Establishing dominance

One of the better edited scenes of Batman v Superman has Lex Luthor manipulating Senator Barrows. Innocent and creepy at the same time, the villain shows how powerful he is by simply making a request for permission to enter the downed Kryptonian ship. Cut to him entering the ship.

Then he just suggests that he wants Zod’s corpse, without even being too explicit – to which the Senator just states, with a bit of amazement, what Luthor wants, as if he were just an extension of the villain. And then cut to the creepy Luthor welcoming the dead Kryptonian.

And it all ends with Lex feeding the senator a Jolly Rancher, further suggesting that Luthor can dominate even the most powerful people in the US.