Originally posted by John Lambert: I think the death of Zod was unavoidable. The reasons and situations were compelling. I do not think he had any choice there.
The filmmakers made Clark kill Zod intentionally. They could have easily made them fight over a Kryptonian dagger (like the one Zod's first hand woman carried), and have Superman accidentally kill Zod. The end result would have been the same. Clark would feel horrible for killing someone, and Zod would be dead. The only difference would be that humans wouldn't see that Superman defended a human family over the life of a Kryptonian (thus choosing us over his home world). Even that could have been achieved if Zod had been aiming the dagger at a human and Superman stopped him, they fought over the dagger, ending with Zod stabbed. The neck-snapping incident was just too anti-Superman IMO. Creatively, they could have found a better way to kill Zod without breaking that important part of Superman's creed.
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