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No. 92501
Yeah I'm aware he's killed before, I've been reading this guy for a good bit of time and every time even with Doomsday it's been contrived. For Superman killing the Pocket Universe Kryptonians, that was a poorly written badly executed move. Sorry but it is. Superman had beaten, depowered and left Zod stranded in another universe. Even if he did get his powers back and come to this universe, Superman knows how to beat him again. Besides the Earth is teeming with metahumans and some with Superman specific nullifying powers. They could have stopped them. Superman let himself be goaded into ending their lives when he definitely could have just left them there in the pocket universe.
As for Doomsday, that was a money grubbing scheme to fill DC's pockets. And whilst I don't like making the animal/human comparison, whilst we are just another species of animal, we have developed our intelligence into making cultures and grasping knowledge of the world. Doomsday is an animal acting on instinct that didn't understand what he was doing nor could he be reasoned with. At the end of the day, you have to put the rabid dog down to stop the spread of disease. Plus he could have brought allies like magicians, other metas, resorted to the other planets he's saved, cadmus, star labs, the phantom zone, etc with him to battle.
In any case, for the few times Superman has killed, I can cite at least double the quotes where he admonishes killing in all its forms. It sucks but I'm afraid Superman killing is a very good thing to focus on why the film was massively flawed.
He's also made out with a 14 year old, made a porno, and launched Supergirl into spaces as a punishment before yet none of these elements deserves to be a representation of Superman to the masses going forward.
Superman killing also doesn't make any sense. He can do anything, he was MADE like that to begin with. He's better than that noise. The years he's gone without killing are more indicative of his no killing code than the times he has killed. In fact, Batman is now the pinnacle of morality for DC. Recently, in Batman Inc 13 and the back up to Batman 23, Bruce has made it abundantly clear he won't kill anyone. Not even his most hated enemies who come back every time to try and finish him off. And for me, that's how Superman should be. Refusing to kill even when it seems like there's no other option. A big part of his character is his moral compass and Superman has shown plenty of times that he won't kill. Again, more than he has been willing to kill for certain.
Within the context of this story – yes he had no choice cept I mean, he already knows of one way to strip Zod of his newfound power, they did it to him when they were on the ship! And at least one ship wasn't disappeared at the end of that movie but he's sort of a moron in this flick. I've ever heard the, “This is his first fight! They are experienced fighters! He isn't!” But I didn't know I was going to see Superboy the movie, plus he's been absorbing yellow sun for 33 years while Zod had 48 hours! That to me is an indicative of this not even a Superman movie. Putting him in all these little boxes to make him appease people who've never liked him, complained about his powers, his morality, I honestly felt alienated because they simply humanized Superman too much and didn't really make him "Super" enough. They dirtied the character.
“You realize that they changed the one aspect of Superman that the average person complains about ("He's Superman, he can do anything and is invincible, so his stories are boring") and intentionally changed that so they could connect with people. I don't get why this is actually a good thing. It's admitting that Man of Steel was made by and for people that don't like Superman as is, and what he represents. If your saying "Man of Steel fixed Superman!" then you don't get that any one that hates the movie feels they fixed something that wasn't ever broken, for people that never cared about the character in the first place, and that's not a good thing. And then you guys go "Well why can't they do Wonder Woman next?"
This was the best summary of why Superman killing Zod breaks the movie:
“For me, the worst thing about Superman killing Zod at the end of Man of Steel isn't the neck-snapping itself, but that a few minutes before it happens, during an interminable fight scene through the damn near post-apocalyptic landscape of a ruined Metropolis, Zod tells him something along the lines of "this doesn't end until one of us dies." And he's right. That's what kills me about it. The bad guy tells Superman that he'll only stop if Superman kills him, and Superman proves him right. Superman proves that the bad guy is right. There's no other way. It's just violence and death as the only solution.
Superman proves that the bad guy is right.
There is nothing you can tell me that will make me think that's not a completely insane, monumentally wrongheaded way to end a Superman movie. From a character standpoint, it is the worst possible thing they could do, undermining every bit of rancid dialogue about how Superman's going to Show Us The Way and how It Stands For Hope. It doesn't. It's just dudes punching each other until one of them punches harder, the end.”
My bitching aside where is he suppose to go now? What's to stop him from offing Luthor whose plans will undoubtedly endanger more than 4 people?
In any event get he can't be bright all the time but with what we've been given this year alone and how long he's been out of the public consciousness I feel that element about him, should be looked at very unashamedly because it's as much in his character as being broody is to Batman's and doesn't have to be corny.
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