing/Cyborg/Lightest/Zatanna/Vixen/Godiva!! A guy can dream!!

  • http://twitter.com/jeremymace jeremymace

    I would just let Bruce Timm and Alex Ross do the whole thing.