Jax-Ur

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Jax-Ur is a male alien comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.

Biography

Pre-Crisis

Jax-Ur was a male Kryptonian scientist that lived on the planet Krypton. (Superboy v1 #185) As a young scientist, an aquarium on Krypton was stricken with a spotted disease that affected the aquatic fish with Jax-Ur saving them by finding a special fungal antidote. (Action Comics v1 #310) Around this time, the planet was suffering from a lack of space for their prison population and the Kryptonian Science Council considering solutions to this problem. Jor-El offered one possible solution which was the use of suspended-animation gas with the prisoners left in orbit where they would be brainwashed and rehabilitated when they returned to the planet's surface after the completion of their sentence. The council authorised this research and Jax-Ur helped Jor-El in the construction of a prototype prisoner-satellite. During the test, a criminal named Nali-Ilv was placed in the rocket and went through the process where the next day the capsule was brought back with Jax-Ur operating the controls. (Superman v1 #234)

At the time, the laws of Krypton forbade any experiments of untested explosives. (Adventure Comics v1 #289) However, in the year 999 on the 62nd day of the month of Eorx the renegade scientist Jax-Ur looked to test a new explosive projectile on a passing meteor. (The Phantom Zone v1 #1) Thus, he defied this ban and created a missile to destroy the meteor but the projectile missed. Instead, the missile struck inhabited Krypton's moon killing all life on it and shattering it into four pieces. (Adventure Comics v1 #289) All 500 colonists of the moon of Wegthor were killed in the resultant nuclear blast. (The Phantom Zone v1 #1) This act also set back the Kryptonian defense program as the moon was intended as an observation base. Following his arrest, Jax-Ur was guilty of his crimes and sentenced to the Phantom Zone. (Adventure Comics v1 #289)

Following an escape from the Phantom Zone, he kidnapped Jonathan Kent and disguised himself as Clark Kent's father. (Superboy v1 #185)

At Kandor, Superman attended a parole hearing of the criminals within the Phantom Zone and among those that appeared was Jax-Ur. He claimed that he showed remorse for his criminal actions and offered his aid in helping Superman save the Atlanteans who had been stricken with a spotted plague. Despite the warnings of the Kandorians, Superman decided to release Jax-Ur but placed a Zone-Shackle on him to enforce his compliance as part of the condition was for Jax-Ur to return to the Phantom Zone following his aid. After his release, he used a Time Bubble where he along with Superman went back in time to before Krypton's destruction where they arrived at Jax-Ur's old laboratory at the Jewel Mountains. Once there, he secretly drugged Superman to keep him unconscious whilst he crafted the basis for Jewel Kryptonite that would form after the planet's destruction and head towards Earth from the cataclysmic explosion of the planet. After the goal was complete, he aided Superman by finding an antidote for the spotted plague in the Scarlet Jungles from the native fungus and also saved Kal-El's life from a Thought-Beast. When they returned to their normal time, Superman thanked Jax-Ur for his aid and said that his deeds would be told to the parole board. Back in the Phantom Zone, his fellow criminals believed Jax-Ur to be a traitor but he stated that this was all part of his plan. At that point, the Jewel Kryptonite he helped create landed on Earth and Jax-Ur hypnotized Jimmy Olsen to expose it to Superman. Afterwards, it influenced his mind making him believe his presence was causing power sources to explode which Jax-Ur intended to blackmail the Man of Steel for the release of all the criminals in the Phantom Zone. It was only the telepathic powers of Lori Lemaris that exposed this lie as being a mental projection that showed Superman the truth with Jax-Ur being thwarted where he remained within the Zone. (Action Comics v1 #310)

Jax-Ur and the other Phantom Zone criminals worked with General Zod to affect the mind of 'Charlie Kweskill' who was formerly Quex-Ul. This allowed them to control his body whilst he was asleep where they caused him to steal various equipment. Under Jax-Ur's genius, Quex-Ul was made to build a working Phantom Zone Projector that freed all the Kryptonian prisoners who then planned to takeover the Earth. (The Phantom Zone v1 #1)

Post-Crisis

Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Jax-Ur was a scientist on Krypton who was admired by Jor-El and had conducted in interstellar travel research. (Action Comics v1 #846) During his interstellar experiments, Non and Jor-El both warned Krypton's Council of the dangers but they were ignored. Jax-Ur's actions led to the destruction of Krypton's moon and the loss of the city of Kandor. (Action Comics Annual v1 #10) Thousands were noted to had died and for his crimes, Jax-Ur was banished into the timeless dimension of the Phantom Zone that had been recently discovered by Jor-El. (Action Comics v1 #846)

Due to the actions of General Zod, the various Kryptonian prisoners in the Phantom Zone were freed on Earth with Jax-Ur being one of the escapees. (Action Comics v1 #846)

He came to assume a human identity as noted scientist Dr. Pillings where he became a rising figure at S.T.A.R. Labs's xenogenetics program. This saw him coming to work alongside Dr. Kimiyo Hoshi where he brought in the Brimstone construct in for study. He was conducting secret work on his research when Dr. Hoshi requested his aid in helping in a case of advanced aging when Chris Kent was brought to the laboratory as they sought help to reverse his condition. (Action Comics v1 #883)

Post-Flashpoint

Jax-Ur attempts to escape the Phantom Zone in Supergirl v7 #32.

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Jax-Ur came to be one of numerous criminals banished to the Phantom Zone with his crime being the murder of the moon. (Action Comics v1 #13)

After being shunted into the Phantom Zone, Rogol Zaar encountered Jax-Ur who had formed allies from imprisoned alien criminals who he dispatched to eliminate the new arrival. However, Zaar was able to incapacitate them all and instead persuaded the Kryptonian criminal to become allies. Thus, they united the scattered prisoners into an army that Zaar led to Earth which had been sent into the Zone where they intended to use the Phantom Zone Projector to escape onto the planet. (Superman v5 #3)

Jax-Ur seemingly convinced General Zod to join Rogol Zaar as they embarked on their plan of revenge against the House of El. (Superman v5 #12)

Overview

Personality and attributes

He said that his plan had always been to achieve world domination. (Adventure Comics v1 #289)

Jax-Ur was said to had believed in God where he said that this was not a spiritual belief or dogma drilled into him. Instead, he believed that God existed with the sparks of divinity being scattered across creation. The Kryptonian had said that his beliefs were centred on empiricism and that simple religious belief was illogical to him. (Action Comics v1 #883)

He was a member of the House of Ur whose many members had been villains in the past and maintained their own family vault containing their dead. (Adventure Comics v1 #313) His grandfather was Vas-Ur who was a former crime-chief who had invented a disintegrator weapon though the plans for it were not known to Jax-Ur. (Superman v1 #234) Other members of his family line had included hia great-grandfather Mal-Ur whose forbidden experiments had destroyed Lake Krypton whilst another ancestor was Can-Ur. (Adventure Comics v1 #313)

Powers and abilities

Among his people, he was noted as being a brilliant scientist. (Superboy v1 #185) His genius was said to be capable of creating a working Phantom Zone Projector from junk. (The Phantom Zone v1 #1)

Notes

• Jax-Ur was created by Otto Binder and George Papp where he made his first appearance in Adventure Comics v1 #289 (October, 1961).

In other media

Television

• In Superman: The Animated Series, Jax-Ur appeared as an antagonist in the animated television series set in the DC Animated Universe in the episode "Blasts From the Past" where he was voiced by actor Ron Perlman. High General Jax-Ur was a leading military figure on Krypton where he had a loyal lieutenant in the form of the beautiful white haired Mala who called him her love. On Krypton, the pair defended the world until Jax-Ur decided to usurp the planetary rulers and install himself as leader. He managed to orchestrate an uprising that was nearly successful in taking over but Jor-El managed to engineer their defeat by sabotaging their equipment. The High General and his lieutenant were both apprehended but Jax-Ur claimed full responsibility for the conspiracy leading to him being permanently banished to the Phantom Zone whilst Mala was to remain in that dimensional prison for twenty years. After Kal-El freed Mala on Earth, she began to show resentment towards Superman after he spurred her advances and overheard the possibility of him sending her back into the Phantom Zone. This caused Mala to turn on him and use the Phantom Zone Projector to free Jax-Ur on Earth.
• In Smallville, a character by the name of Dax-Ur made an appearance in the live-action television series where he was portrayed by actor Marc McClure. He was a scientist from Krypton who had created the BrainInteractive Construct. At some point, he used Blue Kryptonite that increased his lifespan allowing him to live for 100 years where he later went to Earth.
• In Krypton, Jax-Ur appeared in the setting of the live-action television series where he was portrayed by actress Hannah Waddingham. This version was a woman originally named Sela-Sonn who was an ex-Science Guild member that took the name Jax-Ur where she became the leader of the Black Zero terrorist organisation.
• In Young Justice, Jax-Ur made an unnamed and non-voiced cameo appearance in the setting of the animated television series fourth season "Phantoms".

Films

• In Man of Steel, Jax-Ur made an appearance in the live-action film as a minor antagonist where he was portrayed by actor Mackenzie Gray. He was shown as one of the Kryptonian criminals banished to the Phantom Zone but was freed when Krypton was destroyed where he became a scientist crewmen onboard General Zod's Black Zero ship. He was aboard the ship when it travelled to Earth when the existence of the Growth Codex was found on that world.

Other

Appearances

• Adventure Comics v1: (1961)
• Action Comics v1:
• Superboy v1:
• World of Krypton v1:
• The Phantom Zone v1:
• Action Comics v1:
• Superman v5:

External Links

• DC Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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