Doomsday’s Original Batman V Superman Designs Prove Zack Snyder Messed Up

Merged together, and the two other designs that Jerad. S Marantz had conjured up and indeed appeared like they were on the verge of getting to the Doomsday we encountered on screen. Lacking in hair and with the signature shoulder spikes getting shorter than the more comic-accurate effort, there’s no doubt that the final Doomsday from the film was staring back somewhere amongst this pair. With that said, even though the final product might not have checked the boxes for fans, the plan for Snyder was to eventually get to that design by the end of the battle.

During Zack Snyder’s Vero commentary on the film’s fourth anniversary, he explained, «That was a thing that we talked about, you know, wanting to give him that classic Doomsday appearance with the bony shards coming through.» While it’s clear the effort was there and that breaking away from the original Doomsday before giving nods to the character was commendable, Marantz’s early work clearly shows that stronger designs were waiting to be used and that, in the end, it just wasn’t his day.