She asked two questions: "Why are you surrendering o Zod?" and "What's the S stand for?" He explained he was only surrendering to "mankind," and that it wasn't an S, but a Kryptonian symbol for hope.The Department of Mutant Affairs, the government's new mediator, was headed up by blue-skinned, furry Secretary Hank McCoy/Beast (Kelsey Grammer) (a former student at Xavier School), who was introduced hanging upside down from his office ceiling while reading a book.Another message precedes the film with a warning about he horrors of war: "If in this work we have conveyed to the mind the ravages of war o the end that war may be held in abhorrence, this effort will not have been in vain.After only a few minutes at the tombstone after they placed their cross of flowers on the gravesite, Johnny was restless and impatient with Barbra, who was taking time to ritualistically pray - to keep the dead one's memory alive.