James Gunn has cast the villain in Superman: Legacy.

It's The Engineer. The second one, Angie Spica.

Because, sure. She COULD be a Superman level villain. If she wanted to.

But I find it hard to believe that someone who discovers cures for common diseases while making breakfast and then does something about it would be a very good villain.

... wha

Angie?

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That's what the article says.

Now. If they went straight with making the Authority in general the villains...sure. In a Superman movie, I could totally get that.

But right now, Angie's the only one cast and...I have questions, Mr. Gunn.

I ...

yeah, the Authority would make more sense

but just Angie?

ANGIE'S THE NICE ONE!

Angie's the one who most bought into Sparks' whole thing about making the world a better place!

wheeze

thank you for this wtf

Hell, I'd say make the first Engineer the villain who has a change of heart at the end and passes on his powers. Except the first Engineer was Native American, so maybe don't do that.

Ah, okay. I just realized that one line says that she's 'part of the WB/DC's film's villain team'. Which I'm guessing is the Authority.

I'm still having a moment, though.

Also. "Angie’s powers stem from nanotechnology built into her body." -- That's certainly a way to describe it.

it's a way

I'm just sitting here like, "My girl didn't distill nine pints of techno-organic nanotech to replace her blood with for you to just go, 'ah, nanotechnology built into her body'."

Also. The more I think about it, the more the Authority as straight up villains bothers me. Like, they're too murderhobo to be what most people consider to be heroes, true. But the people they go after aren't good people, either.

maybe they're "villians" instead of Villians?

This is the first I've heard their movie called a "Villain team"

Especially with the Carrier's recent reintroduction to DC and its statement that the Authority were heroes.

I'm leaning towards the article writer not having a full picture

Still a little convinced DC is trying to do What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and The American Way with the Authority replacing the Elite.

Platinum : This is the Superman movie, not their movie.

purkle archer : Yeah, that could well be it.

I mean, the one thing I could see is that they’re doing this as a starting place, and if it is “what’s so funny”, then at the end of the movie, Chester is in prison, Jenny comes in and goes “now we’re doing it the right way”. Bonus points if they also bring in, later, a version of the Coldcast arc from Justice League Elite.

Hmm. Still not thrilled with the fact that Angie's part of that.