Update: Replaced Scarlet (from Star Darlings, in the original draft) with Maka Albarn (from Soul Eater) for an upcoming story in development set in the same universe as this story.
Ruby, Yang and Maka Albarn's Commentary of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (Part 2 - Final)
Again, SPOILERS AHEAD (I still don't own anything). My final chapter before my break for the Christmas crossover.
In honour of the 2017 movie Justice League.
When Vernal returned from her restroom break in the bar, Ruby, Yang and Maka Albarn had finished laughing from their joke a few minutes earlier, before the three girls glared at her once again.
"Okay, so you girls don't think Batman and Superman have enough reasons to hate each other. But hey, you got to give Zack credit, Lex Luthor, his plan is pretty amazing.", Vernal told the girls.
Ruby, Yang and Maka looked at each other, confused, before saying in unison, "How?"
"By inviting Superman to the capitol building and then blowing it up causing people to hate him more.", the brown-haired girl said.
The red-black leader of RWBY tells her the correction, "But even in the movie they know he didn't do it."
"And why would Superman use a bomb? He doesn't need one!", supported Maka.
Vernal thought, "But it's okay because he scares Superman into exile."
"W-was that Lex's plan?", Yang questions.
She answers, "Uh...yes, that's exactly what he wanted, I think. According to Zack."
"Why does he make another Kryptonian then?", argued the taupe-haired meister Maka. "He tricks the incredibly advanced Kryptonian technology by using fake fingerprints and forcing it to genetically combine his DNA with that of Zod."
Ruby agrees, "Point. Don't you wish this is how all advanced technology worked?"
"Yeah. For sure.", Maka nods.
Yang continues, "So while in exile, Clark comes across his dead father building a snow fort. This is because either a) he's a ghost, b) Clark's hallucinating, c) more inconsistent technology, or d) if this really is your biggest question through all of this, you're on Quaaludes."
"Meanwhile, Luthor's men sneak up on Lois and kidnap her.", Maka says the next part of the story.
Ruby finishes for her friend, "And she wakes up on top of Lex's building, where Lex tells Lois about her evil plan, then Superman returns and Lex manipulates the hero as he says that he must kill Batman in order to save Martha, his mother."
"It begins the ultimate anticipating brawl against Batman and Superman! Eh? Ehh? Pretty high drama, huh?", Vernal also mentions about the fight between Batman and Superman. "Isn't this it? Isn't this what Zack wanted you've always wanted to see?"
Yang sighed, "Yeah, it's what we've always wanted to see..."
"...but not why we wanted to see it.", Maka points out.
Ruby agrees, "We want to see Batman and Superman fight because they have different ideologies that we enjoy. One is dark and aggressive, the other is kind and hopeful. Seeing two points of view that are different but we identify with go head and head is deep and conflicting drama."
"But Superman is fighting to save his mom and Batman is fighting because he pretty much does what he does. It's not the motivations are weak. It is the literal definition of forced.", the taupe-haired meister Maka said.
She asks and says the spoilers of the battle between Batman and Superman, "Yeah I guess, but wasn't it cool the way Batman swings him around like a yo-yo?", Ruby, Yang and Maka nodding unsurely. "And wasn't it cool the way Batman punches him across the building?", the three other girls nodding unsurely again. "And wasn't it cool when Batman sprayed him with kryptonite gas so just minutes later he could stab him with a kryptonite spear?"
"Wait a minute- Why didn't he just stab him with the spear first?", corrected Ruby and Yang.
Maka also said, "Yeah, this is a battle of brains as well as brawn. Why didn't Batman just stab him as his first move?", asking Vernal.
"I...um...well, look! Aquaman's in the movie!", Vernal pointed to the TV showing Aquaman in the movie.
The two-star meister Maka ignores, "Answer the question!"
"Okay, they did it so people could see more of fighting. Zack's cool!", truthfully said the brown-haired girl.
Ruby and Yang both clarified, "And there's the movie's problem. They see them fighting, but they don't experience them fighting. Anyone can just watch two people fight. Hell, you can just take two strangers, put them in Batman and Superman costumes and have them do cool stuff."
"But if you're constantly questioning why throughout the whole thing, you're not experiencing it. You're constantly being distracted by elements that don't add up.", Maka exampled.
Vernal then sarcastically glares, "But perhaps you girls didn't hear me... Look, The Flash is in the movie!", pointing to the TV again showing Flash in the movie, causing Ruby, Yang and Maka to groan, sigh and facepalm. "...Cyborg?"
"No, just...no.", refuses the two-star meister Maka.
Ruby and Yang continues the story, "Batman has the upper hand until an amazing discovery is made. Their mothers are both named Martha, and Batman and Superman have a alliance at last. But Lois throws the spear in the water and Lex is creating the ultimate kryptonian devil, which his plan makes no sense, god versus god."
"Lex Luthor may be still kind of a Joker, but that's nothing. Wait until you see how well they understand Doomsday.", Vernal mentioned.
Maka raises her eyebrow, "Doomsday?"
"Yes, they wrote him so he's a combo of Lex and Zod's DNA, creating...", she said.
Ruby and Yang shush her, "Hold on a second! We're just gonna draw on this movie's Doomsday looks like...", pulling out a sketchbook as Yang quickly draws a picture of Doomsday, before giving it to Vernal which shows only a human with a body type of Zod and orange hair like Luthor's, but with Zod's personality mashed with a monstrosity's personality.
"But that's not what Doomsday looks like...?", Vernal said, confused.
Maka says, "Oh? What did you expect? A monster evolved from cloning thousands of alien babies dying and being reborn until it created the ultimate killing machine? Like in the comic?"
"Yeah? I believe.", supposes the short-haired girl.
Ruby smirks and argues, "Well, why wouldn't it look anything like Zod and Luthor's goddamn DNA?! A combination of Zod and Luthor on this drawing should look exactly like that, Zod and Luthor. Where did this double sized, double muscled, brain dead, dick missing creature come from? In fact, wait a minute; Lex Luthor combining his DNA with Zod's kryptonian DNA to create an uncontrollable monster? That's NUCLEAR Man!"
"Oh my god, Zack Snyder's getting inspiration from Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, the WORST Superman movie EVER!", freaked out Yang and referenced.
Vernal realizes this and excuses, "But...but...THEY GOT DOOMSDAY IN THE MOVIE!", pointing to the TV playing the movie with Doomsday shown.
"Vernal, this isn't a contest for how much shit they can jam in this movie! We loved these characters because they were given time to develop.", reasons the taupe-haired meister Maka.
Ruby and Yang support, "Just because they give them the same name doesn't automatically make them the same character."
"But what if they had...", spoke Vernal about to say something.
Maka threats, "Shut...the hell...up.", Vernal reluctantly nodding, before saying the climax's spoilers, "So after Wonder Woman finally joins the team, who is in the movie, Batman has a great idea, then Superman has a great idea, and Superman rushes towards Doomsday with the kryptonite spear and...", about to give the climatic spoiler away, "...he dies...?"
"Superman dies in the second movie?", questioned Ruby and Yang.
Vernal facts, "Well, don't forget, there's even more than that. They use even more similar symbolism, don't worry we'll get all through that. Lex Luthor is put into prison, and just when you think he's really gone for good, a few specks of dirt rise from his coffin. Hinting that maybe...just maybe...he'll come back. Thus they have combined the most famous Batman and Superman stories into one emotional package. Giving you exactly what you've always wanted to see."
"...Okay?", Yang, Ruby and Maka looked at each other, before the latter two gets an idea as they smiled casually.
Ruby politely says, "Now, we must say one word for this...", before she and Maka get up from their chair, the former pulling out her closed Crescent Rose weapon, and Maka had cleaned her outfit for a bit, before the two clear their throats, took a deep breath, and...
...
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!", ragingly yelled Ruby and Maka, the former pointing her Crescent Rose scythe with a raging expression while Maka clenched her fists and had electricity emitted from her (a nod from Episode 51) as she had an intimidating furious look in a fit of ultimate rage, both yelling this towards Vernal as the latter was traumatized and scared by the two lead girls, while Yang remained sitting down, not scared but rather smiling for her sister Ruby and their meister friend Maka.
This happens for a few moments, until the two girls' rage dies after Ruby swings her Crescent Rose scythe, not hitting Vernal, but hitting her drink, sending it flying and the cup shattering once hitting the bar wall. The two take a deep breath, relaxing, Ruby sitting down for Maka to talk to Vernal.
Maka goes back to arguing, "You know what we want to see?!"
"N-n-n-n-no?", stuttered Vernal in fright.
The two-star meister said, "We want to see the Justice League at his funeral, but now we can't! We want to see a hero slowly stripped of his life in the ultimate battle instead of just being stabbed in just one swoop, but now we can't. We want to build a connection with Superman the same way he built a connection with us in hundreds of stories, but now we can't! We want to fear that this might be the time that Superman doesn't make it back, but now we can't. How many comics were there before Superman had died, Vernal?"
"I-I-I-I-I don't know?", guessed Vernal, frightened still.
The taupe-haired meister Maka answered, "Hundreds! Thousands! And how many movies did Zack make with him?"
"Two?", Vernal said, scared.
Maka replies, "TWO! He killed him in two movies and he barely even focused on him! You know what we want to see? We want to see Zack Snyder earn Superman's death! This isn't fucking Jimmy Olsen! This is goddamn Superman! He deserves your time and respect! I am a big fan of him, we built our anticipation for this movie, and he wasted it!", before she sits down with Ruby and Yang.
"Ditto.", said Ruby and Yang, the former fistbumping Maka, as Vernal was paralyzed in shock by earlier. "This movie is trying to be Marvel, the Dark Knight, Wonder Woman, the Death of Superman, and Batman vs Superman when Batman vs Superman would have been more than enough. The reason we love so many of the stories that you were trying to fit into this is because each one was it's own individual story. The Death of Superman wasn't also a prequel of Suicide Squad or the retelling of Dark Knight Returns. It focused on one story and allowed us to get invested. Sure you have to compromise a story when it comes to making a movie, but when you lose the heart and soul of making that story so special, it is worth squeezing in instead of devoting the time it deserves? Huh?", the two sisters making this speech.
Vernal then says after being shocked expressively, "So, uh...that's what you two really think, huh?", asking this as Ruby, Yang and Maka nodded. "Well, I'm sorry that movie didn't please you in the least."
"Oh, no. A lot of it was pretty awesome. Including the IMAX 70mm footage Zack did.", Ruby and Yang told the truth.
She questions in confusion, "What?"
"As much as so many of those scenes suck, there's a lot of scenes that are frigging amazing, like in IMAX 70mm or Laser to get the full picture of those selected scenes. The action, the visuals, Affleck as Batman, Irons as Alfred. When it did certain parts of the comic right, it was a pretty kick ass film.", says Maka.
Vernal ensures, "So, wait. Did you girls like it or not?", which confuses the three girls as they looked each other, stuttered and shrugged.
"It's not good, to us, Blake and Weiss'...", Ruby and Yang said their opinion.
Maka says too, "I am always glad that me and my girlfriend Vega saw it."
"If you're just looking for Batman and Superman to fight each other, you'll get it, it's just not in a story that makes any sense.", Ruby spoke.
The taupe-haired meister adds, "It's got a lot of cool scenes that are hard to say not to go check it out, which definitely looks best in IMAX 2D, 3D, Laser or 70MM. So, in a strange way, we're still recommending it."
"We suppose that's all over the map, but then again Zack's movie is all over the map, so we guess it comes full circle.", Yang finished their review for Batman V Superman.
Vernal pauses and curiously asks, "If those are all your thoughts, then why did you three come all the way out here then?"
"Well, uh...we were thinking...", thought Maka, "...that maybe we could discuss about what if would write the next one?", which made Ruby and Yang smile, nod and agree with the meister.
As Vernal looked shockingly agitated, Ruby and Yang were about to discuss, "As in, we don't know, maybe why not Justice League, either Part 1 or 2, or...Shazam? Suicide Squad 2? The Batman?", the two sisters smiling with Maka embarrassingly, before Vernal growls a bit with her mouth closed as she glares at them.
As Blake, Weiss and Tsubaki were waiting outside the bar for Ruby, Yang and Maka, the three girls see them come out of the bar, beaten up and bruised, with a few bloodied cuts and scrapes.
"Girls! Are you okay?", cared Blake and Weiss to Ruby and Yang.
Tsubaki worried to Maka, "You look awful! I hope you feel better soon, my love!"
"She's a harsh one, girls.", Ruby and Yang told.
Maka answers, "Yeah...for sure. Not to worry, these minor injuries will go away in a few days.", kissing Tsubaki on the cheek.
"You wanna all go get some snacks and drinks at the cafe?", Ruby and Yang both said.
Blake, Weiss and Tsubaki Nakatsukasa reply, "Yes, of course! We've been waiting for about 20 minutes!"
"Don't mind if I do.", Maka Albarn smiles, before the six girls go off to the cafe after their BvS review.
End of Ruby, Yang and Maka Albarn's Commentary of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
Next up: RWBY's Commentary of Fant4stic
