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Originally Posted by 66Sexy
The problem was that they didn't earn Batman's more extreme vigilantism. They just sort of said that he was a more extreme vigilante. Go read The Dark Knight Returns. I think people deify that book for the wrong reasons. The Batman in that story is unhinged, violent, and sadistic in a way that Batman is never characterized in continuity, and it feels reasonable when you consider how Batman might be, but it explores a world where that Batman might be. Whereas the Batman of Batman v. Superman is just a different Batman for the sake of him not being the Nolan Batman.
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The way I remember it, they did make it seem understandable how Batman would consider himself justified in his actions and have his heart in the right place. I'm not saying Batman V Superman was really good, because it was very shaky in some ways, but I liked it way better than I thought I would. I guess that, as someone who's not really deep into comic book lore, it managed to have a bit more going on psychologically than your average super hero movie. Justice League was a mess, but I even liked that one fairly much - even though it dropped a lot of the best aspects of the previous movie.
But I don't know. As a kid, the few super hero comics I read were mostly Spider Man. I don't know my Batman ABCs properly.