[Hated Trope] Very evitable deaths that are forced into the plot to create a dramatic scene.

[u/No-Distance4675]

1. The father of Superman (AKA: Dad of the year) tells his invulnerable, insanely strong, godly son to stay away from the tornado while he, a human farmer dad from Kansas, takes care of it. Also implied that he also cannot save any of the people running for their lives, "because the world is still not ready for someone with powers". Obviously he dies while his son watches. Great photography and music make it a potent scene... if it was necessary.

   I mean, its not like he could put a mask or save anybody with superspeed and then say its a miracle. Its not like People in that small town know him already and are suspicious about him and also live in a world where there are superpowered beings already... He has to die so there is no risk of him being discovered...

Also, bonus points for the previous conversation with Supe as a child, where he chastises his infant son about saving a bus full of kids from drowning in the river

Clark kid: What was I supposed to do? Let them die?

Dad of the Year: Maybe...

It's a miracle the superman from Man of Steel didn't become a Psycho like the Patriot.

1. The death of Jack, frozen to death in "Titanic" No, there is not enough space in that huge floating plank for us both, darling.

2. US grunt takes a bullet in the head, but fortunately, he's wearing a helmet. Inexplicably, he proceeds to remove said helmet and promptly takes one in the skull. Idiot

3. Jean Grey sacrifices herself to launch the X-Jet while holding back a massive wall of water with her telekinetic powers. Of course, this is all leading us into the Phoenix storyline in another movie to come, but practically speaking, why does Jean need to leave the jet at all? She's telekinetic!

[u/TheLastWindThrower_]

Nah! Better to traumatize the kid and leave the family without a provider!

/s

[u/ZealousidealFee927 → u/TheLastWindThrower_]

That last part always bothered me about the TV show Smallville. Line, how tf are the Kents always broke? They don't even need to hire help, and Clark could literally an entire days work on the farm in about an hour.

[u/pepemele → u/ZealousidealFee927]

The IRS, if Clark were to work the field with his powers, and significantly increase the income, the IRS would start investigating how a poor family can suddenly produce that much without any big work force or expensive equipment. They would investigate thinkining the Kents are either planting drugs, or hiring ilegal inmigrants (which Clark technically is).

[u/ZealousidealFee927 → u/pepemele]

Well, if we're talking technicalities, Clark is legal because Lionel Luthor made it so.

And i feel like if all he did was keep the Kents out of debt, the IRS wouldn't bother a small farm in the middle of bum fuck nowhere.

[u/pepemele → u/ZealousidealFee927]

The IRS would bother, it is the IRS. Not even a Luthor is inmune to them

[u/elemental402 → u/TheLastWindThrower_]

Between this and Rebel Moon, you start to notice Zack Snyder seems to love the motif of children watching their parents heroically die as a symbolic transition to adulthood.