Man of Steel begins with a birth, while a world dies. The camera goes in and out of focus on the mother's face. Cal-el, the child that is to become Clark Kent, aka Superman, is the first live-born child on Krypton in 1000 years.
In the next scene, the father Jor-el (played by Russel Crowe) goes to the leading council of Krypton and requests the Codex, an object that has the DNA of all future Kryptonians encoded into it. While there, General Zod enters. He shoots the leader of the…
