The Twin Perfect

**Twin Perfect** is a YouTube channel that makes video essays, primarily about *Silent Hill* but also about the DCEU.

## History

### On the Wrongness of *Man of Steel* Detractors

MauLer, Rags, Fringy, Southpaw, and Metal first encountered The Twin Perfect on EFAP 124, where they took at look at his video "Why You're WRONG About Man of Steel." Twin Perfect had seen *Man of Steel* become what he considered the most divisive comic book movie ever made, and made this video to clear up what he saw as misconceptions people had about the film he came across in various reviews and forums, starting with...

**Too much Product Placement**

MauLer and co did not take any issue with the product placement themselves, with Rags even arguing that seeing made-up brand names was more jarring than real-life ones, but they still found Twin Perfect's defense that they do it because they need to make money a disappointing one. Twin Perfect further went on that that product placement is a part of capitalism, which is American, and Superman stands for the American way, so if someone doesn't like product placement then they don't like Superman.

**Too Much Time on Krypton, and Weird Alien Creatures**

The gang once again found themselves not having these particular criticisms of the film, and were not even aware of anyone having taken issue with the alien creatures on the alien planet. Regardless, Twin Perfect argued that Krypton's bizarre creatures were in the comics as well, and the gang shuddered in horror at the existence of a Metal-Eating Mole, which posed a health risk to Metal himself. He argued that this was meant to play up that Superman is an alien, which the gang did take issue with since Krypton's alien nature seemed to inform Clark's character in no real meaningful way. Rags contrasted this the Donner film having a narration of Jor-El's words to Clark when he first flies.

**Why Imprison Zod if the Planet is About to Explode?**

Twin Perfect argued that they do not know when the planet will explode, then immediately after argued Jor-El told them it would be a matter of weeks. He put forth that they were so steeped in tradition that they would not abandon it even if the planet is about to explode, which the gang found absurd.

**No Character Development**

Twin Perfect rebutted that the first half of the movie is character development to Kal-El, figuring people who didn't see that just wanted to see him have the values of Superman as a child rather than learning them throughout his life. He went a lonely wanderer unsure of whether he should fight for the people he grew up with to a man who accepted the responsibility of a superhero, Twin Perfect argued, through the guidance of John Kent, which the roster found hard to believe since John continuously guided Clark away from doing heroic things if they put him at risk. He concluded that Superman is more like his ideal self at the end of the movie, where he states his intentions to only help people on his own terms and destroys government property as a show of force.

**Why Did Clark Allow John to Die**

This argument was first countered with a clip of Clark saying "I let my father die, because I trusted him," which took the whole roster off guard as they hadn't caught it in their initial viewing. Twin Perfect elaborated that John felt Clark would be an outcast if the world knew who he was and wanted to protect him from that, wanting him to make his own choices, in keeping with the film's theme of choice and what to do with power. MauLer pushed back that Clark is constantly pushed in a given direction and gets presented with only the most obvious choices throughout the film and spends far too long vacillating on what to do before making the obvious correct choice, meanwhile Zod, who is meant to be the one without choice, is regularly shown as conflicted in his goals.

On the logistics end of things, Twin Perfect argued Clark could not just run to save John since it is not known if he even had superspeed, even though other Kryptonians in the film were shown moving at superspeed, as well as ignoring that Clark could simply run out there normally and simply endure the force of the winds, letting others chalk up his survival to a miracle or luck.

**Why Tell Clark to Let the Children on the Bus Drown?**

John was unsure of what answer to give and did not want Clark to suffer the consequences, so he only said that he should *maybe* let the children drown... which isn't a lot better.

**How is Superman's Suit in the Ship?**

The suit was not Superman's, but a standard Kryptonian suit with the crest of the House of El on it, and Twin Perfect argued it makes sense that they would be involved in space travel since they were a family of scientists, to which MauLer reminded that Krypton was a galaxy-spanning civilization, so *every* family should have been involved in affairs off-planet.

**Why Doesn't Lois Lane Recognize Clark as Superman**

The gang did not take issue with his defense that Lois Lane did in fact recognize Clark, but Rags asked the more pressing question of why the world doesn't recognize him as well, contrasting that against Christopher Reeve going to great lengths to play up the differences between Superman and Clark.

**Lois and Clark Fall in Love Too Fast**

Twin Perfect argued they were not in love, and were simply kissing because they were two hot people who had been through a shared experience. MauLer was very happy to agree with him that their relationship had no substance behind it.

**Kissing After the Battle is Off-putting**

The kiss did not take place after the final battle, but after Superman's first major victory of destroying the World Engine, which Southpaw fittingly described as *during* the battle rather than after it, while people were still in need of saving.

**Lois Not Being Dragged into the Black Hole**

Twin Perfect put forth that the Phantom Drive only sucked in that which has already been to the Phantom Zone, immediately raising the question of why cars and rubble were being lifted by it. Rags also added that the film said Zod got his ships from other planet colonies, outside the Phantom Zone. Twin Perfect did address the cars and rubble, explaining that they were hit by the Phantom Drive's gravity beam, which itself raised the question of why Lois was not affected by that same beam, with MauLer reminding everyone that this whole premise itself was already built on an explanation Twin Perfect just made up.

**Why Bring Lois onto Zod's Ship**

MauLer was particularly interested in this point as he argued this was where the film was most broken, laying out that Zod's plan was to permanently weaken Clark by keeping him in a Kryptonian atmosphere, Superman handed Lois the key she knew nothing about even though he would have to his knowledge been better off using it himself, Lois' cell had a terminal in it she could use the key in, the key was accepted rather than seen as a foreign device, and the Jor-El program is able to entirely control the ship and convert its atmosphere to Earth's atmosphere, and this series of insane contrivances connects the first half of the film to the second. A surveying of the roster had them all answer that their best guess for why Lois was brought aboard was leverage.

Twin Perfect answered that Lois was taken in by the US military because she knew about Superman's identity and kept her closeby for any other knowledge she may have, and Zod may have had the same thought. He also made the leverage argument, which still raised the question of what leverage she would provide when the plan was just to leave Superman powerless in the ship.

**Superman Destroying Property When His Mother is Threatened**

MauLer and co once again had a different criticism of the scene than the one stated, finding the endangerment of human lives far more worrisome than the destruction of property. Twin Perfect agreed that the destruction of property was bad, but that was the point, as it was an exploration of what happens when someone with Superman's powers is put into an emotional state, to which MauLer countered that Superman causes this much destruction throughout the whole movie, not just when his mother is threatened, and Southpaw added that if anything he put his mother in more danger by pummeling Zod while leaving his mother with the other Kryptonian soldiers.

**Why is Lois on the Bomber Plane?**

Lois was brought aboard because Jor-El gave her the plan to destroy Zod's ship, the plan in question being "crash ship 1 into ship 2." Twin Perfect added that something did go wrong with the process, making it good that Lois was there to resolve it, showing the clip of the key not going in all the way and Lois herself not even knowing exactly what was wrong. He argued that a hypothetical scene of them phoning Lois instead would be boring, portraying such a thing as a low-energy IT call rather than as the exact same high-stress conversation it was before but with a phone between them.

**Why Not Terraform Mars?**

Twin Perfect asked why even bother, since Zod has no respect for humans. This still did not address the main concern of why even go through the hassle of picking a fight with Earth's militaries in addition to Superman when Mars was there for the taking.

**Why Fly to the Indian Ocean Rather Than Deal with Metropolis**

Twin Perfect explained that Superman is the only one fast enough to get there in time, ignoring that there are other countries with militaries in the area and even more importantly that he could have dealt with the World Engines in reverse order, stopping the one over a populated area first, especially since the terraforming requires both of them to work.

**What's With the Stupid Robot Tentacles?**

Zack Snyder thought they were cool

**Superman Killing Embryos**

Twin Perfect explained that Jor-El told him Kryptonian culture was doomed to fail, to which MauLer brought up that Jor-El had also called him the "bridge between two worlds." He bolstered this by pointing out that Clark could be seen reading Plato's Republic, supporting the idea that a failed society should not be given a second chance to repeat its mistakes. Rags argued that Krypton's culture wasn't what led to its downfall, mining their core was, and they would not even have the opportunity to make that mistake again on Earth. Twin Perfect also argued that new Kryptonians would just give Zod more genetically predetermined soldiers to fight for him, raising the question of why Zod's death was so tragic when people who *might* work for Zod were seen as deserving death. MauLer also asked why Kal-El was even given the codex if Krypton was supposed to die, and if it was not possible for the first generation of Kryptonians to simply reproduce normally and create non-genetically modified babies, since that worked with Jor-El and Lara.

**Zod Mastering His Powers Faster than Clark**

Twin Perfect pointed out that Clark only really took a few minutes to figure out any given power, This opened up the other issue of Zod claiming that Kryptonians would suffer having to live in Earth's environment, which Clark was living evidence against. He also added that Zod was a perfect soldier, raising the question of how being a perfect soldier would make a man who's never flown before instantly able to master flying, and why he lost a fist fight against a man bred to be a scientist.

**Superman Never Saves Anyone**

The EFAP roster were technically in agreement with Twin Perfect denouncing this, since they were perfectly happy to concede that Superman did save a number of people, their issue being with the number of people he endangered or let die in the process through his recklessness.

**Superman Fighting in Populated Areas**

Twin Perfect demonstrated that Superman tried to throw the Kryptonians out of the city, but only had split seconds to decide where to put them once he got a hold on them, using a clip of Superman throwing a Kryptonian directly into a train that explodes rather than literally anywhere else. He added that Zod's goal in the final fight was to kill humans to spite Superman, so there was no point in getting him away from humans since he would just fly back to them. Fringy in particular lost it at the idea that there was no point in trying to at least minimize the damage Zod could do before pacifying him.

"One thing I'll say, I like the format of this video, it's very fun (laughs) because of how bad it's done, but also the way that it's presented is like, we get our breather here to be like, 'let's talk about this criticism and let's- what is he gonna do to say abou-' like 'oh god here we go,' like it's one at a time"

**The Death Toll**

Twin Perfect decried the "stupid Buzzfeed info-graphic" (which EFAP conversely lauded as a Rare Buzzfeed W) for chalking up all of the destruction in the movie to Superman when most of it was caused by the ships crashing and the World Engine, which did not change EFAP's contentions since theirs was with Superman neglecting to stop those things in favor of flying away or heading to the Indian Ocean first. He also tried to soften the blow by arguing the buildings were all empty husks anyway since they were at ground zero of the attack, prompting Fringy to bring up that *Batman V Superman* shows a nearby Wayne building that was very much occupied, in addition to the overall point that one of the biggest causes of death in similar catastrophes like 9/11 was people being unable to escape tall buildings before they came down. It was about this time that the decision was made to have this (pre-recorded) EFAP premiere when uploaded, so that Chat's reaction to an attempt to write off the destruction of a city as just a few "incidents of damage" and chalk them up to honest mistakes could be documented. Twin Perfect also pointed out that collateral damage was par for the course in Superman stories, showing a clip from a *Justice League Unlimited* episode where Superman and Shazam level a city block while fighting. The context for that was unknown at the time, but commenters later pointed out that what was destroyed was a new housing project that had not been occupied yet, which Superman was extra suspicious of since it had been built by an uncharacteristically charitable Lex Luthor, and even then Superman's actions were reprimanded for being out of line in-universe.

**Zod's Snapped Neck**

The gang was once again in a position of not having the same criticism as the one being addressed, being fine with and even encouraging the idea of Superman killing Zod, instead taking issue with the circumstances surrounding it and the idea that killing the last Kryptonian would be sad given Clark had no issue killing every other Kryptonian. Twin Perfect did cover the logistics as well, arguing that Superman could not cover Zod's eyes because the laser vision injures Kryptonians as well, raising the question of why not laser the back of his head in return, and repeating the defense that Superman could not fly him into space because he was just going to fly back. Regardless, he ended up making the bigger defense that incapacitating Zod any other way was not the point of the scene, prompting Rags to question why make any other defenses for the film if "that's the point" is an acceptable one.

Twin Perfect made the bold claim that no major Superman comic explored his aversion to killing, and argued that there should be a thorough explanation given for it, with MauLer asking if not wanting to kill people would not be the default moral stance someone would have. Twin Perfect tied this point into his conclusion that wanting Superman to be just like he is in the comics all the time is just what Jonathan Kent was worried about, and nobody in the roster cared because Jonathan Kent was an awful parent.

### A Matter of Policy

Unbeknownst to MauLer and the gang, Twin Perfect had appeared in chat during their coverage of Filmento in EFAP 123. and took their lack of acknowledgment of him combined with their coverage of his video being recorded offline as a sign that they did not want to talk to him, and therefore were cowardly. He laid out his policy that he says what he believes and others can criticize him all they want, though he still scoffed at EFAP not speaking to him despite not knowing he was even available to speak to, and ultimately boasted that it didn't matter because his video got a lot of views. Curiously, a fan of Twin Perfect held up someone in Chat laughing at the idea of *Man of Steel* being better than *Civil War* as proof of them being unreasonable.

### Why You're WRONG About Batman v Superman

#### on Doomsday

With Twin Perfect's response out of the way, EFAP 127 continued with MauLer, Rags, Fringy, Cap, Southpaw, and Theo taking a look at his defense for *Batman V Superman*. The defense was broken into three parts, and MauLer mainly wanted to focus on Part 3 because he was morbidly curious as to how someone could defend Lex' plan, but they did take a look at a snippet from Part 2 that dealt with Doomsday, skipping over the part about the adaptation of Batman since they were content with judging the movie as its own story rather than as an adaptation. Twin Perfect's defense of the Doomsday battle began with him proudly pointing out that Superman did indeed try to push Doomsday into space, and it failing to work validated him not doing so with Zod in *Man of Steel*. Rags argued that it was even worse in BvS since Doomsday could not fly and therefore all Superman had to do was just keep pushing, with MauLer adding that the only reason pushing him didn't work was because the military decided to nuke Superman when he was winning, which somehow dropped Doomsday back down to Earth while keeping Superman floating in space, but the point still stood he could just try again and not get nuked this time. Cap added further that even if all the blame was to be put on the military in BvS that wouldn't excuse Superman in Man of Steel, and asked how Twin Perfect was able to simultaneously argue this was both ineffective and Superman learning from his past. Twin Perfect included a clip of not-Martian Manhunter saying "It's unkillable," seemingly to bolster his point, raising the question of how he even determined something so absolute, since Wonder Woman's sword had already been shown to be able to dismember him. When Batman leading Doomsday closer inland was brought up, MauLer laid out the timeline of Doomsday landing on an uninhabited island and Batman leading him back out of that inhabited area to the spear, risking his own life in the process when he was the only person who knew what to do and his death would mean the loss of that knowledge. Twin Perfect asked what else Batman was supposed to do, sarcastically offering up that Batman leave to get the spear and come back, to which everyone answered that yes, that was absolutely what he should have done. On the topic of why Lois went out of her way to throw the spear into a pool of water (which MauLer gleefully reminisced having led to her almost drowning herself), Twin Perfect asked what else she was supposed to do, to which Rags answered that literally doing nothing would be preferable. He argued she was hiding it from any of Lex' men who may come looking for it, despite it glowing green to the point of still being visible in the water. Finally, he addressed the question of why Superman sacrificed his own life to kill Doomsday, defending it on the basis that there was not enough time to come up with another plan, that other plan of course being to have someone else do it. He further argued that while things could have gone differently, Superman sacrificing himself was the point of the scene, an argument that could be used to defend literally anything, and that people would be upset if an adaptation of the *Death of Superman* story did not have Superman die, a statement which baffled everyone else since if Superman did not die then it would not have been an adaptation of *Death of Superman* in the first place. When the possibility of throwing the spear was brought up, Chat realized that Superman could not throw it since it would of course be calibrated to the length of Batman's arm. Twin Perfect also defended Doomsday not stacking up to his comic book counterpart with a quote from Zack Snyder saying another version of Doomsday could appear in a later movie, and while EFAP did not care one way or the other about how good of an adaptation he was they still found the defense of "maybe another movie will do it" to be a weak one.

#### Lex Luthor's Plan Explained

With the prior coverage of the Doomsday battle out of the way, it was on to the main video, which began with the clip of Lex calling the word "psychotic" a word for things little minds don't understand, which Fringy could only guess was meant to represent Twin Perfect's thoughts on the film itself.

**Lex Should Be Bald with No Hair**

Twin Perfect argued that BvS' Lex Luthor was changed to fit a modern audience, since the billionaires of today are young self-made tech industry philanthropists. Theo asked what was un-modern about the more classic portrayal of Lex, a question only furthered by Twin Perfect's compilation of self-made millionaires including a bald older man in a suit. He also put forth that this Lex was adapted from the Lex in the comic *Superman Birthright*, and nobody cared, but they did find it strange that he went from arguing adapting Lex from the old comics would not work to now arguing he was adapted from an old comic. Upon reading the panels put on screen, MauLer and the gang felt that *Birthright* Lex did not even sound like BvS Lex, and when a viewer messaged MauLer to say that *Birthright* Lex is indeed much different, MauLer was fine to concede that the comic did inspire the movie to some degree but the comic was likely better. Twin Perfect described Lex as someone who only cared about people for his public image, and cited Zack Snyder describing Eisenberg's coldly indifferent demeanor as why he chose him to play the smartest man in the world. He argued that the casting should at least get points for boldness, and everyone said no.

The gang was left wondering what any of this had to do with pushing Jolly Ranchers into a guy's mouth.

**What Does Lex Gain from Batman Fighting Superman?**

MauLer corrected that wanting Batman to fight Superman makes plenty sense since Lex wants Superman dead, and the question was why incentivize Superman to fight back, since the alleged reason was to prove "God is not all good," but Lex already believes that and needs no convincing, especially when killing Batman would be done under coercion to save his own mother, while the public already views Superman as less than all good since they believe he gets people killed too much, and killing Batman may not even worsen that reputation since Batman is known as a murderous vigilante.

Twin Perfect described Lex Luthor as Superman's opposite, a normal man with selfish intentions rather than a powerful man with altruistic intentions, and argued that the old Lex' motivations would not fit this movie since Superman would not be interested in fighting some greedy capitalist, to which MauLer countered that Superman usually isn't interested in that and intervenes because Lex is doing something worse. Twin Perfect put forth the motivation from *Birthright* (which Cap pointed out was not shown in the movie) instead, where Lex felt outcast by people fearing his intelligence. The gang questioned this explanation since if anything people seemed to just find Lex awkward because he was awkward, and their doubts of his intentions to commune with aliens were furthered by Twin Perfect including the clip of Luthor saying to Superman, "I don't hate the sinner, I hate the sin. And yours, my friend, is *existing.*"

**What Was Lex Luthor's Plan?**

Twin Perfect described Lex as having a multilayered plan always working behind the scenes that adjusts to the moment, which everyone found doubtful. Rags questioned the claim that Lex always had one trick up his sleeve, figuring it was just the one trick, Doomsday, in addition to his default base plan. The plan was laid out as destroy Superman, control his power, or ruin his reputation, the latter two raising the question of what the use would be in controlling someone like Superman if you hate the very idea of Superman, and once again how killing Batman would even damage his reputation when he is already known as a killer and Batman is not well-liked. The first step of the plan was to find the Kryptonite and justify it to the government as a "silver bullet" so that powerful beings do not have free reign, which was a decent plan so far but did lead them to ask what the silver bullets would be for the other superhumans Lex had found who aren't Kryptonian. The next step of the plan, which Twin Perfect was graphing out onscreen, was finding other superhumans to have them kill Superman, which MauLer and co found odd since surely that would leave Lex with more superhumans on his hands when he hates superhumans. He boasted that this debunked claims that the inclusion of other DC characters was mere sequelbait, which segued into his next point...

**Superhero Cameos Just Set Up Sequels**

The gang was taken aback at how little the previous section went over given how many stupid and contradictory decisions Lex makes, but figured he must have been coming back to it later since the graph onscreen was so barren. Twin Perfect argued that the cameos from other superheros showed that Lex was interested in either using them or destroying them, and MauLer found it funny that his own description of events included him not knowing what Lex' actual intentions were. He figured that it could be assumed Lex has leverage on them, despite that leverage simply being photos of them merely existing, and that they were candidates for killing Superman, leading MauLer to ask why Batman was chosen over other more powerful options, adding that purposefully leaking his own plan to Batman via Wonder Woman would mean Lex' involvement would become public knowledge and it would hurt Lex' reputation rather than anyone else's. Twin Perfect then conceded that the cameos were indeed the shoehorned sequelbait he was defending them against accusations of being, but argued that they worked to add a little depth to Lex.

Returning to the Kryptonite, Twin Perfect argued that it was better to have the government on his side when plotting to kill Superman, with Rags asking if it would not be better to just do it all secretly than have to dress it up to pander to the government. MauLer added that it was bizarre Lex could gain access to an entire spaceship and an alien corpse but the one thing he was blocked from obtaining was a radioactive rock.

**The "Granny's Peach Tea" Line is Weird**

MauLer stopped to clarify that he understood the meaning of the line just fine, that the congresswoman says Lex can't fool her only for him to fool her (though Rags questioned if it was really fooling her to just plant a bomb in a room she's in), and that the line is just clunky and awkward, and Twin Perfect was under no obligation to spend his time defending it logistically. Nevertheless he did, comparing it to a common turn of phrase "Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining" often cited by Judge Judy, which was a different sentence.

MauLer took this time to mention he liked the line from Clark saying he never saw the bomb, and consequently worrying that the reason he didn't see it was because he wasn't paying close enough attention, possibly due to having lost interest in acting altruistically.

**How Was Superman Framed for the Shooting Victims**

Twin Perfect boldly proclaimed that no one in the movie accused Superman of *shooting* anyone, which literally nobody disagreed with, then went on that nobody even knew the cause of death, which MauLer found bizarre since the CIA was there, with Southpaw adding that the CIA was incriminated in the shooting as well, and therefore would be incentivized to investigate if only to prove their own innocence. The woman who testified against Superman was anolther sticking point, since she was coerced into lying about things that could be demonstrably disproven and could not even stick to the lie. Twin Perfect cited the Extended Edition showing Lex' men recovering the bullets from the site of the shooting, despite how difficult revoering every bullet would be, but ultimately stated that Lex tampering with evidence did not need to be shown in order to conclude he could tamper evidence to be whatever he wants it to be, prompting MauLer to recommend him as inspiration on how to defend any story ever.

At this point, the man himself entered the Chat, though he declined to join the call on the grounds his video spoke for itself, to which MauLer began highlighting the word "uncowardly" in Twin Perfect's own statement of policy. At the behest of Southpaw, Chat began pressing C for coward. Fringy reminded him that he had previously assumed the last EFAP had been prerecorded to avoid a conversation, but now that they were live, he was available, and they wanted him on, he was suddenly unwilling to talk.When Twin Perfect claimed he had no interest in talking to people who were calling him pathetic, MauLer reminded him yet again that he had called them cowardly. Eventually, Twin Perfect went through with joining the call, and thus began...

### Why You're WRONG About *Batman V Superman*, continued

He did it to get access to Zod and the ship (but how would he get complete and unsupervised access?)

Lex knows that Bruce is batman, so he geniusly makes Batman steal kryptonite from Lex so he can make a spear that he can use to kill superman, instead of giving Bruce or batman kryptonite and letting Bruce steal information from his files. Also to get Bruce and Clark meeting one another and getting angry at each other so they would want to fight.

His bombing and terrorist attack are to make people mad at him so that government want kryptonite to be used to kill him

If Superman kills Lex, that leaves uncontrollable Doomsday running around, but in the same video he says that Lex activates Doomsday himself, so killing him would not do it, showing how little attention Twin Perfect pays his own point in a scripted video, where he made a graph

**Jolly Ranchers?**

Another bizarre ta gents off the main point, Lex's master plan. Does his pan include him being able to put candy in people mouths?

Supposedly Lex knows he can do what he wants in that scene and so does the guy and its his power move to put candy into his mouth. The point of the scene is to make you uncomfortable and people who don't get it use it to make fun of the movie

**Why create monster if you hate powerful beings?**

Lex does not hate powerful beings, its just an act, obviously, maybe.

Doomsday is part of his master plan next to kryptonite, and power trip to know he has monster that he can control (him being the only one able to control Doomsday is in a delete scene, so its canon in Twin Perfects mind, especially since he says in movie that its made from his blood, so Lex clearly thinks he can control Doomsday)

**Why make Clark and Bruce meet?**

Bruce is socialite, so he would meet people.

Lex introduces them so two would discover each others identities

##### **How did Clark not know Bruce Wayne?**

Wonder how this fits into Lex's plan....

Its not that strange, since another character comments that its common that people don't recognize Bruce.

Clark is interested in big stories, Billionaire playboy doings is not that interesting

**Why not cover story of Batman**

Another thing that has nothing to do with Lex's plan, he just keeps jumping the topic.

Because character in the movie says its not interesting or selling story, so it must be true. He's been around for 20 years, so he is played out topic

**What was the point of the scene where Lois Lane is investigating the bullet?**

Another critic that is not part of Lex's plan, just going off point.

Its only 3 and half minute of the movie, only 2.4% of the film. not much of waste of time.

its to show that military believes in Lex's schemes and to use Lois Lane as bait, since he knows that Lois is important to Superman.

Also, its shows to the audience that Lex tampered with the scene, even thought it was obvious.

**Why blow up congress?**

Its not to make him look like the perpetrator, but if it wont make him look like one, he will be treated as fraud who could not save everyone.

Explosion was to show that superman was fraud, neither all powerful or all good and to push Batman over the edge, as he hates superman, for making man kill themselves and congress in order to kill superman. So Batman feels responsible of this since he could not save people.

**More interesting to see Batman steal Kryptonite on camera than off**

He thinks people are being intellectually dishonest" with this criticism, as people who say this also hate Snyder movies inn general, especially his action, so you don't want another scene batman hospitalizing people. People want it so they could complain about it

besides these critics, everything people hate about Snyder films is their personal dislike to Snyder.

He hopes that his videos made people give the movies another chance. very upset about the fact that people don't like the movie and thinks people are steaming over the fact that he has the gall to like it and think it as great film, even thought he calls it failure and says it might have failed, but was bold and original while doing so.

## Trivia

* Doesn't want to say what he really thinks.
* To him, an 8 is "8 or about 9".
* One of Lex's plans is maybe destroy the world in impotent nihilistic rage by using Doomsday, could be for exchange for power. Who knows. Its heavily alluded to in outtakes.
* Has seemingly deep hatred for comic-book nerds, or at least likes to troll them for them wanting their characters to be presented as good people.
* Thinks several hour long critique is easy to do and just ranting.
* He doesn't believe in "death of the author," to the point that only what they intended to do matters, even if their work contradicts it.
* To him, badly kept apartment of a man who lost his legs equals that person being homeless.
* He thinks best person to kill Superman is Batman since he wants to kill him already, not Flash who is faster or Wonder Woman who is tough and a more adept combatant.
* Uses scattershot arguments, trying to use anything to defend his arguments, even if they contradict his previous arguments.

## Quotes

* "Practical effects are not practical" - EFAP 124
* "The Kryptonian culture is so steeped in tradition that their leaders are not about to abandon that just because the world is about to end"
"Such a retarded sentence!"
- Twin Perfect and Southpaw, EFAP 124
* "He's not protecting his mom by blowing up an IHOP!" - Rags, EFAP 124
* "What's with the stupid robot tentacles"
"*YES!*"
- Twin Perfect's title card, and the entire EFAP roster, EFAP 124
* "When he destroys the scout ship he accidentally takes out three buildings that are-"
"Woah woah woah woah woah, are we about to introduce the concept of manslaughter to this person?"
- Twin Perfect and MauLer, EFAP 124
* "But it's just a parking garage"
"*How do you think the cars get into the parking garage?*"
- Twin Perfect and Fringy, EFAP 124
* "So basically Superman gets his cape handed to him for 20 minutes while Zod blows up half of what's left of the city-"
"Why do you say what's left of the city? Wha- why is it- why would you have possibly said the words 'what's left of the city'?"
- Twin Perfect and Rags, EFAP 124
* "By the way, this is a great time to point out that during the Doomsday battle, the very first thing Superman does is to punch him into space"
"He's just gonna come back down again!"
- Twin Perfect and Cap, applying Twin Perfect's own teachings, EFAP 127
* "in plain English, with his mouth, his mouth words" - EFAP 127
* "And what exactly is your alternative at the moment? For Batman to go and get the spear and bring it back to where Doomsday is?"
"Yes"
- Twin Perfect, and everyone else, EFAP 127
* "What exactly is her alternative?"
"Nothing. Just don't fuck with it, it's actually really easy. Nothing, just leaving it there. 'What is your alternative to picking it up?' Not picking it up"
- Twin Perfect and Rags, EFAP 127 "This is part three of my defense of Zack Snyder's *Batman V Superman*"
"Imagine having to say those words"
- Twin Perfect and Rags, EFAP 127 "There are many who say that they don't like this Lex simply because they don't like Jesse Eisenberg"
"I've never met Jesse Eisenberg"
- Twin Perfect and Rags, EFAP 127 "Lex Luthor's motivation is muddled and confused"
"Finally."
- Twin Perfect's title card, and MauLer, EFAP 127
* "What does he stand to gain from a fight between Batman and Superman?"
"As a storytelling archetype, Lex Luthor is Superman's opposite"
- Twin Perfect's title card, and Twin Perfect, EFAP 127
* "Contrary to popular opinion, there is a plot reason for these scenes, to show that Lex was looking into other superheroes, perhaps to dissect and analyze them for his quest for power" - Twin Perfect, not knowing why Lex was looking into other superheros, EFAP 127
* "Not one person in this movie *ever* accuses Superman of shooting anyone" - EFAP 127
* "This guy should write a video on how to defend every story ever" - MauLer, EFAP 127
* "I'm letting my video speak for itself, I don't wanna get involved" - in Chat, EFAP 127
* "Type C in Chat if Twin Perfect is a coward" - Southpaw, EFAP 127
* "Look, Lex paid him off" - MauLer, on Twin Perfect not joining the call, EFAP 127
* "See here's the thing, why would I join to talk to people who are calling me pathetic?"
"You called us cowardly"
- Twin Perfect and MauLer, EFAP 127
* "Superman was paid off to snap Zod's neck so that he could get him and put him in the pool and make Doomsday" - Fringy, EFAP 127
* "So, how- is everybody havin a good day?" - Fringy, as Twin Perfect prepared to enter the call, EFAP 127
* "I don't know how people can't see this scene for what it is" - on Lex shoving Jolly Ranchers in a man's mouth, EFAP 127
* "His fine with Kryptonian as long as they are his idea"
* "I'd loathe to say yes or no"
* "Yes or no. Yes or no. You guys know Lemmy?"
* "Go and read a college thesis. I don't know."
* "It's the Smug Ross emote."
* "You are just looking more things to complain about."
* "Isn't bold and original but failed attempt way more interesting than a shallow, safe, pandering, focusless, ultimately inconcessional failed attempt?"