Man Of Steel’s Most Controversial Twist Makes Way More Sense 10 Years Later

Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel features numerous controversial elements, but one in particular has much more context and clarity after a decade. In Man of Steel, a young man with superpowers named Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) learns that he is actually an alien refugee named Kal-El from the planet Krypton. Despite spending most of his life hiding his abilities from the world, Clark is forced to defend Earth as Superman when General Zod (Michael Shannon) leads a Kryptonian invasion to remake Earth into a new Krypton.