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- Cancellation: In 2022, the Batgirl movie was infamously cancelled during its post-production stages, with CEO David Zaslav feeling it was too expensive for a direct to streaming movie.
- Disowned Adaptation:
- Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman for the DC Animated Universe, is revealed in an interview that he showed discomfort to this franchise's caped crusader killing criminals on-screen.
- Executive Meddling: After the poor to tepid reception of Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, studio executives began offering a lot more network notes, including doing their best to ensure that Henry Cavill would not reprise his role as Superman.
- Follow the Leader: Very clearly DC's attempt to emulate the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The many Alternate Company Equivalents; such as Barry Allen and Peter Parker, Orn and Loki or the Mother Boxes and the Tesseract; make it rather obvious.
- What Could Have Been:
- Syfy's Krypton series was originally meant to be a prequel to Man of Steel before it evolved into its own show, unconnected to the DCEU.
- 2022's The Batman was originally meant to be in the DCEU before Ben Affleck left the role, causing the film to be set in its own continuity.
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