>>86546411>Superman is a distantyou try being an outcast your entire life
>near silentYeah, they don't give him very many lines, though in the context of BvS, the film was mostly about humanity's response to his existence than about Superman himself. Still don't see how this is "dark and gritty."
>killerGot me there.
>hated by the people for being an aliennah, they built him to monuments and dropped everything for his funeral. This, I have a really hard time as seeing as dark and/or gritty.
>Batman is even more dark and brooding than virtually any other of his incarnations ever, he kills without mercy or remorse and was seconds away from literally killing Superman because reasonsBatman is dark by virtue. In the context of the story, his brutality is born of a feeling of impotence and rage. Batman gonna do what a Batman gonna do. He's always been obsessive and "Justice by any means." As for killing Superman, it might have been dark had he actually killed him. But he didn't.
>where Jimmy Olsen was shot in the head for 'fun'I thought this was fucking hilarious, but yeah it was pretty gnarly.
>Pa Kent tells Clark maybe he shouldn't have saved a bus full of school childrenOoh boy, a father deathly afraid of losing his miracle baby is at a loss for words when his son asks him a hard question. It's not dark or gritty. It's thoughtful. He also didn't actually say, "yeah maybe you should have." He began a sentence then started over.
>he's haunted by the dying screams of horsesEvery action has a reaction. There's no one way through life that's right and fair and does no harm. You just have to do the best you can, and accept your consequences no matter what they may be, and do better next time. It would have been dark and gritty if Pa was like "lol yeah fuck those horses amirite?"
>after he killed dozens of civilians by bringing Zod's men to a populated Smallville superbThis is so wrong I won't even bother
