Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Movie (2016) Interesting Facts, Mistakes

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Movie Story Summary

Fearing that the actions of Superman are left unchecked, Batman takes on the Man of Steel, while the world wrestles with what kind of a hero it really needs.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Movie Stars

Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams 

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Movie Storyline

The general public is concerned over having Superman on their planet and letting the "Dark Knight" - Batman - pursue the streets of Gotham. While this is happening, a power-phobic Batman tries to attack Superman. Meanwhile, Superman tries to settle on a decision, and Lex Luthor, the criminal mastermind and millionaire, tries to use his own advantages to fight the "Man of Steel". 

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Movie Interesting Facts

• In an interview with Jimmy Fallon, Ben Affleck said he was warned by Warner Bros. about the possible negative reaction to his casting, and was advised to remain off the Internet after the casting announcement. He also said, to assuage his concerns, the studio showed him negative comments that fans had initially made to previous superhero castings. Affleck said in spite of the studio warnings, he still checked out an online message board. The first comment he read was, "Affleck as Batman? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" After seeing that, he immediately went offline.
• In this film, Batman wears a voice modulator in his suit to electronically alter his voice. After the casting of Ben Affleck in the role, this was an idea that had been suggested by his friend, director Kevin Smith, as he felt Affleck's natural speaking voice was too high-pitched for Batman.
• Ben Affleck gained an additional twenty pounds of muscle and reached eight percent body fat for his role as Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman.
• The Waynes are seen walking out of a movie theater, a poster of The Mark of Zorro (1940) is seen on the theater wall. Though not exclusive to all origin stories, most canon Batman origin stories since 1986 have the Waynes leaving a screening of the film. This trend was originally set in reference to the fact that Batman was largely based on the character of Zorro.
• A "Batman and Superman" film was originally pitched in August 2001 by Andrew Kevin Walker, with Wolfgang Petersen to direct, and Akiva Goldsman to script. Goldsman's script had Bruce Wayne's fiancée slain by the Joker, which sends him on a revenge rampage and brings him into conflict with Superman, who tries to stop him. The film was shelved, but in Goldsman's I Am Legend (2007), a teaser poster for the film (the Superman shield inside a bat) was seen in the opening scene. It was rumored at the time, that George Clooney would be reprising his Batman role from Batman & Robin (1997), and John Travolta would be playing Superman.
• According to Ben Affleck, he was surprised when he was offered the Batman role, and was at first hesitant to commit to it. He was won over after a meeting with Zack Snyder, who pitched Affleck his vision of Batman, and showed him concept art for the film.
• The armor that Ben Affleck wears is based on Batman's armor in the comic book "The Dark Knight Returns," written by Frank Miller, and published in 1986. His regular costume is entirely different than the graphic novel. In the novel the suit was made of traditional blue and gray fabric, and with a bullet-proof plate behind the traditional yellow oval bat logo.
• Ben Affleck stated in an interview that he had asked if he could have the batsuit when filming was complete. The producers said yes, but that he would have to pay $100,000 in order to keep it. Affleck quickly changed his mind, and asked if he could just take a picture with it instead.
• When discussing the film, Henry Cavill said that it would address a major issue that fans and critics had with Man of Steel (2013), involving the huge amount of collateral damage caused in the film's climax during Superman's battle with General Zod in Metropolis. Cavill said that future battle scenes in movies featuring Superman would involve him making sure to not harm civilians himself and to protect them from evil villains.
• A rough cut of the film was shown for the executives at Warner Brothers. They were reportedly so impressed that they not only gave the film a standing ovation, but also began negotiating a deal with Ben Affleck to have him make three solo Batman movies, rather than the original plan to make only one.
• Superman only had 42 lines of dialogue throughout the entire movie.
• Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont makes a cameo appearance as Senator Purrington. It's the fourth live action Batman film for the senator, and he's faced four different Batmans: Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, and Ben Affleck.
• There is a Riddler style question mark graffitied in one of the pillars of Wayne manor.
• Jimmy Fallon once asked Ben Affleck what his daughters thought of him being Batman and he said, "They don't care. All they want to watch is Frozen (2013)."
• When Wallace Vernon Keefe, has been gathering newspaper clips about Superman, a picture is seen where Superman is lifting a car, about to smash it against a rock. The picture is a photo version of the cover of Action Comics #1 from 1938, Superman's debut.
• The day after he was cast as Batman, Ben Affleck began working out two hours a day and "hated every minute of it", by his own admission.
• Christian Bale mentioned in an interview that he felt like he wanted to continue playing Batman. He then jokingly said, "I'm jealous of someone else playing Batman." In reality however, he actually met with Ben Affleck when he was cast, and wished him luck for the making of the film. Bale portrayed Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman in Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
• Costume designer Michael Wilkinson put Amazonian writing into Wonder Woman's suit design, similar to how Kryptonian writing was put into Superman's suit design.
• According to Tao Okamoto, Jesse Eisenberg changed several of his lines causing some of the actors' reactions to be genuine.
• The metal exosuit is the first Batsuit not featuring a Batsymbol on its chest.
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan was considered for the role of Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman. He was subsequently given the role of Thomas Wayne, Bruce's father.
• Alfred's line about an empty wine cellar is taken directly from the graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns.
• After seeing his performance in Cloud Atlas (2012), the studio wanted Tom Hanks to portray Lex Luthor.
• Superman's suit is considerably brighter, with the blue of the suit being lightened to suit the comic version. The yellow background behind the "S" has been made into a bright gold. Certain patterns in the suit have changed also, notably on the "S."
• Michael Wilkinson, commenting on the design of the Batman look, said that "Zack Snyder said that the most important thing for our Batman is that he come across as a really hulking big guy who's super pumped up. He's going to be even bigger than our Superman in silhouette. His strength is not through armor and gadgets, he's basically a tower of muscle. Zack is a huge fan of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, and we looked a lot at that silhouette when we were creating our silhouette, the cowl I am super proud of. There's always been this huge thing about can he actually turn his head. It does allow full range of movement and he can do all his stunts in the cowl."
• In one scene, Clark says to Perry, "When the Daily Planet was founded, it used to stand for something." Perry responds with, "Yeah, and if it were 1938, you could too." Action Comics #1, featuring Superman, was published in 1938.
• It is the first live action film production to feature Batman (but not Robin), Superman, Lois Lane, and Wonder Woman onscreen together. All of their previous appearances together were in animated television programs and direct-to-DVD films.
• Ben Affleck was originally offered to direct the predecessor, Man of Steel (2013), but turned down the offer, saying he wasn't experienced in visual effects shots, "A lesson I've learned is to not look at movies based on budget, how much they'll spend on effects or where they will shoot. Story is what's important."
• At the beginning of the movie, the Wayne family graves are near a tombstone with the name Solomon Grundy, a living-dead DC Comics villain who takes his name from a nursery rhyme. In the same year as BvS: DoJ, Ben Affleck starred in The Accountant (2016), where his character recites the rhyme.
• In response to the negative and mixed reviews, Ben Affleck (Batman) said "We made this movie for the fans, not the critics." His co-star Henry Cavill (Superman) said similar things in other interviews.
• The glasses Henry Cavill wears as Clark Kent are made by British spectacle designer Tom Davies. Apparently, Michael Wilkinson found most glasses sat too high on Cavill's face, because he has a high bridge. They sought out Tom Davies, who makes bespoke glasses, to design a one-off pair of spectacles for the job.
• When Gal Gadot was asked by a reporter about how she would get Wonder Woman's breasts from the comics, she answered, "Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast. So, if I'd really go 'by the book,' it'd be problematic." (Amazonian warriors would sever their right breast in order to fire a bow and arrow.) Gadot practiced Kung Fu, kick-boxing, sword fighting, jiu-jitsu, and capoeira as part of her physical preparation for the role. There is no historical record to prove that Amazon women had a breast removed. If that were the case, then statues or carvings would have been found with a missing right breast. Other translations of Amazon means "large breasted" or "without husband" rather than "without breast". Check the Etymology of the word Amazon for further details. The idea of Amazonian woman severing a breast for the sake of being better with a bow and arrow comes from the historical fiction novel "The Last of the Amazons" by Steven Pressfield.
• In the cyborg scene, Dr. Stone refers to the computer as the MOTHER BOX. The Mother Box is a super computer that is used on Apokalips, which is ruled by Darkseid, a major enemy of the Justice League.
• Michael Wilkinson deliberately made the Batsuit out of cloth, removing all traces of armor, saying, "Our Batman's power comes from his incredible physical strength and fighting skills."
• At 6' 2¾", which is 0.75 inches from Batman's height at 6' 2", Ben Affleck is the tallest actor to portray Batman.
• Many of the news cuttings on Wallace's wall are events which were featured in the Christopher Reeve Superman films.
• Jesse Eisenberg would walk to the sets in disguise, so his Lex Luthor look would not leak.
• The producers declared that this is the very first DC Comics film that opens up to a cinematic universe for its heroes, saying, "Batman is being brought into the universe that now this Superman lives in."
• This movie depicts the geographical location between Gotham and Metropolis as being across a bay from one another; a la New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey.
• Michael Shannon never actually shot any scenes for this film and the production used a rubber dummy for Zod's corpse, he stated, "In the movie there's a large rubber version of my naked body that Lex Luthor is playing with. I was not, the only thing I did for that is I did some ADR of some lines that Zack [Snyder] thought he might use in the movie of my disembodied spirit talking to Lex Luthor."
• Michael Wilkinson described the updated Superman suit in the following manner, "There are some subtle differences in the belt, the buckle and the glyph (shield). Zack Snyder loved the idea that there is some Kryptonian script embedded in the suit (at the point where the deltoid meets the bicep). He gave me this fantastic quote that he wanted us to translate into the Kryptonian script and incorporate into the suit. The quote deals with the nature of power and the responsibility that comes with it."
• At his absolute peak during the process of training for the film and filming it, Henry Cavill reached a size of 100 kilograms (220 pounds). However, he did not remain at that size for the entire duration of the shoot, or the training.
• Stephen Amell, who plays Oliver Queen a.k.a. Green Arrow in the television series Arrow (2012) reportedly wanted to be in this film. Promotional material revealed that Oliver Queen does exist in the DC Extended Universe. In Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns novel, Arrow assisted Batman in the fight against Superman.
• When Wallace visits the wall etched with the names of the people who died during Superman's battle with Zod, most of the names on the wall are the names of crew members who have worked on Zack Snyder movies.
• Ben Affleck's portrayal of Batman was actually indirectly predicted and foretold two decades ago. In the opening credits of the Kevin Smith film Mallrats (1995), there are parodies of comic book covers featuring the stars of the movie. The one featuring Ben Affleck parodies none other than Batman. He also calls his vehicle that Bat Mobile when talking to his daughter in Jersey Girl.
• Gal Gadot has sixteen lines in the film. She is given one or two more lines in the extended cut.
• Before Jesse Eisenberg was cast as Lex Luthor, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper, Joaquin Phoenix, Adam Driver and Jean Dujardin were on the Warner Brothers' list to play the part.
• Composer Hans Zimmer said this will be that last superhero movie for which he will compose music.
• According to producer Charles Roven, Ben Affleck was their first choice, and the first person to whom they went, for the role of Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman.
• Charles Roven revealed that at the time, there were 1,500 visual effects shots, relatively little, compared to other visual effects heavy superhero films.
• Producer Deborah Snyder was reportedly brought to tears when Gal Gadot first walked out on set in her Wonder Woman costume.
• During the Batman versus Superman fight, in one of the walls in the foreground you can see spray painted the Latin rhetorical question "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" The exact literal translation of this is "Who will guard the guards themselves?" Which is a prominent theme in the film. Also in Justice League Unlimited: Divided We Fall (2005), Batman makes this question in Latin to Green Arrow to which he gives a paraphrased reply "Who guards the guardians? We got it covered". It is also a major theme and repeated quote - "Who watches the watchmen?" - throughout Watchmen (2009), which Zack Snyder also directed.
• During the Cyborg clip, Dr. Stone mentions he has "US GOV object 6-19-82" which attaches itself to Victor Stone to create Cyborg. The number 6-19-82 is a reference to the comic Tales of the New Teen Titans #1 (June 1982): "Cyborg".
• During the battle between Batman and Superman, Batman says "I bet your parents taught you that you mean something; that you're here for a reason." Jonathan Kent, played by Glenn Ford in Superman (1978), says to Clark "And one thing I do know, son, and that is you are here for a reason."
• Timothy Dalton was considered for the role of Alfred J. Pennyworth.
• The film was originally scheduled for release in 2015, but it was moved to 2016 to "allow the filmmakers time to realize fully their vision, given the complex visual nature of the story."
• Doomsday is portrayed by Robin Atkin Downes in motion-capture and voice. This is Downes' third film as a Superman villain. He had previously played Solaris in All-Star Superman (2011), and Manchester Black in Superman vs. The Elite (2012).
• The glass house portrayed as Bruce Wayne's house is almost an exact copy (though slightly longer and painted black) of Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois. The movie house was built in Orion Township, Michigan, about forty miles north of Detroit. At one point, it was on Google Maps, where one could take a 360 degree tour of it, as well as the Batcave. The movie house is outfitted with Mid-Century Modern furniture, very similar to what is on display in the Farnsworth House.
• Ben Affleck stated in an interview that Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Lex Luthor in this film, was the most interesting character. Eisenberg has previously said that Chris Terrio (writer) has created his character with psychological realism.
• Before Ben Affleck was cast as Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman, he was reportedly approached by Warner Brothers to direct a Justice League film adaptation, in which he would have also portrayed Batman. He was also previously approached to direct Man of Steel (2013).
• Gal Gadot is the first non-American actress to play Diana Prince/Wonder Woman. She is also the first actress to perform the role in theatrical films.
• Batman is only called "Batman" once out loud in this movie, by Perry White ("nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman). Most of the time he is referred to as "the Bat". However, the writing on the Robin suit in the Batcave also calls him Batman.
• This is Zack Snyder's fifth film with Warner Brothers, the others being 300 (2006), Watchmen (2009), Sucker Punch (2011), and Man of Steel (2013).
• The Batsuit and the Batmobile appear as DLCs in Batman: Arkham Knight (2015). Christian Bale's and Michael Keaton's Batsuits and Batmobiles appear as well.
• This film marks the third time that the role of Batman has been played by an Oscar-winner. Ben Affleck won best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997) and Best Picture for Argo (2012), Christian Bale won Best Supporting Actor for The Fighter (2010), and George Clooney won Best Supporting Actor for Syriana (2005), as well as Best Picture for Argo (2012), along with Affleck. This is also the second time an Oscar winner has played Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred. Jeremy Irons won Best Actor for Reversal of Fortune (1990) and Michael Caine won two Best Supporting Actors for The Cider House Rules (1999) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).
• Ben Affleck called the Batsuit his "visual effects pajamas."
• Carla Gugino, Patrick Wilson, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, all of whom have cameos in this film (with Gugino and Wilson providing voice cameos) have all previously collaborated with Zack Snyder on Watchmen (2009).
• Diana Prince a.k.a. Wonder Woman is never addressed by either name on screen, in either the extended cut or the theatrical release. She is only referred as Miss Prince by an Air Stewardess. Most characters in Wonder Woman (2017) address her as "Diana". Colonel Darnell in that film addresses her as "Miss Prince".
• Ben Affleck is seventeen months older than Christian Bale, marking the first time the actor taking on the role of Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman is older than the actor who last played the role in a live action movie, since the modern movie sequence started in 1989. In all other Batman roles since, the actor succeeding the role has been younger than the actor who previously played the character. Val Kilmer took the role from Michael Keaton, and he is eight years younger. George Clooney, who is eighteen months younger, took the role from Kilmer. Bale is thirteen years younger than Clooney. The first, and only other, time this happened was in 1949, when Robert Lowery took over the role from Lewis Wilson, who played Batman in 1943.
• The Russian mercenary that works for Lex Luthor is KG Beast, a villain who appeared in Batman's "Ten Nights of The Beast" story in 1987. Callan Mulvey played the same type of character in Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).
• Towards the end of the movie, Batman grabs on to a wall in a position resembling the cover of the Book One of The Dark Knight Returns comics.
• Bradley Cooper, Chris Pine, Ryan Kwanten, Matthew Fox, and Scott Porter were all linked for the role of Barry Allen a.k.a. The Flash in a previous iteration. Ezra Miller was cast.
• When Bruce Wayne (Batman) and Clark Kent (Superman) meet for the first time at Lex Luthor's party, the song being played is "Night and Day," performed by Richard Cheese a.k.a. Mark Jonathan Davis. In fact, in the instant right before they meet, the lyrics "Night and Day..." can be heard. Batman and Superman are often referred to, respectively, as "Night" and "Day," not only in the comics, but in this film by Lex Luthor.
• Ben Affleck (Bruce Wayne/Batman) auditioned for the role of Dick Grayson/Robin in Batman (1989) before the character was cut from the script.
• When Bruce Wayne enters the Wayne family crypt, a stained glass window depicting a guardian angel in a blue clothes and red cape over a burning city can be seen. The angel's appearance resembles that of Superman, foreshadowing Superman as a guardian angel protecting a burning city.
• Olga Kurylenko and Elodie Yung auditioned for the role of Wonder Woman which went to Gal Gadot. Jaimie Alexander was reportedly up for the role, but contractual obligations to Marvel Studios prevented her for taking the role (she plays Lady Sif in Thor (2011) movies).
• Ben Affleck is the oldest actor to play Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman (he was 43). Christian Bale was 30 when he played Wayne for the first time in Batman Begins (2005). Michael Keaton and Adam West were both 38 when they played Wayne in Batman (1989) and Batman (1966), meanwhile Val Kilmer and George Clooney were both 36 in Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997), respectively.
• Joe Manganiello was up for the role of Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman. He will appearing as Deathstroke in The Batman (2022).
• Michael B. Jordan, who lent his voice to Victor Stone a.k.a. Cyborg in the animated film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013), was considered for the role of Victor Stone a.k.a. Cyborg in the live action film. He played Johnny Storm a.k.a. The Human Torch in Fantastic Four (2015).
• Scott Adkins auditioned for the role of Batman before Ben Affleck was cast. When asked in an interview why he wasn't chosen, Adkins wryly responded "Look, Ben Affleck was always going to have the part, all right? He's got Oscars."
• The film was partially shot on IMAX 70/15p film, as was The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
• The code name title for this film on and off set was "Sage and Milo."
• During the opening battle in Metropolis, a gray horse is seen passing Bruce Wayne in the rubble. In the graphic novel "The Dark Knight Returns" Batman is seen riding a gray horse.
• Ben Affleck and Diane Lane starred together in Hollywoodland (2006). Affleck played George Reeves, one of the earliest actors to portray Superman, and Lane played Reeves' lover. In other words, Affleck went from playing Superman to Batman, while Lane went from playing Superman's girlfriend to playing his mother.
• After doing the score for this movie, Hans Zimmer decided to retire from the superhero genre, and quit composing for the DCEU, saying that Ben Affleck "lacked the pain that Christian Bale had". But he later returned to superhero scores for X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) and Wonder Woman 1984.
• The entire site of the ruins of Scarsdale Hall, in Derbyshire, England was laser scanned over two days capturing 50,000 points of detail per second building a 3D recreation which was then incorporated with 2D photographs to form the texture of a building and became the burnt out shell of Wayne Manor.
• Metallo was considered for the role of the villain, before Batman and Wonder Woman were brought in.
• Zack Snyder's son Eli Snyder was rumored to play Jason Todd a.k.a. Robin in a flashback during the movie. This was later denied publicly by Snyder in an interview.
• The first cut had a runtime of about 4 hours.
• Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan play Bruce Wayne's parents in the film. They also both appear in the television series The Walking Dead (2010) as Maggie Greene and Negan, respectively. They were both in Supernatural (2005) as well.
• Bill Finger (developer) co-created Batman, originally named "the Bat-Man" who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939). However, Bob Kane didn't publicly acknowledge Finger's contributions until years after Finger's death. As such, this film is the first theatrical feature film to officially credit Finger as co-creator of Batman.
• In the Extended Cut (available on the Ultimate Edition release), Lex Luthor is referred to as Prisoner A-C-23-19-40. Luthor first appeared in Action Comics #23, which was published in April 1940.
• Every close-up shot that is supposed to be the hands of Bruce Wayne is, in fact, Zack Snyder's hands.
• This version of Batman is based on the Frank Miller version of the character. Ben Affleck said that is partly the reason why he accepted the role.
• Alfred mentions that one of Batman's targets may not even be real - "a phantasm". A possible nod to the widely loved animated film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993).
• Lynda Carter did not like Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman outfit, as she said it was missing the red, white, and blue.
• Released in the same year as a Marvel comics movie also revolving around two heroes battling each other, Captain America: Civil War (2016).
• At the Senate hearing Senator Finch cites the quote - "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," - originated from a letter written by Lord Acton to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887: "...Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
• Henry Cavill did the ALS ice bucket challenge on set with Amy Adams, although Cavill had extra buckets of ice thrown on him.
• In the Daily Planet office, a cubicle belonging to "Jay Oliva, Sports Writer" can be seen. A black and yellow GCU (Gotham City University) football jersey is seen. Jay Oliva is a Filipino-American storyboard artist, film producer, and animated film director working for Warner Brothers Animation, who has worked on many Batman, Superman, and Justice League animated films, and also worked as a storyboard artist on this film. Black and yellow are colors traditionally associated with Batman, who is from Gotham CIty.
• When Jonathan Kent talks to Clark, he mentions a flood that he and his own father stopped from destroying the Kent farm. That diverted water destroyed the Lang farm, though. Lana Lang was a childhood sweetheart of Superman in the comics.
• Zack Snyder ask Jason Momoa to auditioned for Batman, but Momoa figured that he's not a Batman type and thinking that he was actually be considered for a villain role, Synder cast him for Aquaman instead.
• There is a boat yard in the scene where Batman first meets Superman which is named Nicholson's boat yard. A reference to Jack Nicholson, who played the Joker in Batman (1989).
• Lex Luthor's assistant Mercy Graves is portrayed by Japanese actress Tao Okamoto. This is the second time Mercy Graves is portrayed of Asian origin, after The Batman (2004).
• This is the second superhero film in which Ben Affleck played a starring role. The first was as Matt Murdock a.k.a. Daredevil in Daredevil (2003). Similar to Batman, Daredevil was also a martial artist, and was driven to crime-fighting, due to the death of a family member.
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan's role as Thomas Wayne was strongly rumored and unconfirmed until he appeared in the San Diego Comic Con trailer.
• The line "This is flesh and blood" is taken from Excalibur (1981), the "Coming Soon" film at the theater Bruce Wayne was at with his parents the night they are killed. A similar line is said in Batman Begins (2005).
• Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Lex Luthor, said in an interview that he has not seen the movie nor does he want to see it, simply because he doesn't like watching his own movies.
• WILHELM SCREAM: At approximately one hour, after a car is thrown crushing a cabin after a crash.
• Jay Baruchel, who was cast as Maxwell Lord in George Miller's unrealized Justice League film, mentioned in an interview that he watched the extended cut of the film seven times, and named it as one of his two favorite films of 2016. The other was Nocturnal Animals (2016), which also starred Amy Adams.
• Michael Cassidy (Jimmy Olsen) previously played Grant Gabriel a.k.a. Julian Luthor, who dated Lois Lane (Erica Durance), in seven episodes of Smallville (2001).
• In the Daily Planet, when everyone is watching the news on the television, the screen next to it shows a football game, with the teams being Metropolis and Gotham.
• At least four different leaked plot summaries had been released online, none of which turned out to be true.
• Holly Hunter plays a Senator investigating Superman for his destructive actions and powers. In The Incredibles (2004), she voices Mrs. Incredible a.k.a. Elastigirl, who is in hiding, due to society's suspicion, and fear of superheroes' destructive powers.
• Armie Hammer was considered for the role of Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman. He also had signed on to play the role in George Miller's canceled film "Justice League: Mortal". It would be the second movie with Hammer and Henry Cavill together, after The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015).
• First live-action film that includes Batman to not be released in the summer.
• Had the biggest opening weekend gross of any DC Comics film ($166 million), but also had the biggest second weekend drop of any DC Comics film (69.1%).
• For such a box office success, it only spent 12 weeks in U.S. theatres.
• The first appearance of Batman was Detective Comics 27. The Gotham squad car in the scene, just before Batman appears, is Delta Charlie 27 or DC27.
• It was rumored that Callan Mulvey would be playing the Joker in this film. However, this turned out to be untrue, when it was announced that Jared Leto would play the role in the DC Cinematic Universe.
• The film's subtitle is a reference to the Justice League.
• This movie marks the 11th cinematic outing of Batman following; Batman (1943), Batman and Robin (1949), Batman (1966), Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995), Batman and Robin (1997), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
• When Lex greets Lois on the roof, he paraphrases Vladimir Nabokov's 'Lolita' saying, "Plain Lo in the morning. Lola in slacks. Lois Lane." Jeremy Irons portrayed Humbert in Lolita (1997).
• Gal Gadot reportedly had a difficult time waiting for her time to come during the Wonder Woman auditions with some other actresses. Being told to wait in her trailer, "I decided to put on Beyoncé. Who runs the world? Girls! I just started to dance, and I let my anxiety go. Thank you, Beyoncé!"
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan's fourth big screen adaptation of a comic. His others are Watchmen (2009), The Losers (2010), and Jonah Hex (2010).
• When Clark reads the news article on the consequences of the Bat-Brand on inmates, the article contains the phrase "who watches the watchmen?" in a quote by someone named Harvey, whose last name is cut off, speaking on behalf of the Gotham City Police Department. The quote is a reference to Watchmen (2009). "Harvey" may either be the character District Attorney Harvey Dent or Detective Harvey Bullock, both regular characters in various Batman stories.
• The football scenes that Zack Snyder filmed when he began principal photography ended up in the background in a Daily Planet scene.
• While Bruce is talking to Clark during Lex Luthor's party, Bruce says that Gotham already has enough trouble with villains that like to dress up as clowns. This is a reference to The Joker.
• When Perry reads the newspaper, an article shows a photograph of Clark Kent credited to "Clay Enos." Clay Enos is the name of this movie's set still photographer.
• No one in the film actually calls Doomsday by that name. The Kryptonian ship's interface refers to the monster during its creation as "The abomination without name." Lex describes it to Superman as "your doomsday". Everyone else simply refers to it using terms like "thing" or "creature".
• This film marks Callan Mulvey's third comic book or graphic novel adaptation, following his role as Scyllias in 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), and Jack Rollins in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).
• Jon Hamm and Gerard Butler were considered for the role of Bruce Wayne. Both actors have worked previously with Zack Snyder; Hamm on Sucker Punch (2011), and Butler on 300 (2006).
• After driving his vehicle through the streets of Metropolis, Bruce Wayne exits the vehicle. A street sign that reads "Shelby" can be seen above him. "Shelby" is the name of the Kent family dog, who appears in comics, such as Superman - For All Seasons. He also appears in Smallville (2001), having been introduced in Smallville: Krypto (2005).
• In the scene where Martha Kent gives Lois Lane the engagement ring, the wallpaper in Clark's room is a star pattern with seven points. This is a reference to the phrase "Unite the Seven" uniting all seven members of the Justice League.
• Anthony Mackie, who plays Sam Wilson a.k.a. Falcon from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, said that the best thing about this film was Ben Affleck.
• Josh Brolin was considered to portray Bruce Wayne before Ben Affleck was cast.
• In the article Clark Kent is reading on the internet about Batman, there is a sentence at the end that says "If the GCPD endorses masked vigilantes as our city's watchmen, who watches the watchmen?" This is a nod to a Latin proverb which serves as a reoccurring phrase in DC's and Zack Snyder's Watchmen (2009).
• The Batmobile is approximately twelve feet wide, or the full width of a standard traffic lane. While this doesn't matter to Batman, it makes the vehicle illegal for use on public streets. A Russian company named Fast Boom Pro later produced several accurate copies of this Batmobile which, due to the width, were also illegal for street use. They use 502 hp V8 engines (similar to American tanks in WWII), have an imitation gun on the front, and they feature a functional thermal imaging camera and display. The selling price for these was $850,000.
• There was massive fan speculation that Dan Amboyer would be portraying Hal Jordan in the build up to the film. Amboyer's own website put this to rest, when it was revealed he would be playing Lieutenant Christie.
• Fourth movie directed by Zack Snyder to have an extended cut of the film released. The other 3 are Dawn of the Dead (2004), Watchmen (2009) and Sucker Punch (2011).
• There are at least four actors in this movie that also had a role in Smallville (2001). Amy Adams played Jodi Melville in Smallville: Craving (2001). Joe Morton played Dr. Steven Hamilton in Smallville: Craving (2001), Smallville: Nicodemus (2002), Smallville: Obscura (2002), and Smallville: Duplicity (2002). Michael Cassidy played Grant Gabriel in Smallville: Kara (2007), Smallville: Fierce (2007), Smallville: Action (2007), Smallville: Wrath (2007), Smallville: Blue (2007), Smallville: Gemini (2007), and Smallville: Persona (2008). Chad Krowchuk played Wendell Johnson in Smallville: Forever (2005).
• When Gal Gadot was selected to play Wonder Woman, there was a massive fan outcry that she was too thin for the role. She didn't have the physique befitting the classic demi-goddess superhero character. Gadot added some muscle before production, but fans weren't impressed because she still looked too thin. As a result, much like the too skinny Michael Keaton in Batman (1989), she had to wear a heavily padded costume to make her look more physically formidable. It also filled out her chest and hips.
• Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, and Luke Evans were considered for the role of Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman. All three men were given roles in The Hobbit trilogy directed by Peter Jackson. Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield, Evans as Bard the Bowman, and Bloom reprising his role as Legolas from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, also directed by Jackson.
• The film's cast includes four Oscar winners: Ben Affleck, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, and Kevin Costner; and five Oscar nominees: Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Shannon.
• Media reports in 2013 mentioned that Jackie Earle Haley auditioned for a role in the film.
• Ben Affleck starred as Daredevil, a Marvel character, before starring as Batman, a DC character. Also in 2016, Ryan Reynolds starred as Deadpool, a Marvel character, after previously starring as Green Lantern, a DC character.
• Tyler Hoechlin was considered for the role of Bruce Wayne. He would ultimately play Superman on Supergirl (2015).
• Prior to appearing as Mercy Graves in this movie, Tao Okamoto appeared in The Wolverine (2013), based on Marvel comic book characters.
• This incarnation of Lex Luthor is based on the "Superman Birthright" version of the character.
• In the season two finale of Fringe (2008), the film "Superman vs Batman" is displayed on a movie theater marquee.
• Marks the fifth theatrical portrayal of Lex Luthor. It is his fourth time as the main antagonist, the most of any supervillain in any franchise. William Stryker (X-men films) is second, with five appearances, twice as the main villain. Catching up is the Joker, with three and two.
• In the comics, the character of Mercy Graves was introduced as an Amazon from Themiscyra, like Wonder Woman. However, her character was later rebooted as human.
• Actress Olga Kurylenko revealed in a Dec. 2019 interview with The Hollywood Reporter that she was one of three actresses, including Gal Gadot, who made the final round of auditions for the role of Wonder Woman, which ultimately went to Gadot. Kurylenko said that during the audition process, she had to read lines wearing a bathing suit and leather boots. Ironically, she added that Gadot had also auditioned for the role of Camille Montes in Quantum of Solace (2008), which ended up going to Kurylenko.
• Bruce asks Alfred how many good guys were left and how many stayed that way. This refers to several specific individuals, one of whom was District Attorney Harvey Dent, who became the criminal Two Face, and another is Edward Nigma who later became The Riddler and who, depending on which film or television universe is involved, was either an inventor working for Wayne Enterprises, or a forensic analyst working for the Gotham Police Department.
• Laurence Fishburne (Perry White) and Harry Lennix (Swanwick) were part of The Matrix trilogy. Fishburne played Morpheus, and Lennix played Lock.
• With the release of this film, Ben Affleck becomes the second person to appear in both a Daredevil movie and a Batman movie. The first was Coolio, who played a "banker" for motorcycle races in Batman & Robin (1997), and a defendant in Daredevil (2003) (extended cut only).
• Alliteration is often in comic book characters names i.e. Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Peter Parker etc. Three real actresses names in this film are Gal Gadot, Holly Hunter, and Amy Adams.
• Towards the end of filming, Jason Momoa reportedly stocked his personal refrigerator with beer to prepare for the wrap party.
• During the S.T.A.R. Labs Cyborg footage, Dr. Stone calls the Mother Box "U.S. Gov, object 6-19-82". Superman II was released in theaters on June 19, 1982 (06/19/82)
• For his fight with Superman , Bruce Wayne prepares Smoke Grenades with letter "Pb" in them . According to Comics "Lead" is the only thing Superman can't see through.
• This was the second time Michael Cassidy and Scoot McNairy will be in a movie that has Ben Affleck as a lead actor, and the third time that this pairing has been the case for Affleck and McNairy. The first time was for Argo (2012), where Cassidy was an analyst and McNairy was Joe Stafford, one of the six hostages. The second was in Gone Girl (2014), where Affleck's character, Nick Dunne, has a meeting with McNairy's character.
• Scoot McNairy has played characters from both the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the DC Extended Universe. As Jackson Norris, a "reporter" in Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014) and as Wallace Keefe, an employee for Wayne Enterprises in this movie.
• Ben Affleck (Bruce Wayne) and Michael Shannon (Zod) previously starred together in Pearl Harbor (2001).
• The second film in the DC Extended Universe.
• Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter, star of Wonder Woman (1975) both participated in beauty pageants before portraying Diana Prince/Wonder Woman.
• The actor and actress portraying Bruce Wayne's parents, are known for previous live-action comic book adaptions. Jeffrey Dean Morgan played Edward Blake a.k.a. The Comedian in Watchmen (2009), while Morgan and Lauren Cohan are cast members of The Walking Dead (2010), with Cohan playing Maggie Green, and Morgan playing the villainous Negan.
• Author Bret Easton Ellis mentioned in a podcast in May 2016 that this was one of his favorite films of the year.
• Second film of Zack Snyder with "Dawn" in the title, the first was Dawn of the Dead (2004), which was his directorial debut.
• To be fair to Ben Affleck he actually looks a lot like Bruce Wayne in Batman: The Animated Series (1992), considering all the (mostly initial) fan hate he got for being chosen to don the cape.
• Robert, Martin and John, as mentioned by Perry, refers to Robert F. Kennedy (Former US Attorney General), Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King , and brother to Robert, President John F. Kennedy. Their lives were cut short by an assassin's bullet.
• At 152 minutes, this is the longest of the DCEU films.
• Bruce easily blocks Clark's hooks and uppercuts. Earlier in the film, Bruce can be seen in the Batcave watching footage captured during Superman's fight with Zod from Man of Steel. Clark's patterns (right hook, left sucker, right uppercut) had been memorized by Bruce.
• Ben Affleck plays Batman, a character which is based on bats, a flying mammal that uses echo-location. Ben had earlier played a blind superhero in Daredevil (2003), who also uses a process similar to echo-location to perceive his surroundings.
• In addition to being given a limited IMAX 70mm run (portions of the film were shot in the format), the film received a limited run in regular 70mm.
• In the universe as presented in this film, Metropolis corresponds to Chicago and Gotham corresponds to Detroit. In terms of the map, Detroit is further north and 235 miles away. As seen on the map presented after the nuclear blast, the location of Gotham is that of Michigan City, Indiana.
• The film's plot similar to another comic book movie that came out the same year Captain America: Civil War (2016): In Batman VS. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Lex Luthor resents Superman and seeks to rid the world of him and he manipulates Batman into fighting Superman by having Superman blamed for the multiple deaths of terrorists. In Captain America: Civil War, Zemo seeks revenge on The Avengers whom he blames for the loss of his family whom were killed in the Battle of Sokovia and he manipulates Captain America and Iron Man into fighting each other by framing The Winter Soldier for the bombing at the Accords.
• Josh Holloway denied a report of him being cast as Aquaman.
• The invitation to Lex Luthor's house sent to Bruce Wayne has the house residing in the state of "DM", this is not an abbreviation for any state. The zip code listed on the invitation is 33862, which is for Lake Placid, Florida.
• Ben Affleck, Scoot McNairy and Jesse Eisenberg have both worked with director David Fincher. Affleck and McNairy on Gone Girl (2014) and Eisenberg on The Social Network (2010).
• Martha Kent is played by Diane Lane, the same last name as Lois Lane, Superman's girlfriend.
• Featured in "The A to Z of Superhero Movies: From Abar to ZsaZsa via the MCU", written by Rob Hill.
• RPA is short for Remote Piloted Aircraft.
• Laurence Fishburne and Henry Cavill separately appear in the Mission Impossible franchise. Fishburne was IMF director Theodore Brassel in Mission: Impossible III (2006), while Cavill would star as CIA assassin August Walker in Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018).
• C.T. Fletcher: The inmate that the Kg Beast enlists to kill the branded inmate is a fitness expert, known as the Compton Superman and frequently wears Superman shirts in his YouTube videos.
• Batman has a Robin costume that reads: "The joke's on you Batman." This is a reference to Jason Todd, who served as the second Robin, Batman's sidekick, and who was tortured and beaten to death by the Joker. In some story lines, Jason Todd returns as the murderous vigilante, the Red Hood, and in others, he never actually died, but instead suffered endlessly at the hands of the Joker in an attempt to turn him into an heir to the clown prince of crime.
• The Flash appearing from the future, to deliver an ominous message to Bruce Wayne, is a nod to Marv Wolfman's "Crisis On Infinite Earths" which featured The Flash doing the exact same thing, including disappearing before he could make it clear what exactly he was warning Batman about.
• In the picture where Wonder Woman is shown to be a "meta human" in the LexCorp documents, the man on her right in the picture is Steve Trevor (who will be played by Chris Pine in Wonder Woman (2017)).
• A couple days after the release of the movie, Warner Brothers released a deleted scene, which included Lex Luthor interacting with hologram of Steppenwolf, the main villain in Justice League (2017). Zack Snyder said that this clip acts as the movie's post-credits scene. This scene is included in the Extended Cut (available on the Ultimate Edition release). However, it does not take place after the credits.
• During the dream sequence while Bruce waits for the files to decrypt, a giant Omega symbol on the sand and some Parademons helping Superman's soldiers can be seen. Parademons and the Omega symbol are linked to Darkseid, ruler of planet Apokalips, and an archenemy of the Justice League.
• In the scene where Diana "Wonder Woman" is packing her things, you can see four framed comic books on the bed: Justice League, Action Comics, Detective Comics, and Wonder Woman.
• At least three of Batman's hand-to-hand takedowns in the warehouse are taken directly from the Batman: Arkham games. One where he bursts through a wall, another when he breaks a thug's arm backwards, and one where he throws a thug's face straight to the ground. Additionally, there are: the batclaw slam, when Batman uses his batclaw to draw an enemy closer to his fist which knocks him (the enemy) down, and the use of devices that destroy the thugs' weapons (a.k.a. the Disruptor).
• Superman and Doomsday killing each other is based on the titular chapter of "The Death of Superman" (Superman comics #75, volume 2), published in 1993.
• Joe Morton is shown as the creator of Cyborg, which is the second time he has made a cybernetic organism. The first being in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), where he was cast as Miles Dyson.
• Although he was only in one short scene, this is Kevin Costner's first sequel of his career.
• When Superman begins to fly into space with Doomsday, the government launches a nuclear missile, which leaves Superman floating in space. The scene with Superman decaying in space after being hit with the nuclear rocket is similar to a sequence from The Dark Knight Returns, from which this film takes ideas. In the graphic novel, Superman is caught in a nuclear explosion from a nuclear warhead, he then absorbs sunlight from plants so that he can regain his powers. This is different from the film, however, as Superman gains strength back from the sun, as the Earth's rotation causes its rays to come into contact with him.
• A deleted scene, made available online after the movie was released, depicts Lex talking with hologram of Steppenwolf who wields a hologram of three Mother Boxes. As a S.W.A.T. team comes in to arrest Lex, Steppenwolf disappears, hinting that Lex knows more than he lets on.
• Jason Momoa's portrayal of Aquaman is heavily based on Aquaman's appearance in the comics during the 1990s.
• Superman's name was mentioned multiple times during the movie, Batman's only once by Perry White (most of the time he's only referred to as The Bat), and Wonder Woman's, despite her prominent role, not even once, only her undercover name is mentioned once as Ms. Prince.
• Lex Luthor's role in this film is based on his appearance in the comic "All-Star Superman" by Grant Morrison, where he is contemptuous of Superman, due to his alien nature.
• Lex Luthor uses his own blood to resurrect General Zod and turn him into Doomsday. In the DC Comics, a secret laboratory called Project Cadmus uses Luthor's blood to mix it with Superman's DNA in order to replicate Superman after his death by Doomsday, creating Conner Kent, new Superboy.
• In the final battle, Wonder Woman uses silver bracelets as weapons to attack Doomsday, sending a powerful energy wave. In the DC Comics, they are called Bracelets of Submission, and Wonder Woman is capable of using them to deflect bullets from any automatic fire, project energy blasts and other projectile weaponry and to absorb forces from a long fall.
• A leaked picture of Dick Grayson's grave, in this movie, was posted prior to the film's release.
• In the original comics, The Justice League was formed when the alien being Starro came to conquer Earth. Here, it appears that Future Batman sends The Flash back in time to warn Bruce about Superman. This is most likely a nod to when Batman sent The Flash back in time to tell everyone that Darkseid had corrupted Superman. This scene could most likely set up either Justice League (2017) or Justice League Part Two.
• A giant creature emerges through Martha Wayne's grave in Bruce's dream. It resembles Kirk Langstrom the Man-Bat, one of Batman's allies, who first appeared in 1970.
• In "The Dark Knight Returns", a four issue mini series published in 1986, Batman and Superman fight long after the Justice League is disassembled. In this movie, they fight before the League is even formed.
• The first live action Batman film to not have Commissioner Gordon as a supporting character.
• The device Silas Stone uses to rebuild his son Victor (a.k.a. Cyborg) is a Mother Box, that in DC Comics can teleport people through Boom Tubes, and it comes from Apokolips, Darkseid's home planet. Mother Box and the Boom Tubes are also used by the people of New Genesis, Apokolips' good version, who, lead by Highfather, try to defeat Darkseid and his evil companions.
• Alfred jokes about the possibility that Bruce Wayne someday turns into the father of a new generation of the Wayne family. In the comic "Batman: Son of the Demon", published in 1987, Batman and Talia Al'Ghul become the parents of Damian Wayne, who eventually became the fifth Robin, the Boy Wonder (following Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Stephanie Brown).
• In the end of the movie, written on the tombs are the words "If you seek his monument, look around you". This is, famously, the translation of the Latin phrase on architect Christopher Wren's tomb at St. Paul Cathedral in London, England. Wren is best known for rebuilding the cathedral, along with most of Central London, after the Great Fire of 1666, so everything people see around them while at the site is, effectively, Wren's work.
• Doomsday, in this version, is based on anything but his origin in the comics (the ultimate lifeform created by scientists on Krypton), and arguably incorporates elements from the Golden Age Green Lantern villain Solomon Grundy (an undead villain brought back to life).
• Gal Gadot improvised the smirk Wonder Woman does as she battles Doomsday in the climax.
• There are cameos of The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg as "Meta-Humans".
• Alfred only interacts with Bruce Wayne, never encountering any other character.
• Superman's coffin is black with a silver "S" on top. This is a nod to when Superman came back to life in "Reign of the Supermen!" and wore a black costume with a silver "S" on it.
• During the battle between Batman and Superman, Batman utilizes different weapons in his fight against Superman. Some of these weapons have similarities to weapons from The Dark Knight Returns. The sonic amplifier weapons that deploy when Superman steps on a panel in the ground have similarities to Batman's sonic rifle from the graphic novel. The Kryptonite grenades that Batman fires from his grenade launcher are similar to the Kryptonite arrow that Green Arrow uses against Superman in the book. The two both explode and emit Kryptonite Gas from their cases.
• At the end of the movie, Lex Luthor's prison uniform sports the prisoner number 16-TK-421. TK-421 is a reference to Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). (It's the serial number of one of the Stormtroopers whose armor is stolen by the heroes.) During the making of this movie and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), both Zack Snyder and J.J. Abrams poked friendly fun at each other's respective films. Jon Stewart declined an offer from Abrams to cameo as a Stormtrooper but filmed a brief appearance as himself hosting The Daily Show (1996) making jokes about Superman, which was cut from this film's theatrical release (likely because he'd left The Daily Show prior to its release) but included in the extended cut.
• At the end of the rooftop confrontation between Lex Luthor and Superman, Lex warns Superman of the time left to kill Batman to save his mother, saying "When you came here you had an hour...now it's less." The extended version of the movie is 2 hours and 54 minutes long, excluding the end credits. Superman actually arrives on the rooftop to confront Lex at 1 hour and 54 minutes into the movie. When he arrived, there was an hour left of the movie.
• Lois Lane's photographer, who turns out to have a homing device in his camera, and is then murdered by the terrorists because of this, is not named in the theatrical cut. In the extended version, he is revealed to be Jimmy Olsen, "Superman's pal" from the old comic books, who serves as the hero's man on the ground. Zack Snyder explained that in this series, there isn't anything for Jimmy to do, hence the decision was made to eliminate him in a dramatic fashion. The homing device is what the drone pilot uses to home in on the terrorists' location.
• In the video clip introducing Cyborg, his father refers to the mysterious shape-changing cube that merges with him as "Object 61982." Though he first appeared in DC Comics Presents #26 in October 1980, Cyborg debuted as a Teen Titan in Tales of the New Teen Titans on June 19, 1982.
• Despite previous cinematic incarnations portrayed by Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey, where Lex Luthor was shown as a criminal mastermind wanted for criminal activity, Luthor is now head of a complex corporation named LexCorp. This reflects his portrayal in 1987's Superman comic reboot, following the limited series "Crisis on Infinite Earths" published in 1985 (which restarted all of the DC Universe), where Lex Luthor is depicted as a powerful and wealthy businessman with his own company, LexCorp, who becomes obsessed with defeating Superman. This version of Luthor was also featured in the television series' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993) and Smallville (2001). This portrayal however, seems to also incorporate 'mad scientist' traits which draw from the character's early comic appearances when he was known simply as "Luther".
• When Clark Kent is in the mountains, he encounters the ghost of Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner). Although it seems to be a vision or hallucination, this experience is based on fact, and is known as Third Man Factor, which occurs in situations of extreme risk or mortal danger where voices, or even presences help to keep a person alive. One of the most common places where Third Man Factor happens, is the top of a mountain.
• Although not confirmed, Bruce Wayne's nightmare could be interpreted as the DC Extended Universe heading towards an adaptation of the popular fighting game series "Injustice". Parallels include Superman being a dictator, Batman leading a resistance force against Superman, a military at Superman's whim, and the mention of "she was my world, and you took her from me" by Superman, could reference Lois Lane's death. This could also be reinforced when the Flash makes his cameo telling Bruce Wayne that "Lois Lane is the key" and "Bruce was right about him".
• When Lois Lane is walking towards Anatoli Knyazev, the song "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (written by Cole Porter; performed by Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine can be heard. The lyric in question is "Every time we say goodbye, I die a little." This is a foreshadowing of what Knyazev says to Martha Kent after she has been kidnapped: "We must say goodbye soon. And every time we say goodbye, you die a little."
• A "Death of Superman" adaptation, titled Superman Reborn, was planned in 1993, written by Jonathan Lemkin. The story involved Superman's life force going into Lois Lane after he died, causing an immaculate conception. Their child grows to age 21 in three weeks, and becomes the resurrected Superman. Gregory Poirier re-wrote the script, and his version had Brainiac creating Doomsday, and an alien named Cadmus resurrecting Superman to defeat Brainiac.
• Lex Luthor, in the Extended Cut, at the Metropolis Library fund-raiser mentions that Prometheus ruined Zeus' plan to destroy mankind. Diana shows visible disgust at that, which is justified in Wonder Woman (2017), as it is revealed that Ares was the one who wanted to destroy mankind, and slaughtered his fellow gods to do so.
• Near the end, a guard addresses Lex Luthor by his prisoner number, AC231940. This is a reference to the first appearance of Lex Luthor in Action Comics #23, published in April of 1940.
• The movie begins and ends with funerals. The beginning is the Waynes' funeral, and the end is Superman/Clark Kent's funeral.
• While the movie's title is largely interpreted as being a versus fight between Batman and Superman, it actually has a much more accurate meaning that even explains the central plot of the movie. The key is the use of "v" instead of "vs". In legal terms, the use of "v" indicates that one party has a grievance with or is coming after the other party. In the movie's case then, the phrase "Batman v Superman" implies Batman has a problem with Superman (due to the destruction in the Battle of Metropolis in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)) and is thus coming after him.
• At the beginning of the movie, the Wayne family is seen walking under a marquee advertising the movie Excalibur (1981). In this movie, King Arthur is killed when Mordred runs him thru with his sword. Arthur then grabs Mordred by the hands and forces the sword deeper inside him so he can get close enough to kill Mordred. This foreshadows the climax of the battle between Superman and Doomsday.
• In the scene where Lois Lane is in Clark Kent's bedroom weeping on his bed after his death, the wallpaper mimics the wallpaper in Hogarth Hughes' bedroom in The Iron Giant (1999). This may be a tribute by Zack Snyder, since in The Iron Giant (1999), the giant wanted to be like Superman and do good deeds for Earth and its people. In the end of the movie, he sacrifices himself to save the town of Rockland, Maine from the nuclear warhead. In a similar way, Superman sacrifices his life to kill Doomsday, and save Earth.
• Deborah Snyder, Producer, and wife of Zack Snyder, makes a cameo appearance as a guest at Clark Kent's wake.
• In the background of the beginning graveyard scene, there is a gravestone with the inscription "Richard John Grayson". The first robin. So Dick Grayson is dead in the DCEU.
• After Superman's death the cellular towers form crosses in the background, alluding to a savior laying down his life, like in the Christian religion.
• Superman's death mirrors his father's death. In Man of Steel (2013), Jor-El gets stabbed through the heart by Zod and in this film Superman gets stabbed by Doomsday (a resurrected abomination of Zod) in almost exactly the same way.
• In the comic book "Death of Superman", his body is brought to Star Labs, where they take blood and clone not one Superman (Superboy), but five, three being aberrations, not quite mentally right.
• This is the second time Michael Cassidy has portrayed a Daily Planet staff member, who has been unceremoniously knocked off by Lex Luthor; in the seventh season of Smallville (2001), Cassidy's character, Grant Gabriel, was revealed to be the clone of Lex's deceased baby brother, Julian, whom Lex murders once he becomes too close to their father, Lionel. Cassidy's Jimmy Olsen is killed in this film, as part of Lex Luthor's machinations to turn public ridicule against Superman.
• When Lex Luthor places Zod's corpse into the water of Genesis Chamber, he says to Zod: "You flew too close to the sun". This is a reference to the Greek myth of Icarus, who used a pair of wings attached to him with wax to escape from Crete. His father Daedalus warned him not to fly too close to the sun (which would melt the wax) but Icarus ignored him, fell, and drowned in the sea.
• After Clark's funeral, Lois stays behind and drops a handful of soil onto Clark's casket. In the television series Smallville (2001), Clark Kent (Tom Welling) does the same thing at Jonathan Kent's funeral in season five, Lionel Luthor's funeral in season seven, and the destroyed truck, where Lex Luthor was killed, in season eight.
• During Batman's apocalyptic dream, he is double-crossed while receiving the box of Kryptonite. You can see the Superman symbol on the patches of their uniforms. Then the parademons arrive, which is a precursor to Justice League (2017) in which Steppenwolf returns to Earth.
• When Bruce confronts Diana Prince at a Museum about the cloned hard drive she stole from the Metropolis Library, she is overseeing an exhibit about Alexander the Great and the sword he reportedly used to cut the Gordian Knot. The sword itself is almost an exact resemblance of King Leonidas' sword in Zack Snyder's earlier film, 300 (2006). Also, the story of Alexander cutting the Gordian Knot is mentioned in the source novel for Watchmen (2009) which Zack Snyder directed.
• One of the major criticisms Zack Snyder had received with his direction of the previous Superman movie, Man of Steel (2013), was the immense amount of destruction and collateral damage shown in the movie, which ultimately left half of Metropolis leveled from the fight between Zod and Superman. In Dawn of Justice, there is technically less loss of life as the big action scene at the end with Doomsday takes place in an abandoned island and an abandoned port in Gotham City Harbor. However, there is certainly a lot of destruction in the battle against Doomsday.
• In the Ultimate Cut of the film, when the SWAT team captures Lex Luthor in the remains of the Kryptonian Ship's Genesis Chamber following the battle against Doomsday, Lex is shown talking to a metallic holograph of General Steppenwolf, who roars in anger before dissipating. If one looks really closely at the hologram of Steppenwolf, one can see that his design (especially the Face) is different than his appearance in the theatrical cut of Justice League (2017). In 2020, it was revealed a few weeks before the official announcement about the Snyder Cut of Justice League that Steppenwolf's design was vastly different and 'more fearsome'.
• This movie reunites Ben Affleck with Diane Lane after Hollywoodland (2006) (a movie with a Superman theme), although they meet for only a few moments in this movie.
• In the comic book "Death of Superman", Doomsday is killed by Superman during a simultaneous punch. In Smallville (2001), he's just put out of commission, as the Justice League from the future sends him to the end of time to fight no one. This way was the safest, as the League knew Doomsday could not be killed.
• This is the second time that Jeffrey Dean Morgan played a DC Comic hero's father in a Zack Snyder film. The first was in Watchmen (2009), when he played The Comedian, Silk Spectre II's father.
• When Luthor confronts Lois Lane on the helipad, he quotes Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, "Plain Lo in the morning. Lola in slacks." Jeremy Irons (Alfred Pennyworth) starred as Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1997).
• Throughout most of the film, Lex Luthor is seen with longish hair, a direct contrast to his traditional bald headed appearance. However, by the end of the film, Luthor's hair had been shaved off, showing him as bald, which plays as a throwback to Gene Hackman with the "Is it a wig, or is it a bald cap?" question.
• This is the first film in 3-D to feature not just Batman, but Wonder Woman, Cyborg, The Flash and Aquaman. Superman's first 3-D film was Man of Steel (2013), and Green Lantern had a 3-D film in Green Lantern (2011), which is not connected to the DC Extended Universe.
• During the battle between the two heroes, "MCK" can be seen on a pillar in graffiti. These are the initials of Superman's adoptive Earth mother, Martha Clark Kent, making this a possible premonition to the revelation that ends their fight.
• After the nuclear blast, Superman is referred to as "Projectile 2". This is a remote reference to "P.R.O.J.E.C.T. 2" to All-Star Superman, which is a project dedicated to creating a second superman after Superman's death in the comics.
• The film bears some similarities to the earlier Batman film The Dark Knight (2008): In both films, the main antagonists The Joker and Lex Luthor are bent on bringing down Harvey Dent and Superman. Both Harvey Dent and Lex Luthor kidnap Superman and Commissioner James Gordon's families to force them into a confrontation. In the aftermath of the final showdown between the protagonists and the antagonists, both The Joker and Lex Luthor are arrested. Both The Joker and Lex Luthor kill people in explosions. Like the interrogation scene between Batman and The Joker, the light goes out in Lex Luthor's prison cell and Batman appears and confronts Lex Luthor for what he has done, and both films end with the deaths of Harvey Dent and Superman.
• Superman is very frequently compared to a God-like being or an actual God throughout this movie. This may be a reference to two Alternate Universe comic series: Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross as well as All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison. In Kingdom Come's dystopian future, Superman has absorbed so much radiation from Sol that he is now invincible from Kryptonite, while in All-Star Superman, a terminally ill Superman merges with the sun to provide with endless energy and thus becoming a God-like being.
• During the Knightmare sequence, following the revelation about that the Kryptonite is a fake and he has been betrayed by his own men, Batman/Bruce Wayne runs out into his base to find the Parademons attacking his remaining soldiers that the Superman soldiers haven't killed. If one looks closely, a person can see that the Parademons are different in appearance than in the follow-up, Justice League (2017). Most notably, the majority of the Parademons have an extra set of arms similar to Praying Mantis' limbs.
• Bruce, as Batman, openly kills people in several scenes, most notably in the big action scene where Batman tries to steal the Kryptonite from the LexCorp convoy in Metropolis, which shows that he is a different universe character as the Noble Knight shown in The Dark Knight Trilogy portrayed by Christian Bale.
• At the end, the planes are performing the "Missing Man formation' which is an aerial salute at a funeral or memorial event to honor the dead or missing. In this case, Superman is both, dead and missing. His body is being buried in his home town, Smallville.
• If a person listens closely to the soundtrack and sound effects in the film (preferably the Blu-Ray Ultimate Cut or the Digital Edition of the Ultimate Cut), one can clearly hear the sound of the Kryptonian World Engine clearly before Bruce Wayne's dream sequences begin. As Batman v Superman is about Bruce trying to kill Superman as a result of the destruction he brought upon Metropolis in Man of Steel and he could potentially bring to the world, it's possible that, in the context of the events, Bruce is suffering from a PTSD-like psychological scenario because he feels so powerless against Superman.
• During Bruce's nightmare involving the monster bat coming out of his family's mausoleum walls, it is clearly shown (via the dates on the walls) that Martha and Thomas Wayne were killed in the year 1981. This collaborates what Alfred says later in the movie when he says that Bruce has been fighting as Batman for twenty years in Gotham City. Presumably, Bruce was about six to eight years old when his parents were shot by Joe Chill, and presumably after he grew up and trained to become Batman, he was about twenty to thirty years old before becoming the Batman. Since Dawn of Justice takes place in, presumably, 2016, the DCEU's Bruce Wayne (at the time) is at least forty years old, roughly around how old Ben Affleck was when he played the character.
• At a Museum Gala that Diana Prince is attending, Bruce and Diana talk about how Diana is not what she appears to be externally, and Bruce clearly sees through her 'innocent girl in the woods act', claiming he has known a few women like her. Presumably, he is talking about his on-again, off-again lover and fellow costumed adventurer: the professional thief known as Catwoman, who (depending on the origin story and depiction of character) is also a high-profile socialite in Gotham City.
• While it definitely can be said that the primary literary influence for Batman v Superman is Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns' and the 'Injustice' video games (and subsequent comic run), there are also references to 'Batman: Noel' by Lee Bermejo. Both Noel and Dawn of Justice deal with Batman using rougher and more brutal tactics than he usually does against criminals after being traumatized by an event. However, Batman realizes how far he has gone and what the consequences of his actions are, and reaches a point where he stops his reign of violence. In both stories, it involves an encounter with Superman, who is depicted as an angelic-like being in some scenes, and the encounter happens mid-way through the film.
• The sequence between Superman and Batman in Noel is very different, though, than the encounter scene between Superman and Batman in Dawn of Justice. In Noel, Superman is checking up on Batman as a concerned friend and tries to show all the good going on in Gotham City to Batman, including random acts of kindness and love. In Dawn of Justice, Superman confronts Batman during his chase after the Kryptonite hidden in the LexCorp convoy and threatens his life in order to try to get him to stop being Batman.
• Both Noel and Dawn of Justice all feature dream sequences involving a possible future potentially caused by Bruce's actions if he doesn't stop his use of his methods at the time. In Noel's dream sequence, Bruce sees that Gordon is arrested for aiding a vigilante and the city has become full of gang-land violence, mostly between gangs who either dress in Batman or Joker-themed costumes. In Dawn of Justice, of course, he envisions the Knightmare.
• It should also be known that the various mentioned inspirations for Dawn of Justice are all story-lines that take place in alternate universes than the official DC Comics universe.
• In the Extended cut, there is a monologue scene involving the Daily Show, who talks about Superman not acting as an American hero anymore and intervening in various international situations (as depicted earlier in the film). The commentator then jokes about him not wearing the Declaration of Independence as his Cape is too on-the-nose as a symbol of his adopted homeland. The character of Homelander from the Amazon superhero series known as The Boys, who is clearly modeled after Superman, has for a cape an American flag. Despite being modeled appearance-wise on Superman being an all-American Hero (and the slight resemblance between actors Henry Cavill and Antony Starr) and having the presumably same powers, Superman and Homelander's similarities end there. Homelander is clearly a murderous psychopath, while Superman is a good man. Homelander is also an American citizen as he was created in a laboratory while Superman was born on Krypton and sent to Earth.
• The DC Comics character of Anatoly/KGBeast, who is Lex Luthor's top henchman in this film, is also a prominent character in another DC Comics live-action production, which is about a multi-billionaire heir to an industrial family who, after disappearing for several years, returns to his crime-infested city to become a street-level vigilante who has no superpowers but uses strong martial arts tactics and intimidation methods to defeat criminals: Arrow.
• However, Anatoly, in the Arrowverse, while still a high-ranking officer in the Bratva (the Russian mafia) and who is involved with criminal activity, is a bit different than his cinematic depiction. He is depicted as an honorable criminal and he is a staunch ally of the Green Arrow/Oliver Queen, who saved his life from Anthony Ivo in Season Two's flashbacks. He is also considerably older than his cinematic depiction.
• During the scene on top of the Lexcorp Headquarters Building in Metropolis, after Superman rescues Lois from falling to death and he confronts Lex Luthor, Lex blackmails Superman into going to fight and kill Batman by threatening the life of Martha Kent. Presumably, if Martha had died, this would have broken Clark or driven him over the edge to become the tyrant he is depicted in the Knightmare. If so, this provides further depth to the line he says before ripping out Knightmare Bruce's heart about her being his world.
• In the Injustice Universe, which is the presumed inspiration for the Knightmare, however, Clark is driven to become a murderer and tyrant from the death of Lois Lane, who was pregnant with his son.
• Lex Luthor's father is revealed, in the film universe, to have been a citizen of East Germany, which was the part of Germany occupied by the Soviets after World War Two. Lex also describes him as a man who was extremely poor and unable to afford newspapers or food. This is different to his usual origin story, most notably the Smallville universe, where Lex's father is a powerful and ruthless CEO of a large corporation similar to Norman Osborne from the Spider-Man comics/movies or Lex himself in the comics. The reveal that Lex Luthor is of German descent is in direct contradiction to his appearance in Justice League, where he is hiding off the coast of Holland on a luxury yacht that is flying the Dutch flag prominently.
• During the scene where Bruce chases after the Russian mercenaries working for Luthor, KGBeast attempts to destroy the Batmobile by firing a shoulder-mounted rocket at him. Bruce activates a defense mechanism on the Batmobile to avoid being blown up which appears to be some sort of cloud of flares. This is similar to a scene in Iron Man, the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise and DC's primary rival, where Iron Man is under attack by a pair of fighter jets. One of the jets fires a homing rocket and Tony has to deploy flares to stop himself from being blown up.
• During the Knightmare sequence, the Superman soldiers' uniforms appear to be a modernized combination of German soldier uniforms from the WWII era and the storm-trooper uniforms from Terry Gilliam's dystopian comedy film 'Brazil', which is reportedly a heavy influence on Zack Snyder's films.
• When Superman confronts Lex on LexCorp tower in Metropolis, Lex refers to Superman as a 'God' and mentions several other names of Gods before revealing he knows Superman's real name of Clark Kent. He says three names of well-known Gods from ancient mythology in that scene. This is similar to a scene from X-Men: Apocalypse, where En Sabah Nur says he has been called many names and is an essentially god-like mutant, and reveals he has begun the mythology of gods on Earth, naming three prominent names of Gods.
• Lex's monologue to Clark explaining how God is tribal and takes sides is similar to a dialogue from 'Crime and Punishment' by Russian author Dostoyevsky, where a character reasons that God cannot be all-good if he permits evil acts to happen.
• When Superman is battling Doomsday and takes him into space, the President's military advisers insist on firing a nuclear missile at Doomsday to destroy him, something that Secretary Swanwick takes great offense to, presumably because he doesn't want to lose a potential asset to America's security. However, it was revealed that in the original cut of Justice League by Zack Snyder, Swanwick would be revealed to be Martian Manhunter, and in the context of that, Swanwick/Manhunter's reasoning would be presumably to save a fellow alien from poor judgment by humanity.
• In the Ultimate Cut, there is a brief shot of the Gotham-Metropolis game where one fan holds up a photograph of former US president Richard Nixon who is depicted holding two 'V for Victory' signs with his hands. Richard Nixon was a prominent character in Zack Snyder's first major production with DC Comics (which also got an Ultimate Cut): Watchmen.
• At no point in the movie is it ever explained how Clark discovered Batman's true identity of Bruce Wayne.
• In one scene, Lex Luthor referred to Senator Finch as "Junebug". Amy Adams (Lois Lane) was in Junebug (2005).
• The final sequence where Batman confronts the prisoner Lex Luthor in prison, Lex says he is unfit to stand trial and has been declared insane. If he did stand trial, Lex's crimes would almost certainly have him facing the death sentence for not only his conspiracy to kill Superman but also terrorism, as he orchestrated a bombing of government buildings (The Capitol Building) and killed countless people inside including the majority of the United States Senators and Representatives.
• Despite several scenes where he pleads with Bruce to stop his more violent and reckless actions and eventually his plans to assassinate Superman, Alfred literally does nothing to stop his friend and employer. This makes no sense because if Bruce had killed Superman with the Kryptonite, both Alfred and Bruce would have been complicit legally in murder.
• All of the Superhero movies that Ben Affleck has starred or at least, appeared in, have received or will receive extended cuts that are more favorably received than the theatrical cut (Daredevil (2003), Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad (2016), and Justice League (2017)).
• After Bruce returns to the Batcave following his prolonged chase with KGBeast and his men in the streets with the Batmobile, the score briefly resembles pieces from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.
• At the very end of the movie, when Lois drops a handful of dirt on Clark's coffin in Smallville and walks away, the dirt begins to levitate before the screen cuts to black and the credits roll. This implies that Clark is still alive, but also able to use his powers still. However, he doesn't get revived until Justice League (2017), which is implied to take place several years after Dawn of Justice.
• In Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: Whine, Whine, Whine (1995) which Superman stands trial in court, there was a scene which Superman saves everyone from a bomb. In the movie, everyone in the courtroom at Superman's trial is killed in a explosion by Lex Luthor.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Movie Mistakes

• When Senator Finch first addresses the committee, the top of the "Peach Tea" jar on her bench is visible and it has a lid. When she finally sees it, then reads the label, there is no longer a lid on it.
• At the beginning of Batman's "Knightmare" scene, Batman is clearly seen carrying a rifle strapped over his left shoulder. It even changes positions from being hung from his shoulder to being slung across his chest. It is visible in every cut before and during the arrival of the trucks carrying "the rock". But once Batman climbs into the rear of the truck carrying "the rock" you can clearly see his rifle is gone and all he ultimately has is his sidearm, an M9 pistol.
• When the Waynes exit the Aragon movie theater after watching The Mark of Zorro the marquee reveals that the film Excalibur "Starts Wed." The Excalibur film premiered in the USA on Friday, April 10, 1981. But the scene depicts a cold fall evening with the Wayne family dressed in overcoats. That the Wayne murders occurred during the fall is confirmed by the opening shot of the caskets being carried to the tomb on grounds that are covered with leaves.
• After the mercenaries kill everyone in the desert, there are two guys looking at them using two monitors. The pencil below them changes from white to blue.
• After Batman shoots the tracking device onto the truck, later in the warehouse the device is next to a number 5 that was not there before.
• Before Lois and Jimmy are about to get to the secret location in the desert, a guy puts a bag on Lois's head and she has a hood on, but when the bag is removed the hood is off.
• When Clark flies Lois back to the farm, the place should be empty, as Martha had already moved out when the property was foreclosed. Despite this, he ends up fully dressed by the end of the visit.
• In the footage of Cyborg watched by Diana, the time is given as "2400 hours and 2 minutes." This is not how a 24-hour clock would keep time. It would be "Zero hours and 2 minutes."
• When Bruce Wayne watches the video footage of meta humans, the one with Diana takes place in Paris, France. The footage shows a date in the upper left corner. The date says "22 juin 2015, 10:13AM". If "22 juin 2015" is French, "10:13AM" is pure English. In French, the hour would simply be "10:13" (as the evening time would be "22:13").
• At the start Bruce Wayne runs into a massive dust cloud formed from the falling building. In the scenes that follow he and the other people have very little or no dust on them at all - they should be completely covered and choking on it.
• The Earth is constantly moving. Even if Doomsday and Superman were in space for only a few minutes after the nuclear explosion, the Earth below them would have rotated dozens of miles past their launching point meaning that returning to Metropolis would have had to been an intentional act of flying and navigation. In Doomsday's case, the film does not demonstrate this.
• The female Lt Col US lapel insignia are the wrong insignia for her service dress uniform. The ones she is wearing are outdated.
• The Army Apache helicopters sent up against Doomsday in Metropolis appear to be the older AH-64A Apache helicopter, evidenced by its thinner and shorter 'cheeks' and lack of a mounting for the AN/APG-78 Longbow radar on top of the rotor hub present on the newer AH-64D or E models. The use of the AH-64A in this film is, however, most likely incorrect because the last active AH-64A was retired in July 2012, and all Apaches in service after that date have been D or E models.
• Courts of Appeal do not call witnesses. Therefore, Lex would not have won his appeal because Superman was unavailable to appear as a witness. Superman Returns made the exact same mistake.
• When Batman is chasing after the semi-truck loaded with the Kryptonite, Anatoli Knyazev fires at him with a rocket. He's using the FGM-148 Javelin which has a minimum engagement range of about 75 meters. He wouldn't have been able to get a proper target lock or fire the weapon accurately at the Batmobile while it was so close to him.
• When Lois and Jenet are inspecting the bullet, they are using a transmitted tight microscope. This type of microscope would not produce the images seen on the monitor. They should have been using a stereo-microscope to produce those images.
• When Bruce Wayne watches the video footage of meta humans, the one with Diana takes place in Paris, France. The footage shows a date in the upper left corner. The date says "22 juin 2015, 10:13AM". If "22 juin 2015" is french, "10:13AM" is pure english. In french, the hour would simply be "10:13" (as the evening time would be "22:13").
• When Superman and Batman are fighting, Batman releases a smoke bomb. Superman could use his X-ray vision to follow Batman's movements, but he looks surprised when he goes through the smoke and Batman is gone. In fact, these bombs contain lead which disrupts Superman's vision. When Batman is preparing his bombs in the Batcave, a chemical formula is written on each bomb, the letters "Pb" are present (symbol of lead).
• The four-inch cut in Superman's cheek from the Kryptonite knife disappears in subsequent scenes, leaving not even a scar. But this is because the cut healed itself when Superman is in space and gets revitalized by sunlight.
• When Batman goes to save Martha Kent and breaks into the last room where the guy is holding the flame thrower on Martha he grabs the machine gun out of one of the henchman's hands. The machine gun is an M-60 which is a belt fed weapon but there's no belt on it so the weapon is unloaded. Actually if observed closely, attached to the side of the M-60 is a small box magazine that has bullets being fed by a belt into it showing that the weapon is indeed loaded.
• Lieutenant General Calvin Swanwick became Secretary of Defense only 18 months after the events of Man of Steel, the previous film in the series. Without Congressional waiver, retired military personnel are prohibited from assuming the role of Secretary of Defense for a minimum of 7 years after retirement due to the National Security Act of 1947. Though rare, such a waiver has been granted twice, in 1950 for Secretary George Marshall, and again in 2017 for Secretary Jim Mattis.
• When Batman removes his mask in the cave after the Batmobile chase, his eye make-up is gone. Similarly after Superman removes Batman's mask in the Knightmare scene the eye make-up is also not present. However, eye make-up has always been used to make Batman's eyes look dark in film adaptations since Batman (1989) to make the costume look like it is in the comics and have never shown Bruce Wayne actually wearing the make-up after he takes the mask off.
• Batman and Superman are not friends in this, therefore Batman leaving the "cowl gap" in his armor makes no sense. In the comic book source novel for the film, Superman would not have struck Batman in the head or face because he had no desire to seriously injure or kill him due to their perceived friendship. The film itself, however, gives no reason for believing that this would not occur. While Superman isn't necessarily a murderer it showed one instance where he killed another who was simply threatening someone. Batman had no reason to believe that he wouldn't do the same to him and as such no reason to expose any part of his head to attack. It could also be argued that this was a direct nod to the armor depicted in The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel. Besides, by covering the lower half of Batman's face, it could just as easily have been a robot. For dramatic effect, it needed to be the way it is depicted.
• Some users have stated that Superman took 10 minutes to cross the bay to confront Lex because he was still weak from the kryptonite gas and moving much slower than usual. When Lex and Lois are on the roof of Lexcorp Tower, Batman's bat signal is visible in the distance and it is clearly only a mile or two at most. When the film shows Superman approaching the ship, he is clearly moving at an extremely high rate of speed that would have enabled him to cross the bay in a matter of seconds, even if he were weak. If you listen closely, there seems to be a sonic boom when it switches from Lex holding the timer to showing Superman approaching - a sound effect the director would not have inserted if he wanted the audience to think Superman was too weak to fly fast. Also, after Doomsday is "born," Doomsday throws a punch at Lex and Superman is able to go from standing to flying fast enough (and strong enough) to catch the punch in an instant.
• When Batman rushes to save Martha Kent, time is of the essence, yet he still takes the time to change out of his suit of armor and put on his more traditional suit before even going there.
• As one of the Superman Squad runs up to fight Batman, he drops to one knee before he was even touched by Batman.
• In the obituary for Clark Kent, the opening couple of paragraphs are repeated further down the article.
• When Diana is watching the footage sent to her by Bruce Wayne, she slides her finger to the left on the touchpad but the cursor moves to the right.
• The immediate aftermath of Jimmy Olsen's shooting in Africa is shown through a video feed from an airborne camera, presumably from a UAV. The latitude & longitude of the UAV and where its camera is pointed are shown on the upper and lower right of the video feed. Both coordinates are nowhere near Africa, although they are in the vicinity of Creech Air Force Base in Nevada (a major hub for UAV operations).
• Pearl necklaces of even moderate quality have a knot placed after each pearl, holding them in place on the strand. When Martha Wayne's pearl necklace is ripped, only one pearl should have come loose.
• The Jeep Renegade Bruce Wayne is driving at the beginning of the film does not have functional brake lights.
• The name on the ship is obviously Photoshopped, and amateurishly, as well. The lettering was not laid out with the same perspective as the ship, growing relatively larger in the distance. It would only have taken a few seconds to do it correctly. The graphic artist was clearly a beginner and unfamiliar with the tools.
• When Lex shows Superman his mother's pictures there is "witch" written on her forehead which follows Luther's ranting about killing her in a fire. When Batman rescues her, there is neither "witch" on her forehead nor any black smears if she might have wiped it off.
• At first it may seem that Lois has no reason to go back for the kryptonite spear. However, the creature causing the destruction came from the Kryptonian ship, and Batman has deliberately brought it back to this location. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist one would expect her to make the connection that the spear is needed, and she is the only one who knows exactly where to find it.
• The nuclear missile fired at Doomsday would have hit him on the Earthside, which should have propelled him further away. Superman, for instance, appear to be pushed further back, which puts him high enough to now be out of the night shadow of the planet, allowing the sun to rejuvenate him. Instead, Doomsday 'falls' back to Earth in a manner no object actually would due to conservation of momentum (he would have done so in a big curve fitting a decayed orbit). However, Doomsday is Kryptonian - and they can fly, even if Doomsday has yet to work out just how to do this. As this is the only explanation as to why Doomsday falls back to the ground so quickly, this also explains why Batman gets the creature to chase him to Gotham Docks rather than just get the spear and do the chasing. Any minute now Doomsday might work out how to fly just like Zod did, at which point Batman may never be able to catch up with him again.
• Some people have noticed that after the fight with Superman, Batman's armor and cowl were pretty messed up, yet the next scene sees him entering the Batwing wearing a new and unscathed suit. The suit he was wearing to fight Superman was a literal suit of armor. In the following scenes, he is wearing a completely different suit. Which means that, yes, he did indeed change his suit. The armored suit was just for fighting Superman, otherwise it would have been like a child trying to hit a tank with his bare fists.
• At Superman's funeral, on the way to the grave and through the ceremony, the coffin has a black top with the silver "S" on it. Later the coffin top is simple brown wood with no "S." There are two services being held at the same time, one for Clark Kent in Smallville and one for Superman in Metropolis, each with a different coffin.
• When Lois arrives at the monument she calls Superman "Clark" and right in front of a policeman, making it possible for the policeman to figure out who "Clark" is, as he supposedly died covering Superman's battle with Doomsday. This is understandable, but the policeman would obviously need to be counseled to keep this secret.
• It is inconceivable that Luthor would not have informed Knyazev that Superman is unable to see through lead with his X-ray vision (which is how Luthor sneaked the wheelchair bomb into the hearing). Yet not only does Knyazev NOT ensure that Superman will not be able to locate Martha Kent (holding her hostage in a open-air warehouse instead of a lead-based enclosure), Batman and Alfred, using thermal technology, locate her easily. Oddly, Superman does not attempt to locate Martha, but senses that Lois is in danger during his fight with Doomsday, and saves her.
• Right after Luthor warns Superman that he's got less than one hour to save his mother, who was previously kidnapped and is held in an unknown location, we see Luthor's men place a timer on the table in front of Martha, counting backwards: however, the seconds displayed on the timer are running about twice as fast as they actually should.

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