re: Cat Vasko Will Write Warner Bros.’ Female-Centric Plastic Man Movie

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There's no way they're stupid enough to believe there's a huge demand for all-female superhero movies.

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There's no way they're stupid enough to believe there's a huge demand for a Plastic Man movie, in general. The Hollywood Reporter article doesn't clarify what "female-centric" will actually look like because they don't know. None of the other outlets with this story know either. We don't even know if this means a female lead. It probably does, but any outlet saying so has made a jump from the language reported in an effort to get clicks from people on boards like this one.

DC doesn't even give a shite about Plastic Man. He hasn't had his own series since a short-lived, unpopular (but acclaimed) title for kids back in 2004. Part of the joke with his name is that he's been changed/killed so many times that he's barely a character on his own (I think Mark Waid's favorite past time used to be killing and demeaning Plastic Man). This was an explicit joke in the comics in the late 2000s, villain when a seduced him into thinking he was a joke amongst his superhero peers. More writers in the past 30 years have used him as a catalyst for plot than actual hero that drives the plot or saves the day.

If there were ever a comic character you could play around with, without drawing any sincere, deserved anger from a fan base, it should be Plastic Man. That won't prevent people from pretending they care about him, of course.