Earth Dad cameo

From this point of view, this scene was a surprise – but only because it wasn’t revealed in the marketing campaign, like many other key scenes. We’re wondering how in the world they kept it under the radar, especially since it brought Kevin Costner back.

But, leaving this aside, the scene could have easily been cut out of the movie. One of the reasons is that it is a common trope of all superhero flicks, so Batman v Superman could have been released without it (the whole world on my shoulders thing). Then because it wasn’t established as anything in particular.

Was it a dream sequence? Was it a hallucination? Was it a memory in which, somehow, Clark Kent appears as his older self? We have no clue.

What we do know is that it wasn’t needed. Batman v Superman could have been a couple of minutes shorter. And we guess Superman could have realized on his own, in the background (and without stealing screen time) that, sometimes, people are jerks and some might not love him.