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Be that as it may, the Kryptonians beat up the planes in no time, but the helicopters (commanded by Action Man, who after Action Man Archaeologist and Action Man FBI became Action Man Army, obviously, we had more budget for actors) continue on their way just in case what hasn't had the slightest boo-boo after a rocket in the muzzle is more sensitive to small caliber bullets. I'll keep it short, and it'll surprise you, hold on to your suspenders: they also lose the battle.

Eventually, fed up with this nonsense, Zod retreated, not without some damage to his helmet from fighting Superman, and thus finding that in the human atmosphere, he was suddenly stronger, could fly, , and could shoot lasers. Interesting information, but not as interesting as the one he gets when he returns to his mothership.

“General Zod, General Zod!”
– Yes, uninteresting secondary character?
– I just found out where the codex was.
– Ah! 
– Actually, Jor-El didn't put the codex in the rocket with his son... no, he used a machine he had at home by the greatest of coincidences to write all the information from the codex into his son's cells. So Superman is the codex.
– Okay. Does he need to be alive for us to retrieve the information?
- No.
– Ah, for a moment, I thought cells died when someone died. Well then... let's kill special lead Superman then! But first, let's start terraforming the Earth, they'll be in a real mess. Finally, kryptoformation. Anyway, I understand myself.
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And then finally, myxomatosis was introduced into the Kryptonians, and Earth was saved.
On Earth, then, we're in a real pickle because we suddenly see the enemy ship split in two, one part going to one side of the Earth and the other to the opposite side, and as luck would have it, right above Metropolis (we don't have enough deserted areas on Earth, it's stupid). On each side of the Earth, the two ships fire a laser that meets at the core of the Earth, and start pumping, causing with each pump stroke a change in gravity in the area directly around the ships (when the pump is up, everything flies away, when the pump is down, everything is crushed - except people, oddly enough, who run right in the middle to make it more spectacular, probably because gravity doesn't affect humans. There, it's known). And with each pump stroke, a slightly wider area is affected. For his part, Zod goes to the exploration ship Clark found at the beginning of the film and tries to bring it back to Metropolis just to... excuse me? Okay: he tries to bring the ship back to Metropolis. "  Since this is the ship that contains the baby vats, and since it was safe, let's bring it back to the middle of a combat zone so that if we lose it, we doom all hope of our civilization."