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Man of Steel Sequel Titled 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'

There's also a new logo!

Today, principal photography for the next DC movie begins in Detroit. There's been plenty of discussions over what the movie will be called, but now we have an official title: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. A new logo has been posted, too.

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Dawn of Justice, eh? Seems pretty clear they're trying to build the hype for the Justice League movie. What do you think of the title? Does the title even matter to you? Speak your mind below. And in case you somehow missed it, here's the first good look at the Batmobile and Ben Affleck as Batman.

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opens May 6, 2016.

Source: Variety

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Love the logo and the movie name

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Really had my heart set and hoping they would have used "Worlds Finest" somewhere in the title :-/....

I am loving the "Dawn of Justice" subtitle tho!

World's Finest: The Dawn of Justice would've been perfect imo

it dosent need worlds finest or even batman v superman. dawn of justice sounds great alone

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HA. Bats gets first billing in a superman sequel.

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they shouldve just called it dawn of justice imo

man of steel

dawn of justice

justice leuage

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World's Finest seems like a better title, but Dawn of Justice is good title too.

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@squalleon said:

Seriously they had WORLD'S FINEST and they went with Batman v Superman...ugh. Who takes these decisions?

As much as us nerds would have loved to see it titled "World's Finest", that wouldn't have been a good decision. Nobody knows what "World's Finest" means, the title of "Batman vs Superman" alone is going to bring in a ton of viewers.

Yes because The Dark Knigth/Rises and Man of Steel were commercial flops.

I guess a Justice League movie needs to be called: "Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg & Green Lantern Team-Up Movie AKA Just Like Marvel's The Avengers"

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Notice how the Bat-symbol completely swallows the Superman-symbol, if that isn't symbolic I don't know what is.

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Most people don't know what World's Finest Means! They had to include Batman V Superman to get people to see it, and then they added dawn of justice to let people know a justice league movie is coming. I wouldn't be surprised though if there is another Batman/Superman team up movie after justice league that's called World's Finest

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Words can not describe how much I hate this title.

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@lone_wolf_and_cub said:

Obviously Batman had prep before the movie was finished and found a way to get his name top-billing over Supes in his own sequel.

This made me laugh out loud.

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Batman's name goes first because it's in alphabetical order. People complained about the same thing with Batman/Superman and not only is it edited in the Superman office but the title might as well be Superman's pal: Bruce Wayne for the content it produces.

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@squalleon said:

Seriously they had WORLD'S FINEST and they went with Batman v Superman...ugh. Who takes these decisions?

A fight between Superman and Batman has the potential to shift more tickets so......you know how it goes.

If someone wasn't going to go see Batman and Superman together in the same movie, he wasn't going to see it anyway...

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Seriously they had WORLD'S FINEST and they went with Batman v Superman...ugh. Who takes these decisions?

A fight between Superman and Batman has the potential to shift more tickets so......you know how it goes.

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I heard Batman kills Superman in the first 5 min of the movie! ;) come at me Supe fans.

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So World's Finest or World's Finest: dawn of justice was too complicated huh....They're really stressing this fight even though for 70 years prior Superman and batman were known as the world's finest. Damn this post Injustice era when Supes vs Bats is such a hot topic (personally i'm getting sick of it). I do like the logo though,actually no, the 'S' looks really dark. Don't dare batmanize Superman!!! Oh God...

I agree. They should have stick to the World's Finest. I really hate the fat Batman Logo. The "S" is dark it like they are showing Batman taking over and beating Superman. I'm a Batman fan but this is just too much. I don't like the bat suit he's wearing and I didn't know there was a bat symbol till someone pointed it out. It blends it as if it was just outlined.

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@patrat18 said:

Does it help that this is under the Batman forum? LOL

Your Kidding me!!!!

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@marvel_boy2241 said:

They thing taking the "s" from "vs" makes it sound less lame, but it doesn't.

I see this comment a lot, but "v" is abbreviated for vs and versus... You don't read it as Batman v Superman, it's Batman versus Superman.

@thecannon: ^

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First off, why is it just v instead of vs? Is v supposed to stand for something else and not versus?

Secondly, Dawn of Justice is just stupid. I understand it's setting up Justice League, but it just sounds wrong. I haven't seen Man of Steel, but didn't justice start in that film when Superman started doing heroic stuff?

Exactly what would have been wrong with "Batman/Superman: World's Finest"? It'd make everyone happy since World's Finest would be there and the names Batman & Superman would be listed, so people who never heard the term World's Finest would recognize it.

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Does it help that this is under the Batman forum? LOL

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They thing taking the "s" from "vs" makes it sound less lame, but it doesn't.

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Dawn of Justice is a grea subtitle. Yes, it's a precursor to the JL film, but I'm loving the that title none the less. Not so much for the Bats v Sups one.

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Ugh... the more I think about the title, the more irritated I get. Anyone got a spare chill pill?

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Just call it Dawn of Justice with that emblem. Really, it gets the message across. Everyone knows the Bat-emblem and the Superman S.

That aside, I can't wait to see more about this film looks great. Good time to be a comic book fan with the movies Marvel and DC have both put out recently (and T.V. too).

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I really wished that didn't go for the Batman vs. Superman thing, even with just "v" between the names. Even before announcing the official title, non-comic book readers were saying that it's batman versus superman, now that's stupid. It's going to continue having that perception from the regular movie Batman fans.

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it should be called World's Finest.

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@buttersdaman000 said:

@allstarsuperman said:

@fil123 said:

Cue superman fanboys complaining batman has the top billing in the name.

Its Superman's damn movie.

Yeah, this annoys me as well. If you want Batman's name first, don't call it a Superman sequel....

Wish it was just called "Man of Tomorrow"

MEN of tomorrow

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@squalleon said:

Seriously they had WORLD'S FINEST and they went with Batman v Superman...ugh. Who takes these decisions?

As much as us nerds would have loved to see it titled "World's Finest", that wouldn't have been a good decision. Nobody knows what "World's Finest" means, the title of "Batman vs Superman" alone is going to bring in a ton of viewers.

They could do Batman/Superman: World's Finest, thats the point Dawn of Justice is so generic and it doesn't get excused because it is a JL prequel.

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Seriously they had WORLD'S FINEST and they went with Batman v Superman...ugh. Who takes these decisions?

As much as us nerds would have loved to see it titled "World's Finest", that wouldn't have been a good decision. Nobody knows what "World's Finest" means, the title of "Batman vs Superman" alone is going to bring in a ton of viewers.

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Unlike some of the very slow people here, I'm not going to get hung up on a movie title. I got more important things to worry about. The movie will be awesome.

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Update, Superman will now be played by Dean Kane.

Just messin

To be fair most people would not recognize Worlds Finest.

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@allstarsuperman said:

@fil123 said:

Cue superman fanboys complaining batman has the top billing in the name.

Its Superman's damn movie.

Yeah, this annoys me as well. If you want Batman's name first, don't call it a Superman sequel....

This title is basically saying Batman won

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@allstarsuperman said:

@fil123 said:

Cue superman fanboys complaining batman has the top billing in the name.

Its Superman's damn movie.

Yeah, this annoys me as well. If you want Batman's name first, don't call it a Superman sequel....

Wish it was just called "Man of Tomorrow"

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@pokeysteve: We both better sign up for rehab now, cause we got a LONG way to go until 2016 lol!

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Sounds cool but Batman v Superman: World's Finest what have been better IMHO. I always felt like this started as a Man of Steel 2 and just change into a new movie all together. Like in the comics. you have Superman, World's Finest, Batman, Justice League, etc. Hope that's what they are going for because the most any character should get in another character movie is a cameo where he isn't too out shined or over shadowed.

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@fil123 said:

Cue superman fanboys complaining batman has the top billing in the name.

Its Superman's damn movie.

Yeah, this annoys me as well. If you want Batman's name first, don't call it a Superman sequel....

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Awesome title imo, glad they didn't do World's Finest. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, man I loved this title, you have the big fight and a tease for Justice League. Lets be realistic here, this is more than a MOS sequel now, so lets not complain about it.

I was hoping it would be called Man of Steel: The Dark Knight Returns, heard it on AMC movie talk and it just sounds awesome.

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Really had my heart set and hoping they would have used "Worlds Finest" somewhere in the title :-/....

I am loving the "Dawn of Justice" subtitle tho!

World's Finest: The Dawn of Justice would've been perfect imo

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I cannot believe they actually have a "vs" in the freakin title... let alone Supes doesn't even have top billing in his own sequel. While I am still excited as hell for the movie, this hit me about as hard as hearing Ben Affleck was going to be Bats.

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@fil123 said:

Cue superman fanboys complaining batman has the top billing in the name.

Its Superman's damn movie.

The goddamn Batman says otherwise.

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Sub-title is awesome actually.

Kind of hating the main title though. Why just one little "v?" Looks weird.

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@fil123 said:

Cue superman fanboys complaining batman has the top billing in the name.

Its Superman's damn movie.

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So not even Batman/Superman or Superman/Batman (not even going to mention Worlds’ Finest), no, it’s Batman v Superman… Okeeyyyy…

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We can just stop calling this a Superman sequel now right? Avengers wasn't an Iron Man, Thor or Hulk sequel.

No movie has ever made me as nervous as this one. I'm on edge all the time waiting for news lol god damn I need to start drinking!

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@saren said:

@wolverine08 said:

The sub title is generic as sin.

We can't all have snappy titles like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, can we?

You shouldn't have gone there.

Or The Wolverine.

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@saren said:

@wolverine08 said:

The sub title is generic as sin.

We can't all have snappy titles like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, can we?

Lmfaoo holy sh!t.