I think Gunn shows that the common fan criticism of "it's not like the comics" is silly. Guardians, Suicide Squad, they are not like their comic counterparts. Did audiences care? Nope, cause he made great stories.
General audiences never care about changes made to comic book characters. Only the fans of those characters care, and Gunn's always gotten away with it because he's worked with obscure characters. Superman is the first time he's working with characters that a lot of people know and love.
Fanboys absolutely would lose their shit over changes to Batman. What notable changes have ever been made to Batman in movies? The kind of changes we are talking about here are major. Imagine if they changed Batman's origin and his parents were never killed, not in some Elseworlds story but in a big-budget movie. Or if they made Batman someone other than Bruce Wayne. Or if they cast someone of a different race.
There would surely be uproar by nerds on the Internet.
Those are relatively obscure comics compared to Superman. There’s a lot more people that are going to notice if he just does whatever he wants with a character like that. Not many people were familiar or had even heard of most of the guardians characters.
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u/dumb_memes54 2d ago
Clark thanking the robots after they pick him up
It’s just the little stuff that goes a long way