Everybody understands why it is that DC has elected to make Batman vs. Superman. Coming in 2015, the sequel to Man of Steel will put their two heaviest hitters in one movie together, creating a DC Cinematic Universe in an abrupt and definitive way that Marvel wasn’t really able to do since so many of their top-tier characters (Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, etc.) weren’t in the hands of Marvel Studios when they started crafting an interconnected universe.And, yes, it’s a sensible strategy. Warner Bros. hopes to move in the direction of a Justice League movie before the superhero movie bubble bursts–and everyone pretty much acknowledges that while there’s a wealth of material to make great and high-grossing films for years to come, it’s probably not sustainable to have DC and Marvel make three of the top five films at the box office every year. It may not be plausible, especially with Marvel starting to branch out to some lesser-known properties and the (admittedly remote) possibility of some major superhero flops on the horizon, to wait a bunch of years until Warners has had a chance to introduce the League through a series of clever cameos in Superman films or something.Needing results, they’ve put together a team-up film that’s basically guaranteed to make a ton of money and will give them about 75% of everything they need to set up a Justice League film.And, yeah, it’s awesome for fans, who will get to see these two titans of superhero comics on the big screen together for the first time. But what otherDC team-up movies can we, for the sake of this article, pretend were considered and abandoned along the way? What are some of the coolest, most obvious team-up flicks that have basically a zero chance at seeing the inside of your local cinema–but that, if they did, we’d pay to see them at least twice?Read on…
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