DC Did Something Pretty Radical to Distance Itself From Marvel, and You’ve Already Seen It

latterly , io9 was on the set ofZack Snyder ’s pic Justice League . The trip-up was coordinated to try and change perception after the polarizing answer to Batman v Superman , but it also bring home the bacon answer to some burn motion . Among them , why the heck did DC free a deleted scene online immediately after that plastic film ’s opening weekend ?

Well , it was because they did n’t want to do what Marvel does .

A spry refresher course . Batman v Superman opened on March 25 . The following Monday , March 28,they released a deleted scenefeaturing Jesse Eisenberg ’s Lex Luthor and a cryptical quality we later get a line is Steppenwolf . Steppenwolf is going to be the baddie in Justice League so this seemed like a pretty significant scene . Here it is .

The scene itself is weird enough , but the timing was way more baffling . No one releases erase scenes from a movie three day after the opening ! If anything , they get tie to the Blu - ray release , which would have in mind it should ’ve been discharge now , three months after . So , what was the thought ?

“ I kind thought , ‘ Oh , that would be a coolheaded after - credits episode , ’ ” director Zack Snyder said on the hardening of Justice League . “ But then I was like , ‘ I do n’t know , can I do that ? ’ because Marvel variety of does that . ‘ Is that a matter ? ’ So we were like , ‘ Oh ! Well , maybe there ’s another fashion to do it . ’ ” And they decided to let go it online .

So instead of put the setting at the closing of the credit , they put it online immediately after initiative . Considering Luthor was already in jail at the end of the flick , it did n’t make much sense as an after - credits scene . But either way , it was a very interesting way of thinking . You could almost call it progressive , if the scene was n’t obviously spud for the center of the movie .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.