10 Reasons Batman V Superman's Ending Is The Stupidest Part Of The Film

9. It Repeats Itself Too

Superman Returns isn't the only time DC has flirted with actually delivered on its threat of killing Superman either; they also did it Batman V Superman. Fifteen minutes before his slightly more permanent death, Superman and Doomsday are hit by an atomic bomb and the former is shrivelled up, leading to everyone on the ground assuming he's gone (even though we have nothing to suggest he won't be just able to brush it off). So Superman's dead and Batman's leading the rampaging monster back to the city - between injury and stupidity it looks like the fight is lost. But nope, as even someone who hasn't read The Dark Knight Returns could have predicted, along comes Mr Sun to resurrect Supes. This sequence was already a bit off because in placing it after the Batman fight it loses its purpose, but when juxtaposed with The Death Of Superman it becomes a Marvel-esque fake-out - DC are likewise making death seem like a weak concept. Snyder has said it was included to show Superman's mortality, although that only serves to show his total incompetence as a storyteller; considering we also had a terribly constructed sequence earlier on where Superman allegedly disappeared (despite not being off screen for more than five minutes), only to come back faux-triumphantly, that makes this the third time in a single movie Kal-El has been unconvincingly removed from the equation.