Official Justice League Movie

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

The neck-snapping is the dumbest thing to get mad about in MoS. 1) He visibly and audibly didn't want to do It, felt terrible after he did and screamed/cried. 2) He famously killed Zod and BOTH of Zod's cronies in the comics about 3 decades beforehand... it was a big classic story which shaped him from that point on and his resolving not to kill rather than it just be this innate boy scout thing. 3) He murdered Zod in the original Superman II, smiled about it even, and nobody cared then. Why care now?

Though it is admittedly strange that immediately afterward in BvS, he follows up killing Zod by... killing him again, basically. Why not just punch Doomsday into the sun or deep space? He can't fly. His momentum would just take him away.

But only after Zod and the two others were de-powered, he knocked Zod into a pit.