Batman in John Byrne’s Man of Steel mini-series

[The Dark Knight]

"The bat is dead. Bury it."

Good luck with that. He's being doing this for 30 years and he's not going to stop just because some new kid on the block, powers be damned, tells him to. So that plays for me. Superman therefore represents another obstacle to his career. Bottom line, don't tell Batman what to do. It doesn't work well for anyone.

That, and Batman had tunnel vision when it came to Superman for two years now. You could tell that Bruce's state of mind was unhealthy when not even Alfred can convince him. Which makes the conclusion at the end of the Batman-Superman fight more crucial, where the "powerful" alien Batman had feared all along had some "humanity" after all.

The media talk about fake news, but they are the biggest promoters of it. The media establish a narrative and stick to it. News and opinion blurred into a biased agenda and Superman was a victim of that. He helps rescue people outside the Congress building, but shortly after, the media wonder if he was behind the bombing. Bottom line, the media didn't like the guy and didn't want to give him a chance. You can't win with these guys. It's non stop smear, so you just have to punch through it. Bruce would've subconsciously been brainwashed by this coverage too. As Denzel Washington said recently - if you don't read a newspaper you are not informed. If you do read a newspaper you are misinformed.

[The Laughing Fish]

The media talk about fake news, but they are the biggest promoters of it. The media establish a narrative and stick to it. News and opinion blurred into a biased agenda and Superman was a victim of that. He helps rescue people outside the Congress building, but shortly after, the media wonder if he was behind the bombing. Bottom line, the media didn't like the guy and didn't want to give him a chance. You can't win with these guys. It's non stop smear, so you just have to punch through it. Bruce would've subconsciously been brainwashed by this coverage too. As Denzel Washington said recently - if you don't read a newspaper you are not informed. If you do read a newspaper you are misinformed.

Hmmmm. Maybe BvS's critique of media bias was another reason why critics dismissed this movie. The truth hit too close to home for them, eh?