Yeah the fact that they're doing a Flash movie before Wonder Woman kind of goes to show how little respect Warner Bros. seems to have for the source material. There are three components to the Justice League, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Human Sonic the Hedgehog is an important character to the Justice League, but he doesn't need his own movie.
As to that movie being what could possibly kill off the superhero movie genre, I think it could definitely kill off Warner Bros. interest in making superhero movies that aren't Batman. I think it will be a mixture of oversaturation and something new coming along that will eventually do it, although if Marvel studios and Disney play their cards right I don't think that will happen before 2020.
It will be interesting how they incorporate some of the weirder superheroes like Ant-Man and Dr. Strange, and I would not be surprised if they test those characters in that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D TV series that starts up in the fall. I don't think it's impossible to get the more casual superhero fans into the stranger elements of comics, and from what I've heard the fan reaction to Guardians of the Galaxy was pretty positive and I have a feeling the movie will do alright next year.
What's sad is that if Warner Bros. got their sh*t together earlier, they could have done the exact same thing that Marvel did with Agent Coulson and S.H.I.E.L.D. in Iron Man. While she is a little obscure, Agent Cameron Chase of the Department of Extranormal Operations would have been a great character to help with world building in their three big movies of the last 6 years. I'm still hoping Warner Bros. can pull it together and do justice to to an expanded DC universe, but I'm not holding my breath.
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