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We are not interested in talk, Nightwing-- Just conquest! The people of Krypton owe us more than they can ever repay-- Years of our lives lost to us in the Phantom Zone! We could feel neither pleasure nor pain! We could see what happened outside the Zone, but as invisible, intangible beings, we could take no part in them. Can you imagine such an experience, Nightwing? Can you comprehend years of nothingness?
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~ General Zod
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I promise you this: I… will always… be yourmonster.
Dru-Zod, also known as General Zod, is one of the main antagonists of the DC Universe, specifically serving as one of the main antagonists of the Superman franchise and a major antagonist in the Justice League franchise.
He is considered to be one of the Man of Steel's most powerful and iconic enemies, alongside Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Doomsday, and Darkseid. Originally a Krytonian general from his homeworld, Krypton, he was imprisoned in the Phantom Zone for his attempt of overthrowing the Council of Elders. He has since escaped from his imprisonment and plots to conquer Earth and establish a new Krypton, while seeking vengeance on the House of El for the destruction of their homeworld by antagonizing Superman.
Dru-Zod is a megalomaniacal Kryptonian, in charge of the military forces on Krypton. He knew Jor-El, Superman's father, when Jor-El was an aspiring scientist. When the space program was abolished after the destruction of the inhabited moon Wegthor (engineered by renegade scientist Jax-Ur), he attempted to take over Krypton. Zod created an army of robotic duplicates of himself, all bearing a resemblance to Bizarro.
He was sentenced to exile in the Phantom Zone for 40 years for his crimes. Zod was eventually released by Superboy when his term of imprisonment was up. However, he attempted to conquer Earth with the superpowers his Kryptonian body acquired under the yellow sun (the source of Superboy's own super-powers). With Zod's threat now obvious, Superboy was forced to oppose him and ultimately returned him to the Zone.
Zod was a minor villain since his 1961 debut. However, he became a recurring threat in the years preceding the mid-1980s Crisis on Infinite Earths. In the 1986 Superman reboot, Zod and fellow Kryptonians Quex-Ul and Zaora annihilated an alternate Earth (a pocket universe created by Time Trapper, forcing Superman to end their lives.
Modern Age[]
In the Post-Crisis continuity, several alternate versions of Zod appeared before the real one was reintroduced in Action Comics #845 (2007).
In 2010, following Brainiac's defeat and the establishment of New Krypton in Earth's solar system, Zod was released from the Phantom Zone to lead the Kryptonian military. However, the warmonger instigated a "100 Minute War" against Earth, resulting in New Krypton's destruction and his return to the Zone. In
Action Comics #844-846, Zod, Ursa, and Non strike terror into Metropolis as Superman meets "Chris Kent"; the son of Zod.
The New 52[]
General Zod is Ursa's husband and the father of their child, Lor-Zod. An extremist general from Krypton, Zod was placed in the other-dimensional Phantom Zone for crimes against his people. Banished to a world of wraithlike phantoms and the endless ravages of a timeless environment, Zod's punishment actually worked out to his benefit; when Krypton exploded he was safely off world.
He finally escaped his prison, coming to Earth as Superman's equal and opposite number.
Driven half-mad by the Phantom Zone, when Zod first found his way to Earth, he came into conflict with Superman, and the two clashed repeatedly, with Superman eventually locking Zod back into the Phantom Zone.
DC Rebirth[]
Eventually, Zod escaped and fought some of the members of the Justice League. Superman and Wonder Woman come into the scene and Kal finds out that Zod knows Jor-El. Zod says he was looking for Faora; another Kryptonian who was sentenced to the Phantom Zone alongside Zod and Non. Superman takes Zod to his Fortress of Solitude and for the time being, cages Zod in a chamber with Kryptonian animals. Superman promises Zod that if he finds Faora, he will tell him.
Zod was then freed again from the Phantom Zone by the government black ops group of supervillains called the Suicide Squad. The Squad's leader, Amanda Waller, implanted a Kryptonite bomb inside Zod's skull, threatening to detonate it if he didn't follow her orders. However, Zod used his heat vision to slice into his own head and remove the bomb, before escaping alongside Cyborg Superman's Superman Revenge Squad. With the promise of finding his way back to his loved ones trapped inside the Phantom Zone, Zod worked with Cyborg Superman's team until he got his hands on Superman's Phantom Zone projector. Then Zod freed his wife Ursa and their son Lor-Zod and departed Earth for the planet Jekuul alongside the Kryptonian artificial intelligence known as the Eradicator.
There, Zod could live as a king under Jekuul's two yellow sons. The native citizens there acted as his willing slaves, believing him to be a god. Determined to remake Jekuul into a New Krypton, the so-called House of Zod soon came under fire from the Green Lantern Corps. However, Zod joined forces with the Lanterns soon after to battle the greater threat of the lethal enforces called the Darkstars. Zod next learned of Rogol Zaar, the being claiming the blame for Krypton's destruction (with whom he had previously escaped from the Phantom Zone). While he seemingly teamed with Zaar, Zod was actually working to bring him to justice. After Zaar's defeat, Superman and Zod parted ways as uneasy allies, and Superman allowed Zod to returnto his planet in order to create the New Krypton of his dreams.
Powers and Abilities[]
Like Superman, General Zod is a Kryptonian and under the yellow sun of the Sol system, he gains superhuman powers of the highest known degree. Like Superman, Zod gains superhuman strength, speed, stamina, invulnerability, power of flight, and an array of extrasensory senses including superhearing and various vision powers. Whereas Superman lacks formal training and relies on combining his powers with overwhelming force to overcome his opponents, Zod is a trained soldier who employs his powers with lethal effectiveness.
Zod appeared in Smallville and he became one of the main villains.
Zod later appeared in the show Legion of Superheroes episode "Phantoms" as a prisoner of the Phantom Zone.
Zod was a minor villain in the Arrowverse. He appeared in the season 2 final Nevertheless, She Persisted, when Rhea poisoned Superman with Silver Kryptonite thus only seeing his most greatest and feared enemy Zod.
Krypton[]
Zod was the son of Lyta-Zod and Seg-El, making him the uncle of Superman. He came from the future in order to rule Krypton by deceiving Seg and many of his friends while making a deal with Brainiac. After Seg and Brainiac's is transported into the Phantom Zone, he ends up becoming a dictator and ends up cloning he mother, placing Lyta under the Black Mercy plant and reconditioning the clone in order to serve her goals. He ends up finding Doomsday and used him as a weapon in order to attack Val-El's rebellion against which results in the massacre of rebels and the destruction of the moon, Wegthor.
Zod was portrayed by Michael Shannon in Man of Steel and The Flash (2023).
Videogames[]
Injustice: Gods Among Us[]
Zod is a downloadable character in Injustice: Gods Among Us. In his ending, he is freed from the Phantom Zone and is able to create small pockets at will, using this, he defeats Superman and claims the High Councilorship and began to rebuild Earth in the image of Krypton.
Zod appears as a minor antagonist in the sequel Injustice 2's tie-in comics. He has escaped the Phantom Zone and killed Tim Drake, causing Batman to become enraged and fought him outside the Fortress of Solitude. However, their fight is interrupted when Amazo interfered and killed Zod.
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