When it comes to the comic book movies that have been released by DC/Warner Brothers, they’ve mostly taken themselves quite seriously (apart from, perhaps, the likes of Joel Schumacher Batman movies).
Marvel Studios have taken more of a risk with the likes of Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man, but no major comic book movie to date has been quite as wacky or zany as we expect Fox’s Deadpool to be in 2016.
Deadpool – AKA Wade Wilson – takes nothing seriously and does things like talk to the audience (effectively “breaking the Fourth Wall“) and, assuming his movie (starring Ryan Reynolds in the role he was born to play) is a success, it will break new ground that other comic book companies will have to try hard to replicate or surpass.
Should DC follow suit with the craziness, therefore? Perhaps, but which characters should they use?
We have a few ideas and, on that note (and without getting too stupid – so don’t expect to see Arm-Fall-Off-Boy), here are five zany characters DC should consider giving movies to in order to rival Fox’s Deadpool movie in the crazy stakes.
Ambush Bug
Ambush Bug AKA Irwin Schwab first appeared on panel in DC Comics Presents #52 (December 1982).
He’s mentally unstable and, as a result, perceives the reality around him differently to others – and this has inadvertently given him the ability to know that he’s in a comic and that his life is a series of stories (he talks to the audience, just like Deadpool does).
Although his origins are uncertain (he is too crazy to truly know them), it is believed that Brum-El from the planet Schwab sent his clothes into space when his planet was supposedly dying in the hope that they would survive. They were intercepted by a giant radioactive spider and ended up crash-landing on Earth.
It turned out those clothes included a teleportation suit, which Irwin donned. He became the Ambush Bug and has been both a hero and villain – and his arch-enemy is a living sock called Argh! Yle! He has, however, encountered the likes of Superman, the Doom Patrol and the Legion of Superheroes.
