Quote Originally Posted by hungrycrow View Post
Tony Stark was a super smart, super rich playboy in an invincible robot suit. On paper he is completely unrelatable to a general audience, but the MCU still made him work. There's nothing stopping WB from doing the same with the big 3; they just have to care about doing so.
I'd argue Tony Stark is a lot easier to make sympathetic than Bruce Wayne. Tony pretty exclusively fights in his weight class (aliens, metahumans, mad scientists, PMCs etc). Batman meanwhile - as shown in this very trailer - seems incapable of being separated from the street level crime that made him famous. They have a similar ceiling, especially these days with Tony having broken into the A-List, but Batman's much lower floor results in multiple portrayals where he's at least perceived by audiences and thinkpieces to be quite literally punching down.

To put it another way, Tony usually isn't patrolling alleys at night in the Mark V looking for muggers and henchmen so he can break all their arms and legs, nor is he repeatedly throwing the Joker in prison only for him to break out next week and kill more bystanders. Marvel made the very savvy decision of splitting out that specific fantasy into their grittier heroes like Daredevil and Moon Knight and Punisher, people for whom you don't need to contrive various excuses for why clobbering goons makes more sense than effecting social change.