General Zod

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General Zod is a male comic supervillain that features in DC Comics.

Biography

Origin

The New 52

Overview

Personality and attributes

Powers and abilities

Notes

• General Zod was created by Robert Bernstein and George Papp where he made his first appearance in Adventure Comics #283 (April 1961).
• In Superman: Last Stand on Krypton (2003), Im-Zod appeared in an Elseworld's story of where Krypton never exploded where he was furious at his world turning back on their Kryptonian heritage. He allied with Lex Luthor against Kal-El but was later killed by Luthor.
• In Countdown v1 #30 (2007), in this version of the Multiverse resided Earth-15 where Zod was this planets version of Superman. On this Earth, he was a hero though this world was entirely peaceful leaving little for him to do beyond monitoring it. This version of Zod was killed by an alternate version of Superboy Prime who killed this Superman, his wife and unborn child along with Earth-15s Justice League.

In other media

Television

• In the animated Legion of Super Heroes series, a character appearing as the Silver Age Zod appeared in the episode "Phantoms". The Legion had been sent into the Phantom Zone by Drax where the Kryptonian criminals within it attacked them with Zod among their number though he was not referenced by name.

Films

• In Superman II, Zod appeared as the primary antagonist of the movie where he was portrayed by actor Terence Stamp.
• In Man of Steel, Zod appeared as the primary antagonist where he was portrayed by actor Michael Shannon. He was shown as being a member of Krypton's military who was a friend of Jor-El. General Zod took those forces loyal to him in an attempt at a coup and intended to steal the Codex that served as the Genetic base for cloning his race. He attempted to enlist Jor-El to his cause but the scientist refused as he intended to send his natural born son to another world free from the rigid rule on Krypton that was facing an imminent the explosion from its core. Zod saw this as blasphemy and attempted to have Jor-El detained but his old friend took the Codex and imprinted it on his son. General Zod attempted to take the Codex back but failed though not before killing Jor-El though he was too late to stop the scientist's son Kal-El's ship from leaving Krypton. For his crimes, Zod and his supporters were arrested where they were put in stasis on a prison ship that was sent into the Phantom Zone. After the destruction of Krypton, he was freed from stasis and he along with his fellow criminals retrofitted the Prison ship with a Phantom Drive as they moved through Krypton's abandoned colonies. This was until they received a Kryptonian beacon on Earth and plotted a course for the world.

Videogames

• In Injustice: Gods Among Us, Zod appeared as a downloadable character for the videogame where he was voiced by Nolan North. He did not feature in the story mode but had his own backstory as well as ending. Zod had two skins available to him for players with one being his ordinary one and treatment other based on the character in Man of Steel.

Other

• In The Last Days of Krypton, General Dru-Zod was a Commissioner who was the son of Cor-Zod who was the former head of the Kryptonian Council.

Appearances

• Adventure Comics:
• Superman:
• Action Comics:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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