# WB Officially releases the Batman v Superman Trailer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wb-officially-releases-the-batman-v-superman-trailer/717950>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 18, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wb-officially-releases-the-batman-v-superman-trailer/717950 "2015-04-18T00:57:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wb-officially-releases-the-batman-v-superman-trailer/717950/21 "2015-04-21T00:33:08Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> It’s as bad as I feared it would be. It’s just going to be a stupid punch up that we’ve seen a thousand times before.
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> The key to Superman is to have smart villains who know not to fight him directly. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a smart villain in a comic book movie since . . . Damn, I can’t think of one.

Magneto in the first X-Men movie was decent.

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**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wb-officially-releases-the-batman-v-superman-trailer/717950/22 "2015-04-21T00:53:02Z")

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I just hope Batman gets some red kryptonite and exposes Superman to it and it makes him look like Alfred E. Nueman or gives him a gorilla head or something.

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**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wb-officially-releases-the-batman-v-superman-trailer/717950/23 "2015-04-21T01:48:13Z")

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The saying, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, is so overdone that it makes me cringe when I hear it now.

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**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wb-officially-releases-the-batman-v-superman-trailer/717950/24 "2015-04-21T03:01:21Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> It’s as bad as I feared it would be. It’s just going to be a stupid punch up that we’ve seen a thousand times before.
> 
> The key to Superman is to have smart villains who know not to fight him directly. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a smart villain in a comic book movie since . . . Damn, I can’t think of one.

Ma-Ma in _Dredd_ was pretty smart. Nasty, but smart.

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wb-officially-releases-the-batman-v-superman-trailer/717950/25 "2015-04-21T14:44:27Z")

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RealityChuck:

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> Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a smart villain in a comic book movie since . . . Damn, I can’t think of one.

Really? Loki in the Thor movies and in Avengers is certainly clever. Red Skull in the first Captain America movie was smart, and the Hydra agents who subverted SHIELD in the second one were geniuses.

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