Justice League: A Key Lois Lane Scene Proves She’s A Hero (And Fixes A Plot Hole)
Among the differences between the two versions of Justice League, Lois Lane’s portrayal in the Snyder Cut is more heroic, and removes a plot hole.
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Lois Lane’s heroism is showcased much more vividly in one major scene in Zack Snyder’s Justice League compared to the theatrical cut. Now out on home media after dropping on HBO Max and international streamers earlier this year, the Snyder Cut pulled back the curtain on how different Snyder’s Justice League is from the last-minute Frankenstein that came and went in 2017. Comparing the two versions side-by-side, it remains astonishing how much the theatrical version veered off from what the movie began as, along with how much more fleshed out and three-dimensional the major characters now are.
Amy Adams’ Lois Lane shows that the Justice League themselves weren’t the only characters to be presented two different ways in both Joss Whedon’s theatrical cut and Zack Snyder’s revised version. During the Heroes Park battle, for instance, the Snyder Cut shows Lois to be a far more autonomous and courageous character than the original release. While both versions place her as the one who successfully manages to bring Henry Cavill’s Superman back to his senses, how this happens plays out quite differently in each film – even creating a plot hole in the 2017 theatrical cut.
In the Snyder Cut version of the Heroes Park fight (now a longer battle free from reshoot footage) Lois acts with indisputable heroism. Having just left Heroes Park and seeing Superman return in the sky, she arrives at the park right as Superman is attacking Batman with his heat vision, perceiving the League to be enemies in his mental haze. Lois steps in to stop Clark right as he’s in the middle of unleashing a heat vision blast against Batman’s armored gauntlets, putting herself in considerably more immediate danger than was the case in the theatrical cut. Not only does this prove she is a hero in her own right, but also fixes a major flaw with Joss Whedon’s original Justice League.
In that version of the film, Lois is kept in reserve by Ben Affleck’s Batman as “the big gun”, with the League fearing that Superman might not come back as his old self and Batman calling upon Alfred (Jeremy Irons) to bring her out into Superman’s view. While this has the intended effect of Kal-El regaining his memory of who he is, it also begs the question of why Batman, if he knew Lois could mentally stabilize Superman that easily, didn’t have her right alongside the League when Superman was being brought back to life. Moreover, classifying Lois as “the big gun” ended up reducing her from one of the most important DCEU characters to little more than a mind hack to calm Superman down rather than a human he’d established a profound connection with when they first met in Man of Steel.
Once again, Lois succeeds in bringing Clark back to his senses, but the highly-anticipated Snyder Cut version now shows her doing so as an actual human character rather than a last-ditch Hail Mary. In Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Lois Lane’s courage and journalistic integrity were essential elements to her characterization, and equally so was her relationship with Clark Kent. Zack Snyder’s Justice League restores that element that was lost in the theatrical cut, again showing Lois as the one to save the League when the chips were down, this time not as “the big gun”, but as a person rushing in to lend a hand in a dangerous situation. Considering how close she had to get to Superman’s heat vision to do it, Lois saves the day with all the courage of a true heroine, and is now redeemed in her portrayal in the movie, just as the other main Justice League characters were.
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