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No. 37676
Besides the legitimate complains about pacing and such, I am seeing a LOT of bitching all over the Internet about the level of collateral damage and Supes killing Zod. Shit, Mark Waid disliked the movie for those reasons.
I am sorry, but that's a load of poppycock. I liked that ther was such level of destruction and visible loss of life, because it gave me the impression that shit had hit the proverbial fan. Zod wasn't messing around, he truly meant every word when he said that he was going to kill everybody on earth, and it added a tremendous sense of urgency to the battles, Superman was truly saving us from a extinction-level threat.
To make a comparision, as much as I loved Avengers, the threat that the Chitauri invasion represented was laughable. We saw a bunch of ugly aliens shooting wildly and hitting nothing, and a Leviathan crashing a building, and that's it. Never I felt like the world was in real danger, since the threat was something out of an 80s action cartoon.
And for the spoiler I too liked the scene, because it obviously had a huge emotional impact on Superman, and it's most likely the moment where this new version decided to never take a life again. Compare that to Superman in Superman II, kicking a depowered Zod (remember, Zod in MoS was still a very active threat) into a botomless pit, all while sporting a snarky smile in his face.
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