Batman V Superman: 10 Completely CGI Moments You Didn’t Notice

10. The Destruction Of Metropolis

One of the film's many openings and the centrepiece of several trailers featured Ben Affleck's Bruce Wayne traversing Metropolis during the destructive third act of Man Of Steel. First he drove a nice big jeep as chunks of building tumbled around him, and then he continued on foot, running towards some endangered citizens as a hefty cloud of smoke rushed up the road to meet him.

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The VFX reel shows us that precisely none of the environmental destruction around Bruce was engineered practically during shooting. There are no chunks of building falling loose and no debris of any kind in the vicinity, and even the cloud of smoke - which looked both real and pretty cool in the finished film, especially when Bruce braced himself to enter it - didn't actually exist on set.

Impressively, the entire scene was basically just Ben Affleck reacting to nothing.

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