Man of Steel’s Controversial Big Finish: What Does It Mean?

In David S. Goyer’s script for Batman Begins, the Dark Knight refused to intentionally take the life of Ra’s al Ghul, electing to do everything he could to save the villain until Ra’s himself chose to die.After the fairly cavalier way that Gotham’s Caped Crusader had taken out one villain after another in the Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher films, comic book fans applauded Goyer and director Christopher Nolan for sticking close to the source material on an issue that had been given such importance by so many comic book writers over the years.Of course, as much or more than Batman, Superman doesn’t kill. And that’s kind of the sticking point as we discuss the death of Zod in the third act of Goyer’s Man of Steel script.