Warning: I will be spoiling things in Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and I will be insulting Man of Steel and Suicide Squad.

I am a comic nerd, and I have been for a very long time. I also love movies, and have watched a lot of them for a very long time. With these two factors, one would think that I would be way super excited that we’re finally getting a Justice League movie, however, I am not.

Movies based on comic books have been a big hit or miss for Hollywood. Starting in 1966 with Batman, superheroes were introduced to mainstream media as goofy men in tights going on misadventures. However, starting with Iron Man in 2008 superheroes have turned into something more enjoyable for all people regardless of their knowledge of the characters or comics.

I’m going to judge the Justice League movie based on what it will be as a movie alone, and not what I know about the comics, because it doesn’t matter if you know the comics, a bad movie is a bad movie.

Marvel Comics movies have been rocking well, being funny and serious and just fun to watch, but DC films have been really the opposite. After the success of Christopher Nolan’s Batman franchise, I am only left to assume that DC thought the only way to make the rest of their movies successful was to make them as edgy as they can possibly be, and with that we got 2013’s Man of Steel where we got edgy Superman.

Superman -- the flying alien who wears his underwear outside of his pants and uses his powers to save cats from trees and Lois Lane -- is not meant to be edgy.

Man of Steel didn’t do that well among viewers and critics, and one would have thought that DC would have learned that maybe edgy just isn’t their thing, and they shouldn’t do that. However, 2016 gave us Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice which was somehow so much worse.

BvS had a confusing plot, a villain with no motive, bland characters, and a whole lot of Christ imagery. Audiences, critics and the internet had a field day making fun of the movie.

“But Penny,” someone might be saying, “We all know Batman V. Superman was bad, I thought we were talking about Justice League?”

Well someone, you’re right. I just figured we should talk about Batman V. Superman because Justice League is its sequel.

And that would be my biggest quarrel with this movie, the thing Marvel has over DC, and why it’s not going to succeed the way it should. The way DC has been making movies has all of them as either prequels or sequels to each other.

I understand that as of now in the universe, Superman is dead, and people watching Justice League should probably know that. However, half of the JL trailer is about Superman, leading me to believe that just as Batman v. Superman was a sequel to Man of Steel, Justice League will be a sequel to Batman v. Superman, and that doesn’t need to be the case.

The thing Marvel really has over DC in terms of storytelling is that all of the movies in Marvel’s cinematic universe exist in the same universe without being direct sequels of each other.

DC has only done this once, and that was Suicide Squad. Suicide Squad is the only DC movie not tied to Superman and that’s the one good thing about the movie. Suicide Squad was a trainwreck, and every Superman movie has been a trainwreck, but they were two completely different trainwrecks and that’s how Justice League should be.

To pull Suicide Squad back into this argument, it tried really really hard to be funny, and it really really wasn’t. Justice League looks like it’s going to try to be funny and give every character some zany one-liners and make them likable, which will be a HORRIBLE clash to the edgy universe we’ve already created to Superman’s saga of movies.

All in all Justice League is going to be a terrible sequel that will attempt to make a dark and edgy film franchise light and funny.