Alex Abad-Santos details Zack Snyder’s misguided desire to have seen Bruce Wayne raped in prison before becoming Batman. Because seeing his parents murdered just isn’t dark enough for The Dark Knight anymore, I guess?

There’s a reason these superheroes and their comics have endured. And even when Frank Miller and Alan Moore introduced grit and darkness into their worlds, it wasn’t darkness for darkness’s sake — which is what Snyder seems to be obsessed with.

DC’s movie universe is doomed.