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 film initially opened to hostile, unsympathetic, negative or indifferent critical reviews (it was criticized for being boring and lacking in imagination), and 19 minutes were cut from he film after premieres in Washington, New York, and Los Angeles.And in Siberia where the Russian Army was conducting its own missile launch, he grabbed that missile too, and deposited both missiles in a gigantic space net (filled with the entire world""s stockpile of missles) which he spun around and released - the net was hurled into the sun to harmlessly explode.He mischieviously suggested that a dictatorship might be a solution.He rode on the back of a shaak, a plump 4-legged animal, to show off before her, and they rolled through the grass in each other""s arms.