Actually, an absolutely horrible live action Justice League TV movie was produced in the 90's. The producers decided not to include Superman or Batman, because the heroes kids REALLY want to see are Ice Maiden and The Atom.

In 2007 there was also an aborted movie that Warner Bros. sank millions into before the whole project collapsed. It pretty much was greenlit solely to beat Avengers to the big screen.

Xeno: You can find clips of the JLA show on YouTube. It's a TV show, which to my mind doesn't count. It starred David Ogden Stiers (MASH's Charles Emmerson Winchester III) as the Martian Manhunter. Thank goodness they gave him a huge, enveloping cape or his green-painted gut-n-moobs would have scared off the kids.

They also gave Green Lantern an earring (which was controversial at the time. Dunno if they meant to make him gay) and his powers were rarely shown, probably because they were among the most expensive to produce. As for the JLA movie, I bet the biggest problem they would have had is clawing back the movie licensing rights they'd farmed out to other studios (which is why we won't see the X-Men, Fantastic Four or Spider-Man showing up in the mainstream Marvel movies any time soon).

Just to show some more beard length, DC/WB has made some really oddball decisions about their superhero properties. If you watched the Justice League cartoon, towards the latter half of the series, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman kind of retreated from view in the show, letting a lot of second-stringers take over as main characters. I was told that this is because the suits had a wacky idea that if "the big three" were on TV, people would be less likely to go see their (at the time) planned movies in the theater. I can't tell if that kind of thinking is from too much cocaine in the boardroom or too little, but there you go.

I can tell your beard is long and luxuriantly thick, might I run my fingers through it?


I have seen the JSA special, and back in the days when you wanted to see stuff like that you had to find or know someone with a copy recorded on solid, tactile physical media - it's painfully 1970s.

Ultron is a giant sybian

I've not actually watched any of these spoofs, but from the stills I've seen on places like ToplessRobot.com, I have to say I'm impressed. Someone is spending a ton of money or a ton of effort when doing spoofs of comics, TV shows, and movies to make the sets look nearly identical to their parodied counterparts and even hiring actors that look like whoever they're supposed to be.

I guess the days of just hiring some decent-looking sexpots you can pay in narcotics are gone.

I actually watched the full Sex Files episode.

The sex scenes turned out to be the most boring part and they were eventually skipped.