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\u00a0**WARNING MAN OF STEEL ENDING SPOILERS AHEAD**<\/p>\n

Earlier this morning, During a live\u00a0Man Of Steel fan chat\u00a0<\/a>, a fan asked Man Of Steel director Zack Snyder why he had Superman break his no killing policy and kill General Zod. While its true that Snyder has addressed this controversial move in the past, he did offer up a little more insight into this decision.Among the actors that were with him, Actor Michael Shannon (General Zod) also shared some of his thoughts on the matter.<\/p>\n

Snyder started his response with:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, what\u2019s funny about that rule is that it exists in the movies but it doesn\u2019t really exist in the comic books, He\u2019s killed Zod a couple times in the comic books.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Snyder asked Shannon if the knew the rules, Shannon replied;<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know the rules. I found it surprising. It was something that I didn\u2019t really\u2026.when we were making the movie, I didn\u2019t really clock it. I was like, \u2018Well, of course, he\u2019s got to kill me. I\u2019m out of control.\u2019 But then afterwards, when the movie came out, people would walk up and be like, \u2018He killed you. He\u2019s not supposed to kill you.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Well, he had to kill me. What was he supposed to do?\u2019 So that\u2019s when I started to realize that there was some sort of rule about that or something.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Synder then added:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that it\u2019s a notion that has grown out of the way that he\u2019s been popularized on TV and in the movies more than the sort of comic book mythology of Superman, which is he\u2019s a much more practical hero. Killing General Zod is a practical solution to the problem. He wouldn\u2019t let his personal sort of aversion to killing cost the lives of an entire planet or those little kids, that little family. So if he had said, \u2018I\u2019m morally opposed to killing so I guess I have to let him kill those people.\u2019 Those are the dilemmas. We set that up directly so there would be no solution other than that solution.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shannon pointed out that this is something that happens in the real world, Snyder continued;<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a real world problem. And I think the effect on Superman, it is a deeply difficult decision for him to make. It\u2019s not a thing that he takes lightly, and you can see it affects him pretty profoundly. And maybe we\u2019ll see the repercussions of that in the next film. How that\u2019s affected him, making that decision.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Batman Vs. Superman is scheduled to be released in movie theaters on July 17, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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