Supes killing Zod is not unheard of:

After I see this in theaters 4 times I really want the Blu-Ray immediately.

Nolan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So Zod buys it in the end. What happens to the other remaining Krypton's? Do they just give up after losing their leader? I'm going to see it tomorrow, but don't mind spoilers.

I'm jonesing to see this movie again. I need it NOW!!

Lamest. Excuse. Ever. Snyder.

great movie....great great great!

Snyder's visuals is what carries MOS. i think nolan knew how bad a writer goyer is and that's why he asked snyder to take on the project. To those who have seen the movie, think about the time you got past the adrenaline rush from all the action sequences, you'll realise how weak the dialogue was.
man why can't geoff johns and timm partner up to write a story?

...soooo...in order to have an aversion to killing people I need to kill someone to see how much I don't like it? That makes absolute sense! I think we should add a scene like that to every movie to show why the main characters aren't killing people. Otherwise I'll be totally confused as to why no one is being killed on screen. Thank god we have brilliant people making pop-culture pop.

MOS sucked, Snyder and Goyer should never make a superhero movie again.

Krypto!

actually dont mind supes killing zod at all, even if strong arguments could be made that supes could easily deflect zod's heat vision with his palm, or simply just jump up and fly away with zod held tight in his arms.

my beef is supes's seemingly uncaring and reckless actions around civilians. he punched and threw his enemies with reckless abandon in highly populated areas with no care to where they might crash or what kind of destruction that would cause.

same treatment given to his mama. when ma kent got threatened, supes launched into anger mode and went on to fight zod, completely forgot that his ma was still at her home at the mercy of other kryptonians. that seems to be the principle of this new supes: fight first, worry about casualties later.

some fanboys have tried to justify this callousness by saying this supes is still green, he's "inexperienced", it's his first time, whatever.

EXPERIENCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. if you're having a battle in a highly populated area, people are going to suffer and die. if some nerds in the internet could figure it out, surely supes can. and his biological dad is supposed to be the smartest man in krypton, so that makes supes either reckless and uncaring, or extremely stupid. take your pick.

The movie was great not perfect but great. Superman did everything he could do in that movie to save who ever he could was it focused more on lois? Yes but isnt it always. This situation wasnt as simple as catching a plane or putting out a fire this was an anilihation of the human race their wasnt a bank robbery to stop just people who were just as strong as he is trying to destroy the planet he even killed zod to save a family which messed with him. His sole purpose in this movie was to stop the kryptonians and he did so with the only tools he had. I just thought it was odd he gave up on krypton so easily but i liked it still. You dont like this movie fine dont see it but for the next three years till the sequel comes out.

I agree with Zod, but I also think when it comes to saving people, that will be something that should be focused more on next time seeing as this was the beginning of him becoming Superman, not really being the greatest from the start but learning about it all and next movie could implement that part of the characters evolution.

"...soooo...in order to have an aversion to killing people I need to kill someone to see how much I don't like it? That makes absolute sense!"

hehe... agree with your sentiment. his aversion to killing is from his decent upbringing by the kents. it's that simple. watching that scene i never got the notion the killing was meant to be the origin of his aversion, just that supes killed cause he got 'no choice'. snyder only shoot himself in the foot by trying to explain himself.