25 WTF Moments In Batman V Superman

13. The Senate Bomb

Talk about your unexpected shockers (particularly since this might well have been the only key narrative moment kept out of the bloody trailers). The whole Scoot McNairy conditioned terrorist thread was an intriguing one (though it deserved to be its own film really, and the trimming meant it didn't have nearly enough development) and when his wheelchair exploded it provided a genuine WTF reaction. Killing off such a big plot thread so symbolically in order to make Luthor seem more evil was a pretty big statement (not that any of it was necessary, really), but it also destroyed the interesting Trial Of Superman story (again, should have been a film in itself) and needlessly killed off supporting characters. Poor Mercy Graves bit the dust before she even got a chance to say more than a couple of lines, and weirdly, there was no attempt to really talk about the fall-out. Superman wasn't implicated - either as the killer or as the trigger - and it just felt like another shark jumping moment for effect.
 
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