There are a number of Wonder Woman movies but not one movie with Rocket Raccoon as a main character and Guardians of The Galaxy Vol 3 where he actually did play somewhat of a major role to the movie. Note as well I found it on Reddit as a 10-year-old post so Guardians of The Galaxy Vol 3 wasn't out yet and basically yeah the first movie was still new so yeah 2014 is when this meme was made. Is the joke meant to point fun at the fact that people criticize Wonder Woman movies cause the most recent one at this time was in 2011? I honestly just don't get what this joke is trying to convey.
DC talks down their a-list characters while Marvel promotes their c and d list characters.
Well yeah, but thats because the main DC characters.... kinda suck. They were created back at the dawn of superhero stories, so they're not exactly complex or nuanced characters because they didn't need to be! They were the ones that everyone else measured complexity and nuance from! But DC is too scared to do something novel with them (because yeah, dont reimagine cultural icons, that never ends well) or to put their B-list characters (you know, the ones that haven't been stagnating as cultural landmarks for 80 years) as the leading characters in a major feature, because they've got nowhere near the name recognition of the leaguers. It's a damn shame, because they could revive so many of the experimental stories they've done over the years, but instead we get the drywall spackle blockflusters DC is known for these days.
I dunno, Superman (1938) and Batman (1939) are both older than Wonder Woman (1941).
Her big problem is that even though she's been around for 83 years, she doesn't really have any iconic villains or storylines.
I think the best they could do would be to try to adapt Spirit of Truth:
https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/wonder-woman-spirit-of-truth
Yeah, most people don't even know what WW's name is, let alone her villains or classic plots. Though my initial comment was more to the tragedy of DC just sitting and recycling classic storylines because they've safe than a specific comment about WW.
The Marvel's main characters are newer, but they are outdated today too. The difference is that Marvel kept recreating them.
My impression is that Marvel people are just more rebellious and iconoclastic.