![]() Lois Lane goes on assignment to talk to some terrorists in “Nairomi, Africa,” where she quickly gets taken hostage. In fact, let’s go way back to the movie’s first few minutes. But let’s take a step back and look at the scheming that leads us to that oh-so-pointless gladiator match between Batsy and Supes. So why would he go to such weird extremes to dispatch Superman, someone he’s never met? Did he really think this Doomsday thing through?Ībraham: Those Millennials, never thinking in the long term. Kyle: I don’t know, because I think that whole giant-monster thing is a pretty bad backup plan! Why would Lex create Doomsday, a rampaging, unkillable creature that will likely destroy his entire city and will definitely get him thrown in prison? Lex isn’t motivated by traditional bad-guy goals of desiring money or power - he’s got both already, and is likely to lose his fortune and reputation when this monster gets loose and is easily traced back to him. But that still doesn’t explain why he needs Batman to die, too! Given that Lex has the backup plan of defeating Superman with a giant monster built from Kryptonian DNA, why not just start with that? Batman - a powerless human - doesn’t need to be involved at all! Am I missing something? Abe, if I asked you to tell me why he wanted that superfight - what Lex hoped to achieve by engineering it - what would the answer be?Ībraham: He wants to prevent Superman from becoming some kind of worldwide dictator? I think? There’s a little bit of villainish soliloquizing that Lex does in the movie’s first act, where he talks about how he never wants to salute a tyrannical government like his East German dad did, and that gives him a slim reason to want to take down Superman. But in this cinematic universe, Lex Luthor has no history with either Batman or Superman before formulating this plan, and his goals are unclear. It would be one thing if Lex was forcing this Batman/Superman match-up because he had beef with both heroes, or if he wanted their battle to serve as a distraction for a whole other scheme he’d been spinning. ![]() ![]() Kyle: Let’s start with the part of the plan that’s teased in the title: Lex Luthor wants to pit Batman and Superman against each other. Explaining Batman’s Odd Dream in Batman v Superman ![]()
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