Superman took lives in this movie too!
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supermanrocks-734-534668 — 9 years ago(December 05, 2016 10:47 PM)
Officially he did NOT kill Zod. Superman I and II were being made at the same time and Superman II was 75% done when they had to stop shooting so they could get Superman I out into theaters. In between that time the Salkinds, Richard Donner, and Marlon Brando were having various disputes which lead to Donner being fired. Once Superman The Movie was released they had to finish Superman II and in order to do so had to hire Richard Lester to direct. In order for a directer to get the film credit they have to have done at least half of the film so they went back and rewrote a lot of Donners material. They also removed Marlon Brando from the movie completely and replaced him with his mother which is why you have the MASSIVE plot hole of Superman getting his powers back. One minute he is told by his mother he can never go back and the next the green crystal lights up and moments later he is back in the city confronting Zod at the Daily Planet which no explanation whats so ever. In the Donner cut they put the Brando footage back in and that plot hole was was never an issue. Also the opening scene of Superman II was changed. In Superman I he catches the 1st missile and redirects into space and goes back to Earth to fix the damage the 2nd one had caused. Superman II the Donner cut picks up right where the first movie ends and it shows Superman directing the first missile into space not knowing that the Phantom Zone cube was floating in a direct path to it and upon the missile exploded cracked the cube releasing the 3 criminals. The Donner cut was the original concept for the movie and they went back and added footage that was shot and pieced together various other shots from screen test footage used at the time they were shooting back then which is why you see so many differences in hair styles from scene to scene. However once the Donner cut was finished and released it was stated that it was the original concept for the movie, therefore Superman did NOT originally kill Zod.
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evolution_500_2 — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 10:37 AM)
"I don't really count the death of the henchmen; but there death would be on the same level as the deaths Superman supposedly caused during his defense of Metropolis."
Bull$hit. In what universe would the deaths of THREE thugs equate to with the mass destruction and deaths of HUNDREDS, if not THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS in "Man of Steel"?