Why Doomsday Is The Perfect Villain For Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Very good points and I agree with all of them. Can't wait for March 25th!

I still think Metallo would have been a better choice. Have him be someone who got severely injured during the battle of Metropolis. He contemplates his life was ruined by Superman, and Luthor gives him an offer, thus he becomes Metallo and is sent to kill Superman.

Nice write up but I still think it's way too soon for Doomsday. I think it would've worked much better if Lex had created someone else like Bizarro (which would've made sense due to the manipulation of Kryptonian DNA, possibly a combination of Zod's and Superman's, resulting in an abomination) or Metallo, who could've presented a very different sort of threat that would've also made Batman a very necessary ally to Superman by the end of the movie. Both of those villains are pretty basic in that there's not a lot of story around them, at least not enough for an entire film, but they'd both be perfect foils for Superman while including Lex in the movie as the big bad behind the scenes. They're sort of one and done villains, you know? You use them in a single movie in a basic role, and then you don't need to see them again.

Doomsday is also a one and done villain, and is also pretty basic - you're right in saying he's pretty much just a plot device - however, unlike the other two villains I mentioned, he's a very specific plot device, in that he's meant to kill Superman. That's the only reason he exists in the comics, and it'd be a shame for him not to do that in the movies. Having said that, it seems way too soon to do the whole Death and Return story in the movies, meaning he's kind of wasted here. Plus, while I agree with your point that Doomsday isn't interesting enough or even enough of a character to sustain a whole film as a villain, he doesn't need to be, as a film dedicated to the Death and Return storyline would have enough going on to fully justify its existence as a movie and would have a lot more going on after Doomsday kills Superman, because he's not necessary for the rest. What I'm trying to say is, following the resurrection, there are so many directions that movie could go in terms of plot and potential villains for Superman to face, that having Doomsday as a plot device to set it up early on in the film is perfectly fine, so there really isn't any need to shoehorn him into BvS.