When inhabited skyscrapers are subjected to sudden destruction, people die. There's no way he didn't accidentally kill someone unless the movie is breaking from realism.
Show me a scene where Superman on screen kills a civilian during his duel with Zod. Except for the train station at the end.
Well you've already cited one.
All the buildings we saw them crash through were empty,
That is extremely implausible.
Listen. If you want to fantasize that all of downtown Metropolis can be demolished in the course of two hours in the late afternoon without it killing someone, fine. But that's not at all a plausible scenario.
Blaming the heroes for not luring the villains away from populated centers is a bit of lame criticism.
"Blame?" He's a fictional character. I'm saying it would have been better if Snyder had included that scene because the sheer amount of collateral damage in his film was so much higher than in other versions.
You could play it with other characters and see how silly it is.
Why doesn't Batman lure the Joker out of Gotham?
Why didn't the Avengers try to lure the Chitauri out of NYC, or the Ultron bots out of Sokovia
The difference was that Zod was specifically targeting Superman as an individual at first, and then later in the battle decided to deliberately inflict collateral damage on civilians. That's not a comparable combat scenario to these -- the Joker's modus operandi is to operate in secret without Batman knowing where he is, and Chitauri and the Ultron Bots were both armies trying to secure control of the cities they were attacking, not super-powered individuals fixated on one other super-powered individual.
Thanos's hordes out of Wakanda?
They
did lure Thanos and his hordes out of the city.
Why didn't Thor lure Hela away from Asgard?
Thor
did lure Hela away from the people -- he lured her into the empty city while the surviving population was being evacuated.
Why didn't the X-Men lure Magneto and the Brotherhood away from Alcatraz Island in X3?
I mean, I don't really give a shit about that terrible movie, but I seem to remember that the Brotherhood were trying to obtain territorial control of the island and would not have been vulnerable to being "lured." And also, it's a large group rather than one individual.
Why didn't the crew of the Enterprise lure Khan away from Earth?
They would have if they had the ability.
Heroes can't always control the location and rules of engagement with their villains.
This is true. But the nature of Superman's engagement with Zod is that he had far more influence on where the battle took place once the World Engine was destroyed.
Sci said:
2) Show me a scene of Snyder's Superman actively trying to emotionally bond with and provide emotional comfort to a strange, not just a short snippet of him carrying someone and then very quickly putting her down -- a snippet presented as part of a montage the narrative wanted us to feel ambivalent about, I might add.
I can't. Because I don't think the scene exist. Thinking of other Supermen (Reeve, Routh, Hoechlin). I don't think they have a scene like that either.
Sure they do. "I hope this hasn't put you off flying. Statistically, it's still the safest way to travel." Rescuing the kitten, etc.
It's just not something that happens frequently enough. Nolan's Batman never bonded with a stranger.
Of course not. That's not who Batman is or should be. But it is who the best versions of Superman are and who Superman in film always ought to be.
Superman may be badass, but he should be wholesome before he's badass.
