Batman V Superman: 13 Biggest Blunders Zack Snyder Makes That Completely Ruin It

11. It Gives Up On Being Man Of Steel Apology Halfway Through

Because Man Of Steel was so divisive, the trailers for its sequel, especially in the early days of the marketing put a lot of effort in showing this was righting wrong; the teaser really leaned into the backlash against the presence of a city-levelling god and the Comic-Con trailer painted the Battle of Metropolis as Batman's key motivations.

This carries over into the movie at first, with Bruce Wayne's daring escapades during General Zod's attack really setting the scene. Or so you'd think - after about ten minutes this element is pretty much dropped; most of the Superman backlash comes from him being blamed for an entirely separate, much less interesting event that an eight year old could point out is clearly not his fault and Bruce's motivations are muddied by further complications. When the two finally come to blows, the previous movie may as well not have happened.

Not leaning on Man Of Steel - a movie that is better than Dawn Of Justice, but not by much - is fair enough; nobody wants to be reminded of past indiscretions while trying to look to the future. But don't start an apology and give up halfway through.

This completely disregard is compounded in the finale, which sees just as much destruction levelled on Gotham as Metropolis in the original, with only cautionary comments about how it's late at night, so the business district is mostly empty for respite.