In a story rife with religious symbolism, this Zod, complete with horned armor, becomes the Devil who threatens Superman's paradise. While Clark treks back to the Fortress of Solitude in a desperate attempt to regain his powers, Lex Luthor approaches the Kryptonian villains at the White House. rev 2020.10.9.37784, The best answers are voted up and rise to the top, Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange works best with JavaScript enabled, Start here for a quick overview of the site, Detailed answers to any questions you might have, Discuss the workings and policies of this site, Learn more about Stack Overflow the company, Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us, I have a feeling that from the destructiveness of the anomaly there wasn't much left. We see objects fall and can, more or less, measure the gravity of their planet which- surprise surprise, is basically Earth's. At the end of the episode "Oracle", Chloe deciphers a Kryptonian message which Clark reads as, "Zod is coming." Years later Zod broke free and came to torment Jor-El's son, Superman. Zod later learns that this is a lie and Non continues to make public protests that the planet will die soon unless something is done. They outnumber Superman, and, significantly, they care nothing for the lives of the city's inhabitants, and Superman is continually distracted trying to save people endangered by the battle. His death in the Richard Donner Cut is reversed when Superman turns time back to restore the damage caused by Zod, and he and his gang are reimprisoned in the Phantom Zone. She gives Clark a crystal bearing the sign of the House of El (Superman's characteristic stylized "S"). @CreationEdge Hamiltion is too big a character in the Superman universe to be thrown away like that. It is said that the most dangerous Kryptonian criminals were sentenced to suspended animation, but Xa-Du's experiments corrupted this science and the Phantom Zone became the new alternative. He first appeared in Adventure Comics #283 (April 1961). Zod as he appears in the JLU comic books. Feeling a bit silly while asking this question , but the answer may be worth deliberating . Zod takes great offense to this, having grown accustomed to the Hellish prison that had been his only home for decades, leading him to build an empire within Metropia in an attempt to destroy the son of his jailer. Zod's popularity soared when he appeared in "Superman: The Movie" in 1978 and "Superman II" in 1980. With armor that empowered him with red solar rays and protected him from yellow sunlight which diminished his powers, the General modeled himself after Zod and even had his face altered so he was identical to Superman. After Non was lobotomized because of his suspected insurrection, the trio rebel against Krypton and are exiled. Non's message swayed both Zod and Ursa that Krypton was soon to be destroyed. With the help of the burly mute Nam-Ek (Zod's ward - similar to Non in the Superman movies) and his wife Aethyr-Ka, Commissioner Zod declares himself General Zod and declares war on Zor-El, brother of Jor-El, attacking Argo City. When he and Jor learn that Krypton's destruction is imminent, they are arrested by Zod who is told that the two are conspiring against the government. In the animated series, he appeared along with a new character called Mala, who was seemingly based on Ursa. intersect with ordinary space. 4, 19). His I liked it a bit more than you did, but I basically agree with everything you wrote. The three were captured, and the council unanimously agreed to cast Zod, Ursa, and Non into the Phantom Zone. While it's unclear the impact he will have in the New 52 prior to his appearance, the villain will soon appear as a DLC in DC's successful "Injustice: Gods Among Us" video game. In the season premiere of the 6th season, the Phantom Zone itself is shown as a desolate wasteland where Clark is rendered … The Phantom Zone was also the prison the Kryptonians were sentenced to before the destruction of Krypton. In 2003, Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Yu and Gerry Alanguilan presented a new version of Superman's origin and early days in "Superman: Birthright." In 2006, DC Comics altered some parts of their history and continuity. Zod alters his plea with threats that he will attack the House of El with promises of prestige and unbounded political power "You could be a powerful voice in the new world order, second only to my own". Kal-El’s original starcraft. His appearance was vastly different from the goateed hellion fans were clamoring for and, while he still displayed the arrogant fascist tendencies of classic Zod, the villain quickly faded into semi-obscurity. I do think that we can assume Krypton is a larger planet (when they began terraforming the Earth they were "adding mass" and increasing gravity), and it seems that larger planets tend to develop further from stars, increasing the orbital period. Their names have changed many times over the years, but they are currently known as Ursa and Non. General Zod is a fictional supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Superman.The character, who first appeared in Adventure Comics #283 (April 1961), was created by Robert Bernstein and initially designed by George Papp. Around the same time, a new villain called the General was introduced, a man in red and black armor who took over the fictional Eastern European country of Pokolistan. After infecting the Man of Steel with kryptonite-based cancer, the General sent soldiers after the hero, one of whom was a woman named Faora. Wishing neither to kill Zod nor let him win, Clark sees one solution: he stabs himself with the kryptonite dagger and falls backwards off the rooftop. Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. In the CW TV series "Smallville" that ran from 2001-2011, Terrence Stamp portrayed the voice of the Jor-El A.I. Non now fought along side Zod and Ursa. As their battle destroys the reality around them, Zod is headed into the depths of the Phantom Zone, possibly to be lost forever. crushed into subatomic particles, leaving behind a sucking wound in