Not on purpose, but it may be the best of a series of bad choices that lay ahead of him. Like killing Zod, he may not have wanted to do it, but the choices left before hin were even worse.
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At one point Zod pushes an oil tanker at him and instead of easily stopping it with his finger he casually jumps over it and it blows up yet another building.
Why he's up against someone who isn't his level. But up against a kryptonian who operates at his level. Superman can't hold back, or he'd be killed. Like what happened against that awful adaptation of Doomsday
Snyderman maybe not, but that ain't a real Superman, just because he doesn't have to hold back against Zod doesn't mean he is just gonna start wrecking everything casually. Even in the fight with darkseid he aims him to hit the corner of buildings instead of centers.
Yes, and my thing is even with that argument he still doesn't save...anyone specifically? He just stops Zod, but never seems to stop and save any singular civilian.
Where's the bit where he saves a kid? Where's the part where he becomes a beacon? Nowhere.
Yeah, this is my thing, I don't think the movie takes more than 1-2 minutes to show Superman actually...saving people? Most of the film is him fighting kryptonians and causing the biggest disaster in Metropolis' history.
You did see in the movie how fast Kryptonians can move? Superman would be constantly trying to save people and in turn having the city getting wreck around him instead of dealing with the actual threat
If the movie at least showed him trying and failing to do that, that'd be more interesting! The way the action actually plays out, he's treating the city like a set piece. A lot of comics also do this, but those comics kinda suck for that reason!
One of the problems for me is it's inconsistent. The humans in his world flip-flop between being people who matter, and ants inhabiting the set dressing he destroys. I come away from it feeling like the people he saved were just props to show us he's cool and good when convenient.
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Superman is supposed to give a fuck.
That is his whole point he is careful, always careful, always worried he is gonna break something or kill someone.
Where's the bit where he saves a kid? Where's the part where he becomes a beacon? Nowhere.
Yep. That's totally my superman. So hopeful, so inspiring.
Sorry if I'm being a bit mean, but I REALLY hate that superman. He just seems dark and broody and...against the idea of Superman.
No one looks up to him hopefully the whole film.