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Ivynn posted...

This. Batman is literally using Lex Luthor logic. In a movie with Lex Luthor in it.

This may come as a shock, but we're actually not supposed to be rooting for Batman to win. We as an audience are supposed to know that Bruce is mistaken, because we saw Man of Steel; we know exactly what happened in Metropolis. We know who Clark is as a person.

Bruce doesn't know what we know. BvS opens with Bruce's perspective on the battle in Metropolis. There's no way for people on the ground to really know what was happening. It was pure panic, destruction, and death.

We are meant to understand why Bruce feels the way he feels, because he's really not being irrational based on what he knows as a character in the story-- we're also meant to know that he's wrong. The movie is about his self destructive path toward vengeance and a cold-blooded execution. About succumbing to the burdens and guilt to transform into a cruel person.

Batman using Lex Luthor logic is 100% intended. He lived long enough to see himself become the villain, but in the end he was able to overcome the bitterness and anger to remember why he started out fighting crime in the first place. To keep people alive; to prevent more kids from losing parents, or parents from losing children. (Such as how he lost his own parents, and his own "child" in Robin)

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