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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

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Pretty sure they survived. One of the major critsims I've seen is that why did Superman care so much about that family of four, but didn't seem to give a shit about the thousands or millions that were killed in Metropolis while he battled Zod?

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My read on that is that the family was not collateral damage, it was going to be a cold-blooded killing. And Supes implored Zod to stop and -- this is key, IMO -- Zod said, "Never!" Kal knew that they could slug it out from one end of the earth to the other, with millions, maybe billions, of casualties, unless he ended it NOW. He could take one life to save untold others. So he reluctantly did it -- and immediately was anguished by it. The responsibility of making that decision, taking that extreme action, weighing on him tremendously.