It's not even going to suck in a fun way. You can’t build a show around “What if the guy at your job who corrects your grammar was Mr. Midstastic?"
He had the best scene in the movie. The mix of song and the fun action won a lot of people over.
Tower of Babel - The precursor that helped kickstart the batwank and completely destroyed power scaling for Batman.
The Reeves Batman movie was the panacea for all this. It portrayed Batman as intelligent but not magically all-knowing, a highly-skilled combatant but could still be hurt, impressive and just-past-realistic gadets but retained verisimilitude, gifted but still learning. He was a Batman that you could have grown with over a series of movies and slowly enlarge the world. The first had hints of slightly more fantastic elements with what appeared to be venom in the first one and the sequel would have used Clayface as the villain which would have been done in a slightly more low-key horror way I imagine which would have threaded the needle between believability and the comic book elements, I believe.
Gunn picked Guy over John Steward as the Green Lantern of the movie. John is the best choice after the JL cartoons made him a household name and the definitive GL in many people's mind.
Putting aside my disagreement with virtually everything you said about The Batman, I'm pretty sure Clayface was never confirmed and that was just one of many rumors floating around. Hell the latest rumor I've heard for The Batman 2 is that Hugo Strange is the main villain and the story is loosely based on Batman: Prey.
Tower of Babel was a good story, hell IIRC it ends with everyone on the team roasting Batman for how careless and retarded he was (plus I also recall that it had Aquaman defending Batman by revealing that he ALSO had contingency plans of his own). New 52 wasn't a perfect reboot but I can appreciate that it was desperately needed to clean up the crap from Post-Crisis (which ended up being pointless because DC eventually brought that crap back piece by piece anyway). The early movies were shit but they were doing pretty OK by the end and even Jason O'Mara's Batman started sucking less. Green Lantern was a pretty shit film but it didn't kill GL's popularity, in fact it was going pretty strong even after that for several years. I think it started waning maybe around 2016.
John was only the definitive GL for hardcore fans of the DCAU but, uh, the DCAU is pretty fucking old by now and DC has pushed Hal hard in everything else. I think Gunn just picked Gardner because of the asshole comic relief factor.
Still, if you want black representation like Gunn does, should he not have picked John? Yeah, they pushed Hal a lot but he was not always successful. He was in the YJ cartoon but so was John, he was in the New 52 movies as a cocky idiot and the less said about the Live-Action movie, the better. Was he in anything where he stole the show? Also, it would have been better with John than Guy as no one likes Guy unless he is a Red Lantern.
Nobody likes him in-universe. Personally I find him the most relatable of all the Lanterns.
he was fine with the yellow ring too
Green Lantern is strange. The movie itself was middling at best, but for some reason it clearly crawled up some WB and Hollywood executives asses as it feels like there has been a vendetta against Green Lantern since. WB dropped all GL projects after the movie bombed, no more animated movies or series, with LEGO Batman 3 just being a weird strangler of having high GL content. Then, WB went out of their way to exclude GL from anything Snyder beyond the vague cameos of Lanterns in the battle with Stephenwolf - JL has 7 members yet they only used 6 seemingly to spite him. CW dropped a Lantern plotline they were clearly setting up. Even today, we have WB relegating GL to tv fodder since I guess a big picture is out of the question for Gunn's universe, or doing anything with them in space.
Doesn't matter that it is old, John is the Green Lantern to normies. If I were to ask my mom about Green Lantern, she was say he is black because of that show. Picked this up from TikTok as it is extremely telling of how casuals view Green Lantern:
Can you believe that the WARRIOR was them trying to cash in on MMPR? Talk about failing to understand the appeal.
Damned by faint praise.
That is what I mean. The movies are for the normies and the normies know John, not Hal, not Kyle and certainly not Guy. You have to ease them in, not bring the least likeable GL you have.
No. Just a joke to shoe-horn in that reminder if people are going to start talking about comparing different GLs. The time Hal Jordan dates a 13 year old... yeah.
Hal was in the insanely popular Green Lantern: The Animated Series (another great show cancelled for no good reason). As I said before Guy is actually a pretty understandable choice when you consider the kind of characters that Gunn likes - comedic characters with a douchey side. John, if we're just going by his DCAU depiction, is just a stoic military black man which doesn't leave much to work with for Gunn's tastes.
I wouldn't put much stock in random TikTok clips (especially since I bet the guy that was coming in didn't even watch JL/JLU properly but just skimmed videos online otherwise he'd know that there are multiple human Green Lanterns). I hang out with a very sizable community of, let's say, nerd-adjacent people who aren't particularly aware of comics but want to get into them and I don't think I've ever met a single younger person for whom the default GL was John Stewart. Not a single one.