10 Reasons Why Batman V Superman Can’t Top The Dark Knight Trilogy

There are a lot of problems with Zack Snyder's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. A lot a lot. That doesn't mean it's completely without its merits, however: Ben Affleck's new Batman - the Batfleck, if you will - is a far cry from Christian Bale's wounded street fighter, and while this version of the character might hardly be faithful to the comics, the Batfleck is still one of the few aces that Batman V Superman has up its sleeve.

Brogan Morris

Published: Apr 4, 2016 02:34 pm

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8) Villains

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Snyder may have gotten his Batman right (though even that is up for debate; purists would argue Snyder’s Batman isn’t really right at all), but he certainly bungled the villains in BvS.

Superman is dull and inconsistent (he’s a pacifist that openly admits to thinking people deserve to be hurt), Lex Luthor is irritating and one-dimensionally evil, while the less said about Doomsday is the better.

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Compare these to the iconic figures Nolan presented us with in his Dark Knight trilogy. Cillian Murphy’s alternately smarmy and deranged Scarecrow; Tom Hardy’s rasping, brutish fundamentalist Bane; and, of course, Heath Ledger’s nightmarish Joker.

These are terrifying, immensely entertaining and superbly-developed villains, the kind of bad guys that could have injected some sorely-missed threat into BvS.

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Brogan Morris