From what I can gather, this is the moment lots of people, especially the critics, turned off their brains. This is not my usual defense of the indefensible, this is plain as day, fact. If you didn’t get it, please pay attention now. Batman does not spare Superman because their mothers share the same name. Batman has spent 18 months obsessing over killing this alien who can destroy the Earth. It isn’t until Superman uses the name, that the alien becomes humanized. At first, Batman becomes even more enraged because he thinks it’s another trick. Once he realizes it’s Clark’s mom’s name, he starts to understand that maybe they’re not so different. He never considered the evil alien had a human mother or let alone would be willing to die for her. Bruce couldn’t save his mother. No matter how many goons Batman brands, he was a helpless kid when she was killed, just like Clark is now. He’ll never be able to bring his Martha back. Now he has the opportunity for redemption. It literally has nothing to do with their mothers having the same name, that was just the spark (that you can see snapping Bruce out of his kill-rage) that showed him Superman wasn’t pure evil. With potentially his last breath, he asked his killer to save someone else. There’s no argument. It’s not confusing. It’s not grasping at straws. It’s in the narrative. It’s the entire reason we were shown the murder of the Waynes one more time. This moment goes down as one of the biggest problems amongst the dissenters, when it’s actually one of the most emotionally stirring and theme appropriate scenes if you’re paying attention.