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Actually that is not true at all.. but WB won’t remotely rely on source material effectively.. the Aquaman in Justice League is not Aquaman

My comic book time was Silver age through early Bronze Age, and as a DC fan in the 70s, read plenty of Golden Age reprints, including of the old Fawcett characters (hence my nom).

I know they did some reboot of Aquaman where he is more of a Poseidon-type character, which I guess would make him akin to Thor, but what you call the "Justice League" version was pretty much the same guy who had his own book in the sixties (as the JLA was presented in the 60s and 70s). Take him out of water, and the plot opportunities thin. Keep him in water, and the ability of us landlubbers to relate thins even more.

You are right about using the personalities of Superman and Batman as a motivation for conflict. I remember a World's Finest comic in the mid-70s where Supes and Batman come up a previously unknown tribe, living a primitive, but idealist life on the surface. Batman took a Calvinist approach and assumed they were depraved under the surface, while Superman took more of Rousseauian/Quaker assumption about their nature (I guess based on most of his experiences on Krypton and in Smallville growing up). I forgot how it was resolved, or if it was.

I find it interesting that Marvel hasn't (to my knowledge) thought of doing a Submariner movie. That character was WAY ahead of his time, being very much an anti-hero (WWII time doesn't count) even more than the early "vigilante" versions of Superman and Batman.

I really hope they don't try to pull off Captain Marvel (especially if they insist on calling him Shazam!). If they must, they better not pretend that Dr. Sivana is an evil businessman. He is an archetypal mad scientist. They might be better off with Mr. Mind. Most don't know who he is, and those who do will get a good chuckle out of him.

Given that Justice League didn’t do that well, WB’s entire plans are in disarray...

Aquaman Film was already finished by the time JL was released, so it will come to the big screen no matter what... however the plans to do single films for other characters, like Flash etc are now up in the air. A Captain Marvel movie was planned, but with poor performance of JL everything as I understand it is up in the air.

What I just don’t get is why WB can’t seem to stop trying to turn every hero into a brooding anti-hero?

Part of WHY wonder woman was a success, was her character was ALWAYS optimistic.... NEVER ONCE did she lose her hope or her belief.

Batman is the brooding one.. Aquaman, at least the Aquaman of my time (90s mostly was reading DC regularly, returned to it after Rebirth and giving them another shot, because new 52 was unreadable garbage) does have a dark aspect to him, but he’s not the 2 dimensional twit that was on the screen during JL.

Flash from the 90s was an interesting character, the flash in current Rebirth is drivel and probably will be dropping it soon.

Detective is so full of bats now, and PC Pooferness (like flash) that as soon as Detective 1000 is out, will likely stop that one too..... Action Comics I don’t know what’s going on there, with Rebirth they seem to have just gone a bit crazy from what I can tell on that book as well.. even bringing back Krypto???? Really?? Krypto??? Again I suspect once Action Comics 1000 is out will probably stop that one again as well.

Will be down to Green Lantern Corps Hal Jordan.... The new Green Latern sucks too... If they both died tommorrow I would be fine with it... the two PC characters added a while back being given their own book, its tired rehash of old story lines from previous lanterns... I will give that book some credit in some of the ancillary characters that have been introduced have potential... but the two actual lanterns? Just kill them off... My guess is unless something changes will be down to Just reading Hal Jordan and Aquaman with a year.