Zod mocks the Council and that even though their planet will soon be gone, the leaders will not grant him and his followers a quick death. In the confusion, the pod's Phantom Drive activates and opens a portal to the Phantom Zone and disappears.Īs punishment, General Zod and his Sword of Rao followers are banished to the Phantom Zone by High Eminence Lor-Em. However, his orders are suddenly canceled when Kryptonian Sapphire Guards' ships appear, arresting them. Angered that Jor-El and his wife have doomed the Kryptonian race with the removal of the codex, General Zod murders Jor-El and orders his followers to shoot down the pod. Ignoring Zod, Lara activates the launch and the pod shoots into the sky. Lara, about to launch the pod, is pleaded to by Zod to abort the launch, claiming the Codex is Krypton's future and only chance of survival. Enraged at this "heresy" Zod battles Jor-El, but is quickly overwhelmed. Jor-El refuses and informs Zod of Kal-El's birth and the embodiment he represents.
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Though Lara is sad at the loss of their child, Jor-El claims he will be free of the limitations imposed by Kryptonians and prosper among humanity.Īs they prepare to launch the pod containing their son, General Zod and his followers enter their residence, demanding that Jor-El hand over the codex. Stealing the Growth Codex from the chamber, Jor-El races back to his home, where his wife Lara has found a planet to send their baby, the planet Earth. Zod orders Jor-El to be arrested, but Jor-El quickly escapes and flees to an area nearby, wherein the planet's birthing chamber resides. Though Jor-El likewise disagrees with Council, he refuses to join General Zod, despite being a former long-time friend of the latter. However, the council is suddenly set upon by General Dru-Zod and numerous Sword of Rao followers, swiftly murdering High Eminence Ro-Zar and intending to take control of the planet in a coup d'état. After the birth of his son, Jor-El appears before the Kryptonian Law Council, pleading with them to allow him to save the planet's Growth Codex and to search for a habitable world beyond Krypton. Harvesting their planet's core for resources has made it unstable and on the brink of implosion. Jor-El and his wife have chosen this path, as their planet is on the brink of destruction. She and her husband Jor-El have birthed their son naturally, in violation of the basic laws of the planet, where babies are to be bred through genetic engineering with a planetary "codex" that imprints just what a person's place in life will be. On the distant planet Krypton, Lara Lor-Van, has just given birth to a son, whom they name Kal-El. Emil Hamilton.Ī sequel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, was released on March 25, 2016. It also co-stars Michael Kelly as Steve Lombard, Harry Lennix as General Calvin Swanwick, and Richard Schiff as Dr. The film is directed by Zack Snyder and stars Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Superman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Michael Shannon as General Dru-Zod, Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, Antje Traue as Faora-Ul, Ayelet Zurer as Lara Lor-Van, Christopher Meloni as Colonel Nathan Hardy, and Russell Crowe as Jor-El. It is the first installment in the DC Extended Universe.
Man of Steel is a 2013 superhero film based on the DC Comics superhero Superman. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders." ―Jor-El to Superman But in time, they will join you in the sun, Kal. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. " You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards.
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