r/DC_Cinematic • u/SpeedForce2022 • Sep 02 '21

POLL Which DCEU death was the saddest? Spoiler

Which Death?

4473 votes, Sep 05 '21
2097 Rick Flag
587 Polka-Dot Man
500 Steve Trevor
640 Superman
269 Captain Boomerang
380 Starro
393 Upvotes

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u/Educational-Band8308 Sep 02 '21

I feel like a monster for saying I felt nothing during Superman’s death and he’s my favorite character of all time

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u/LatterTarget7 Sep 02 '21

No one felt anything during his death.

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u/snitchesgetblintzes Sep 02 '21

I was fucking shocked they went for the kill. I enjoyed it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Speak for yourself, that scene is a tearjerker for me. Poor guy gives all he can to this world, including his life.

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u/kakkarot_73 Sep 02 '21

It didn’t hit me the first time, but upon rewatch, man that theme and the visuals just sweep you in.

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u/REALtheCapraAegagrus Sep 02 '21

Preach.

"What if he's just a man trying to do the right thing?"

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u/REALtheCapraAegagrus Sep 02 '21

That's verifiably false.

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u/LatterTarget7 Sep 02 '21

Everyone I know and seen on here didn’t really feel anything during his death

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u/AMBAhmed Sep 02 '21

Reddit user discovers hyperbole

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u/geometricvampire Sep 02 '21

I felt sad for Lois when he died. I knew Supes would come back, but poor Lois didn’t.

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u/planethorror Sep 02 '21

BvS is one of my favorite movies ever and I agree I didn't feel particularly sad or anything. Probably just cause it's obvious he'd be revived soon enough.

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u/NBucho528 Sep 03 '21

It think the impact wasn’t felt by most audiences because they knew it wasn’t going to be forever, and because there wasn’t really any foreshadowing of him making the ultimate sacrifice (I think many CBMs would make that more obvious, but I’m glad they didn’t feel a need to throw it in). When I watch the movie now, I can see his death from the characters’ perspective and, especially with the moving score, it has more impact.

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u/sharksnrec Dr Manhattan Sep 02 '21

Same here. If Rick Flag’s death is more meaningful than Superman’s, then you did Superman’s death wrong.

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u/Poseidon-2014 Sep 02 '21

Superman dying hasn’t been meaningful since the 90s. The moment Doomsday (the only character that reliably kills Superman) shows up we know what he’s in for. It would be impactful if Luthor killed him but no one has the balls to write that story.

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u/sharksnrec Dr Manhattan Sep 03 '21

I just wish we had the balls to build Superman up as a character before killing him in his second movie

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u/The_Mister_A Sep 02 '21

I feel the same with infinity war, i knew all those who die by the snap would came back so i didn't feel anything during their deaths.

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u/TheJoshider10 Sep 02 '21

Only one I felt something for was Spider-Man purely because of his reaction. Very easy to sympathise with him.

That said, with characters like Black Panther? There's about 1.3 billion reasons why I didn't care about that...

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u/FrogginJellyfish Sep 02 '21

I actually laughed and chuckled in the theater when he died. Like wtf, it just seemed so stupid to me. His death was poor and ridiculous because we know he’ll come back since it’s just two movies in. As just a plot point to drive the story and his arc, it works okay for me, but not as an emotionally resonance event.

I cried though when rewatched it in the Ultimate Edition. Not really because he died still, but Amy Adams’ performance as Lois is just so damn good, and the movie overall works a lot better with better pacing and build up.

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u/3DWitchHunt Sep 02 '21

Nah, you’re good. Snyder wasn’t able to make the GA care about Superman enough in neither MOS or BvS for it to be impactful. Gunn was able to do that with Flag in a shorter amount of time and even something like Spider-Man’s death in Infinity War seemed to get to people despite him very obviously coming back in the sequels.

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u/FrogginJellyfish Sep 02 '21

Tbh, as much as I don’t really felt much for his death, I do love and sympathize for the him heavily both in MoS and BvS. I don’t really care or is fond of the character in any other interpretations, movies, cartoons, comics.

They are fine, but he is not relatable at all for me. He does save people and brings joy to them, but that’s it. To me he seems so distant, he’s perfect but inhuman. In MoS and BvS, he felt really human, with relatable human’s weakness and flaws other than kryptonite. Just my thoughts, I can’t say much for other.

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u/Thor-Odinson69 Sep 02 '21

No one did, I don’t know what they expected from us when they killed him in his second appearance