Lex Luthor is like Alexander the Great wielding his sword - be it through a public smear campaign, Batman or Doomsday - at the Gordian knot, which is Superman. The tech-giant genius has been slowly unraveling in the five years since Superman's catastrophic reveal, clearly struggling with the idea of an all-powerful individual being equally good and righteous when an abusive father has already proven otherwise. While this is most evident in Batman, this is nonetheless true for everyone, particularly in the case of Lex Luthor, whose role in this story is now better understood and comes with more depth. government still feels vulnerable and fearful of another future attack while simultaneously demanding an all-powerfully benevolent and supposedly all-just alien creature answer for the chaos.įor both the country and the world, this problem of extraterrestrial beings with God-like powers who could potentially install themselves as tyrannical rulers or annihilate the entire planet on a whim creates a major existential crisis. It dwells in the aftermath of unimaginable devastation, a society still reeling from the thousands of lives lost as the U.S. The plot is a direct response to Superman's massively destructive battle against General Zod to save Earth from extinction, and Batman's outrage slowly evolving into acerbic hatred is at the forefront fueling this adaptation. One of my favorite aspects in the extended edition of Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is that it works as an evenly-tempered and thoughtful sequel to his own Man of Steel.
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