The Giant Chooses Superman

Although weapons fire automatically turns the Giant into a war machine, Hogarth’s reminder that “you are who you choose to be” helps him reject that programming and sacrifice himself to intercept a nuclear missile.

A weapon built to destroy learns a prosocial identity from Hogarth and deliberately rejects its original function to protect people.

Friendship-driven moral growth is an evocative alignment target, not a reproducible training method, and the Giant still enters an involuntary attack mode under threat.