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

7. Superman's Reasons For Sacrifice Come Out Of Nowhere

There's may seem to be little point picking apart the comic book accuracy of a film that has Batman using guns, but there is still something fascinating about the moments where Snyder attempts to be faithful to core ideas yet completely misses them. Take the actual death of Superman; like the controversial source book we have Kal-El willingly giving his life when he realises it's the only way to stop a rampaging Doomsday, but he doesn't get that in shifting it from an exhausting showdown where mutual destruction is the only reasonable outcome to a more gallant sacrifice you also alter the meaning. This is nothing to do with the method - spearing Doomsday with a Kryptonite spear is a whatever idea, and the brief moment where Superman pulls himself further in is one of the film's few sparks of intrigue - but the motivation. Superman chooses to end Doomsday because he finally accepts Earth as his home and needs to protect humanity, which is framed as this big moment of realisation, yet has barely been touched upon at all earlier on in the film There's so much that's stupid about the Doomsday fight (a whole new meaning to the term Dumbsday) - the Trinity keep fighting him even after realising he only gets stronger with each attack, Batman leads him back to a populated area, Lois suddenly knows the spear's important - but nothing quite matches this undeserved 'resolution'.