10 Sci-Fi Movie Villains That Had Totally Lame Deaths
4. Zod - Man Of Steel
Much has been said about the DC Comics-based movies of recent times, with Henry Cavill's Superman one of those to come under particular scrutiny.
As the Big Blue Boy Scout, Cavill is a great fit. The issue is, so much of Cavill's time as Supes has seen the English actor handed a depiction of Superman who feels far removed from the Last Son of Krypton who has long been a pop culture icon.
Superman's appearance in 2017's Justice League seemed to finally capture the hope and optimism so synonymous with the character, yet it's been a tough rebuilding process for Superman since as far back as Cavill's first time in the cape in 2013's Man of Steel - and one of the biggest problems some had with Man of Steel, was in how it dispatched of its man villain.
That movie's climax famously saw Kal-El snap the neck of Michael Shannon's Zod.
While the all-powerful Zod having his neck snapped was a lame way for this iconic comic book villain to go out, even more lame was how this framed Superman.
Sure, the Man of Tomorrow was left with a horrible decision to make - a neck snap being one of the only options on the table to stop Zod's rampage - but it was a scene that simply didn't need to be written. So while the death was a disappointing way for Zod to be killed off, the biggest disappointment was in how this framed Superman to audiences.