In Man of Steel, why did they have to 9/11 all of Metropolis?

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I mean who would even want to live in Metropolis after Superman destroyed an enter downtown.

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Something that takes generations to build up!

In my home city; greatest city on Earth in our opinion here; Sweet Home Chicago, one of the cities (the other being New York) that has skyscrapers so tall, we laugh at how puny the skyscrapers are in other American cities.

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Many of those skyscrapers here in Chicago and there in New York were built almost a century ago!

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AND IT WAS JUST SUPERMAN AND ZOD!!!!

Also those aliens vs Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and Hulk (and two others who I won't mention because they don't have superhuman strength, well nether does Iron Man, but he has the suit) . . . they didn't even do nearly that match damage to New York.

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The Destruction of Metropolis will be a future plot point in the later DC films. It seems that in the new film "Batman V Superman", there will be protests against Superman for his part in the Metropolis battle.

http://www.newsarama.com/22264-batman-v-superman-s...

(As a sidenote, Chicago was used as Metropolis during the filming of "Man of Steel")

As for the NYC battle in "Avengers", according to disaster experts, the costs of the battle was $160 billion. For comparison, The 9/11 attacks cost $83 billion.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/avengers-dam...