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"WARNING: This article contains spoilers that some readers may wish to avoid. David S Goyer has said that he doesn&amp;#039;t believe Superman should be exempt from killing. The Man of Steel writer discussed the recent reboot&amp;#039;s controversial ending, in which Henry Cavill&amp;#039;s Superman kills villain General Zod, during last night&amp;#039;s BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters&amp;#039; Lecture.   Traditionally in previous Superman comics and movies, the character has been reluctant to take a life. Goyer, however, stated that the Man of Steel&amp;#039;s moral code &amp;quot;exists outside of the narrative and I just don&amp;#039;t believe in rules like that&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;We were pretty sure that was going to be controversial,&amp;quot; Goyer said. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not like we were deluding ourselves, and we weren&amp;#039;t just doing it to be cool. We felt, in the case of Zod, we wanted to put the character in an impossible situation and make an impossible choice. &amp;quot;This is one area, and I&amp;#039;ve written comic books as well and this is where I disagree with some of my fellow comic book writers - &amp;#039;Superman doesn&amp;#039;t kill&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s a rule that exists outside of the narrative and I just don&amp;#039;t believe in rules like that. I believe when you&amp;#039;re writing film or television, you can&amp;#039;t rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.  &amp;quot;So the situation was, Zod says &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m not going to stop until you kill me or I kill you.&amp;#039; The reality is no prison on the planet could hold him and in our film Superman can&amp;#039;t fly to the moon, and we didn&amp;#039;t want to come up with that crutch. &amp;quot;Also our movie was in a way Superman Begins, he&amp;#039;s not really Superman until the end of the film. We wanted him to have had that experience of having taken a life and carry that through onto the next films. Because he&amp;#039;s Superman and because people idolise him he will have to hold himself to a higher standard.&amp;quot; Man of Steel will debut on DVD, Blu-ray and download on November 12 in the US and December 2 in the UK. David S Goyer was speaking at the BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters&amp;#039; Lecture series. Photo gallery - Man of Steel in pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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