Board Thread:DC Universe Discussion/@comment-3974095-20130611233337/@comment-6331988-20151207230849

Regular Guy wrote:

Wally Valdez wrote: Wouldn't an actual fight to the death without them eventually working together basically be Dark Knight Returns, and therefore be less original than them teaming up to fight Doomsday? Them killing each other would be less original than them teaming up against a common enemy, Doomsday or otherwise??? ...

On that note, I was being sarcastic about the "original story" part. There's no way that I can think of to tell a superhero team-up story w/o them settling their differences over a shared enemy/goal. My point is, based on the amount of inspiration already taken from Dark Knight Returns, having the movie end with them still as enemies would still be unoriginal. There never was (In my memory) a first encounter team-up that involved Lex, Doomsday, and Wonder Woman. Also, the fight in the movie seems a bit less of a classic team-up than most superhero team-ups. Though Lex could be manipulating them, it seems to be an actual clash of ideologies and morals. Though their argument will be resolved, it probably won't be a simple, clear-cut ending, and I can imagine a Tower Of Babel-esque scenario occurring in a future movie.

Basically, no matter how they handled the team-up, it would have been somewhat unoriginal unless they actually kill each other, which wouldn't logically happen. And I think Zack Snyder made it pretty original compared to what he could of done.

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By the way, the Marvel Civil War storyline didn't end with them teaming up to fight a common enemy. Though I expect the movie will.