YMMV / Justice League 2

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• Broken Base: While the scrapped Bruce/Lois plotline drew a great deal of backlash from even many of Zack Snyder's most devoted supporters who disliked how it made both characters look (as well as making Superman look secondary to Batman and reducing the dramatic tension of preventing the Knightmare Bad Future to a Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe plot), it does have its fair share of fans (notably journalists Stephen M. Colbert of Screenrant and Darren Mooney of The Escapist) who defend it on the grounds of the thematic elements it was meant to portray and the fact that the Bruce/Lois coupling did have some grounds in the comics.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: As one fan puts it, the plotline of Bruce and Lois having an affair during Clark's apparent death and their resulting child being adopted and raised by Clark has this in spades, as it runs counter to the way Clark's story is set up as him being Krypton's second chance and the bridge between Krypton and Earth because his child is actually Bruce's. Even the revised ending has shades of this, with Clark and Lois's son not inheriting his father's powers, thus distancing himself from his own Kryptonian heritage and the continued hope of its people.
• Narm: The description of Riddler "solving the last riddle" by blowing his brains out has been mocked as being over-the-top in its attempted edginess.
• Narm Charm: "The entire world becomes a Justice League." Cheesy? Yes, but it's also earnest as a line emphasizing a Big Badass Battle Sequence.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Both drafts seem to have less of the classic Justice League line-up than you'd expect after an entire movie building the roster up. The original draft indicates that the team was only going to be fully united in the prologue of the first film, teaming up again only at the end of the climactic battle of the second film. Furthermore, the revised draft has Batman die at the end of the first film of the Movie Multipack, meaning that he doesn't participate in the Final Battle and functionally sits out the entire third movie.
  • The plot thread with Wonder Woman seeing herself make a Face–Heel Turn and become the Goddess of War before killing Superman may have presented itself with interesting story opportunities with the Knightmare in mind — such as the idea of her killing Superman in an attempt to prevent the Knightmare, the idea of her joining Superman's side and becoming The Starscream to him before getting a Klingon Promotion, or the Superman from the Knightmare timeline somehow ending up in the present and dying by her hand — yet she never lives to see it, and there's no Prophecy Twist element to it.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: An issue with the Knightmare in general. As depicted in the other films, it seems to be an inevitability no matter what the heroes end up doing, and it's depicted as a miserable, hopeless scenario full of likable characters either being Sacrificial Lions and having bridges dropped on them, or being hardened into broken shells of themselves and then getting killed off, by an evil version of Superman (especially considering that a lot of criticism toward Snyder's movies has to do with the approach toward Superman not being more like his traditional depiction), with the end result being that the future can only be remedied by completely retconning it out of existence with no characters aware of the impact on the main universe or characters from the universe going back to help fix the future in a Time Travel plot. Years after the storyboards were made (but before they were officially released), the story of the released animated movie Justice League Dark: Apokolips War emphasized a similar idea of hopelessness, characters being traumatized or brutally ripped apart, and brainwashed heroes (without the Anti-Life Equation, with Darkseid choosing to brainwash Batman as his enforcer instead of Superman, who he instead depowers), and was met with intense criticism for many of the same reasons.

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