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Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD
I actually recalled this point in one of the 'News...' threads concerning a Batman/Superman movie (using Nolan's Batman). The appeal of Bruce and Clark is the clashing of vengeful anger and hopeful optimism. While Clark is berating Bruce for his heavy handed tactics, Bruce could blast back about the arrogance of questioning his actions after the events of TDK. While Clark was putting cartoonish evil land owners in jail, Bruce had to stand over charred rubble where his love died in. He watched a good man go insane and had to sacrifice what little good standing he had to protect his name. And all that while a crazy clown pretty much won the whole ordeal. Bruce's endings aren't happy, they don't have him smiling at the camera before the credits. I think this is a gold mine of character interaction, and the stronger points of putting Bruce and Clark together in the first place.
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That's the thing, though; there's no fucking way someone as idealistic and nigh-omnipotent as Superman would just sit back and let the events of TDK happen in the first place. All of the previous Superman movies have established that Clark is every bit at home stopping petty street crime as he is fighting would-be world conquerors, and SR showed him doing just that on a worldwide scale. If there was a whole city being besieged by a psychotic terrorist or an evil ninja cult, a mere ten-second flight away from Metropolis, then why the hell would Clark not do anything about it? If Superman existed in the Nolan-verse, then TDK would have ended about two minutes into the opening bank robbery scene.
The only way that it works in my eyes is if the first two Batman movies took place during the five-year period where Superman was off-planet before SR (which I know is no longer part of the continuity they're creating, but whatever). Otherwise, he comes off as totally ineffectual, and it just smacks of taking the Frank Miller approach of re-writing Superman's personality completely in order to make him look like a naive idiot compared to Batman.