There is a brief shot of the gun being leveled at Martha's face.Patrick Wilson as President of the United States.Harry Lennix as Secretary of Defense Calvin Swanwick.Kiff VandenHeuvel as Officer Mazzuccheli.Henry Cavill as Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman.After everyone leaves, the dirt atop Clark's coffin levitates. He asks her help to form a team of metahumans, starting with those named in Luthor's files, to protect the world in Superman's absence. Bruce tells Diana that he regrets having failed Superman in life. Martha gives Lois an envelope containing an engagement ring from Clark. Clark is also declared dead, and Wayne and Prince both attend his funeral in Smallville. A memorial is held for Superman in Metropolis. Luthor gloats that Superman's death has made the world vulnerable to powerful alien threats. He impales the creature with it, but in its dying moments, the creature kills Superman, who was weakened by kryptonite exposure.įollowing Luthor's arrest, Batman confronts him in prison, warning him that he will always be watching. Though outmatched, Superman realizes its vulnerability to kryptonite and retrieves the spear. Diana arrives with her metahuman powers on display, and joins forces with Batman and Superman against the creature. Luthor executes his backup plan, unleashing a monster genetically engineered from DNA from both Zod's body and his own. Superman regains his strength and confronts Luthor on the scout ship. Coming to his senses about how far he has fallen from grace, he promises to rescue Martha. Batman hesitates in confusion long enough for Lois to arrive and explain what Superman meant. As Batman prepares to move in for the kill using the spear, Superman pleads with him to "save Martha" - the same name as Batman's mother. Superman tries to explain this to Batman, who instead attacks him and eventually subdues him using a kryptonite gas. Luthor demands he kill Batman in exchange for Martha's life. Superman saves her and confronts Luthor, who reveals he manipulated him and Batman by fueling their distrust. Luthor lures Superman out of exile by kidnapping Lois and Martha Kent, Clark's adoptive mother. Meanwhile, Luthor enters the Kryptonian ship and accesses a database of technology accumulated from over 100,000 worlds. He builds a powered exoskeleton, a kryptonite grenade launcher, and a kryptonite-tipped spear in preparation for battling Superman. Elsewhere, Batman breaks into LexCorp and steals the kryptonite. Superman blames himself for not detecting it in time and self-imposes exile. A bomb smuggled in by Luthor detonates, killing everyone present except Superman. Wayne tells Alfred Pennyworth that he plans to steal the kryptonite and weaponize it, if necessary, to fight Superman.Ī widely-publicized Congressional hearing, led by Finch, is held to question Superman's actions against Zod. One is Diana Prince, who appears in a photo from World War I. The decrypted drive reveals Luthor's files on several metahumans across the globe. He is awakened by an unidentified person, appearing through a portal, who tells him that Lois Lane "is the key" and urges him to find "the others" before vanishing. While decrypting the drive, Bruce dreams of a post-apocalyptic world where he leads rebels against an evil Superman. She declines, but Luthor makes alternative plans with Finch's subordinate, which grants him access to Zod's body and the Kryptonian scout ship.īruce attends a gala at LexCorp to steal encrypted data from the company's mainframe, but antiquities dealer Diana Prince takes it from him she returns it after failing to access the information. Meanwhile, Luthor attempts to persuade Senator June Finch to allow him to import kryptonite discovered after Zod's terraforming attempt, so that it can be used as a deterrent against future Kryptonian and metahuman threats.
Wayne learns that Russian weapon trafficker Anatoli Knyazev has been contacting LexCorp mogul Lex Luthor. Having witnessed the chaos of that battle in person, he sees Superman as an existential threat to humanity.Īfter learning of Batman's form of justice, Clark Kent (Superman's civilian identity) seeks to expose him via Daily Planet articles. Bruce is now a billionaire who has operated in Gotham City as the vigilante Batman for twenty years. Back in the present, eighteen months after the battle between Superman and General Zod in Metropolis, Superman has become a controversial figure. In a flashback, Bruce Wayne falls into a cave while running from his parents' funeral, where he has a memorable encounter with a legion of bats.
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