9 Oddly Specific Things Zack Snyder Stole From The Original Superman Movies

2. Lex Making A Kryptonian Monster To Kill Superman

If man can't kill God, then the devil will do it, right? When Lex Luthor finally broke out of the prison of Gene Hackman's integrity in The Quest For Peace, his scheme to kill Superman (no land deal this time - that'd have taken up too much of the budget) is to create an equally powerful being from Kryptonian DNA; based off a strand of Superman's hair, he engineers a situation for it to be thrown into the sun, and Nuclear Man is born. The new Jesse Eisenberg take has a more grounded approach, spending two-and-a-half hours trying to trick Superman into duking it out with Batman. Although when that fails, he comes up with a scheme to make an equally powerful being based on Kryptonian DNA; a mutation of General Zod's corpse into iconic foe Doomsday. Wait, is Batman V Superman ripping off the worst Superman movie? Sure seems like it. At least with Nuclear Man there was no comic legacy being besmirched; he was an original character, because apparently Cannon Films thought there were no more interesting Superman characters left. For Doomsday, Warner have taken a supervillain who was originally an ancient Kryptonian beast and made him into a man-engineered monstrosity. Which is, shall we say, interesting (although at least, on a metatextual level, the notion of him being created to kill Superman has been maintained).