Or why doesn’t he give it to Wonder Woman? She’s super-strong and she isn’t affected by Krypronite.
Even better ******’ question. The answer is that Zack Snyder wants Superman to sacrifice himself, even if it isn’t even slightly necessary, and even if it makes Superman look like an idiot, especially when Doomsday stabs him in the chest and he dies.
Why? We all know he’s coming back. Justice League Part One films in like two weeks.
You know how in the Justice League cartoon, whenever the JL would fight somebody, Superman would immediately get knocked out by a laser for a while to let everyone else have a chance to fight bad guys before he woke up and took care of business?
Yes.
That’s exactly the same thing, just Zack Snyder-style.
(makes longer groaning noise)
Clark Kent gets a funeral in Smallville, while Superman gets a giant military funeral in DC, despite the fact that he failed to keep the Capitol building from blowing up and the government decided to nuke him. There are, in both funerals, a shocking amount of bagpipe music.