Background Pony #1067
@Mayojar77
>>he did not even think to use one of his million and one time-and-space-altering powers to evacuate the citizens
So he’s supposed to have Silver Age Superman powers right off the bat? Yeah…
>>whether or not he helped rebuild the city does not erase the fact that half the damage done to the city was his fault
Stictly speaking, most of the damage was done by Zod’s ship helping the world engine. If you mean the fight proper, yeah it does make him culpable. That’s why most times comic Superman helps clean up his mess, when the Science Police aren’t around (in some continuities).
>>he could literally have snapped Zod’s neck at any time
So because he didn’t set out in wanting to kill Zod straight off the bat, he’s guilty of all of Zod’s antics. Hi, Lex!
>>And what’s this bullshit about not having anywhere to put him? You remember that Superman has this thing called ’The Fortress of Solitude’, which houses a way of sending criminals to the Phantom Zone, otherwise known as that prison that Zod had to wait out his sentence in because escape is impossible without outside intervention, right?
And here’s where I think you didn’t actually watch the movie. In this movie/continuity, Superman doesn’t have a Fortress of Solitude, let alone the Phantom Zone projector. Zod & his crew escaped the Zone when Krypton’s explosion damaged the P.Z. Generator Satillite and freed them. The only way to stop the evil Kryptonians was to use the Phantom Drive in Superman’s baby ship and jury-rig it to open a hole into the Zone, in a one-time deal since it would get sucked in to; Zod being left out of that was not in the plan. So yeah, there was no place to put the guy who has all of Superman’s powers, in a world without Kryptonite or, for now, cutting edge S.T.A.R. Labs, or what have you.
>>he did not even think to use one of his million and one time-and-space-altering powers to evacuate the citizens
So he’s supposed to have Silver Age Superman powers right off the bat? Yeah…
>>whether or not he helped rebuild the city does not erase the fact that half the damage done to the city was his fault
Stictly speaking, most of the damage was done by Zod’s ship helping the world engine. If you mean the fight proper, yeah it does make him culpable. That’s why most times comic Superman helps clean up his mess, when the Science Police aren’t around (in some continuities).
>>he could literally have snapped Zod’s neck at any time
So because he didn’t set out in wanting to kill Zod straight off the bat, he’s guilty of all of Zod’s antics. Hi, Lex!
>>And what’s this bullshit about not having anywhere to put him? You remember that Superman has this thing called ’The Fortress of Solitude’, which houses a way of sending criminals to the Phantom Zone, otherwise known as that prison that Zod had to wait out his sentence in because escape is impossible without outside intervention, right?
And here’s where I think you didn’t actually watch the movie. In this movie/continuity, Superman doesn’t have a Fortress of Solitude, let alone the Phantom Zone projector. Zod & his crew escaped the Zone when Krypton’s explosion damaged the P.Z. Generator Satillite and freed them. The only way to stop the evil Kryptonians was to use the Phantom Drive in Superman’s baby ship and jury-rig it to open a hole into the Zone, in a one-time deal since it would get sucked in to; Zod being left out of that was not in the plan. So yeah, there was no place to put the guy who has all of Superman’s powers, in a world without Kryptonite or, for now, cutting edge S.T.A.R. Labs, or what have you.