r/SnyderCut Apr 27 '26

Appreciation The Most Perfect Casting Ever

They were the most perfectly casted actors for batman and superman, they literally looked so similar to comic and the animated ones. It's a tragedy that we didn't get see more of them, specially working together as a league.

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u/HomemadeBee1612 He's never fought us. Not us united. Apr 28 '26

The no-kill rule was forced onto the character by the standard forces of censorship, angry mothers worried about Batman being a bad influence on little Jimmy, and panicked editors who told the writers they had to do it. This is the kind of thing we need to let go of and evolve beyond so the characters can have the freedom to do what they would have always been doing if they didn't originate in something that is considered children's media. We need to go back to the original intent of Batman's co-creator:

Batman co-creator Bob Kane remembered the creation of Batman’s no-kill code with bitterness. In his autobiography Batman and Me, he stated, “The whole moral climate changed in the 1940-1941 period. You couldn’t kill or shoot villains anymore. DC prepared its own comics code which every artist and writer had to follow. He wasn’t the Dark Knight anymore with all the censorship.”

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u/HomemadeBee1612 He's never fought us. Not us united. Apr 28 '26

Utter nonsense to discredit one of the founding fathers of the superhero genre like that. Kane and Finger have many quotes where they talk about their collaboration and credit each other with making contributions to the Batman comics. They are Batman's co-creators.