YoutubeKilling Superman once would have been impactful enough, but it should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Zack Snyder's lack of restraint that he double-gilded the lily. The sight of Kal-El "dead" in space looking like a super-zombie was undoubtedly striking, but in the context of the final sequence, the red herring tease just looked silly and lost all of that impact. And like the ludicrously short retirement, it was so frenetically paced that all of the drama of the situation was neglected.