Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder has addressed the Dark Knight's brutal methods and what some Bat-fans would deem very bloodthirsty behavior on his part in the new DC superhero epic.

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ahead for some of the specifics of Batman's actions in the film! Bookmark this page and come back to read it after you've seen BvS!Still here? Okay,...Batman kills people in BvS. Not just during the Knightmare sequence, but also random henchmen who get gunned down or blown up directly or indirectly by him. HeyUGuys asked Snyder about these actions, which directly conflict with Batman's longstanding "no killing" rule (not that Snyder's Batman is the only cinematic Caped Crusader to kill -- we're looking at you, Michael Keaton).To Snyder, Batman's actions don't amount to murder so much as manslaughter. "I tried to do it by proxy. Shoot the car they’re in, the car blows up or the grenade would go off in the guy’s hand, or when he shoots the tank and the guy pretty much lights the tank [himself]," Snyder explained. "I perceive it as him not killing directly, but if the bad guy’s are associated with a thing that happens to blow up, he would say that that’s not really my problem."Snyder continued, "A little more like manslaughter than murder, although I would say that in the Frank Miller comic book that I reference, he kills all the time. There’s a scene from the graphic novel where he busts through a wall, takes the guy’s machine gun…I took that little vignette from a scene in The Dark Knight Returns, and at the end of that, he shoots the guy right between the eyes with the machine gun. One shot. Of course, I went to the gas tank, and all of the guys I work with were like, 'You’ve gotta shoot him in the head' because they’re all comic book dorks, and I was like, 'I’m not gonna be the guy that does that!'"So what do you Bat-fans think? Has Snyder justified why his Batman kills people or does he just not understand the character? Sound off in the Comments below!