5 DC Characters Deserving of Their Own Film.

In recent years, Marvel comics have been kicking total ass in the film world. Most of the X-Men and Spider-Man movies have been pretty good, but they've all been under different studios, so the quality of most Marvel properties have been highly variable. The recent creation of Marvel Studios has allowed for less popular characters like Iron Man and Hulk to theaters in a more quality-assured structure, being overseen more directly by the publisher. Since these characters are under one studio, crossover is possible, just like in the comics. We've seen Tony Stark in the Hulk movie, Nick Fury in the Iron Man film, and soon Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and Hulk will be appearing together in an Avengers movie. It's a great time to be a Marvel fan, so long as you aren't actually reading the comics, which are pretty poor right now.

But what about DC? They've got just as massive a roster of heroes worthy of cinema, plus the ownership of media powerhouse Warner Brothers to help realize a rich intertwining film universe. It seems obvious, yet we've seen nothing but two Batmen and a half-assed Superman film in the last decade, plus a couple of out-of-universe projects like Watchmen.

The future's looking brighter for DC heroes, but not by much. Green Lantern begins filming very shortly, another Superman has been announced, a Flash movie is rumored, Wonder Woman has been on and off for the last 10 years, and another Batman movie is inevitable. Still, there are a lot of smaller names in the family that won't see recognition for a long time. Let's get to the part where I list them, shall we?

The Final Glass Ceiling

Women have made considerable gains in the last fifty years, but there is no question that this is still a male-dominated society. Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin have both been nominated vice president, Hillary Clinton nearly gained the presidential nomination last election, and we currently have a female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Still, politics is almost entirely a man's game in the U.S. As male-dominated as the world of politics is, however, there is one area in America that is even harsher to women. I'm talking of course about cereal mascots.