You know, it's as if they decided to have Superman kill off an army of alien invaders, and then got cold feet about it, and then went for some kind of middle ground: We'll have Supes kill those creatures of pure evil that we, um, have all our heros kill every fricking time they show up, but then we'll have the other heroes act all shocked by the cruelty. "Golly, Clark, why didn't you slow down enough to just knock each parademon unconscious, while they were busily trying to exterminate the human race? What is the matter with you?"

Seriously, none of this makes any sense. Except for Wondy's leggings.