{"id":2326,"date":"2009-02-25T17:08:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christandpopculture.com\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2009-02-25T17:08:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:08:32","slug":"i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-hated-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2009\/02\/i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-hated-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"I Knew There Was a Reason I Hated DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Joss Whedon on why DC Comics Characters don\u2019t work as films:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DC\u2019s characters, like Wonder Woman and Superman and Green Lantern, were all very much removed from humanity. Batman was the only character they had who was so rooted in pain, that had that same gift that the Marvel characters had, which was that gift of humanity that we can relate to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\/2009\/02\/25\/joss-whedon-explains-why-dc-comics-movies-wont-work\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cinematical<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joss Whedon on why DC Comics Characters don\u2019t work as films: DC\u2019s characters, like Wonder Woman and Superman and Green Lantern, were all very much removed from humanity. Batman was the only character they had who was so rooted in pain, that had that same gift that the Marvel characters had, which was that gift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I Knew There Was a Reason I Hated DC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joss Whedon on why DC Comics Characters don&#039;t work as films: DC&#039;s characters, like Wonder Woman and Superman and Green Lantern, were all very much removed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2009\/02\/i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-hated-dc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I Knew There Was a Reason I Hated DC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Joss Whedon on why DC Comics Characters don&#039;t work as films: DC&#039;s characters, like Wonder Woman and Superman and Green Lantern, were all very much removed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2009\/02\/i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-hated-dc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Christ and Pop Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-02-25T22:08:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Richard Clark\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Richard Clark\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2009\/02\/i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-hated-dc\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2009\/02\/i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-hated-dc\/\",\"name\":\"I Knew There Was a Reason I Hated DC\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-02-25T22:08:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-02-25T22:08:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/#\/schema\/person\/0bdc31762aa5cf11482f62fa9cff4bec\"},\"description\":\"Joss Whedon on why DC Comics Characters don't work as films: DC's characters, like Wonder Woman and Superman and Green Lantern, were all very much removed\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2009\/02\/i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-hated-dc\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2009\/02\/i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-hated-dc\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2009\/02\/i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-hated-dc\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"I Knew There Was a Reason I Hated DC\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/\",\"name\":\"Christ and Pop Culture\",\"description\":\"Where the Christian faith meets the common knowledge of our age\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/#\/schema\/person\/0bdc31762aa5cf11482f62fa9cff4bec\",\"name\":\"Richard Clark\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e3dd0a7d6dd52cb9d13b58a7fa83e1c1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e3dd0a7d6dd52cb9d13b58a7fa83e1c1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Richard Clark\"},\"description\":\"Richard H. 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