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Originally Posted by sa226
Maybe Man of Steel was critically doomed from the beginning.
It actually wasn't supposed to be about Superman. He isn't "Superman" yet in the movie. That's why the film is called Man of Steel and why they don't refer to him as Superman until near the end half hazardly.
In the Donner film we have a montage in the fortress of solitude to mold him into Superman. In this version it seems he is going to have to learn the hard way how to actually become "Superman"
While everybody seems to be focusing on Batfleck for BvS, I'm more interested to see how they handle the development of Clark Kent/Superman and if he actually becomes "an ideal to strive towards."
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This is the way I viewed it as well. Maybe people expected Superman to just start out as a righteous always doing the right thing type of guy, but is that realisitc? Especially growing up on Earth? I think him killing Zod (and maybe the destruction of Metropolis) was important to show Clark who/what he had to be in order to inspire the Earth the way he is meant to.
This what (at least if Snyder has some intelligence) I think will be the main focus of BvS. Batman is unimpressed by Supermans disregard for destruction and death and is going to show Superman the type sacrifice that is necessary to be a hero (including having a normal alter-ego life).
I think MoS was striving to avoid the trap that Green Lantern fell into where they tried to make a character who was by all accounts an ahole into full-fledged a hero in under a week, in one film. It just doesn't work like that and there has to be a reason for a character change beyond "I have superpowers and a girl to fight for!"
I'm hoping that once the series is flushed out a bit more, Superman will end up being more like what diehards describe and MoS will be looked upon more favorably as a piece of a larger story.