VIDEO: Would Superman Kill? AMC Movie News Discuss MAN OF STEEL

Of course he would kill. He would only do it if he had no other choice. He is the protector of humans, so that would be his reason and last resort. After killing, he would always feel terrible for killing someone.

Have not seen MOS yet. But it seems that Superman is out of character in it.

He seems a bit reckless, destroying, yelling and even killing. That is not superman.

To bad really, first IM3 was a letdown and now this. I'm hoping Wolverine and Thor 2 will save 2013 for all us CBM fans.

@Seejay

See it for yourself then judge after.

@JGAR: Exactly

Superman had no choice whether or not to kill Zod or not, it was either Zod or the family. No matter what happened in that situation, someone(s) were going to die and Superman chose Zod. We'd be having this same argument if Superman didn't kill Zod and just let him kill the family and get away with it. There's always an argument with fanboys.

It's not below superman to kill. I liked that he did it in the movie. It "humanized" him for lack of a better word. DC loves alternate universes for stories, and a lot of those actually start with Superman doing something like killing or being corrupted. He is not as strong willed as Batman, who would never kill and is basically incorruptable. But for Superman, ecspecially if he saw no other way, i can definatly see him killing.

I will see it.

And I am truly hoping to be positively surprised.

But what I mean is that isn't Superman supposed to be this kind-hearted hero with a strong sense of justice, morality, and righteousness?


Although I must say that the Red Letter Media review is certainly pretentious; reviewing a comic book movie and complaining that it has "too much action".

That is just wrong.

@Seejay: It was either that or having a family splitted in half by a heat vision beam.
The question is, having Superman letting 4 humans melt and leaving the alien madman alive is more "right"?

Theres no problem for that matters, because that will shape him to be the Superman we all know.

Sometimes you just have to kill a bitch.

Come on here we go again about him killing and saying oh its not superman ways or the U.S way how many time that superman did kill in comic in a wired way ?

In the sliver age comic sup was helping out the U.S army to kill hitler and japan for pearl harbor and did cover they did have superman for support the nuke to destroy county yeah american ways.For me living in U.S we our killer tell me any thing that we do good beside WW2 ? we our not good state at all and superman should not be just american ways because he not from earth.

That why i like the MAN OF STEEL that another message the writer was trying to express to people who saw the movie he for the people or for anything need help not that true justice American ways no more, in fact couple of years ago DC change superman way and he don't fellow does rules anymore.


So yeah he have a choice but Superman did what he have to; he didn't want to do it that why he scream and cry he didn't want to kill one of his kind.But next MOS come out het break yhat rules again because of ZOD this help him out to become the hero we all known about.

@TheHeat

u never heard the Hollywood rule everyone left the building before sh!t went down.

Is this debate still going on? Jesus! Why is this topic being rehashed every other day. Superman has killed; in the new movie, in Superman II and in the comics. He killed in the comics and it [frick]ed him up and from then on he swore never to kill again. In MoS this was his first and more than likely only kill. No doubt MoS 2 will address the fall out from him taking Zod's life. But as has been said by many people on these boards, over and over, if you think Superman doesn't or wouldn't kill, than you don't know your Superman history very well.
Now hopefully Faora will have survived for part 2 but will have lost her powers and she ends up becoming a topless model to earn a living.....What? A man can dream, can't he?

Superman is a symbol to people in a way that shows we should strive to be capable of the impossible. If he kills, then what? Do we accept the fact that doing the wrong thing is acceptable if the situation calls for 'no other way'? In my opinion, Superman wouldn't kill because not only was he not raised in an environment where taking a life is the norm (Themyscira- an island of warriors) but the very notion that him killing is 'okay' because he's stronger than us basically puts him above us. Making his strength the sole reason for Superman being able to have moral authority over us goes against the character in EVERY single way. Superman is truly to be the best of all, then he would ALWAYS be able to find a different way. His very creators, Jewish, quite possibly had to deal with the holocaust and would never create a character who would see killing as any solution. Making him a dark, disconnected loner didn't bother me. What did, was showing us that if Superman can't figure out what to do, he will simply kill someone. Knowing this about him and how much strong he is than humans, who would trust him to not someday decide we were all guilty of wrong and destroying us? Superman is a symbol of hope because he allows us to think the impossible can always be possible...that includes finding another way.

No. Superman wouldn't kill. Simple as that.

@Darth258, In Batman Begins, Batman didn't kill Ra's, he left him on the train. "I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you".

I thought it was a beautiful parallel between killing Zod and the bus accident. Even with the bully, he had the option of either letting him die or saving him...he saved him. With the Phantom Drive destroyed,Zod threatening that he will no stop killing no matter what, and no other known way to the inexperienced Clark to possibly stop Zod..killing was his only option at that point."Should I just have left them to die....Maybe"....this was a situation where maybe was a definitive yes.....And as for all the destruction to Metropolis...take in the count Clark was never allowed/had the chance to test his abilities against anyone to their full potential,suddenly super-powered aliens show up wrecking all hell....going all out was his only option....collateral damage was bound to happen.

I agree 100% zod had to die supes is good by me in this action

I had no problem with Supes killing Zod
the situation, even after 3 viewings, seemed contrived and forced.

Personally I would've preferred Zod actually kill one or two real quick before Superman saw he had no alternative.

Zod appeared to me to want to die. But come on, he couldn't have killed a couple of people if he really wanted to.
I think he wanted Superman to stop and kill him since his whole purpose of living didn't exist anymore