John Stewart’s random reference settles one of James Gunn’s messiest continuity questions One of the earliest scenes in Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice returns to the big climactic battle from Man of Steel. This time, we see it from Bruce Wayne’s perspective on the street, where collapsing buildings and crashing Kryptonians look less like superhero spectacle and more like mass destruction. It raised an interesting question that James Gunn's DC Universe has yet to answer: What is it like to be a normal person in this superhero world? In episode 6 of HBO’s Lanterns, the show wisely asks what regular people are doing to prepare for this kind of large-scale destruction in a DCU where it seems to happen regularly. A throwaway reference early in the episode quietly confirms one such event — and essentially canonizes another DC movie that was fairly murky before. Ten years after handing Hal Jordan’s Green Lantern ring over to the Guardians, John Stewart has become an architect and founded Stewart Brothers in Midway City. The episode opens with him delivering a presentation to local government representatives that is essentially a series of football-stadium-sized panic rooms large enough to protect the city’s four million residents. "We all saw what happened in Metropolis, right?” he asks. “But our city doesn't have a Superman." Then he wonders aloud what people might do the next time “a giant starfish” starts wreaking havoc. That’s not a throwaway hypothetical. Star
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