>>89185286It's kind of frustrating there's no plans for Steel. He's an ideal "lower deck" kind of hero. Not the super-rich equipment of Batman, the hyperpowers of the Metas, Supes, and Wondy, or the cybernetic shenanigans of, well, Cyborg. Just a dude, with a suit of armour he built not because he's rich and his AI can do it while he's at a party but himself, and a huge fucking hammer that isn't even magical.
And there's obvious setup. How'd Steel come about in comics? Superman died and he was inspired to carry on the legacy in his own way and ironically the most Superman-like of the four post-death "Supermen" because, not in spite of, being the only one that was human. How could you do it in the DCEU? John Henry Irons lived in Midway or Gotham or Metropolis and was inspired by Supes or the way those cities got trashed to try and do something about it that looked after the little guy. He's not out to save the whole world, just what he can.
With the character you can do lower-stakes, lower-budget, lower need to try and make everything Meaningful and Deep and FUN and whatever the DCEU wants to try and be.
You can build the universe up by showing a little more of the ground level, with a normal ordinary guy taking extraordinary steps, where the stakes aren't that the world will explode but simply that people's lives are at risk. Have him fight guys who are working for or are part of Intergang if you must have it tied to the bigger picture somehow.
But they won't. They don't seem willing to make it have a chance to show the world as anything but seven billion dumbasses in distress while the larger than life superheroes scowl and quip and joke and speechify their way through big budget CGIfest battles for about five minutes before talking for four hours in a gloomyly-lit corridor but it's okay because Barry makes some quips and jokes and Wonder Woman's a girl you guys isn't that great a girl is doing stuff in our movies!!1!
