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I actually think it's quite clever to introduce the new batman in a superman movie.

Let's face it, most people (myself included) are pretty sick of origin stories at this point. We've had enough of them already. However, with WB essentially rebooting Batman now that Nolan is done with the character, that's exactly what everyone would expect for the first new Batman movie. Origin 2.0. Nobody really wants to see that. Sure, a lot of us still would, but we don't really want to. We know how Batman becomes batman. The details might vary a bit, but everybody knows the basic story behind the man.

So what do you do? You introduce the new Batman in a setting where there's less focus on him. Sure he will be heavily featured in this movie, no doubt, but still the pressure is off because it's mainly a Superman movie. You can introduce him in a much more casual way. This is Batman. This is what he does. He's a badass.

That's enough.

And then, when you go do the new Batman movies, you no longer need to worry about telling yet another origin story, because you've already established that you're past that.

With all that said however, could all this still factor into a rushed Justice League movie? Yes, probably.