Originally posted by NemeBro
I have a better question.Why didn't he just terraform Mars or Venus?
Zod is built up to be this sort of well-intentioned extremist, someone who isn't wholly evil, but ruthless in getting what he believes his people need.
Only he was going to commit a pointless genocide for... I don't know actually, that's very unclear.
The movie should have been called Man of Plotholes.
He had to come to earth for the codec anyway. Why bother moving after that when you can just ***** slap the humans?