My version of the Batman V Superman fight and how it could've been improved!

My version of the Batman V Superman fight and how it could've been improved!

A different take on the infamous fight between the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight, the first time these two iconic characters clashed on the big screen!

Editorial Opinion
By rosco71 - Nov 28, 2016 07:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Superman

For many,  the fight between Superman and Batman was good......but for others it was'nt, in my opinion it was rushed, badly edited and some of the logic behind Batman's motive was a head scratcher, sure he was angry at Superman for the devastation that he left behind, but the fact he had no interest in at least LISTENING to Supes made Batman's character not very diplomatic

I'm just a fan, this is the first article I've written so bare with me.

This is how the fight should've went down, ( in my opinion )

Superman hovers above as he does, then lands, Batman  states  " well, here I am"!  ....this time NO smirking.
Superman looks up at the search light in the sky and looks at Batman before disabling it with his heat vision.
Batman slowly backs away as Supes approuches saying, " I'm not here to fight, i may have been wrong about..."
Thats when he's hit with the sonic blaster, THAT is when Batman smirks, knowing Supes can be hurt or at least rocked.

Supes destroys it as he did, looking slightly annoyed, " LISTEN to me, we dont have time for this, I need your..."
then he's hit with the twin machine guns which he destroys, marches right up to a fast back tracking Batman who's now reaching
for something behind him underneith his cape, Supes grabs him by the chest plate and lifts him up,
" IS THAT IT?? ARE YOU DONE?? " Batman uses a mini sonic blaster aimed at Supes temple which makes him throw him away and
he staggers slightly.

" Not by long shot" Batman states getting up painfully.

" Fine, you dont wanna listen?, I guess I'll have to make you! "
Batman is then flown up and through the building and thrown down hard.

Meanwhile Lois is circling the area in the helicopter watching with binoculours.

"Stay down, If i wanted it, you'd be dead by now!" Supes states,
Batman disapears in a smoke bomb, Supes uses his X-ray vision and realises that lead within the smoke is blocking it,
Supes catches the granade fired from Batman and is hit with the K-smoke,
" W-w what is this??" Supes struggles to say,
" A little something i put together from an emerald that came from your planet, I call it Kryptonite, It affects Kryptonian DNA,
this batch Is'nt enough to kill you......but It'll zap your strength for a while! "

The Batman beats Supes down to the lower floor, " you think your a God to us, how many people died that day? I lost an entire
building with people still in it, including a good friend of mine, "

Batman and Supes are now in a corridor with broken windows and holes in the walls allowing Lois to see more clearly,
" There!... get me in closer," Lois points.

Supes slightly recovers and knocks Batman down the corridor  with a punch to the chestplate,
he gets up and slowley approuches Batman,  looking angry, " I came to you for HELP, not to FIGHT you, but you don't care do you?
It's all about revenge, I'm sorry about your friend,.... I am,  I turned against my own PEOPLE to save this Planet!......but you dont care!"
Supes eyes light up in anger, then Suddenly Lois's voice echoes in his ears, " Clark STOP, I know you can hear me, this isn't you, "
the nearby helicoper can be heard outside so Supes smashes another a big hole revealing Lois hovering in the helicopter,
Batman's suit is now sparking and falling apart, as he tries to get up, " what are you waiting for?....do it! "(watchmen easter egg)
Supes eyes return to normal and gazes back to Batman, " No,.... I had to kill Zod before he could do the same thing,  I'm not him!"

 " I know,...... I had to be sure! " Batman says breathing heavy!

Supes reaches out a hand to help Batman up, " the media calls you the  'world's greatest detective',  Luthor has kidnapped my mother and I need your help to find her"

Batman accepts his hand and gets up,  "he's been working with a group of mercenaries, I've been tracking thier leader, where he is? she will be"

Lois rushes up the stairs tells them that the scout ship has been drawing massive energy to it and that Luthor was seen going in,
Batman and Supes look at each other, " you find Luthor, I'll find your Mother,....you have my word!" Batman says.

Lois then holds Clark's cheek...." can i write about this fight?"

Batman and Supes BOTH say..." NO!"

And thats my version, I'm sure others will have thiers,  this would've played better than what we witnessed,
I cut the MARTHA scene completely because I CRING each time it comes on.....I hated it! 


Thank you for reading

Ross

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WYLEEJAY
WYLEEJAY - 11/28/2016, 8:46 PM
This would of cut the whole fight in half. Probably not a good idea for a movie called Batman vs Superman.

I liked the movie, but the whole fight between the two of them was a disappointment. I wish it had gone down completely differently. Not just the dialogue and the end of it.
WYLEEJAY
WYLEEJAY - 11/28/2016, 9:30 PM
@WYLEEJAY - Now, I'm not trying to say anything bad about what you took the time to write. Good on you there. Just the reason for their fight to begin with is my issue.

The way it played out with Luthor, made Batman look gullible and easy to manipulate. And petty for a superhero with as much experience as he has. And I believe the loss of Robin would of made him react to the events from Man of Steel much differently.

Sure, he would still be extremely angry with the way it played out, but the problem with the ending was how many witnesses that survived to tell the story of Superman stopping Zod. I believe Batman would hear these testimonials, and instead of believing the media's point of view, that I'm sure he had to deal with himself at one point, he would look at it from the point of view of a failed mentor. He lost his apprentice, so to speak. Now here in front of him is someone that's inexperienced, but also indestructible. Almost. Someone that needs guidance, but someone that's capable of saving more people than he ever could.

That's why I would have left Luthors motive as is with his campaign against Superman. Down to the bombing of the senators. All to try to make Superman look bad. While he tries to find a way to destroy him physically too. And even gaining access to the Kryptonion ship and the process to make Doomsday, all for him to gain more knowledge. Because that's his power. He would not have anything to do with Batman. I just don't buy that no matter how depressed he is, that Batman wouldn't see through Luthors attempts at manipulating him. So I would just leave that out altogether.

I would have Batman, once he manages to steal that Kryptonite from Luthor, and discovers it's power against Superman, to challenge Superman and set a trap for him. To test him. Show him that he's not indestructible, and use the fight to prove what kind of a man Superman really is. To decide if he's meant to teach Superman. I believe Batman should take Superman under his wing. The whole fight would play out differently than it did in the movie, but Batman would not hold back. Even using the Kryptonite against him. All to reveal to Superman that he wants to teach him to be a better hero.

See I think having an older more experienced Batman, and a younger Superman that's just really learning about himself, is a great opportunity for a mentor and apprentice relationship. The whole script could of been worked around this idea of testing the hero. With Wonder Woman's introduction done similar to the way it was in the film, and all three heroes coming together to fight a better designed Doomsday, would of made for a better film.
WYLEEJAY
WYLEEJAY - 11/28/2016, 9:33 PM
@WYLEEJAY - And I would have left out the entire kidnapping of Superman's mom. Damsel in distress isn't needed in every movie. This one could of had enough motive for Luthor to do what he was doing, without that little added bit.
aresww3
aresww3 - 11/29/2016, 12:58 PM
@WYLEEJAY - Was a nice scene this kid wrote up, but you're right. Doesn't fix the problem most people had. Fight wasn't long enough. It needed 5 more mins or so and that's coming from me who likes this movie despite seeing some major flaws.

I think this fight could have been fixed in two ways. Batman should have had traps waiting for Supes before supe's even had a chance to set eyes on him. A remote Bat Wing doing battle with Supes would have been nice. Then supes gets into an abandoned city.Sees Batman looking in the other direction, goes to say "hey bruce I need your help" and its a fake suit which electrocutes him. Stuff like that. Then finally after dealing with traps he reveals himself to Supes.

The other thing I think really could have helped so much, more than anything, is if Clark had have discovered about the Waynes death. I think the Martha scene was just a couple of steps away from being the best scene in film history.

Imagine Clark goes out to find out about the Batman, at first thinking he's a monster who tortures and brands people, but then finds out that really Bruce is this broken man who saw his family Brutally murdered by looking in the Daily Planet archives on Bruce Wayne. We then see him visit crime ally and we see as Clark imagines what happened as Bruce himself is at his parents grave reliving the moment. So its a montage showing the Waynes death. Clark remembers part of the article mentioning something about Marthas Pearls. As he happens to look around crime ally he uses his supervision and realizes one of the strands of Martha Waynes pearl necklace has survived in dirt by the gutter all these years.

Now we are at the end of the fight scene and Superman is defeated, so when Clark says "Save Martha!" Superman actually does it on purpose knowing it will trigger Batman. Batman is still ready to kill supes even though hearing the name has rocked him, but then Supes from clenched fists drops a single pearl bead to the ground and once again repeats "Save Martha." Batman sees the bead role out of Supes hand and that's when he really freaks. The rest of the scene stays the same.

This would have been perfect, because it will turn things completely on its head. It would have shown Batman surprisingly really can beat Supes in a physical fight, but also that Supes beat Bats using brains and psychology.

But hey, I still like what we got. It was interesting. The fight was the least good thing about the movie though.
aresww3
aresww3 - 11/29/2016, 1:00 PM
@WYLEEJAY - By the way I meant best scene in comic movie film history lol NOT FILM HISTORY. that would be a stretch.
WYLEEJAY
WYLEEJAY - 11/29/2016, 1:33 PM
@aresww3 - Interesting. What I liked about my idea most was that it would have basically come down to Superman, against Luthor and Batman for very different personal reasons. One would be trying to bring him down. While the other would be testing him, building him up by running him through the gauntlet, to help him. Superman wouldn't know this till the end of the fight. And his sacrifice at the end would of given Batman more hope. Rekindled his fire to keep going in a way different than the movie gave us.

Batman and Luthor should not have had anything to do with each other.
WYLEEJAY
WYLEEJAY - 11/29/2016, 1:34 PM
And it could have been written and filmed so the audience was unaware that Batman was trying to help him, till the end so they would be surprised too.
DerekLake
DerekLake - 11/30/2016, 7:10 AM
My issue with the fight is that the entire conflict was underdeveloped and didn't actually do justice to either character. There was a clear, natural reason for the two to come into conflict. It didn't need Lex to overtly set up a fight. He only needed to do some minor manipulating. The conflict should have been over the inherent problems with superheroism and vigilantism. And honestly, I think the bigger focus actually should have been on Batman's vigilantism rather than Superman's heroism.

As for the fight itself, it should not have been forced by Lex, and it should have really brought out all the surface level contradictions between the two heroes' worldviews. It should have been a conflict based on their different approaches to justice.
Forthas
Forthas - 11/30/2016, 7:50 AM
That is pretty good! But I read an absolutely AMAZING take on how the fight should have taken place that would have been nothing short of brilliant. In the version I read, it is similar to yours in that it is a "test" by Batman...BUT...Batman fights Superman without traps or an armored suit and like yours without using kryptonite. In the end it seems like Superman has him beaten, but after a VERY clever reveal you realize Batman has pretty much won the fight in a way that you would expect Batman would win such a confrontation. It would have provided a satisfying ending AND would have led to their friendship in a way that is believable.

Warner Brothers made (and still makes) these dumb mistakes by trying to focus on the visuals which they do well without focusing on the context of the heroes character - understanding how these characters would act.
GinjaNinja
GinjaNinja - 11/30/2016, 9:01 AM
Without Martha, scene is crap. (sarcasm)
rosco71
rosco71 - 12/2/2016, 11:25 AM
I know the fight was short, I just tried to reimagine it with a little more dialog and reasoning!
monsterswin
monsterswin - 12/6/2016, 11:13 AM
The problem was that the franchise should have never started by having the 2 of them fight in the first place. That and riding the wrong horse with Snyder. Really wish they could re boot the entire thing and start off on the right foot.

The fight itself was actually pretty silly, especially once Batman was swinging Superman around smashing him into stuff. Anyway a fight between the 2 of them would have had SO much more gravitas to it if they had some kind of history together first. That's why it worked better in the comic. Well, that and the fact that it was the first time in comics history they had that kind of extreme relationship. It was a new thing then. Now.....it's played itself out and gotten pretty long in the tooth. Anyway..... leave it to Snyder to write Bats as actually wanting to (in the worst way it seems) to kill Superman instead of simply showing him he could beat him (as in the comic which made it more believable), and of course Batman was very smart about it by using it to fake his death and "disappear."

Forthas
Forthas - 12/7/2016, 9:20 AM
@monsterswin - Great points...I wanted to add that the way Superman responded to Batman as a potential threat was poorly written. He basically just threatened him. Either capture him and take him to the authorities OR have a conversation with him. But of course that would be contrary to the idea of a Batman V Superman confrontation.
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