Those conflicting philosophies come to a head with the notorious realization that their mothers share the name Martha, which snaps Batman out of his rage enough to see he's become the very kind of killer he set out to stop.
Of course, that means Superman doesn't spend the entirety of Batman v Superman being the symbol of hope audiences expect, and Batman has become a rage-fueled engine of destruction convinced the elimination of a perceived threat (Superman) at any cost is justifiable.
Much has been said, and much will be said in the future, about what supposedly went wrong with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, so it's impossible to recount every way it's triggered massive debates over the years and why people are still arguing about it six years later in 2022, but to distill it down to a single, core issue, Zack Snyder decided to tell a story that purposefully broke both Batman and Superman, and nobody can agree on whether or not the story justifies that decision (if they even realize it was a conscious decision), or whether or not that's a story that should even be the basis for the first cinematic meetup between the Caped Crusader and the Man of Tomorrow.įrom Snyder's perspective as an auteur director with a tendency to approach stories from a deconstructionist perspective, massive cultural icons like Batman and Superman are icons for a reason, and in order to show why and how, he told a story that brought the core trait's of each character into conflict to ask "what makes Superman Superman" and "what makes Batman Batman?" In order to answer that question, you have to take the most iconic attributes of each character, Superman's ability to be a symbol of hope against all odds and Batman's devotion to justice against all odds, and ask what it would take to break those attributes, and, if they could be broke, what would it take to put them back together?īatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice answers that question by taking Batman's loss and fear of feeling powerless, a fear traumatically instilled in him as a child with the murder of his parents, and Superman's desire to save everyone, even when society rejects him, and sending them on a collision course.
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