DC Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[SoupOrFishOil]

30 years of darkness confirmed. :P

[CloneCommando99]

Arkham is going to work so well with the sanctum sanctorum. They’re the exact same height and the sanctum’s alleyway can provide space for Arkham’s gate and accommodate the connection points of Arkham’s West wing.

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Oh wait. It’s a TDK quote. megabluck.

I doubt the lego social media guy actually knows anything about the future sets to be honest, but it would be really, really funny if he was trolling and next year's few sets are TDKR based.

[psqidexslizer]

17 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I doubt the lego social media guy actually knows anything about the future sets to be honest, but it would be really, really funny if he was trolling and next year's few sets are TDKR based.

I assume you are talking about Rises, but it would be absolutely hysterical if after skipping over a family friendly movie like Superman Lego decided to make a whole wave of sets devoted to The Dark Knight Returns.

[CloneCommando99]

Chances of Scarecrow’s cell having a Sinestro Corps sticker on the wall or maybe even a power ring under the bed as an Easter egg?

It’s possible seeing how Arkham’s already referenced Professor Radium and the Daily Planet

[Darth_Bane13]

I wonder if we'll finally get a Clayface minifigure with the new movie coming out.

[Mandalorianknight]

18 minutes ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I wonder if we'll finally get a Clayface minifigure with the new movie coming out.

Unfortunately if anything it hurts his chances, seeing as it's R-rated.

6 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Chances of Scarecrow’s cell having a Sinestro Corps sticker on the wall or maybe even a power ring under the bed as an Easter egg?

It’s possible seeing how Arkham’s already referenced Professor Radium and the Daily Planet

It's possible, I wouldn't count on it but I wouldn't count it out. There's no reason I can see that they wouldn't do it, so it's just whether or not they decide to make that particular easter egg. Same as if we get a 1x1 with Jarro or a red 98011.

12 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

I assume you are talking about Rises, but it would be absolutely hysterical if after skipping over a family friendly movie like Superman Lego decided to make a whole wave of sets devoted to The Dark Knight Returns.

They technically have covered it a bit already with that one CMF fig, but you know what? I'd take a TDKR wave over what we're probably going to get. At least then we could get superman, Green Arrow, Wonder Woman, etc.

Edited Monday at 02:56 AM by Mandalorianknight

[DaredevilFan]

Extra on Instagram is teasing a Nightcrawler minifig. It’ll be interesting to see if it comes true as that’ll be good new for Clayface and a new two-face. As he was teased back in x-mansion 

[psqidexslizer]

7 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I wonder if we'll finally get a Clayface minifigure with the new movie coming out.

Doubt it. Characters appearing in R-rated properties tends to hurt, rather than help, their case. And with Clayface in particular, the only other projects he’s been in recently have been Harley Quinn TAS and Creature Commandos, so it’s not even a case like Joker where, yeah he’s been in mature media, but there’s plenty of other child friendly things.

3 hours ago, DaredevilFan said:

Extra on Instagram is teasing a Nightcrawler minifig. It’ll be interesting to see if it comes true as that’ll be good new for Clayface and a new two-face. As he was teased back in x-mansion 

Probably not. Most Easter Eggs in these modular sets have led nowhere. Nightcrawler appearing as an Easter egg in the X-Mansion and now potentially as a minifigure somewhere else just comes down to the character not making the cut for the mansion but being popular enough to appear later (being both promoted to a main character in X-Men ‘97 and appearing in an Avengers movie no doubt helps).

[BrickBob Studpants]

4 hours ago, DaredevilFan said:

Extra on Instagram is teasing a Nightcrawler minifig. It’ll be interesting to see if it comes true as that’ll be good new for Clayface and a new two-face. As he was teased back in x-mansion 

Maybe? Not every reference is a teaser. They often reference characters that don’t appear in sets afterwards

Also, speaking of Clayface, it’s kinda weird that he gets a movie this early in the DCU. It’s like Superman! Supergirl! …Clayface…?

That’d be like if the third MCU movie was about Sandman rather than Cap (let’s pretend Sandman never appeared in a movie before for the sake of the comparison)  

Don’t get me wrong, the movie sounds intriguing, especially with Mike Flanagan attached, but it’s a strange choice timing-wise. It can’t imagine it doing too well

Edited Monday at 11:19 AM by BrickBob Studpants

[Renny The Spaceman]

7 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Don’t get me wrong, the movie sounds intriguing, especially with Mike Flannigan attached, but it’s a strange choice timing-wise. It can’t imagine it doing too well

I imagine the opposite, I think it'll probably help it's case, it's not 2018 or 2019 where just plucking any B or C tier hero gets a billion, even the ones non-fans know struggle. Clayface being a character the average person is vaguely aware of but just being a standalone, low budget horror film, with a big name in horror doing the script will probably help it's case. DC can't really afford to do the nostalgia push which is the only way these films do 2010s numbers anymore as the only successful film franchise they had in the 2000s, which is where they need to milk to actually capture the stagnant audience for this genre, is the Dark Knight trilogy which obviously they can't do anything with

[BatDeanj]

17 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

Nightcrawler appearing as an Easter egg in the X-Mansion and now potentially as a minifigure somewhere else just comes down to the character not making the cut for the mansion but being popular enough to appear later (being both promoted to a main character in X-Men ‘97 and appearing in an Avengers movie no doubt helps).

With that logic lego is saying Batwing is more popular than clayface or mad hatter for an Arkham set?
I believe we will never get a mad hatter because of the pedo connection or zsasz because of the self harm connection, but we could of had clayface as lego has made him a buildable before and hush i think. 

[CloneCommando99]

35 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Maybe? Not every reference is a teaser. They often reference characters that don’t appear in sets afterwards

Still waiting for the Scarlet Spider from the Bugle’s TV.

16 minutes ago, BatDeanj said:

I believe we will never get a mad hatter because of the pedo connection 

Hal Jordan, Mad Hatter, Slade Wilson, Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Ra’s Al Ghul, Absolute Jonkler, Guy Gardner, Karen Starr, Steve Rogers, Carol Danvers and H’El are all on the Xavier Files. And the Krakoa flight logs.

Also Alfred, if that one investigator aired his misplaced suspicions.

 

[psqidexslizer]

1 hour ago, BatDeanj said:

With that logic lego is saying Batwing is more popular than clayface or mad hatter for an Arkham set?
I believe we will never get a mad hatter because of the pedo connection or zsasz because of the self harm connection, but we could of had clayface as lego has made him a buildable before and hush i think. 

Oh, no, I’m not saying that only popular characters make it into sets (although that certainly helps) or even that Lego will never put a less popular character in a set over a more popular one. I’m just saying that Nightcrawler is a popular character who was bound to appear eventually (especially with major roles in two projects next year). 

[G_Brickley]

53 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Also, speaking of Clayface, it’s kinda weird that he gets a movie this early in the DCU. It’s like Superman! Supergirl! …Clayface…?

That’d be like if the third MCU movie was about Sandman rather than Cap (let’s pretend Sandman never appeared in a movie before for the sake of the comparison)  

Don’t get me wrong, the movie sounds intriguing, especially with Mike Flannigan attached, but it’s a strange choice timing-wise. It can’t imagine it doing too well

From what I understand, the project is as far along as it is because the script was supposedly so fantastic that they couldn't pass it up. Good complete script = next in production, that seems to be the priority over the release order making sense. I think it's also meant to be indicative of what Gunn wants to do with the DCU that will make it different from the MCU, branching into other genres. I think around the slate announcement, Gunn did a video with GQ where he named his 5 favourite comic book movies; 3 were superhero stories (Donner's Superman, Deadpool, and Into the Spider-verse), but the other 2 were films based on comics (Oldboy & A History of Violence). I think part of the DCU's aim is to prove that superhero films aren't a genre, rather that they're a character archetype that can be slotted into various genres (e.g. I would say that The Batman is a noir film that happens to have a superhero as its protagonist) and as such prove that stories about these characters can still be viable going forward, and not stagnate the cinema industry like some claim they are. In that sense, I think making a low-budget horror film in Clayface makes sense in a "hey, if you're not into superheroes, then how about this?"  strategy. I also don't think it's a coincidence that a body horror, Hollywood-based film came out and did well last year in The Substance, prompting DC to strike now, whilst the iron's still hot, so to speak.

To  bring it back to Lego before I go too far with my thesis (thank you and apologies to anyone who decided to read the whole thing ), I don't know if Clayface will be as impacted by the R-rated content ban as Daredevil and Punisher have been. For one,  he's been made a couple of times by Lego before, with his name plastered on the box in both instances, as well as being fairly prominent in the first Lego Batman game and DC supervillains. For two, I don't expect this to be as high-profile a project as seasons of Daredevil or Punisher, and I think the gore factor will be far less real-world than those two. Of course, 0 chance this movie is getting dedicated sets, but I don't think Lego will use it as a reason to avoid the character altogether.

[psqidexslizer]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Hal Jordan, Mad Hatter, Slade Wilson, Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Ra’s Al Ghul, Absolute Jonkler, Guy Gardner, Karen Starr, Steve Rogers, Carol Danvers and H’El are all on the Xavier Files. And the Krakoa flight logs.

Also Alfred, if that one investigator aired his misplaced suspicions.

 

For most of those characters, or at least the ones I’m familiar with, it’s a one time thing and doesn’t define the character the same way it does Mad Hatter. They all have plenty of stories where they’re not predators. Meanwhile, even when he’s not robbing the cradle, Jervis is typically shown brainwashing young adult women into being with him romantically. So even at his best, he still belongs on a registry. And I think that more than anything is why we aren’t likely to see him.

If the modular building line continues for DC and we sets like GCPD, Wayne Tower, Wayne Manor, Iceburg Lounge, or anything Batman related, I could see Mad Hatter, Victor Zsasz, and Professor Pyg being snuck into those the same way Daredevil and Punisher were able to be made by sneaking them into the Daily Bugle.

Edited Monday at 12:08 PM by psqidexslizer

[BrickBob Studpants]

22 minutes ago, G_Brickley said:

From what I understand, the project is as far along as it is because the script was supposedly so fantastic that they couldn't pass it up.

I’m aware why Gunn greenlit the project, but I find it very risky to have an R-rated horror film as the third entry in your cinematic universe  Hopefully the gamble pays off for them!

16 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

For most of those characters, or at least the ones I’m familiar with, it’s a one time thing and doesn’t define the character the same way it does Mad Hatter. They all have plenty of stories where they’re not predators. 

Yeahhhh, I think it speaks volumes that not even the film that revelled in referencing as many silly obscure Batman villains as it could wanted to touch that one

[psqidexslizer]

25 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Yeahhhh, I think it speaks volumes that not even the film that revelled in referencing as many silly obscure Batman villains as it could wanted to touch that one

They put a prostitute in the film over him. 

[CloneCommando99]

23 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

They put a prostitute in the film over him. 

They put villains WB, let alone DC, didn’t even own in the film over him 

[Renny The Spaceman]

4 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Hal Jordan, Mad Hatter, Slade Wilson, Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Ra’s Al Ghul, Absolute Jonkler, Guy Gardner, Karen Starr, Steve Rogers, Carol Danvers and H’El are all on the Xavier Files. And the Krakoa flight logs.

Also Alfred, if that one investigator aired his misplaced suspicions.

 

Hold on, that's way more than we've discussed on here before, what did Guy and Power Girl do? Begining to think we need to pull a Kingdom Come and just nuke the megablocks

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

They put villains WB, let alone DC, didn’t even own in the film over him 

Agent Smith who's from an R rated film got in over him. There's definitely something deeper than with other snubbed villains there

[Robert8]

6 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Also, speaking of Clayface, it’s kinda weird that he gets a movie this early in the DCU. It’s like Superman! Supergirl! …Clayface…?

Is it confirmed to be part of the DCU though?

I thought it was part of The Batman universe 

Also, it could be its own thing like The Sadman, who not everyone knows is a DC show. In this day and age, Clayface might actually benefit of not being easily recognizable as a DC character. As @G_Brickley said, it could be just a horror movie with just the DC logo barely there 

 

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

 

Yeahhhh, I think it speaks volumes that not even the film that revelled in referencing as many silly obscure Batman villains as it could wanted to touch that one

And yet Joker has done far worse to Tim Drake, Jason Todd and Barbara Gordon and there he is in almost every set 

[Darth_Bane13]

8 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Doubt it. Characters appearing in R-rated properties tends to hurt, rather than help, their case. And with Clayface in particular, the only other projects he’s been in recently have been Harley Quinn TAS and Creature Commandos, so it’s not even a case like Joker where, yeah he’s been in mature media, but there’s plenty of other child friendly things.

15 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Unfortunately if anything it hurts his chances, seeing as it's R-rated.

Maybe they'll put him in a set not related to the movie? unlikely though since we don't get many sets anymore.

[psqidexslizer]

2 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Agent Smith who's from an R rated film got in over him. There's definitely something deeper than with other snubbed villains there

The strangest thing is it seems to have infected the Disney theme too. Three CMFs and multiple sets later and we haven’t seen a trace of their Mad Hatter either. Is it just because Lego doesn’t seem him as a priority over other characters, or is there something darker at play here? 

[Robert8]

There is an anti Mad Hatter agenda going on

The elite cant hide it anymore

*puts tin foil hat on* 

Edited Monday at 07:22 PM by Robert8

[CloneCommando99]

Just now, Robert8 said:

There is anti Mad Hatter agenda going on

The elite cant hide it anymore

*puts tin foil hat on* 

But how does this fit in with the Corncob conspiracy?

 

3 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Hold on, that's way more than we've discussed on here before, what did Guy and Power Girl do? Begining to think we need to pull a Kingdom Come and just nuke the megablocks

Guy did some sketchy stuff around Mary Marvel in JLA: Classified. Even without the infamous thought bubble page.

Power Girl groomed Hal Jordan to be her love interest when he had lost his adult memories and basically had the mind of a child.