Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice

Man of Steel: Shadow of the Bat is an American Superhero movie, sequel to the 2013 Man of Steel. directed by Zach Snyder. Originally titled 'Batman vs. Superman', the movie was released on May 6, 2016. the setting takes place over 1 year after the events of Man of Steel. the recurring cast includes Henry Cavill as Superman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, and Laurence Fishburne as Perry White. Joining the cast is Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Callan Mulvey Stop-motioning John Corben/Metallo, and Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth. this article is merely speculation based on rumors, as well as some official announcements.

Plot:
The story begins when Bruce Wayne, CEO of Wayne Enterprises, promises the people of Metropolis to "clean up the mess" caused by Superman and General Zod during the events of Man of Steel. As a response, Lex Luthor and John Corben, CEOs of rival company LexCorp, start building weapons for a counteroffensive against Superman. Bruce Wayne feels very suspicious about Lex. He goes to Metropolis, telling Luthor that Superman is an excellent specimen, but Luthor says that Superman is an Alien that must be killed, opposed to the peaceful idea that Bruce had. Batman, nearing the end of his second year, first makes a deal with CADMUS to never let Superman destroy another city to prevent any violence between Superman and LexCorp. CADMUS trusts Batman with brass knuckles made from Kryptonian atmosphere, a rock called Kryptonite. Meanwhile, at the City council meeting, including Lex and Bruce, head of the EPA, Arthur Curry, is aggravated at the fact that the world engine has done something to ocean life.

Superman makes his entrance when stopping a plane that was hit in the engine by a satellite (later revealed to be from Lex Luthor) from crashing into Metropolis. On the plane was Lois Lane and Clark's new friend Jimmy Olsen. Meanwhile Vice President of Lexcorp John Corben is caught in the explosion and nearly killed. Lex Luthor gives him a robotic body, supplied by a mysterious helper, and powers Corben's robotic body with a large chunk of Kryptonite. It is unknown where he received the Kryptonite. The body Corben is now in allows him to have the strength of 20 average men. Lex tells Corben of a plan he has to kill Superman.

Luthor arranges a meeting with Superman in Gotham City under the pretense of forming a pact. This results in a battle between John Corben, now named Metallo and Superman, and the latter is overcome when Metallo uses his Kryptonite heart to subdue Superman. Batman intervenes, and defeats Metallo. Batman interrogates Metallo in the hopes to find and take down Luthor, but Superman, disagreeing with Batman's tactics, tries to intervene. A brief fight breaks out, and most of Batman's weaponry is proved useless and armor destroyed. Batman pull out his Kryptonite Brass knuckles and continues the fight. Batman ends the fight when he calls the Man of Steel "Clark", and Superman retaliates and uses X-Ray vision to discover Batman as Bruce Wayne. Luthor disappears after the heroes (or just Superman) apologize for the attack.

The mysterious CEO Luthor is shown in the shadows a lot over the next few months, hiding as a manipulator. Another fight between Superman and Metallo breaks out, but the US military intervenes, and breaks up the fight. Metallo is arrested, and Superman is shunned by the general populace, and several bystanders threaten him. As it turns out, Lex Luthor had hired and bribed the corrupt military unit to stop superman, only if Metallo had failed to kill Superman. He had manipulated the general populace of metropolis on his favor, so Superman would be disliked.

Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, looking into the mysterious CEO, later discover that Luthor has secretly been taking a serum composed of liquid kryptonite and Steroids, making him lose whatever rationality he had left. Luthor intends to take over the city after using the US air force to bomb it, and will start by killing Superman. He tells Lois and Jimmy that he plans to kill Superman himself, and his robot Metallo is going to help him. He had also planned to get rid of the Batman, which is why he attempted to form a pact with Superman in the first place: to label the Batman as a public enemy. Lex then attempts to kill the two reporters so they don't spread the secret plan that Lex has, but Batman intervenes, and subdues Luthor, who escapes with his supplies, as well as a very powerful mech suit modeled after General Zod's armor, only painted in his own image.

Meanwhile, Lexcorp, Luthor's company, merges with Wayne Enterprises in order to help fund the rebuilding of Metropolis. Wonder Woman, sent from themiscyra, is disguised as a normal woman in Wayne Enterprises named Diana Prince. She is at a party at Wayne manor, celebrating the merge between Lexcorp and Wayne Enterprises. She discovers a crown/tiara artifact in Wayne manor, which is supposed to belong to the Amazons. She steals it, but on her way out of the reception, she sees Luthor in the background, acting very suspicious.

Lois Lane informs Superman of Lex's entire plan to undermine Metropolis and Gotham. Superman goes to Gotham once again, and decides with Batman that they must work together. They head to metropolis to stop Luthor from unleashing his plan, joined later by Wonder Woman.

Lex Luthor fights Superman in his mech suit, where Superman is severely weakened by him, but is still able to defeat him. He strips Luthor of his armor, and disappears and returns in the disguise of Clark Kent, so he can record this for the daily planet. Batman fights Metallo, and proves to Clark and Wonder Woman that he does not kill when Wonder Woman insists Batman to kill Metallo, but refuses, and then attempts to shut down Metallo with an EMP batarang. However, Metallo breaks free, and attacks Lois, Jimmy, and several bystanders. Clark gets in the way, and Metallo "kills" Clark Kent, who faked his death. After watching the disgust, Wonder Woman kills Metallo by ripping out his Kryptonite heart. Lex later buys the daily planet for his own personal benefit, but is faced with criminal prosecution and sentanced to life. Clark Kent is presumed dead and Superman disappears. The general populace is angered at Wonder Woman and Batman due to collateral danage.

The final scenes in the movie show Superman in exile after the fight. He goes to Martha Kent for advice.

Cast:
Superman- Henry Cavill

Batman - Ben Affleck

Wonder Woman- Gal Gadot

Lex Luthor- Jesse Eisenberg

Metallo- Callan Mulvey

Lois Lane- Amy Adams

Alfred Pennyworth- Jeremy Irons

Trivia:

 * The Movie was originally going to be released on July 17, 2015
 * There are going to be 2 villains, one is Lex Luthor, the other is unknown at this point
 * the five most likely choices for the secondary villain are Metallo, Bizarro, Doomsday, and Braniac (one would be used. and whichever ones that were not used would be in other movies, like justice league and more solo superman movies).
 * Wonder Woman is in the film for a total of 10 minutes, excluding her screen time as alter ego Diana Prince.