Post by lenlenlen1 on Nov 21, 2018 1:10:37 GMT
To be perfectly clear, of course there were at least hundreds of deaths. In such an event there would be. The same could be said about any of the major comic book movie battles that take place in a city or crowded place that hasn't had the chance to evacuate, including any of the major Avengers battles. You don't think anyone died in that Hulk/Iron Man or Sakovia fight?
But to be perfectly technical about this particular argument, those two deaths are the only ones that we ACTUALLY know about. We don't actually see or know about any other deaths from the point of view of the movie itself.
So, again, technically speaking, we know of only two actual deaths: Wayne's employee who stays in the building after he evacuates everyone else, and the little girls mother. Then there's the guy who's legs are crushed.
If a movie wants you to understand that there were tons of deaths it will show them to you. Otherwise you can really only point the finger at these two. And those happen in BvS, not MOS.
I thought it presented Wayne seeing great loss of life, including some personal to him, because of these inhuman aliens and the battle they thrust on our world, and he was going to take care of that alien threat disguised in a man's body to protect the world. That he only relented when he realized that the alien wasn't exactly inhuman at all. I may very well have misread that motivation.
It could be that he took the deaths of those he knew more personally that he felt helpless to protect, even though he was a "superhero", and he was justifying his vendetta as "saving the world" , but he really wanted Supes gone because that made him feel inferior, as the only or close to the only losses in that whole thing were right there where he was, and he couldn't stop it. Then when he realized Supes had a mother too, he realized the inferiority was an illusion, and he relented.
Many deaths, I see Batman having a "cause". 2 deaths, especially personal to him, I see him seeking a "reason". Both work, it just changes the character for me.
Like I said, I'll rewatch. I could have missed it.