Well, they'll make the ladies sit up and notice in the final movie.

The color and gender of characters within fantasy tales and myths and legends are fixed; Tolkien wrote them white and male, mainly to pander to a white male audience, so we see them interpreted as white and male when Jackson translates them into film. Damned if they ever make a movie about African myth and make Anansi…

But he was a derpy white guy played by the Seventh Doctor!

No worse than Peter being forced to make out (or worse) with his sweet old Aunt May via Ock's memories in ASM #699

Or the new Rory...

Love Vic Stone's new look. Not a fan of Supes'.

Did anyone mention the fact that this lot also has a political agenda? "Slaying the red communist dragon"?

Go watch a Nolan film, ya.... oh, wait.

Supes perched on top the Daily Planet building, American flag in hand with the Sun and birds majestically flying by sounds awesome and completely appropriate for the Defender of Democracy.

No. Shut up. No. That is not Jonathan Kent. That's a random bystander. Who cares about Clark and conveniently knows about his powers and OHMYGOD SNYDER WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO DEAR OLD PA KENT?

He WAS just a kid then. (Forgive the caps, I can't for the love of Zod figure out how to do italics and I had to place emphasis on that word)

You do understand that his comment was made in jest, right?

Come on, not another string theory activist.

It'd be an eight hour long film... which, don't get me wrong, I would greatly enjoy, but good luck finding a theater that would peddle that.

THE ESCAPE WAS AWESOME.

If these Terracotta Warriors are the name of a crimefighting group protecting the streets of a grim, gritty and metropolitan Shanghai, I wouldn't mind getting behind it.

If you can't go for substance, go for CGI. Massive, over-the-top, wanktastic CGI effects that sends the FF to the Negative Zone or Atlantis or the middle of a warp hole or any other place that gives you an excuse to bring Kirby Krackle to the big screen.

She was also totally hot, though. And that should account for 50% of the single male and nerdy population.

Right, because the world is just teeming with billionaire genius playboy detectives dabbling in Nepalese meditative techniques and magical Resurrection pits and has been sent through time and space by fearsome cosmic entities.

He is a. Ahem. Man of Steel.