Luthor is an exception, he honestly has nothing up his sleeve that would allow him to go toe to toe with Superman aside from a robot suit or a kryptonite rock. He's more brains then brawn where as Joker CAN actually fight Batman and is supported by his bags of tricks and killer clown weapons.
I felt Crane vanishing was rather stupid and considering the ungodly explosion that engulfed Gul's body, I highly doubt he survived that, immortality isn't the same thing as invincibility. The reason Magneto lived is because he's not your average villain, he's NOT really evil but in a sense a confused mutant.
He wants the same thing as Xavier but just goes about it the wrong way, and besides, Batman's films have always been darker in nature so killing off villains would fit right in. Plus like I said it's bad to leave them out and about or alive because then it leaves open plot holes, some that may never be filled.
Supposed Scarecrow never comes back in the films, its gonna look awful stupid if they just leave it at that. That's why I felt weird having the Riddler live because you know the movies ended with him still being locked up. Now Shredder see, they actually did the right thing killing him off twice.
The first time he fell, you could easily believe he died considering the truck, but they found a way to dig him back up and live for number 2. There's always a way to bring someone back from the dead, but there's not always going to be time to go back and fill in the plothole someone left behind.
I'm not saying all villains need to die, I'm just saying if your super hero of choice has a very colorful cast of villains to choose from like Batman or Spider man, get as many as you can on screen while you have the chance. Some super hero films though only have like one strong key villain.
Dr. Doom from Fantastic 4 and Kingpin from Daredevil come to mind. And in regards to the whole other X-men villains, I think the reason they didn't use all those other guys is because some of them were a bit too out of this world. Apocalypse, Mojo, and the Sentinels are kind of "stretching it".
Like I said, just because the Turtles or Batman either went into outer space or traveled back in time in comic books, doesn't mean people are going to swallow the same story on film.
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