Posted on 06/21/2013 5:50:57 PM PDT by Bratch
It’s not exactly a spoiler that “Man of Steel,” Zach Snyder’s new Superman movie, culminates in a giant, destructive battle between our hero and his Kryptonian rival, General Zod (who you know is evil because he’s played by Michael Shannon), which wreaks havoc on the city of Metropolis.
How much havoc, exactly? Jordan Zakarin of Buzzfeed, being a genius, asked disaster expert Charles Watson and his crew at Watson Technical Consulting andKinetic Analysis Corp. to prepare estimates. Watson’s conclusion: Superman’s battle killed 129,000 people and injured 1 million, an impact on the scale of the nuclear attack on Nagasaki. It caused $750 billion in physical damage; 9/11, by contrast, caused $55 billion in physical damage. (The damage to Manhattan in “The Avengers” is estimated at around $160 billion.) It adds up to total damage on the order of $2 trillion:
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It’ll buff out.
That’s because Superman is a major stockholder in Haliburton who got the no bid contract to rebuild.
Well, there is a reason they closed down superheroes in “The Incredibles.” Nobody could afford “super-power damage” premiums.
$2 trillion equals 1 Kryptonian dollar, right?
We could just be Zimbabwe to them.
That movie was aaaaawwwesome! I saw it yesterday, absolutely perfect summer movie!
It is that Kryptonian banking system and their commodity backed currency...
They better do well at the box office then. Even if most theaters don’t have a box office.
Special effects were awesome in this film.
Comments like this explain why Hollywood is remaking "Robocop" next.
Yes the damages from the battle were extensive and the loss of life (fictionally) tragic, but it sure is better than the extinction level event that Zod was planning.
It’s easily the best Superman movie made so I don’t see any problem with the comment. Robocop isn’t exactly a classic that could ruined by a reboot either.
His kryptonite mood ring turned red?
So Supes should have sat back and did nothing. Total damage if he did that: 5,000,000,000 dead, $100,000,000,000,000 in destruction (gross estimate of the value of all property on Earth).
What is worse is superman didn’t get the French to approve.
There are people at the Washington Post with entirely too much time on their hands.
Um, I dropped a couple zeros. Oops.
Wait! Maybe Superman can fly around the Earth faster and faster, and cause the Earth to rotate backwards. Then time will turn backward and everything will be back to normal.
Kryptonian is when you mix a black a hole from Chicago wiff a native born Kenyan
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