Justice League 2: How Part 1 Hinted At Lois Lane & Batman’s Deaths

Zack Snyder’s planned Justice League sequels involved Batman sacrificing himself, and the Snyder Cut’s cemetery scene foreshadowed his heroic death.

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Zack Snyder’s Justice League sets up his two planned sequels that were to include Batman’s death, and the movie’s cemetery scene foreshadowed this. The Snyder Cut debuted in early 2021, following a long campaign by fans to see Snyder’s original cut from before his departure. In the time since then, despite Warner Bros. stating Snyder’s Justice League sequels aren’t happening, there remains an equally strong push for them to be given the greenlight.

Through a combination of social media teases by Snyder and a whiteboard outline made public in the vicinity of the Snyder Cut’s debut, a basic picture of what Justice League 2 and Justice League 3 were to be has been made available. This includes the death of Ben Affleck’s Batman, who was intended to sacrifice himself in the League’s final battle against Darkseid (Ray Porter). The Snyder Cut lays the foundation for the Knightmare future and its undoing, and this also includes Batman’s death being subtly hinted at with one dialogue exchange.

In the scene where the League retrieves the body of Henry Cavill’s Superman for Batman’s plan to revive him, Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) have a conversation about the long-standing rivalry between Atlantis and Themyscira. Here, Arthur recounts an Atlantean saying that Diana also recognizes from Themyscira: “None are taken back from the darkness, not without giving one up in return.” As it turns out, this sets up Batman’s eventual death in Justice League 3, with the death of Lois Lane (Amy Adams) also factoring into it.

Snyder’s Justice League sequels were to involve Darkseid murdering Lois in the Batcave, and bringing the grieving Superman under his control with the Anti-Life Equation in order to conquer Earth. This is partially seen in the movie’s first tease of the Knightmare, while the Justice League sequels would involve Batman sending The Flash (Ezra Miller) back in time on the Cosmic Treadmill to prevent this timeline. After the Knightmare is averted, Superman would lead the Justice League and the entire world in a last stand against Apokolips, with Batman giving his life to defeat Darkseid.

The story of the Justice League sequels builds off of Aquaman and Wonder Woman’s exchange, indicating that for someone to be resurrected from death, another must take their place. That would end up playing out with Lois’ death at Darkseid’s hands, and by bringing her (and the entire world) “back from the darkness”, Batman would fall on the sword to save the world for good. Interestingly, this story might also have been intended by Snyder and screenwriter Chris Terrio as a Smallville homage.

In Smallville season 5, after Clark Kent (Tom Welling) is revived from death by Jor-El, he learns that the life of another must be traded for his. Initially, that ends up being Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk), but after Clark gets the chance to change the timeline to save her, his father Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) is the one to finally die. The plot of the Justice League sequel’s Final Crisis-inspired story plays this idea out on a much larger scale with the world at stake. With so much going on in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the setup for the planned sequels teases a final battle of good versus evil, while Batman’s sacrifice to save the world is alluded to in a much more veiled way.

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