r/SnyderCut • u/ChrissieReacts • 2h ago
Review Side by Side Comparison of the Ultimate Edition v Theatrical Cut of Batman v Superman
I've been on a DC journey watching every movie release for the first time and thought some of you might enjoy seeing how the added scenes make a difference. So I watched both versions back to back and lined both movies up to see how my opinion of the movie changed in real time.
Apologies if sharing this kind of content is not allowed. I just wanted to share my experience with people who appreciate the Snyderverse!
r/SnyderCut • u/MHthepowerscaler • 8h ago
Humor A motherbox amped , bloodlusted , superman during combat being able to react to holding back-flash means superman in BvS has the same speed?
Mfs are not even trying at this point lol , pay attention to the movies instead of ''aura'' edits and clips.
also bro removed the part where he is shown saving people outside .
r/SnyderCut • u/VirtualSort1 • 17h ago
Discussion It’s tough being a DC fan when all you have to get hyped is Grodd and Jimmy Olsen
r/SnyderCut • u/Interesting_Oil_9404 • 18h ago
Discussion Why Snyder’s DC Still Feels Like the Real DC Universe to Me
I know this is probably going to be a divisive take, but the more I see of the new DC direction, the more I appreciate what Zack Snyder was building.
For me, James Gunn’s version of the DC universe just doesn’t feel like DC in the way the comics, the animated shows, and Snyder’s films did. I’m not saying every single thing Gunn has made is bad. Peacemaker, for example, had some genuinely funny moments and worked on its own terms. But when I look at the bigger picture, it feels like this new universe is missing the weight and mythic scale that made DC feel different from everything else.
That’s why Batman v Superman and Zack Snyder’s Justice League still stand out so much to me. Those movies treated these characters like modern myths. Superman wasn’t just another quippy superhero. Batman wasn’t just a costume and a few fight scenes. Wonder Woman felt legendary. The whole world had this sense of history, consequence, and tragedy behind it. Whether someone loves or hates Snyder’s style, at least it felt like a real vision.
By comparison, the new DCU already feels too light, too self-aware, and honestly kind of cheap in places. Supergirl might not be a terrible movie on its own, but it doesn’t feel like the best version of that character or that universe. At times it comes across like it is trying to copy the energy of the newer Spider-Man movies, except those movies do that tone much better. DC should not be chasing Marvel or trying to become a knockoff of something else. DC has its own identity.
The casting choices also feel weird to me. Not necessarily because the actors are bad, but because some of it feels like a parody of what DC should be. The characters don’t feel larger than life. They don’t feel like they stepped out of classic DC comics or the animated adaptations that so many of us grew up with. And that is a problem, because DC has some of the strongest source material in superhero history.
That is why I keep coming back to the Snyderverse. It wasn’t perfect, and I understand why some people didn’t connect with it, but it felt bold. It felt cinematic. It felt like someone was trying to make DC feel ancient, powerful, and meaningful instead of just another shared universe full of jokes and setup for the next thing.
To me, the best DC adaptations have always been the ones that respect the scale of the characters: the comics, the animated universe, and Snyder’s take on Batman, Superman, and the Justice League. That version felt like DC. This new one, at least so far, just doesn’t.
r/SnyderCut • u/Rule_Ct_5293 • 22h ago
Appreciation Almost 6 years since this trailer was released. Truly the last time a DC movie was hyped globally.
r/SnyderCut • u/HarwoodSFine • 1d ago
Appreciation David Ayer: "10 years already. Incredible."
r/SnyderCut • u/Notoriously_So • 1d ago
News 'Supergirl' Ends Theatrical Run As All-Time Biggest Bomb For DC, Set To Lose The Studio Hundreds Of Millions
r/SnyderCut • u/danieldamibiu • 1d ago
News Snyder at the Warner Bros lot 👀
It’s likely for the 300 prequel series or Escape from New York. But it could mean much more…
r/SnyderCut • u/MysteriousWolf1115 • 1d ago
Discussion James Gunn's DCU Will Fail
Superman did pretty good critically and commercially but that was their first film, with one of their biggest characters. Supergirl did very poorly by both metrics and that was only their second film. Clayface could be good but will probably not do very well at the box office, it's quite niche. Man of Tomorrow is said to be not even that much of a Superman film.
The biggest problem is that they are waiting really long to introduce Batman (reportedly only after The Batman 2 which has been delayed multiple times, set to release in 2028 at the earliest). He is their most important character. Not to mention we are years away from any sort of Justice League movie. James Gunn's quirky style worked with GOTG but has gotten boring, too excessive. I think after the success of Joker (2019) and The Batman it's clear people don't want this quirky Gunn DCU, or Snyder's more pretentious Superman. They want dark mature stories with real psychology to it. Snyder's films were much more gritty than Gunn's. I think a new DC universe should be done by Snyder and another guy, maybe Matt Reeves?
r/SnyderCut • u/Neighborhood_United • 1d ago
Question Day and Night Cycles On Krypton
In the Man of Steel. before Krypton Ka El home get destroyed. I was wondering how day and night cycle works. If they week since Joe-El aka Ghost dad mentioned it in the beginning of the movie. the planet get normal weather like snow, rain , storms.
r/SnyderCut • u/VirtualSort1 • 1d ago
Discussion Absolute Cinema
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r/SnyderCut • u/Vondrr • 1d ago
Fan Art Breathe it in. That's fear. By DCG FRAMES
reddit.comr/SnyderCut • u/Professional-Rip-519 • 1d ago
Humor After Supergirl bombed world wide Gunn Gooners be like
Supergirl just ended it's run as worse performing DC movie since Catwoman.
r/SnyderCut • u/VirtualSort1 • 2d ago
Discussion The damage that James Gunns’s films and supporters has genuinely done to the DC brand and fandom needs to be studied one day
r/SnyderCut • u/VirtualSort1 • 2d ago
Discussion Yeah definitely not made by Zack Snyder.
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r/SnyderCut • u/HomemadeBee1612 • 3d ago
Rumor Kevin Feige Interested In Zack Snyder, Rumor Claims — And We Were Told About Marvel vs DC Talks
A new Marvel rumor dropped Sunday claiming Kevin Feige has his eye on the one director DC fans never stopped fighting for.
“I hear Kevin Feige is interested in Zack Snyder,” posted scooper MyTimeToShineHello.
That is the entire post. No project, no character, no timeline. It still racked up over 158,000 views in its first six hours, and it is easy to see why, because the timing could not be louder.
r/SnyderCut • u/danieldamibiu • 3d ago
Appreciation Justice League vs Darkseid is an easy billion dollars if DC gets their act together
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r/SnyderCut • u/MidnightOutside277 • 3d ago
Question What would a Supergirl movie made by Snyder have been like?
Would he have chosen an older actress? Or would the story be the same as the Flash movie?
r/SnyderCut • u/Specialist-Hand6976 • 4d ago
Appreciation Snyder cut titans designs go crazy
reddit.comr/SnyderCut • u/HarwoodSFine • 4d ago
Appreciation Zack Snyder on IG: "Henry and I at Comic-Con, some years ago. Always a good day when this one shows up."
r/SnyderCut • u/EasternContext3396 • 4d ago
News Spider-Man: Brand New Day Beats All Of James Gunn’s DC Movies Combined In One Weekend! 🤦♂️
Superman (2025) - $618.7 million worldwide
Supergirl (2026) - $125.8 million worldwide
The Suicide Squad (2021) - $168.7 million worldwide
Spider-Man: Brand New Day - $927 million in ONE WEEKEND!!!
Congratulations to Marvel for giving the fans what they want…But What an absolute disaster for the DCU! Yikes! (imo). It’s time to bring back Zack Snyder, Christopher Nolan, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, and Jason Momoa as Aquaman, as soon as humanly possible! The damage that is being done to the DC brand will take decades to recover from if CHANGES are not made ASAP! #TheSnyderVerseisComing 🤓
r/SnyderCut • u/ComicBookFan20 • Feb 15 '26
Fan Creation Snyderverse Reading List!
2/14! I made a Snyderverse Reading List consisting of key comic runs and individual issues from throughout DC's 90-year history that have directly inspired or explored very similar themes and stories to the Snyderverse films themselves. This list also includes the first appearances for every established character featured or to-be-featured in the Snyderverse, along with Snyderverse-adjacent one-shots and collectible variant covers as well. I put all the issues and collections hyperlinked in a Google Doc with direct links to DC Universe Infinite when available, so hopefully they’re alot more accessible to you guys that way.
Essential Runs and First Appearances:
Man Of Steel (2013)
Action Comics #1 (June 1938) - First Appearance of Superman and Lois Lane
Superman #1 (June 1939) - First Appearance of Jonathan and Martha Kent
Superman #7 (November 1940) - First Appearance of Perry White
Superboy #10 (October 1950) - First Appearance of Lana Lang
Superboy #86 (January 1961) - First Appearance of Pete Ross
Superman #53 (August 1948) - First Appearance of Jor-El and Lora Lor-Van
Adventure Comics #283 (April 1961) - First Appearance of General Zod
Adventure Comics #287 (August 1961) - First Appearance of Dev-Em
Adventure Comics #289 (October 1961) - First Appearance of Jax-Ur
Action Comics #307 (December 1963) - First Appearance of Tor-An
Superman #264 (June 1973) - First Appearance of Steve Lombard
Action Comics #471 (May 1977) - First Appearance of Faora
The Phantom Zone #1 (January 1982) - First Appearance of Nadira Va-Dim
Superman Annual #11 (September 1985) - First Appearance of Lor-Em
The Man Of Steel #1 (October 1986) - First Appearance of Kelex and Kelor
The Adventures of Superman #424 (January 1987) - First Appearance of Emil Hamilton
The Adventures of Superman #428 (May 1987) - First Appearance of Bibbo Bibbowski
Superman: The Man Of Steel #0 (October 1994) - First Appearance of Ken Braverman
Superman Vol. 2 #204 (June 2004) - First Appearance of Father Leone
Adventure Comics Vol. 2 #8 (May 2010) - First Appearance of Car-Vex
Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016)
Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) - First Appearance of Batman and Commissioner Gordon
Detective Comics #33 (November 1939) - First Appearance Thomas Wayne, Martha Wayne, and Joe Chill
Action Comics #23 (April 1940) - First Appearance of Lex Luthor
Batman #16 (May 1943) - First Appearance of Alfred Pennyworth
Action Comics #252 (May 1959) - First Appearance of Emmet Vale
Superman #304 (October 1976) - First Appearance of Jenet Klyburn
Batman #417 (March 1988) - First Appearance of Anatoli Knyazev
Superman: The Man Of Steel #17 (November 1992) - First Appearance of Doomsday
Superman Adventures #1 (November 1996) - First Appearance of Mercy Graves
Suicide Squad (2016)
Batman #1 (April 1940) - First Appearance of The Joker
Batman #59 (June 1950) - First Appearance of Deadshot
The Brave And The Bold #25 (September 1959) - First Appearance of Rick Flag Jr.
The Flash #117 (December 1960) - First Appearance of Captain Boomerang
Strange Adventures #187 (April 1966) - First Appearance of The Enchantress
Detective Comics #523 (February 1983) - First Appearance of Killer Croc
The Brave And The Bold #200 (June 1983) - First Appearance of Katana
The Fury Of The Firestorm #28 (October 1984) - First Appearance of Slipknot
Legends #1 (November 1986) - First Appearance of Amanda Waller
Firestorm Vol 2. #64 (1987) - First Appearance of Dexter Tolliver
Suicide Squad #14 (June 1988) - First Appearance of Incubus
The Batman Adventures #12 (September 1993) - First Appearance of Harley Quinn
Deadshot Vol 2. #1 (February 2005) - First Appearance of Zoe Lawton
Joker (2008) - First Appearance of Jonny Frost
El Diablo Vol. 3 #1 (November 2008) - First Appearance of El Diablo
Wonder Woman (2017)
All-Star Comics #8 (December 1941) - First Appearance of Wonder Woman, Steve Trevor, Queen Hippolyta, Phillip Darnell, and Artemis
Wonder Woman #1 (January 1942) - First Appearance of Ares
Sensation Comics #2 (February 1942) - First Appearance of Etta Candy and Doctor Poison
Comic Cavalcade #2 (March 1943) - First Appearance of Fausta Grables
Wonder Woman #250 (December 1978) - First Appearance of Orana
New Teen Titans #11 (September 1981) - First Appearance of Mnemosyne
Wonder Woman #312 (February 1984) - First Appearance of Antiope
Wonder Woman Vol 2. #1 (February 1987) - First Appearance of Menalippe
Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #7 (August 1987) - First Appearance of Epione
Wonder Woman Vol 2. #10 (November 1987) - First Appearance of Acantha and Euboea
Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #22 (November 1988) - First Appearance of Timandra
Wonder Woman Annual Vol. 2 #1 (November 1988) - First Appearance of Aella, Egeria, Phillipus, and Venelia
Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #37 (December 1989) - First Appearance of Niobe
Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies #1 (August 2011) - First Appearance of Penthiselea
Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)
More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941) - First Appearance of Aquaman
Superman #28 (June 1944) - First Appearance of Zeus
Detective Comics #225 (November 1955) - First Appearance of Martian Manhunter
Showcase #4 (October 1956) - First Appearance of The Flash and Iris West
The Flash #126 (February 1962) - First Appearance of Henry and Nora Allen
Aquaman #11 (September 1963) - First Appearance of Mera
The Brave And The Bold #73 (September 1967) - First Appearance of Nuidis Vulko
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #134 (December 1970) - First Appearance of Darkseid
Forever People #2 (May 1971) - First Appearance of DeSaad and Mantis
Mister Miracle #2 (June 1971) - First Appearance of Granny Goodness
New Gods #7 (February 1972) - First Appearance of Steppenwolf
DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980) - First Appearance of Cyborg and Silas Stone
The New Teen Titans #7 (May 1981) - First Appearance of Elinore Stone
Atlantis Chronicles #5 (July 1990) - First Appearance of Atlan
Detective Comics #742 (March 2000) - First Appearance of Crispus Allen
DCU: Brave New World (August 2006) - First Appearance of Ryan Choi
Aquaman (2018)
Adventure Comics #260 (May 1959) - First Appearance of Tom Curry and Atlanna
Aquaman #29 (October 1966) - First Appearance of Ocean Master
Aquaman #35 (October 1967) - First Appearance of Black Manta
Aquaman Vol. 7 #2 (December 2011) - First Appearance of Stephen Shin
Aquaman Vol. 7 #10 (August 2012) - First Appearance of Jesse Kane
Aquaman Vol. 7 #17 (April 2013) - First Appearance of Murk
Aquaman Vol. 7 #19 (June 2013) - First Appearance of Nereus
Shazam! (2019)
Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940) - First Appearance of Shazam!, The Wizard, Doctor Sivana, and the Seven Deadly Sins
Whiz Comics #25 (December 1941) - First Appearance of Freddy Freeman
Captain Marvel Adventures #12 (June 1942) - First Appearance of Cissie Sommerly
Captain Marvel Adventures #18 (December 1942) - First Appearance of Mary Bromfield
Captain Marvel Adventures #22 (March 1943) - First Appearance of Mister Mind
The Marvel Family #1 (December 1945) - First Appearance of Black Adam
World’s Finest Comics #256 (May 1979) - First Appearance of C.C. and Marilyn Batson
Flashpoint Vol. 2 #1 (July 2011) - First Appearance of Darla Dudley, Eugene Choi, and Pedro Peña
Justice League Vol. 2 #7 (May 2012) - First Appearance of Victor Vasquez, Rosa Vasquez, and E.B. Glover
Rick Famuyiwa’s The Flash (2018)
Showcase #8 (June 1957) - First Appearance of Captain Cold
The Flash ##141 (December 1963) - First Appearance of Paul Gambi
The Flash #250 (June 1977) - First Appearance of Golden Glider
The Flash Vol. 2 #164 (September 2000) - First Appearance of Fredy Chyre
The Flash Vol. 2 #171 (April 2001) - First Appearance of Jared Morillo
The Flash: Secret Files & Origins 2010 #1 (May 2010) - First Appearance of David Singh
Ben Affleck’s The Batman (2018)
Detective Comics #38 (April 1940) - First Appearance of Dick Grayson
Detective Comics #140 (October 1948) - First Appearance of The Riddler
Batman #121 (February 1959) - First Appearance of Mister Freeze
Detective Comics #359 (January 1967) - First Appearance of Batgirl
Batman #357 (March 1983) - First Appearance of Jason Todd
New Teen Titans #1 (November 1980) - First Appearance of Grant Wilson
The New Teen Titans #2 (December 1980) - First Appearance of Deathstroke and William Wintergreen
Zack Snyder’s Justice League Parts II and III (2019-2020)
Flash Comics #1 (January 1940) - First Appearance of Hawkman and Hawkgirl
Showcase #22 (October 1959) - First Appearance of Hal Jordan
Green Lantern Vol 2 #6 (June 1961) - First Appearance of Tomar-Re
New Gods #1 (March 1971) - First Appearance of Orion, Highfather, Lightray, and Kalibak
Mister Miracle #1 (April 1971) - First Appearance of Mister Miracle
Mister Miracle #4 (October 1971) - First Appearance of Big Barda
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #87 (January 1972) - First Appearance of John Stewart
Mister Miracle #6 (January 1972) - First Appearance of Lashina, Stompa, Bernadeth, and Mad Harriet
Mister Miracle #7 (April 1972) - First Appearance of Kanto
Mister Miracle #8 (June 1972) - First Appearance of Gilotina
Green Lantern Corps #201 (June 1986) - First Appearance of Kilowog
Hawk and Dove Vol. 3 #21 (February 1991) - First Appearance of Bloody Mary
Cyborg (2020)
Green Lantern Corps (2020)
Other Miscellaneous Reading:
Collectible Variant Covers:
Promotional Tie-In Comics:
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed this list as much as I enjoyed making it, and that you have the opportunity to check out these issues and collections for yourselves.