re: Why all this controvery about the Man of Steel ending *SPOILERS*

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Which makes what he did in Superman II even worse than what he did in Man of Steel. At least in Man of Steel Zod was still very much a threat. In Superman II, he had been turned into a mortal being and was at the mercy of Superman. What does Kal-El do? He kills Zod in cold blood even though the dude was mortal and no longer a threat to him.

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Yep. He could have simply rounded them up and dropped them off directly into prison without a trial like he did at the end of Superman The Movie with Lex and Otis (I guess he forgot the whole justice and American Way stuff). Instead, he tosses a helpless Zod into a bottomless pit, allows the dumb guy to fall to his death trying to fly, and then grins as Lois punches the chick in the grill who also falls into a pit.

And then after getting his powers back, he can't leave well enough alone and decides he needs to go rough up the trucker at the Diner who beat the shite out of him when he got rid of his powers to frick Margot Kidder.

I swear nostalgia may be one of our strongest emotional crutches. It's the only way people continue to talk about those first two movies as if they're awesome. Outside of Reeve in the suit, they are pretty terrible.