moonisneveralone:

moonisneveralone:

jesssicacruz:

dcwomenofcolor:

Kahina Ziri’s subplot in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

This totally changed Senator Finch’s “Today is a day for truth” line during Superman’s hearing. She was going to expose Lex.

This is also the reason she needed to die from Lex’s standpoint. She was a respected Figure who knew the truth and would not be manipulated by Lex. She could have swayed the world to believe Superman was on their side.

I mean if you really think about it what actually drove Clark being antagonized by politcians, the media and parts of society was his silence. He didn’t outright speak for himself and he was never offered a space to. Instead he was constantly talked about. Clark is definitely the type who would want his actions to speak for themselves at least as superman. However without context his actions could be interpreted any which way and that’s what Lex was working with.

Senator Finch was just about to let Clark do his whole “I’m as american as they come I’m from Kansas senator” thing and create a context in which he could be seen as a guy trying to do the right thing.

Senator Finch was going to give Clark a Voice and that was actually the biggest threat to Lex’s plan.

I’m just thinking about how this could also be a parallel to Lois in MoS, because it would have been the easiest thing to agree woth everyone and say he’s an alien we’re better of without him.
She somehow believed however that he should have the chance to talk about what happened.
As Lois immediately believed that Clark had a story and upon finding that he had a life like anyone else she allowed him privacy.

It’s amazing to see women in positions of power using their emotional intelligence to make good decisions and they’re a perfect contrast to the antagonists who didn’t have or didn’t use their emotional intelligence and therefore made catastrophic decisions.

Ooop i still had more.

Because ultimately Kahina also made a choice. Whatever Lex gave her to play a pawn in his game her conscience didn’t agree and especially with what Lex had planed, she was also a very dangerous loose end.
She went to the Senator to tell her about Clark what would have stopped her from going to the press? She seemed determined to right her wrongs.
This is also interesting if we keep up the theme of ladies with emltinal intelligence v men who didn’t use it.

Wallace Keefe was used like a weapon. Just like Bruce. Their anger made them an easy target. Lex let Bruce steel the kryptonite because he knew Bruce would know what to do with it and he would have the best chance of killing Clark.
Wallace was used because he would have taken any chance to stand up to Superman and throw his faults in his face. To show the world that superman is no hero and a fals god.
Both of these men had hate so great they didn’t even for a second question the situation they had found themselves in.

Whereas the women did and found flaws which they tried to correct and therefore they were a great danger to Lex’s plan.