panelhunter:

simplyredqueen:

dceu-positivity: This is an observation made based on a hunch, which checks out. Provided is the following breakdown of the scene- Some people would point at the use of “Martha” and paint it as illogical, easily replaceable by Mom or mother. Why does Clark use “Martha”? Because the intention was to say Martha Kent.

The choked out “Kent” is broken in two cuts, the viewer and Batman dismisses it as a grunt. Submitted by @ribvault (O_______________O) EXCELLENT CATCH ! MAGNIFICENT ! I SAW THE MOVIE FIVE TIMES AND NEVER NOTICED ! THANK YOU ! THANK YOU SO MUCH ! **Standing Ovation** And also because he wanted to humanize her. Batman didn’t see Superman as human, so he probably didn’t think his mother was human either. By giving her a name, Superman was trying to get to Batman by humanizing her.



Okay, I’m going to talk about the “logic” of this whole thing.

Yes, Superman probably should have said “mom”, but he didn’t. Let me tell you a story to explain why.

A couple of years ago, I was driving on a highway when the car in front of us flipped over into a ditch. A large amount of drivers, myself included, all got out of our cars to try and help the young learner driver, her father and her father’s friend. She, unfortunately, did not survive- she drowned in the ditchwater.

In that time, though, all of us tried what, looking back on it, were the silliest ideas. We tried to scoop water out of the car. We tried to flip it back over (in a direction that would take us UP an incline). One guy even brought a towrope and tried to turn the car over with that.

Months later, I realised a number of things. Things I could have done.

I could have broken the driver’s-side window and helped her out that way. I could have dug a hole not far away and let the water drain into that. The most horrifying realisation, though, was that I had a seat-cutting tool in my car at the time that I had completely forgotten about.

I’ve made my peace with that long ago, but the point I’d like to make is that when faced with crisis, it’s pretty natural for logic to go out the window. You go with the first thing that comes to your head which is normally more outlandish than you would think. None of those heat-of-the-moment “solutions” make sense, because your mind is going absolutely haywire.

Superman was about to die. More than likely his mother would die also. That’s enough of a crisis to make him completely illogical. So yes, the line made no sense, but, and listen closely: NEITHER DO MOST PEOPLE WHEN FACED WITH CRISIS!