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** For someone who is supposed to be a \\\"world\\\'s greatest detective\\\", Batman sure has a funny way of showing it. After witnessing the events of the Metropolis invasion, he spends 18 months doing very little detective work. He simply \\\'\\\'brands\\\'\\\' criminals so that they can be murdered in prison rather than killing them himself and looks for a \\\"White portugese\\\"... only for it to turn out to be [[TheUnreveal a boat]]. Worse, he steals some information from a party and stores it on a hard drive, only to be DistractedByTheSexy, allowing Diana Prince to steal it, and his car. He also somehow never considers to using the Internet to say dig up old news stories to find out about the \\\"The White Portugese\\\" once the criminals prove to not know anything about it. He also steals a load of Kryptonite and waste it on a couple of gas grenades and a spear instead of trying to synthesize more and us it to make more sensible Kryptonite bullets to load into the machine guns he used at the start of the fight. The film also shows his hatred of Superman stems from the One of the buildings \\\'\\\'Zod\\\'\\\' destroyed in \\\'\\\'Man Of Steel\\\'\\\' was owned by him.
** Superman isn\\\'t exactly rocking Super-Brain Cells either. In the wake of Zod\\\'s rampage in Metropolis, an unusually cagey and stoic Superman faces controversy at every turn as a thousand different reporters and newscasters debate and dissect his every action and his very existence, and Superman is clearly cracking under the scrutiny without a way to fix it. I mean, it\\\'s not like he can get his side of the story out there; that would require someone in a high-ranking position in the press (like, say, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter), who was also sympathetic to his plight and who could be trusted to adequately share his perspective (like maybe a close friend, or girlfriend), who \\\'\\\'also\\\'\\\' has a vested interest in improving his situation. Even if Lois wasn\\\'t available he could go onto Creator/JimmyKimmel or Series/TheDailyShow to provide his side of the story as no network would turn him down as everyone and their pet beagle would want watch an interview with Superman. However, Superman doesn\\\'t even \\\'\\\'attempt\\\'\\\' this until his meeting at Capital Hill which [[IncrediblyLamePun blows up in his face]], and then he just ... Stops trying. That\\\'s not even getting into the fact that it\\\'s implied he didn\\\'t even \\\'\\\'help rebuild Metropolis or try to search for survivors that are trapped\\\'\\\' after he and Zod thoroughly wrecked it, and he just left the Kryptonian ship - that, by all rights, belongs to \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\' - in the middle of an American city for the U.S. Government to do God-knows-what with the advanced alien technology inside when said technology nearly rendered the human race extinct in the last film instead of just throw it into the sun. Superman is also apparently able to detect in half a second when Lois Lane is in trouble, but apparently not able to detect the bomb Luthor to blow up the Capitol (the extended adds a HandWave but said HandWave opens up even more issues as mention under VoodooShark). When he finds out that Lex is using his mother to pit him against Batman, he could easily have flown there and said \\\"Bruce, Lex is playing both of us and has my mother hostage.\\\". But nope, he attempts small talk, letting the titular fight happen. Superman also literally walks straight into Batman\\\'s trap when he has XRayVision on his side to these kind of things. He also needs Batman to save his mother when he has super-human sense that as mentioned above can allow to detect Lois is in danger on Continent half-way around the world and Martha Kent in a city a day-trip away from Metropolis. Not that Lois is the most brainy either, even if she\\\'s one of the smarter characters. During the final battle, she suddenly remembers Batman had a Kryptonite spear, and attempts to go fetch it to hand to Superman to kill Doomsday, only to nearly drown after half the building gets blown up and traps her underwater.
** The plot is kicked off when Lois Lane goes on an assignment in Nairobi, Africa, to interview a warlord. Jimmy Olsen decides to bring a camera along with a tracking device, thinking his troops won\\\'t be suspicious at the camera alone. This, naturally, gets him killed and Lois held hostage, because it\\\'s basically the first thing the troops notice. The extended cut takes this a step further: then for some reason, a US military operation coincidentally had planned to take the base out with drones. Superman swoops in and stops the missile fired off by the drone, thus making everyone think he murdered a bunch of terrorists, and not once stopping to ask why someone who has heat vision and a sonar in his head would need guns. To be fair, the extended version \\\'\\\'does\\\'\\\' fix this by revealing that this was an elaborate smear campaign set up by Russian mobsters on site forcing a woman who was also there to lie on their behalf, in an attempt to spread fear. They also use a flamethrower to make it seem like Superman used his heat vision but it does less damage to the body than his heat vision would (recall back in \\\'\\\'Film/ManOfSteel\\\'\\\' Zod was bring down a building with his heat vision) or that the burning bodies will still have bullet holes, gunpowder residue and bullets that all be found with an autopsy.
** And can we talk about how intellectually bankrupt the government is? Rather than attempt to clean up the mess, they simply leave the Kryptonian ship where it crashed in the middle of the city as a research facility. Totally not like a madman can get access to it and use the research material for the wrong purposes. They end up letting that happen, by letting Lex Luthor, a seemingly unhinged millennial millionaire, (see his first scene in the film) have access to the site. Not once does it seem to occur to them that he can get access to Zod\\\'s DNA from his corpse, and create an abomination that can absorb radiation like it\\\'s fucking catnip or inadvertently do something that would lead to another problem Superman would to clean up.
After letting a clearly unhinged billionaire access alien technology for, unsurprisingly, illegitimate means and creates an indestructible monster that demolishes a few buildings in a heavily populated American city (that were, [[ContrivedCoincidence luckily]] vacant), Superman takes the initiative and tries to launch it into space. How does the government react to this? A) Do nothing, and let Superman take care of the situation. B) Fire a \\\'\\\'nuclear missile at both of them\\\'\\\'. Not only is this completely unnecessary, it is just plain lethal-stupidity. Best-case scenario, Superman and the monster both die. What are we left with? An EMP that will wipeout \\\'\\\'all electrical systems on the eastern seaboard\\\'\\\'; that means no electrical grid, no independent electrical systems like batteries (goodbye cars, cellphones, \\\'\\\'hospitals\\\'\\\', etc.), no police, and no fire department. It will also knockout any satellite systems orbiting the Earth, so no more telecommunication, and let’s not even think about the \\\'\\\'radiation\\\'\\\'. [[ContrivedCoincidence Luckily]], none of this happens, and the explosion just sends Doomsday hurdling back to Earth. With the film’s strict adherence to realism, it’s amazing that the government wasn’t responsible for the deaths of literally \\\'\\\'millions\\\'\\\' of it\\\'s own citizens. Keep in mind Doomsday would have destroy maybe one city at the time when the EMP alone would effectively destroy the entire eastern seaboard.
** Lex Luthor is apparently smart enough to be able to know who Batman and Superman\\\'s real identities are, yet not to be able to cover his tracks or work in the shadows, like a real villain would. In he does quite the opposite by giving the mercenaries who he sends to kill the villagers experimental bullets made by [=LexCorp=] \\\'\\\'for a government contract\\\'\\\' meaning it can easily be traced back to him. He pitches an idea to a US senator to privatize Kryptonite and use it as a deterrent in the event of another alien invasion. The senator rightfully declines his proposition, being the only person who is able to see that it can be weaponized. Rather than attempt to use his powers of persuasion to get another senator or other politician to allow to privatize it, he uses a handicapped man\\\'s wheelchair to sneak explosives into a Congressional hearing (and scares said senator with a jar of his pee) and create a giant, near indestructible monster.
I think this is a better written example for the film and while things like Jimmy Olsen bringing a tracking device and Lex trying to privatize Kryptonite are not examples of the characters being stupid, They are still there to add context.
** Superman isn\\\'t exactly rocking Super-Brain Cells either. In the wake of Zod\\\'s rampage in Metropolis, an unusually cagey and stoic Superman faces controversy at every turn as a thousand different reporters and newscasters debate and dissect his every action and his very existence, and Superman is clearly cracking under the scrutiny without a way to fix it. I mean, it\\\'s not like he can get his side of the story out there; that would require someone in a high-ranking position in the press (like, say, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter), who was also sympathetic to his plight and who could be trusted to adequately share his perspective (like maybe a close friend, or girlfriend), who \\\'\\\'also\\\'\\\' has a vested interest in improving his situation. Even if Lois wasn\\\'t available he could go onto Creator/JimmyKimmel or Series/TheDailyShow to provide his side of the story as no network would turn him down as everyone and their pet beagle would want watch an interview with Superman. However, Superman doesn\\\'t even \\\'\\\'attempt\\\'\\\' this until his meeting at Capital Hill which [[IncrediblyLamePun blows up in his face]], and then he just ... Stops trying. That\\\'s not even getting into the fact that it\\\'s implied he didn\\\'t even \\\'\\\'help rebuild Metropolis or try to search for survivors that are trapped\\\'\\\' after he and Zod thoroughly wrecked it, and he just left the Kryptonian ship - that, by all rights, belongs to \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\' - in the middle of an American city for the U.S. Government to do God-knows-what with the advanced alien technology inside when said technology nearly rendered the human race extinct in the last film instead of just throw it into the sun. Superman is also apparently able to detect in half a second when Lois Lane is in trouble, but apparently not able to detect the bomb Luthor to blow up the Capitol (the extended adds a HandWave but said HandWave opens up even more issues as mention under VoodooShark). When he finds out that Lex is using his mother to pit him against Batman, he could easily have flown there and said \\\"Bruce, Lex is playing both of us and has my mother hostage.\\\". But nope, he attempts small talk, letting the titular fight happen. Superman also literally walks straight into Batman\\\'s trap when he has XRayVision on his side to these kind of things. He also needs Batman to save his mother when he has super-human sense that as mentioned above can allow to detect Lois is in danger on Continent half-way around the world and Martha Kent in a city a day-trip away from Metropolis. Not that Lois is the most brainy either, even if she\\\'s one of the smarter characters. During the final battle, she suddenly remembers Batman had a Kryptonite spear, and attempts to go fetch it to hand to Superman to kill Doomsday, only to nearly drown after half the building gets blown up and traps her underwater.
** The plot is kicked off when Lois Lane goes on an assignment in Nairobi, Africa, to interview a warlord. Jimmy Olsen decides to bring a camera along with a tracking device, thinking his troops won\\\'t be suspicious at the camera alone. This, naturally, gets him killed and Lois held hostage, because it\\\'s basically the first thing the troops notice. The extended cut takes this a step further: then for some reason, a US military operation coincidentally had planned to take the base out with drones. Superman swoops in and stops the missile fired off by the drone, thus making everyone think he murdered a bunch of terrorists, and not once stopping to ask why someone who has heat vision and a sonar in his head would need guns. To be fair, the extended version \\\'\\\'does\\\'\\\' fix this by revealing that this was an elaborate smear campaign set up by Russian mobsters on site forcing a woman who was also there to lie on their behalf, in an attempt to spread fear. They also use a flamethrower to make it seem like Superman used his heat vision but it does less damage to the body than his heat vision would (recall back in \\\'\\\'Film/ManOfSteel\\\'\\\' Zod was bring down a building with his heat vision) or that the burning bodies will still have bullet holes, gunpowder residue and bullets that all be found with an autopsy.
** And can we talk about how intellectually bankrupt the government is? Rather than attempt to clean up the mess, they simply leave the Kryptonian ship where it crashed in the middle of the city as a research facility. Totally not like a madman can get access to it and use the research material for the wrong purposes. They end up letting that happen, by letting Lex Luthor, a seemingly unhinged millennial millionaire, (see his first scene in the film) have access to the site. Not once does it seem to occur to them that he can get access to Zod\\\'s DNA from his corpse, and create an abomination that can absorb radiation like it\\\'s fucking catnip or inadvertently do something that would lead to another problem Superman would to clean up.
After letting a clearly unhinged billionaire access alien technology for, unsurprisingly, illegitimate means and creates an indestructible monster that demolishes a few buildings in a heavily populated American city (that were, [[ContrivedCoincidence luckily]] vacant), Superman takes the initiative and tries to launch it into space. How does the government react to this? A) Do nothing, and let Superman take care of the situation. B) Fire a \\\'\\\'nuclear missile at both of them\\\'\\\'. Not only is this completely unnecessary, it is just plain lethal-stupidity. Best-case scenario, Superman and the monster both die. What are we left with? An EMP that will wipeout \\\'\\\'all electrical systems on the eastern seaboard\\\'\\\'; that means no electrical grid, no independent electrical systems like batteries (goodbye cars, cellphones, \\\'\\\'hospitals\\\'\\\', etc.), no police, and no fire department. It will also knockout any satellite systems orbiting the Earth, so no more telecommunication, and let’s not even think about the \\\'\\\'radiation\\\'\\\'. [[ContrivedCoincidence Luckily]], none of this happens, and the explosion just sends Doomsday hurdling back to Earth. With the film’s strict adherence to realism, it’s amazing that the government wasn’t responsible for the deaths of literally \\\'\\\'millions\\\'\\\' of it\\\'s own citizens. Keep in mind Doomsday would have destroy maybe one city at the time when the EMP alone would effectively destroy the entire eastern seaboard.
** Lex Luthor is apparently smart enough to be able to know who Batman and Superman\\\'s real identities are, yet not to be able to cover his tracks or work in the shadows, like a real villain would. In he does quite the opposite by giving the mercenaries who he sends to kill the villagers experimental bullets made by [=LexCorp=] \\\'\\\'for a government contract\\\'\\\' meaning it can easily be traced back to him. He pitches an idea to a US senator to privatize Kryptonite and use it as a deterrent in the event of another alien invasion. The senator rightfully declines his proposition, being the only person who is able to see that it can be weaponized. Rather than attempt to use his powers of persuasion to get another senator or other politician to allow to privatize it, he uses a handicapped man\\\'s wheelchair to sneak explosives into a Congressional hearing (and scares said senator with a jar of his pee) and create a giant, near indestructible monster.
I think this is a better written example for the film and while things like Jimmy Olsen bringing a tracking device and Lex trying to privatize Kryptonite are not examples of the characters being stupid, They are still there to add context.
