Has David Corenswet's SUPERMAN Already Met BATMAN? James Gunn Teases That May Have Occurred Already In The DCU

The relationship between Batman and Superman varies within the comics. Typically it is considerably adversarial, as seen in Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice, and in different cases, the 2 are practically as shut as brothers.

In keeping with DC Studios co-chair and Superman director James Gunn, the DCU is probably going going to have the Man of Metal and Darkish Knight have a relationship nearer to the latter. Plus, with Superman already having three years of expertise beneath his belt within the movie, there’s an opportunity that the World’s Best have already met.

The subject was particularly raised in an interview between Gunn and ExtraTV, the place the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy director was requested about how Superman would react to assembly Gotham’s protector. Gunn’s reply positively made the interviewer perk up, however there have been no additional particulars shared on the matter.

“Properly to start with, we do not know if he is already seen a person dressed up as a bat,” stated Gunn when requested about their preliminary assembly. He added, “However I feel that he’d most likely see a kindred spirit in that [here’s] one other loopy individual sporting a loopy costume [albeit] with a really totally different intent.“

In the comics, the primary time Batman and Superman seem collectively is in All-Star Comics #7 (1941); nevertheless, canonically they already knew each other as they had been each reserve members of the Justice Society of America.

Comedian historians typically think about their first assembly to have occurred in Superman #76 (1952), the place Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent are coincidentally each passengers on a cruise ship. When a disaster emerges, they each finish of becoming their costumes in shut proximity, revealing to at least one one other their secret identities.

Different retconned variations of their first assembly embody Submit-Disaster on Infinite Earths (1986): Man of Metal #3, the place Superman is a brand new hero, who decides to go to Gotham and confront a way more veteran Batman, who has been depicted within the media as a crazed outlaw vigilante. With Batman having far more expertise, the encounter would not go effectively for Superman.

The New 52 in 2011 additionally retold their first encounter, this time recentering the occasion across the formation of the Justice League as numerous DC heroes investigated the arrival of growth tubes and parademons on Earth. This comedian sequence served as inspiration for Zack Snyder’s Justice League.

Superman introduces viewers to a DC Universe the place metahumans have been round for generations and Clark Kent already has  three years of expertise as Earth’s strongest protector. So how ought to his first assembly with Batman unfold? Share your ideas within the feedback under.