There are a few key moments in every superhero’s story. Uncle Ben has to die. Thomas and Martha Wayne have to die. Howard and Maria Stark have to die. And Jonathan Kent has to die. But the way they all die matters.
Watching The Man of Steel, one thing shocked me: Jonathan Kent’s death. Not because I did not know what happened to the Kent patriarch, I’d seen all of Smallville and grew up loving Superman. No, what I was shocked by was watching as Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner) walked into a tornado and Clark (Henry Cavill) just watched it happen.
