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A_Good_Boy posted...

Sure he might have planned for it, but his win condition was faking his own death because he knew despite Superman being weakened by a nuke, holding back as much as possible, and poisoned by kryptonite that the only way he was walking away was by essentially forfeiting.

That's not a win, that's minimilizing losses. Sure you can say that his plan went off successfully but that's quite a different thing from saying he won that fight. Winners don't need to dig themselves out of their own graves while the loser "grieves" his dead body and voluntarily chooses to walk away.

No he didnr wanna kill him. He coulda killed him. Wanted to prove he could but poking the bear and being like "haha totally coulda killed you." Isn't a good plan.

The fake death is really more so he could operate from the shadows while everyone thought he was dead. Superman smiling at hearing his heartbeat shows this. If superman cared enough he woulda ripped his ass out of the ground. And batman knew superman could hear that good. But batman knew superman didnt care that much he was just doing as told. With his fake death superman was off the hook on eliminating him and bats could keep doing what he does just more secretively

So yeah all it was was a big spectacle so both got what they wanted. Batmans ego just wouldn't allow him to lose. If he was gonna go down it was gonna be by his choosing on how.

Batman vs superman is a different story. Batman got lucky. Superman already killed once and the two wherent friends yet. Batman took a gamble and got lucky.