User blog comment:ADour/Official title for Marvel's The Avengers sequel announced!/@comment-4651179-20130721032030/@comment-3317214-20130724014525

Yeah he does. He's Batman. The fact that this Batman/Superman movie is happening demonstrates that he does.

Exactly. They don't need eachother to have a successful movie. So, clearly, they're not putting them together because they think they need to. They're putting them together because they want to.

In Iron Man 2, there was too much SHIELD and not enough Iron Man, right? However, there was also too much Iron Man and not enough SHIELD to call it an Iron Man/SHIELD movie. So of course they'll detract from eachother if your point of view is that this is Man of Steel 2. Of course there's gonna be way too much Batman for a Superman movie, and way too much Superman for a Batman movie.

Difference here is, that it's a Batman/Superman movie from the get go. It's not just Man of Steel 2. And looking at it as a Batman/Superman movie (which is what it is, and what they're calling it), means that it's a buddy picture. And if it's a buddy picture done well, then the two heroes won't detract from eachother.

Of course The Avengers doesn't pretend to be Iron Man 3, etc. Likewise, the Batman/Superman movie isn't pretending to be Man of Steel 2.