YMMV / DC Animated Movie Universe

• Adorkable: It's not too noticeable, but there are a few instances where Wonder Woman fits this trope. One moment is in Justice League: War, where she shows adorable, child like excitement at trying ice cream for the first time. The second time is the diner scene in Reign of the Supermen, where her attempts to maintain a conversation with Lois end up rather awkward, yet she still shows a certain charm that makes her endearing. She shows this again in Wonder Woman: Bloodlines when meeting Vanessa for the first time, and accidentally mixing up their names, acting a bit flustered afterwards.
• Audience-Alienating Ending: With the final film being relentlessly bleak and ending with a timeline reboot that renders the entire series meaningless, fans have found it difficult to commit to the series or recommend it to others.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: The series initially drew a lot of flak for taking major liberties with the characters' personalities and having a darker tone. While later films eventually improved on the characterizations and writing, they could never shake off the first impression, and had less expressive sales when compared to previous DC animated movies as a result. The franchise eventually ended in 2020, with DC Animation wanting to refocus on other stories.
• Base-Breaking Character: Damian Wayne. While initially hated by the majority of viewers, he won over some fans after his character development into a humbler and more cooperative young hero. On the flip side, he still has detractors who feel that he's annoying and gets too much preferential treatment from the writers, with his victories over the likes of Deathstroke, Nightwing, Talon and Superman being a notorious source of derision.
• Broken Base:
  • The movies released between 2014 and 2017 focused on Batman and his supporting cast at the expense of everyone else. Fans either don't care or think Batman stole all the spotlight again.
  • The decision to end the franchise with Apokolips War. Many fans feel that the universe and characters still had potential for interesting stories. However, those who disliked the idea of this shared universe feel that ending the series was a breath of fresh air and are glad that Warner Animation decided to start a new one.
  • The Damian/Raven pairing divides fans, with some thinking that it makes sense considering their background and personalities while those who dislike it complain that the relationship was very lacklustre as well as being annoyed that Raven wasn’t paired with someone she has more history with in the comics and other adaptations like Beast Boy. Fans of Raven and Damian in the comics are also divided, with some feeling that it works for this specific universe while others find it uncomfortable since in the comics there's a much bigger age gap between the two.
• Can't Un-Hear It: This series provide one of these in the form of C. Thomas Howell as Eobard Thawne. Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay helped to cement this for Christian Slater as Deadshot as well.
• Complete Monster: Professor Zoom, Darkseid, Deathstroke, Black Manta, Talia al Ghul, Destiny, Nergal and Medusa. See here.
• Epileptic Trees: Many believe that the events of Apokolips War caused the DCAMU timeline to be rebooted into the Tomorrowverse. The justification for this is that Superman: Man of Tomorrow was the first film released after the conclusion of the DCAMU and some comments from screenwriter Ernie Altbacker that Apokolips War wasn't the actual end and fans would be getting something new.
• Fandom Rivalry: Since the DCAMU was a Broken Base, some have enjoyed the Tomorrowverse and consider it better than the DCAMU. However, many DCAMU fans complain that their shared universe was cut short and feel that it had more good qualities than Tomorrowverse fans give it credit.
• Fan Nickname: "DC Animated New 52" and — much to the chagrin of James Tucker, which he expressed both on his Twitter account and the commentary for Apokolips War — "the Tuckerverse".
• Friendly Fandoms: Since Apokolips War came out it has been compared with Zack Snyder's original plan for the DC Extended Universe, with his fans considering the film to be the closest thing they will get to that plan.
• Growing the Beard:
  • Beginning with Batman: Bad Blood, audience reception towards the films in this universe has been warmer, thanks to a wider emphasis on ensemble casts and moving away from focusing only on Damian.
  • Later movies moved away from the Batman focus to deliver better stories in general with a grander scale. The Death of Superman in particular is considered a hallmark of the universe for adapting one of the most iconic stories in all of comics.
• Jerkass Woobie: Damian Wayne/Robin is a violent, ill-tempered Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, with a very screwed up methods of dealing a situation (whether is fighting his enemies, or just helping people to evacuate). However, he was conceived when Taila drugged Batman to have a League Of Assassins’s heir, and since his birth he was put into a Training from Hell, becoming a bloodthirsty Tykebomb in the process. It’s shown throughout this universe, that while he was under Batman’s wing, Damian is torn apart by an interior conflict between his father’s “No Killing Rule” and his grandfather’s brutality, and it’s made perfectly clear that all he ever wants is to make his father proud of him and become a hero.
• Memetic Loser: Dick Grayson/Nightwing. He's a skilled fighter in his own right and was trained by Batman himself. However, his tendency to lose several fights, whether it's at the hands of Damian Wayne, Talon, a brainwashed Batman, Deathstroke, or Scarecrow, led both to complaints that he does not get the respect he deserves and to jokes that Dick's destiny is to be the whipping boy of the DC animated movies. It also doesn't help his case when in the Grand Finale he is killed by Darkseid's forces and then revived by the Lazarus Pit, only to be driven mad from its effects.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Damian Wayne was originally detested for being an unlikable jerk and receiving too much Character Shilling. However, his attitude significantly improved starting with Justice League vs. Teen Titans, in which he endured some Break the Haughty while also becoming more of a team-player. He also became less of a Spotlight-Stealing Squad, with The Judas Contract giving him the least screen time out of all main Titans.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Fans who thought the original Wally West had gotten some love in The Judas Contract with Kid Flash's cameo were disappointed years later when producer James Tucker revealed the Kid Flash in the movie is actually a young Barry Allen. Given the treatment of Wally under Dan DiDio, fans naturally didn't take too kindly to this change.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Wallace West shows up once in the Grand Finale for two scenes and one of the scenes see him as a corpse.
  • Donna Troy appears as Wonder Girl at the end of The Judas Contract, with a line from Beast Boy hinting at her potential... only for her to show up in a single shot of Apokolips War and not even appear among the dead at Titans Tower.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: With the franchise officially ending in 2020, many interesting sub-plots are dropped without ever getting the chance to be properly developed. Some examples are Starfire vowing to return to her home planet and dethrone her sister, Deadshot trying to rebuild his life as a free man, and Cale swearing revenge on Wonder Woman.
• Win Back the Crowd: While Flashpoint Paradox was loved by most fans, subsequent films were considered below par compared to the DC Animated Universe, due to focusing way too much on Damian Wayne, and not really feeling like a proper universe but just "Batman and others". The creators improved their craft and storytelling later on, with characters other than Damian and Batman receiving some much needed development, and Teen Titans: The Judas Contract being the first animated movie in five years not to feature the latter. Both the Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen were seen as a step in the right direction due to having the spirit and tone of the Post-Crisis era and being relatively loyal to the source material, not to mention giving focus to Superman, Lois Lane and Lex Luthor, whom had been critically underutilized prior. Unfortunately, this didn't prevent the franchise from being cancelled, leaving some disappointed that the series ended when it finally began to develop a stronger following.

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