Originally Posted by
Steel Inquisitor
This subject is rife in politics, both back in the Golden Age and with films now. Superman, like Captain America, was a political reaction to events in the 30's. What "evil" they were fighting wasn't ambiguous. Are you talking about in-universe or in our world?
This is an understatement. The film itself and the films afterward did nothing with that, that's been a big problem with those movies. Other characters, like Batman, had a deeper connection to the aftermath of the Battle of Metropolis than Superman did. It showed him yelling out once and pouting once, for something which should be a life changing event with how he reacted but we get nothing of substance from the person who snapped Zod's neck. People go into therapy for years and talk to their loved ones constantly about things like that, but not this Superman. He bottles everything up.
In my post I was talking about the changes he made in the DCEU after Man of Steel, since MOS was the event itself. There wasn't time to show what that would have had on society or the characters fully in MOS, which we didn't get.