Thread:Rodangizzardcrusher3/@comment-26687285-20160822213306/@comment-26687285-20171130015308

Rodangizzardcrusher3 wrote: TBH, I'd really love to see a story where Batman is broken beyond repair and is turned into a tyrannical dictator. It's so much more interesting because of how stoic he usually is, and he tends to know 90% of the other DC character's weaknesses. It probably would take a team-up of the JL and most of their allies to stop him.

I'll tell you, that's something I was thinking about when looking back on BvS. A very good way to get around Batfleck's whole "No killing" problem would have been to actually make that part of the story. I'll explain.

They could have had an unknown person impersonating Batman (perhaps it could be this version of Jared Leto's Joker:) and going around shooting up goons, branding junkies, blowing up mercenaries, and loads of other things we know the REAL Batman would never do...(| Ahem!), and perhaps even making Bruce's allies fearful that maybe he's finally gone over the edge. Bruce might say: "It's not me, Alfred. I know who I am." To which he would say: "How can you be sure if even 'I' no longer know who you are?" Bruce would try to convince Alfred of his innocence. "Nothing's changed" he would tell him. To which Alfred would respond: "Oh yes it has, sir. Everything's changed" (followed by newsclips of the Clark-Zod fight like in the released film). He would tell Bruce that he fears that Superman's arrival has unhinged his mind. That all of the visions and nightmares he has been having about all those years of loss and grief are a sign that he is truly starting to lose his sanity. That perhaps he is no longer aware of what he is doing. That perhaps he is suffering from mania or even hypnosis. This would set Bruce on hunt to discover who this imposter is and what his plans are.

This could have been a great way to establish this new Batman, by having his arc in this film be about clearing his own name and showing both himself and the rest of the world what the Batman truly stands for. Which would ultimately culminate (both physically and thematically) in his showdown with Superman. And which would have been infinitely more interesting and more befitting a character like Batman than the pointless, tedious, drawn-out, illogical and inconsequential clusterfuck of a subplot that was the Kryptonite quest.

P.S. A really good example of how what I'm talking about is | the Identity Theft side mission from Arkham City. Now THAT'S the kind of thing I'd like to see in a Batman movie!