The most obvious hint that the new Justice League trailer is the first post-Wonder Woman glimpse at the movie comes from the prevalence of Wonder Woman and related elements onscreen. It’s no accident that a scene featuring Diana (Gal Gadot) opens the trailer (and includes her “sweep the leg” move so heavily featured in the trailers for her own movie), nor that we see Themyscira and the Amazons in action.
The more subtle influence of the success of the Wonder Woman movie may be that this trailer continues the lighter — though no less melodramatic — tone of Justice League, at least in terms of promotion: the movie being teased in this trailer is miles away from the grim self-importance of the promotion for Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and is instead filled with self-referential jokes that (gasp!) even poke fun at beloved tropes from the DC mythos. Who, really, expected the Flash (Ezra Miller) to make fun of Batman’s patented disappearing act when talking to Commissioner Gordon (J.K. Simmons), especially after the Dark Knight’s appropriately pessimistic “not enough”? When did Aquaman (Jason Momoa) get so self-aware that the hair shake as he walks away from pummeling a Parademon through a building feels like a nod to the over-the-top nature of the scene? (That’s actually easy to answer: it was when Momoa was cast, most likely.)
Even the Batman mythos gets to poke fun at itself, thanks to Jeremy Irons’ dry Alfred Pennyworth: “One misses the days when…
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