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Couldn’t let me get past a week, could you, James?

It was mere days ago that I wrote about the confusing continuity James Gunn has going on in his DC Universe, and somehow it got worse before the week was out. Remember this?

I see a lot of comments like this. Gunn doesn’t have to build towards anything if the individual pieces work on their own. But if they crossover at some point, presumably like in Man Of Tomorrow, cool that’s awesome. I think the MCU reprogrammed people’s expectations.

Gunn’s reply to lotusland comics was:

I couldn’t agree more. DCU is just an alternate universe; we can enter at any location or time and tell THAT story. I dislike the idea that individual stories aren’t meaningful unless they lead to something else. People not understanding this is strange to me, because Star Wars has essentially been doing this for 50 years across movies, shows, games and books, admittedly without the tonal variety. Now, this doesn’t mean there isn’t connectivity.

Really? Where? Sharing an actor, like when Nathan Fillion plays Guy Gardner in both James Gunn’s Superman By James Gunn and Green-Is-Stupid Lanterns? That’s rather lazy connectivity. It’s why some people believe the 90s Marvel cartoon was in a shared universe despite no signs of any other connections during the rare crossover.

So what is canon in the current DC movieverse under James Gunn? It depends on Gunn’s mood at the time. Apparently this includes his take on the Suicide Squad. Full disclosure because I know there are “defenders” who like to pretend this matters to any discussion and not a specific review: I have not watched any of the Suicide Squad movies, live-action or animated. I have not played the Suicide Squad game where I’m supposed to kill childhood heroes and I’m told the gameplay is absolute garbage. I haven’t even read the comics because a series about the US government using supervillains to do morally questionable things so writers can reduce the D-list supervillain population is something I care very little about. That doesn’t make me ignorant. It just means my knowledge is not firsthand and I’m relying on official press material and reviews that I trust to be honest in summaries. If that doesn’t work for you, I understand, but hear me out and point out the parts I’m wrong.

And according to an official podcast, as reported on by both Variety and Geeks & Gamers, James Gunn just made his Suicide Squad movie canon. Choose your poison, kids, because I’ll be referring to both as we go over why this just made his DC universe even more of a disaster than it already was.

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