re: The OFFICIAL Man of Steel Discussion and ***SPOILERS*** Thread

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100,000 people vs. 7 billion people.

You choose.

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They wouldn't have been in trouble if Superman wasn't there in the first place (and certainly more than 100,000 were killed). My problem is it just says that Superman is heroic... but he really wasn't. He just kicks the shite out of people and saves like 1 in 10,000 people.

Seriously, if an illegal refugee came our country and then half of New York is destroyed because of his presence, would you call that dude a hero even if he managed to personally stopped an attack that was already well in progress? Probably not. You'd probably blame him for it.

This is why Brainiac should have instead been the villain. He doesn't possess the problem Zod does in very directly making Superman responsible for his presence. Brainiac can simply have Earth on his countdown list and coincidentally runs into Superman. Superman then saves Earth from the same fate that Krypton had due to Brainiac. Why not have Jor-El send his kid to Earth because he knows when Brainiac will strike Earth and knowing that with time he can save Earth with the information Jor-El has given him? It works then, but with Zod, I don't see why Earth in general wouldn't demand his death after MoS.