>>106900217>Remember when he let his dad get killed for the sake of dramatic effect in MoS?Yes, usually things happenin movies for dramatic effects, bad things usually
>Or when he received ransom photos of his mom that looked like something out of a snuff flick in BvS?Yes, Lex Luthor was an evil cunt that enjoyed seeing the most powerful man on the world being broken and kneeling
>The character himself doesn't have to act gritty, if his close environment does the job for him.Exactly, so it's not a problem of the character, and that was Snyder was saying that fanboys don't want to see their characters being tested, they want superman lifting a mountain of kryptonite, his whole autistic rant was about how a part of the (internet) audience doesn't want to see something that challenges what they EXPECT. And he is right, but the thing is, he KNOWS it's a BRAND, he knows a loud portion of the audience will get mad and he still does it.
Snyder is retarded, he knew and understood all that and still went ahead.