Originally posted by TheGrat1
"Why would they?"Because characters with a documented record of killing in movies, tv shows, and even comic books have recently been catching hell for doing just that; even when the act is done defensively or reluctantly.
Contrasted with Wonder Woman who seems positively chipper at the prospect of killing Ares, and has no qualms about mowing down mere mortals (mere mortals she considers relatively innocent, btw), the fact that no one in critical circles seems to care surprises me.
So she is from an island of warriors. Does this give her a license to kill? She makes it clear in the film thst she wants to protect life, but slaughters nearly every German she sees.For the record: I couldn't care less that she killed. It's the fact that no critics seem to even bring it up when Kal gets put through the wringer for kills people thought he made (African warlord) or "not saving people fast enough" (flood scene) makes me scratch my head.
I'll say it again: it was during wartime. And being basically under Steve Trevor's command, anything she did was done with his endorsement. It's like Captain America in his first two solo movies, basically having license to kill combatants because he's under the command of a government body (the U.S military in WW2, SHIELD in modern times.)
This controversy about the DC heroes comes from what we've seen in the other recent movies. People point to Superman killing General Zod as a last resort in Man Of Steel, but that didn't bother me anywhere near as much as his reckless fighting in Smallville and Metropolis, with the massive property damage and (what turned out to be) thousands of civilian casualties. But I would eventually forgive that as part of his journey of learning to use his power properly - by BvS, he made early efforts to get Doomsday off Earth to save the people, though it didn't work.
Batman was worse in BvS, moving down bad guys with machine guns on the Batmobile. For all the effort to pay homage to The Dark Knight Returns in the movie, they forgot that not even Frank Miller's Batman killed people.
If it seems unfair that the DC heroes are held to a standard the Marvel heroes aren't (and most of them don't kill their opponents either), blame DC for going so far over the top in the comics to keep Superman and Batman's hands 'clean.' That business last decade with Maxwell Lord getting killed by Diana to save both Bats and Supes (and having the two of them turn on her because of it) still grates on me.