Thread:AustinDR/@comment-27586321-20140707000836/@comment-27818776-20140707001918

The other versions of General Zod don't count as complete monsters. The one from Man of Steel was a well-intentioned extremist who genuinely cared for his own people, and the other versions simply strike me as generic extraterrestrial supervillains who tried to take over the Earth. The problem with this character is similar to the oen with the Joker's. Some incarnations of the Joker count for this trope (the Dark Knight incarnation of him would count), while other incarnations of him would not. An example would be the Joker from the early days of the Batman comic books. He was almost portrayed as either a harmless trickster, or a generic criminal. By the time of the Silver Age of the comics, the Joker became more and more of a complete monster when many other writers created their own interpretations of this character.

So, to basically sum this up, perhaps some versions of General Zod count as CMs, but not all of them will.