History TearJerker / BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice

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** There's also the chants of ''"[[YouCantGoHomeAgain Go home!]]"'' towards [[LastOfHisKind Superman]] and the tags on his monument (photo).

* The newspaper clipping of the Wayne Tower being destroyed has been defaced with a cruel taunt about Bruce's orphanage.
* A Robin suit tagged in spray-paint with the message "[[ComicBook/TheJoker HAHAHA the joke's on you Batman]]." Bruce was [[HurtingHero so devastated by the loss]] that he dropped his [[ThouShaltNotKill no-kill rule]] and let everything around him crumble for quite some time. During his initial confrontation with Clark, he even says that he has "a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns."
* Seeing Wayne Manor in a derelict state, and that it has been that way for ''years'' by the start of the film. Bruce is so grieved by his loss that he has let his family home wither away into ruin.
* [[spoiler:The death of Superman. After realizing that the only way to kill Doomsday is with Kryptonite, Superman uses Batman's Kryptonite spear to deal the fatal blow to Doomsday despite being severely weakened by its presence. He is impaled on Doomsday's spikes, but [[HeroicResolve pushes on]] until both are killed.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Superman''': (''to Lois'') ...I love you.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Lois''': ''(Tears streaming down her face)'' No. Clark, you ''can't''--!]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Superman''': This is my world. ''You'' are my world.]]
** [[spoiler: The fact that these last words of Superman to Lois [[ArcWords echo his father's own words about Martha]].]]
** [[spoiler: Lois crying over his body while Batman and Wonder Woman look on.]]
** [[spoiler:The aftermath of his death is pretty heartbreaking as well, setting itself apart from the ''Death of Superman'' storyline in that it is the public that receives an empty coffin, while Clark's body is left to be buried by Martha. She's lost both her husband and her son now. During the wake, we see Shelby the dog sadly resting by Clark's coffin.]]
** [[spoiler:It is also revealed after Clark's death that he was going to propose to Lois.]]
** Even forgetting the ForegoneConclusion that [[spoiler:he's going to regenerate and come back to life in time for ''Film/JusticeLeague'']], the event itself and the impact it has on everyone is utterly heartbreaking and made all the more crushing by the implementation of the poignant soundtrack "This Is My World."
* Related to the above, the fact that [[spoiler: Lois]] is going through a major HeroicBSOD--not saying a word on-screen after [[spoiler: Superman's death]]. It'd have been hard enough to watch [[spoiler: her bawling her eyes out at the funeral.]] Seeing [[spoiler: her barely emoting AT ALL]], clearly traumatized into emotional ''numbness''? ''Gut-wrenching.''
** Especially when you see [[spoiler: her putting her hand to her chest after receiving the ring]]...as though [[spoiler: she's wondering what's wrong with her--why she can't feel.]]

** The extended cut makes this cut even deeper [[spoiler: he's later shown getting as many survivors out of the wreckage as he can, he then freezes for a moment and looks at all the casualties and the crowd screaming for his exile. The look he carries is the look of a man who believes genuinely that he's failed.]]

** As Supes finally concludes the "ideal" he's supposed to represent is "just a dream of a farmer from Kansas", Lois sounds like she's struggling not to break into tears as she tells him "That farmer's dream is all some people have--it's all that gives them ''hope''." It's clear she's including herself in that...and seeing Clark lose his hope in himself is too much for her to bear.
* In the scene after [[spoiler: Lex blows up the senate,]] Clark exiles himself to the arctic. That in of itself could count as a tearjerker, but what really hits it is what Clark finds at the top of a mountain: [[spoiler: his father.]] Is it a ghost? A hallucination? Doesn't matter. What does matter are the last words said between the two.
--> [[spoiler:'''Jonathon:''']] I miss you [[spoiler:son.]]
--> '''Clark:''' I miss you too, [[spoiler: Dad.]]
** This line is especially hard hitting, not only due to the [[HeReallyCanAct amazing delivery]] from both actors, but it also hits a spot in anyone who has ever lost a parent.
* Superman saves a young girl from a fire in Mexico, and as he returns her to her family, the gathered crowd all reach to touch him. Even he's able to put together [[MessianicArchetype the Christ imagery]], [[AGodIAmNot and he's not happy about it]].
** The use of music and Superman's vacant expression during his rescue montage, where he's shown saving people other than Lois Lane, gives the impression that all the opposition he's been getting has worn him down to the point where being a superhero just feels like work and not a calling.
* When Bruce comforts a little girl in the aftermath of the Superman/Zod fight, he asks her where her mother is. She tearfully points to the building that Zod razed with his heat vision.
* When Diana sees the photo of herself in 1918 with Steve Trevor and several others, you can see just how much it hurts her to look upon the faces of friends who have been dead for years.
* The footage of [[spoiler:Silas Stone trying to save his son, Victor, from dying. Vic's just a head, torso, and arm, and his father is facing the very real likelihood that he can't save his son. He has no wife, no other children; Vic's all he has and the world wants to take even that from him]].

* [[spoiler:Jimmy Olsen appears, only to be shot in the face before Superman can reach him. It's especially tragic since this version seemed almost as badass as Lois.]]
* When Batman [[spoiler:has Superman at his mercy, Superman cries out "Save Martha!" Batman is shaken by that and demands to know why he's using that name. Lois then rushes in and tells him that Martha is the name of Superman's mother.]] Batman has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment. What could be more heartbreaking than this? Consider! [[spoiler:Clark was so ready to believe that he was going to ''die'' that he wanted his last words to be him begging Batman to save his mother in his stead. He thought he wasn't going to make it out of that fight alive.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUZGJUh8OUU "No one stays good in this world..."]]
* Lex Luthor's [[spoiler: MotiveRant towards Superman shows us what lies deeper than the disturbed sociopathic individual he is. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds He is an incredibly traumatised man]] who suffered at the hands of his [[AbusiveParents son-of-a-bitch father]]. The fact that he ''is on the verge of crying'' while in the middle of it shows [[FreudianExcuse just how badly]] it affected him.]]
* Alfred casually mentions that Bruce never had settled down or had any children, unlike previous depictions of Batman who at least get to experience love (and in [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises one film]], gets to settle down), Bruce is all alone with only his bitterness and Alfred in his life. Not to mention the implication that he had lost Robin at that point...

** Similarly, Superman's realisation that he may have to kill Batman [[spoiler: so he can save his mother.]] The look he gives Lois before flying off shows how tormented he is at the thought of having to kill again and that maybe he can't live up to his own status.
--> ''"No one stays good in this world...."''
* The fact that this is by far one of the saddest and broken versions of Batman to date. This Bruce has lost Jason Todd, his Robin like all the others, but we don't know if there was another Robin before him, but there wasn't a Robin after Jason. Even if there was a time where Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon worked with Bruce, they're gone now and no mention is given to them. This is a world where Superman and the rest of the Justice League were never there to balance of Batman's darkness with their light. After 20 years of fighting his personal war on crime, the only thing left Bruce has is Alfred and his bitter rage. Fallen, broken, and hurting.
* The desperation in Flash's voice when he appears to Bruce is heartbreaking, especially when he realizes that he's too soon and struggles to convey his message as the speedforce is pulling him back.
* That crook Batman branded early on in the film? [[spoiler: He was later revealed to be a loving father, shortly after being killed in prison.]]
** Worse, we find this out when Clark hears a baby crying and discovers it's [[spoiler: the infant child of the man who was murdered in prison, whose mother is trying to comfort it with little success.]] The movie's themes of parents and their children extends even to people who've done terrible things.
* The fight between [[NiceGuy Superman]] and [[FallenHero Batman]], Kal comes to apologize for what he said after damaging the Batmobile. as he realized he has been wrong to try to force Batman to quit, which pushed Bruce "further off the cliff into the abyss" so to speak. and made the Dark Knight fully willing to kill the Last Son of Krypton. despite the fact he is still clearly disagreeing with Bruce's methods and is considering him a remorseless out of control psycopath. Superman is willing to humble himself so he could ask for help in saving his adoptive Martha, though it's clarified to him just how far the situation between has worsened. as he has to fight for his own life as well, while weakened by Kryptonite gas. it's clear Clark is wondering how things have escalated to such a bad situation. and Bruce then proceeds to mock Clark's ideals and beliefs, saying that he's [[NotEvenHuman "not even a man"]]. and Clark intentionally triggers Batman's PTSD, and you realize Superman went into that fight fully ready and willing to be murdered. just so his mother Martha Kent could be saved by who he considers (or considered) an out of control vigilante who went too far.
* In ''Film/ManofSteel'', Lara expresses worry for baby Kal-El's fate on earth, saying "they'll kill him," but Jor-El responds with optimism and hope. In the end... they did.

* The fact that this is by far one of the saddest and broken versions of Batman to date. This Bruce has lost Jason Todd, his Robin like all the others, but we don't know if there was another Robin before him, but there wasn't a Robin after Jason. Even if there was a time where Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon worked with Bruce, they're gone now and no mention is given to them. This is a world where Superman and the rest of the Justice League were never there to balance of Batman's darkness with their light. After 20 years of fighting his personal war on crime, the only thing left Bruce has is Alfred and his bitter rage. Fallen, broken, and hurting.

* A friend of mine made this poem on the funeral scene.
--> ''"The dead don't die in our hearts....The dead aren't forgotten.....And the dead always remember....."''

* The "Martha" meme might not seem so funny when one has to take into account that Creator/ZackSnyder's real mother was called Marsha and had died years ago (Film/SuckerPunch was dedicated to her memory).

* [[spoiler:Jimmy Olsen appears, only to be shot in the face before Superman can reach him. It's especially tragic since this version seemed almost as {{badass}} as Lois.]]

* [[spoiler:The death of Superman. After realizing that the only way to kill Doomsday is with Kryptonite, Superman uses Batman's Kryptonite spear to deal the fatal blow to Doomsday despite being severely weakened by its presence. He is impaled on Doomsday's spikes, but pushes on until both are killed.]]

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!Meta

* Meta: The "Martha" meme might not seem so funny when one has to take into account that Creator/ZackSnyder's real mother was both called Marsha and had died years ago.

** The extended cut makes this cut even deeper [[spoiler: he's later shown getting as many survivors out of the wreckage as he can, he then freezes for a moment and looks at all the casualties and the crowd screaming for his exile. The look he carries is the look of man who believes genuinely that he's failed.]]

** There's also the chants of ''"[[YouCantGoHomeAgain Go home!]]"'' towards [[LastOfHisKind Superman]], of all people.

* Meta: The "Martha" meme might not seem so funny when one has to take into account that Zach Snyder's real mother was both called Marsha and had died years ago.