David Goyer Still Defends MAN OF STEEL's Ending

HEY, SPOILER ALERT IF YOU'VE NEVER SEEN MAN OF STEEL. WHY DID YOU EVEN CLICK THIS?

It seems as time goes on, fewer and fewer people are kind about Man of Steel. The Nerdist crew recently asked David Goyer about the "controversial" decision to have Superman kill Zod, and he had this to say...

"In that instance, this was a Superman who had only been Superman for like, a week. He wasn’t Superman as we think of him in the DC Comics... or even in a world that conceived of Superman existing. He’d only flown for the first time a few days before that. He’d never fought anyone that had super powers before."

"And so he’s going up against a guy who’s not only super-powered, but has been training since birth to use those super powers, who exists as a superhuman killing machine, who has stated, ‘I will never stop until I destroy all of humanity.’"

"If you take Superman out of it, what’s the right way to tell that story? I think the right way to tell that story is if you take this powered alien who says, ‘You can have your race back, but you have to kill your adopted race,’ the moral, horrible situation to be in is to actually be forced to kill, not wanting to, the only other person from your race. Take Superman aside, I think that’s the right way to tell that story."

I loved the decision to have Superman kill Zod and raved about it when it came out. For me, it was the most interesting thing Superman had done in 75 years outside of the time he died. I still stand by that decision, and I'm glad Goyer does as well!

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