- I remember bringing up how I didn't know why Lois went back for the spear (and why the hell she tossed it in the first place) and someone mentioned that she may have overheard Batman talking about the spear but on 2nd viewing this is definitely not the case. Batman is flying in the Batwing towards the Doomsday chaos when he talks to Alfred about the spear and a scene or so after that Lois is randomly going back for the spear when she sees some stuff going on in the horizon. I guess I'm supposed to believe that she was smart enough to believe that the monster was Kryptonian but whatever, I was wondering if maybe a scene was cut of Alfred contacting her and telling her to retrieve it. No biggie, but it still stood out to me my first viewing, just reminded me of the nonsense of Lois making it over to that train station in record time at the end of MoS after seeing Supes/Zod crashing back to Earth from miles away.
Lois hides the spear in case Batman changes his mind, and so no one can else can use it until they can dispose of it properly.
Lois suspects Doomsday is Kryptonian for two reasons:
-Doomsday has heat vision, like the other Kryptonians.
-Doomsday appears to be as strong as Superman.
They need something to stop Doomsday. Even if she's only guessing that Doomsday is of Kryptonian origin, her actions here make perfect sense.
- This has also been brought up but on 2nd viewing it's just ridiculous that Supes didn't continue trying to talk to Bruce during their fight. Superman shoves Bruce for whatever reason 50ft back after he screams in his face at the start of the fight. Then after destroying the gun turrets walks towards him without saying a word and then flies him through a building that could have killed him but in the end just gave Bruce more reason to try and put Supes down. Granted, I know we don't have our big fight if Bats calmly listens to Supes about the situation but I expected more, like Alfred being in Bruce's ear begging him to stop and listen and Bruce shutting off communication. It just seemed like Supes wanted to waste his time toying with Bruce instead of getting to the point of "Hey, my mother has been kidnapped and I only got about *checks watch* 45 minutes"
Superman wanted Batman to stop his aggression and listen to him. He tries to reason with Batman. The second Batman shows he's willing to assault him, Superman shows that he is willing to put him down immediately. It is essentially a show of force.
Even his dialogue informs this: "Stay down, if I wanted it, you'd be dead already". He's basically telling Batman he's out of his league.
The film made it clear that Batman was not going to listen to Superman reasoning with him. He was, if Superman was not attacking him, going to be attacking Superman.
OR
He was planning to smuggle it in the first place and that scene with the Senator was just to see if she feels same way as he do about the metahumans deterent and if she could be a legal ally. Since she is not, then BOOM she's dead.
This. Luthor has backup plans.
How bout this,
So Batman's detective skills wasn't all that since Lex has been feeding him clues in the first place throughout the film right?
He has been manipulating him for 2 years and he wanted the Kryptonite to be with Batman in the first place?
This just means Batman's human and fallible, which the movie shows us in spades.
Even great detectives are human.
Batman doesn't see through Luthor's ruse because he doesn't want to look. He has an emotional reaction to Superman's arrival, not a purely logical one.
How come Superman felt so desperately to save his mother, but wouldn't save his father?
Just a little ironic
To be fair, he was desperate to save his father, too. He just chose to honor his father's wishes regarding revealing himself.
This film represents a character who has stopped hiding what he can do from the world.
The character in MAN OF STEEL was in a completely different place psychologically.
