Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5364175-20130624130405/@comment-4889195-20130627042756

The most upset Supes was prior to the finale was Zod attacking Martha. He might have been shocked that Zod killed Jor-El, but he was far less emotionally attached to Jor-El plus having him buzzing around as a hologram probably lessened the impact. While he was duking it out with Zod, he probably didn't see as much of the ground-level impact it was having on civilians. I'm sure he knew the death toll was climbing but more in an abstract way, like when we hear about body counts after a natural disaster. He witnessed Zod kill soldiers first-hand but that's what they signed up for (sorta...). I think Supes' anguish was two-fold. One, being forced to kill to save innocents that were right in front of him and two, severing his last tie (that he knows of) to Krypton. He was aware the the rest of the Kryptonians and all their tech had already been blown to hell or the Phantom Zone (same diff?).