10 Things About The DC Movie Universe That Make No Sense

No wonder Joss Whedon axed him from Justice League. Lex Luthor's evil scheme in Batman v Superman makes Dr Evil's world domination plans look credible.

First of all, the film does a horrible job of explaining why he wants Batman and Superman to exchange blows, seen as he has no prior history with either of them in the shared universe timeline.

DC lore gives him plenty of motivation to want them both dead, so having him pit the pair against one another unprovoked is almost excusable, but the way he goes about it is a convoluted mess of courthouse bombings, threats scrawled on returned checks and outlandish attempts to frame Superman.

The reason he wants to set up the gladiatorial showdown is murky at best, but his plans become downright nonsensical when he generically engineers Doomsday from Kryptonian DNA to finish off the heroes. Unleashing a rampaging monster on the city was never going to end well for anyone. The entire scheme would have been traced back to Luthor, and that's if he even survived the creature's wrath.

In a half-baked attempt to explain why the villain felt this was a good idea, Lex offers a vague statement about wanting to bask in the “chaos” of some god-versus-god action, but this is not a plan you'd associate with the calculating and dignified evil genius that is Luthor - it's a move straight out of The Joker's playbook.