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* Despite the fact that the inexperienced Superman had no real way of preventing all the destruction Zod and his team of ultra-powerful Kryptonian warriors caused while having to simultaneously take out a destructive terraforming machine, ''Man of Steel'' will forever be remembered as the movie where a heartless Superman completely destroyed Metropolis without giving a damn about the civilians in the eyes of the film's detractors.
** To be fair, the most common criticism of ''Man of Steel'' is not that Superman failed to avoid collateral damage but that he ''didn't try'' to avoid collateral damage, which are two entirely separate things. Inexperience is a valid excuse for trying and failing, but its not an excuse for failing to even make an effort.
** Furthermore, there are at least two sequences where Clark has the opportunity to choose where the fight will occur -- when he does a flying tackle on Zod into downtown Smallville, and at the end of the movie when he drags Zod down from orbit into the heart of Metropolis (and Clark is clearly in control of their flight path for at least the latter half of that dive, given that he lands with Zod already in a submission hold) and in both instances Clark steers himself and Zod directly into the center of the nearest city instead of aiming for any one of countless acres of uninhabited land that he could have potentially used instead. The final sequence is particularly egregious because they'd just fallen ''from orbit''<ref>Geosynchronous orbit, no less, given that what they'd just crashed through was a communications satellite.</ref>, and could have potentially landed anywhere in the Western Hemisphere... and Clark still steers them straight back to downtown Metropolis.
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