By contrast, DC had no single guiding voice; various executives throughout Warner Bros. managed its superhero films. DC was also stuck without a defining gestalt for its superhero universe after Christopher Nolan concluded his stand-alone Batman trilogy and moved on to nonsuperhero projects. Marvel had established its world, some of its characters, and the tone of its films from its very first entry, Iron Man, but DC still did not have a movie that would serve as the foundation for every project moving forward.
