'Lanterns' Just Officially Settled a Major Question About the New DCU’s Canon
Lanterns episode 6 confirms that Starro’s attack from The Suicide Squad happened in the new DCU, clarifying James Gunn’s “imperfect memory” canon.
Lanterns episode 6 confirms that Starro’s attack from The Suicide Squad happened in the new DCU, clarifying James Gunn’s “imperfect memory” canon.
The short version
- John Stewart’s random reference settles one of James Gunn’s messiest continuity questions One of the earliest scenes in Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice returns to the big climactic battle from Man of Steel .
- This time, we see it from Bruce Wayne ’s perspective on the street, where collapsing buildings and crashing Kryptonians look less like superhero spectacle and more like mass destruction.
- It raised an interesting question that James Gunn's DC Universe has yet to answer: What is it like to be a normal person in this superhero world?
What happened
In episode 6 of HBO’s Lanterns , the show wisely asks what regular people are doing to prepare for this kind of large-scale destruction in a DCU where it seems to happen regularly. A throwaway reference early in the episode quietly confirms one such event — and essentially canonizes another DC movie that was fairly murky before.
Why it matters
Ten years after handing Hal Jordan’s Green Lantern ring over to the Guardians, John Stewart has become an architect and founded Stewart Brothers in Midway City.
Summary by Nerd News Network. Read the full article at Polygon via the links above and below.