The downed ship is still in the middle of Metropolis, but covered in a safety structure like that built in Chernobyl – along with military barriers to prevent non-authorized people from fiddling with the Fortress.

This snarking on how Bruce’s “death seeker” life and lack of desire in fathering children threatens the Wayne family future is straight out of The Dark Knight Returns.

Perry thinks Clark’s Kansas upbringing made him too idealistic, and that the general perception is that once Martin Luther King, John and Robert Kennedy were all assassinated in the 1960s, everyone went numb and learned to see in a cynical way.

For understandable reasons, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases took Zod’s body away – if a human corpse is a sanitary concern, imagine an extraterrestrial one. The military also have the structure to investigate the dead alien’s biology.

There was a Gotham City and Metropolis game in the extended cut being watched by the cops who find Batman… but that is the game Perry refers to, it was more than just 10 yards given the score appears to be 49-0 for Metropolis, rising to 58!

Like the cops in a previous scene, the senator’s name is an homage to a DC artist, Superman penciller Eddy Barrows.

Just like Harley Quinn in the Batman cartoon, Mercy Graves was Lex Luthor’s bodyguard in Superman: The Animated Series and then got transplanted to the regular DC Comics. The change to an assistant position occurred with the “New 52” reboot in 2011.