Justice League: The Real Story Of The Snyder Cut

2. Cyborg And The Character Balance

In Snyder's cut, we got to see Cyborg's origin story, including the football match sequence that has been widely teased and the inclusion of Victor Stone's mother, Elinore Stone, who would be killed in a car crash caused by her son when the question of his father's presence in his life came up. He would then have been revived with a Mother Box as per the scene in BvS and it would have been him who discovered and revealed the most about the Mother Boxes tot he rest of the League throughout the film. We would also have seen lots more of him discovering and using his powers.

Crucially, Victor would have been key to the importance of the Knightmare scene, which would have come to him as a vision of what would happen if the Unity wasn't stopped. It would also have made the long-rumoured cameo appearance by Darkseid possible. That would have tied into the relevance of that sequence from Dawn Of Justice that just sort of ended up not meaning anything at all to Justice League.

Batman actually had some sequences cut, despite the concern over him being pushed to the bottom of the ladder after the test screenings. His investigation into the Parademons was trimmed and so too was his journey to find Aquaman, which we saw flashes of in the trailers and which was said to be significantly longer. Aquaman's storyline seems to have generally been cut a fair bit, as Willem Dafoe's Vulko was edited out entirely and Mera was demoted to a cameo, with the fight sequence between the couple and Steppenwolf underwater being heavily trimmed too. And there would have been a set-up for Aquaman's solo movie at the end that ended up on the editing room floor.

The events around Superman's resurrection and the explanation for how he didn't become Doomsday (the codex inside him, basically) were also cut and he was elevated as a character, including Whedon's decision to give him dialogue after his resurrection, which Snyder had not planned. There was also a sequence explaining how the Kryptonian ship was deserted enough for the heroes to use the Genesis Chamber. It's not a huge thing, but it's that sort of narrative bridging that was missing.

Lois Lane's scenes were rearranged and trimmed, but she at least made it into the film, which is more than can be said of Kiersey Clemons' Iris West, who The Flash saved in a car crash in a big CGI driven sequence. That scene and Iris were cut in their entirety and there seems to have been a conscious effort to put training wheels back on Barry Allen, as most of his action sequences from the two big battles were cut to make him seem like less of a rounded hero. Whedon obviously saw him more as comic relief and the idea of him punching falling debris out of the way or actively kicking Superman didn't fit with that.

There would also have been more of an agenda to explain Barry's appearance in Dawn Of Justice as he travelled back in time from the point in the timeline where the Unity was completed - the same Knightmare visions that haunt Cyborg.

There were other cuts as well, but there's also an indication of the things in the theatrical cut that Snyder would not have included...

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