Memes / Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

• The dozens of "Ben Affleck is Batman?" reactions, most notably the hashtag #BetterBatmanThanBenAffleck, which trended on Twitter for one weekend in August 2013.
• Various jokes about how Eisenberg, not Heisenberg, is Lex Luthor.
• Sad Batman, which takes the first image released of Ben Affleck's Batsuit◊ and parodies his downbeat posture and the Deliberately Monochrome nature of the photograph.
• Batman's chin. From this image◊ at San Diego Comic-Con 2014.
• The tagline "Unite the Seven" in Aquaman's first official picture sprouted several Game of Thrones memes where Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa's most well-known role) rises from the ashes and will conquer the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
• "Tell me, do you bleed? You will!" Sometimes, this gets another answer played for laughs. And it takes another context when applied to Wonder Woman, or Supergirl.
• In the second trailer, Bruce is given a note reminding him about the destruction of his building and death of his people in Metropolis to which he responds by looking up slowly, eyes filled with rage. There have already been edits to the note referencing Affleck's roles in Gone Girl and Daredevil,◊ as well as going even stranger.◊
• "Then they punch for a bit." ^Explanation A recurring description of fight scenes from an animated reenactment by YouTube's Mr Sunday Movies of the script to a cancelled Batman vs. Superman movie from 2002/2003. Sometimes tacked on to the end of Batman's above "Tell me, do you bleed?", as if in expectation of a poorly-choreographed fight immediately afterward.
• Deathstroke is Batman! ^Explanation A bizarre fan theory circulated the internet for some time, suggesting that the Batman in the trailers is actually Deathstroke, and that The Dark Knight Trilogy depiction of Bruce Wayne will reveal himself halfway through the film.
• Is that Abomination?^Explanation The second full-length trailer ends with the reveal of Doomsday as the enemy that Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman team up against. A lot of viewers took note that the first reaction they got upon seeing it was if Abomination had somehow made its way into the DC Universe.
  • "Is that a ninja turtle?" and "Lex Luthor has a cave troll" are popular ones as well for the same reason.
• Snowclones and applications of Bruce's line "If we believe there is even a one percent chance that he is our enemy, we have to take it as an absolute certainty!" became rather popular shortly after the scene was shown in a preview.
• Sad Affleck, in regards to the look on Ben Affleck's face upon hearing about the film's mixed to negative reception during an interview.
• When the trailer for the Ultimate Edition dropped, it featured the quote by Batman "the world only makes sense, when you force it to." Some people noticed that due to his voice-modulator, the line came out sounding like "the world only likes sex, when you force it to."...
• Lex Luthor's imitation of a bell ringing near the end of the film: "DING DING DING".
• Martha. ^Explanation Batman and Superman's mothers sharing the same first name being an important plot point in quickly resolving their battle to the death did not go unnoticed by viewers. There were many◊ pictures making fun of it on the internet, enough such that even the DC Comics department made fun of it. Of course, Marvel fans ran with it, who making jokes about how Captain America: Civil War would end the same way because both Captain America and Iron Man have best friends with "James" as their first names (James "Bucky" Barnes and James "Rhodey" Rhodes), though this became Harsher in Hindsight with Tony finding out Bucky killed his parents and things going to hell as a result. Similarly, fans of the MonsterVerse joked that Godzilla vs. Kong would have one of the two title characters tell the other to "save Mothra".
  • WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?! ^Explanation Usually repeated in response to the above meme. Because of Affleck Chewing the Scenery, it's joined the ranks of the "Where is she?"/"Where's the trigger?" from the Nolan trilogy.
• "The Red Capes are coming."^Explanation It was already a pretty quotable line amongst folk who found the portrayal of Lex Luthor in this movie to be rather... odd, but once the teaser for Doctor Strange (2016) was released, the line shot off like wildfire across the internet due to the fact that Strange also happens to be wearing a red cape. So technically... Luthor was right all along. The red capes are coming.
• "I didn't kill them, the bullets did" has become the standard mockery of Zack Snyder's statement that Batman didn't "really" kill anyone in the film because they all died through indirect means.
• "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck." ^Explanation  Chris Stuckmann (a popular YouTuber) released a rewrite of the Batman/Superman confrontation that he claimed he made in 20 minutes and offered some improvement to the characterization of both. The Internet had a field day with many lines from it, this one being arguably the most popular.
• "X is a better Batman/Superman movie than Batman v Superman." Every Batman or Superman movie ever made has had this said about them. Yes, even Batman & Robin.
• As of 2017, #BatBaleRoast, featuring various memes, that showed and justified why Ben Affleck's Batman is better than that of Christian Bale.
• Batman V. Superman is a misunderstood masterpiece, if 4chan's /tv/ board is to be believed.
• Turkish Airlines, thanks to ralphthemoviemaker's fixation on the airline's product placement in the film.
• "Wake the fuck up. If you don't think [X] kills people, you're living in a dream world." ^explanation Snyder finally addressed the issue of his version of Batman killing people in a 2019 Q&A and essentially ranted about how people who believed in Batman's Thou Shall Not Kill rule don't know the character. This eventually ballooned into a meme about random (often child-friendly) characters being revealed to be murderous Knight Templars and jokingly calling out those who believe otherwise.
• "Put on your 9/11 face!" ^Explanation  During the run-up to Zack Snyder's Justice League, fans discovered a Twitter user who claimed to have been in an extra in this film. Said extra, who said he was part of the crowd during Superman's death scene, repeatedly alleged that Zack Snyder had directed him and other extras to put on their "9/11 face" because they didn't act sad enough in a previous take, and generally showed a hatred for Zack Snyder and fans of the DCEU for this. The fact that this was seemingly the only remotely bad thing that Zack Snyder had ever done on a movie set, combined with the mere concept of a "9/11 face" and the fact that the extra seemed more offended by this than the actual 9/11 attacks, led to much mockery on Twitter from Snyder fans and memes about situations where people would "put on a 9/11 face".

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