DC is providing the ultimate answer to Marvel’s only modern success
Author: Chris Snelgrove Published
X-Men ’97 Taking the world by storm and attracting iconic fans X-Men: The Animated Series as well as new fans who enjoy the show’s brilliant writing and smooth animation. The show’s success helped Marvel effectively become the new king of animated superhero shows. DC is planning to take back the crown with The Answer X-Men ’97: Several animated films adapted from the 1990s Batman legend “Knightfall” stories.
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To understand why these Batman movies are destined to be popular among superhero fans, you need to know more about what makes them X-Men ’97 So successful. Sure, fans love the colorful characters and nostalgic atmosphere, but the real secret to the show’s success is that it adapted some of last year’s best X-Men comic stories. Like most MCU writers, they’re not trying hard to come up with new ideas; X-Men ’97 Writers are free to pick and choose fan-favorite comic book stories to adapt, including The Trials of Magneto and the Fall of Genosha.
Adapting these decades-old comic storylines helps X-Men ’97 Have your cake and eat it too. The new comic has immediate nostalgic appeal for fans of older comics and fans of the original X-Men: The Animated Seriesbut it also attracted new fans by combining beautiful animation with some of the most successful comic book stories of all time. In other words, the show has found success by adapting a story that has already won millions of fans, and DC is set to replicate that formula by adapting one of the most popular Batman comic storylines of all time.
The bane of Batman’s existence
If you’re unfamiliar, Knightfall’s storyline begins with new villain Bane destroying Batman’s entire rogues’ gallery from Arkham Asylum. This new enemy is obsessed with defeating Batman, hoping that the bad guys he unleashes will soften the Dark Knight before their big showdown. Bane is powered by Venom, a super steroid juice, and has the ultimate ace up his sleeve: He knows Bruce Wayne is secretly Batman.
The classic comic book story is being adapted into two different movies, the latter of which will show Batman (beware of spoilers from decades-old comics) having his back broken by Bane. If these movies prove to be successful (and I have every confidence they will), we’ll likely see animated adaptations of Knight’s Journey and Knightfall, in which Bruce Wayne (respectively) recovers from his battle with Bane and takes back the mantle of the Bat from Azrael (his overly violent and somewhat psychopathic replacement). Just like this, we’re going to have a series of animated movies adapting the Caped Crusader comics, which is definitely dominant 1990s.
DC vs. Marvel: “I will crush you!”
and as X-Men ’97 It turns out that audiences are hungry for faithful adaptations of last year’s best comics. Batman fans will be especially excited to see a smart and powerful version of Bane on screen. In addition to Tom Hardy’s role in the movie The Dark Knight Rises (Hindered by a hilariously silly voice), Bane often appears in comedic form in live-action films (as in batman and robin) and animation (like Harley Quinn TV drama).
Ironically, it’s quite possible X-Men ’97DC’s success prompted DC to adapt Knightfall, one of the company’s most iconic stories of the ’90s. In this way, Marvel may be paving the way for DC to provide some top-notch competition in the animation department. If Knightfall was more popular than Knightfall X-Men ’97DC will then have excellent animated films and excellent live-action movies.
If that happens, the Knightfall movie could end up helping DC deliver the same message to Marvel that Bane delivers to Batman: “I will defeat you!”
