Zod, knowing he has been physically defeated and can't hold his own against Kal...

Zod, knowing he has been physically defeated and can't hold his own against Kal, intentionally targets innocent civilians with no way to escape.

To the audience, this may seem like a typical villanous and dastardly act, in reality this was Zod's way to tell Kal to kill him. Despite his hatred for Kal and his view of humans as nothing more than pests, he grew to respect Kal's devotion to them and his willingness to sacrifice his heritage to save people.

Zod wanted his suffering to be over. He wanted Superman to snap his neck and end it once and for all. He could have just moved his eyes to kill those people, but he didn't. Instead he waited for Supes to do what the audience deemed unthinkable.

"Man of Murder!" the typical pleb yells at the screen as he watches this scene. The patrician sees what Snyder was trying to tell.

Zack Snyder is truly a genius.

Why didn't superman just fly him into space at lightspeed

tell that to zod's snapped dubs

Because that would have destroyed the entire planet

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Yeah it was great that they followed this pivotal scene wit superman destroying a drone in front of military personel. "i'll fight for you guys, but i wont let you know where i hang my cape". explain that shit OP. Tell us why that is something superman would do

I also got the feeling that Zod had lost everything he held dear. His home planet, his crew/family and the future. He was a solider with no war to fight and everything he was living for taken away. He had nothing left to live for. He wanted to die and forced Supes to kill him.

He did, but Zod continued to bring the fight back to Metropolis. It wasn't to show more destruction porn, it was so Kal would finally muster the courage to kill the last known member of his race. It was Zod's plan all along to die in this fight. He lost everything. He was born to protect Krypton and now its gone forever. His last chance to rebuild it, all lost.

Well fuck, OP.

No memes, I'm really thinking about this now.

I know it would've painted the writers into a corner, but I think it would've been a nice twist to have Supes convince Zod to protect the people of Earth, instead.

I realize that sounds like a "bad guy turns good" cliche, but it almost seems like a logical outcome if you think about Zod's motivations throughout the film. He spends all his energy trying to recreate Krypton and its people simply because his entire purpose all of his life was to protect Kryptonians. Just seems like someone who gained so much validation from protecting others wouldn't take much persuasion to protect humans, instead--at least once it was clear that trying to resurrect his own people was a lost cause.

Dude if you can get someone in a chokehold and you have totally overpowered them and their last gasp effort is to lasereye some plebs the obvious course of action is to warp to Andromeda, superman is super dumb

It actually makes no sense.

There are several parts where Superman overpowers Zod in that fight, especially the actual push through that very train station. They did not properly communicate the absolute necessity of his action.

Based on the movie Superman should have just wrestled him out of the city instead of fighting. Or just fucking direct his head to the ground. No real reason he could stop Zod's neck at that point.

It was a drone. As expensive as it was, none died. And Clark wanted his privacy as he said ("I'll protect the Earth, but it has to be on my own terms"). He wants a normal life but struggles to combine his duty as a superhero (a God, in the eys of many) and his human persona.

What I loved about MoS and BVS is that Superman isn't a perfect Mary Sue from the start. He makes mistakes. He still isn't the true Superman yet.

His death in BVS was meant to show that. When he will be reborn, it will be as the Superman we expected him to be.

THIS is character development.

You're missing the point. No matter how hard Kal tries not to kill him, Zod WILL come back and force him to do the unthinkable. Zod is suicidal. He wants to die, and the only person on Earth or anywhere in the universe that can do that is Kal.

Well to me it seems more like Superman is holding the planet hostage at this point. Because it directly follows the scene of him snapping a dude's neck, the last dude like him. And now he agressivley reminds the military that they are powerless to him, and even if they need to find him they cant. I dont know maybe im a faggot, but that seems like bully superman to me. To be honest with you tho, i have revisited these cape faggot movies because they stay with you longer than any Marvel trash. I am a suicide squad apologist

>Well to me it seems more like Superman is holding the planet hostage at this point.
Because in the DCEU the military reacts in a more realistic way to Superman and the Kryptonians than in previous adaptation. And Superman has to remind them that he is indeed their friend, but also someone who wants to keep a low profile in his private life.

"There's only one way this ends, Kal: either you die, or I do!"

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fucking THIS

Except Supes in the Snyderverse isn't a reporter and literally just shows up every so often to do something vaguely heroic.

Literally does not have a character beyond "super strength, eyebeams, flying, etc.".

Not yet

if laser eyes doesn't melt their own eyes, why do superman and zod bother trying to zap each other with it? all they achieved was more destruction and death.

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This. Why didn't Superman just cover Zod's eyes? Just put him in a sleeper and cover his eyes damn

Maybe their corneas are heat-resistant but their skin isn't. Just because they may survive it doesn't mean it's not painful.

Link to quints some more you god damned moron. I know it's you. Fucking faggot

because Zod was using whatever it is they use to fly, to pull down with opposite force so Superman couldnt lift off. Duh.

It's personal gravity field manipulation or something, and yea, fucking plebs don't pay attention, there's literally a part where Supes tries to take off and you can see Zod prevent that.

to be far most of the people bitching didn't even see the movie of have the attention span of gnats.