Kryptonians are a fictional extraterrestrial race within the DC Comics universe that originated on the planet Krypton . The term originated from the stories of DC Comics superhero, Superman . The stories also use "Kryptonian" as an adjective to refer to anything created by or associated with the planet itself or the cultures that existed on it.
193-447: Members of a dominant sentient species of the planet Krypton are indistinguishable from Terran humans in terms of their appearance in their physiology and genetics, but they are vastly different. In some continuities Kryptonians are difficult to clone because their DNA is so complex that human science is not advanced enough to decipher it. The cellular structure of Kryptonians allows for solar energy to be absorbed at extremely high levels. On
386-476: A lead shield that protected their city from the kryptonite radiation of the asteroid. The protective shield was destroyed in a meteor storm, exposing the inhabitants to the deadly radiation. The sole survivor of Argo City, Kara Zor-El , was sent to Earth by her scientist father to live with her cousin Kal-El, who had become known as Superman. Kara adjusted to her new life on Earth and became known as Supergirl. It
579-527: A "mountain sanctuary" which was located in a mountain range on the outskirts of Metropolis. Here, Superman kept a diary, oversized tools for various projects, and other equipment and trophies. Superman's Silver Age Fortress, which debuted in 1958, was also located in the Arctic and served similar purposes. Built into the side of a steep cliff, the Fortress was accessible through a large gold-colored door with
772-545: A 1985 episode titled "The Death of Superman", the Fortress more closely resembles the pre- Crisis comic-book version, including a giant yellow key whose use required the combined efforts of Green Lantern , Wonder Woman and Cyborg . In the DC Animated Universe , the Fortress is located in the ocean underneath the Arctic tundra; access was gained by diving into the Arctic water and emerging in an opening inside
965-447: A Legion Flight Ring and at least one robotic servant called Kelex . Superman had invited Kara there a number of times, but she always refused, afraid of being overcome by nostalgia. It is also mentioned by Kara's sister Alex Danvers that Kara's cousin uses the fortress as a base where he can communicate with his Kryptonian ancestors. Kara finally goes there with James Olsen to look for information about Indigo . In "Myriad", Kara visits
1158-489: A black hole headed towards Earth using a telescope in the Fortress. In a 1980 episode titled "Revenge of Bizarro", Superman goes his Fortress of Solitude to stop Bizarro and return the Bizarro Super Friends back to normal with an Anti-Bizarro ray. A 1981 episode titled "Evil From Krypton" depicted the Fortress with a somewhat crystalline exterior and without the giant key, reminiscent of its film appearances. In
1351-418: A chamber that uses red sun radiation to strip Kryptonians of their super powers. In Richard Donner's cut of Superman II , the Fortress is destroyed by Superman as its existence was revealed to Lex Luthor and his henchwoman, Eve Teschmacher . However, Superman then turns back time (à la 1978's Superman ), so technically the Fortress is completely undamaged, while Zod , Ursa and Non are returned to
1544-495: A character muttering in an unconscious state is revealed to be speaking Kryptonian. In the Superman/Batman: Apocalypse film, a mix of gibberish and Esperanto is used to depict Kryptonian dialogue spoken by both Superman and Supergirl . The 2013 film Man of Steel featured Kryptonian writing created by graphic designer Kirsten Franson. The mechanics of the writing system (an abugida ), as well as
1737-431: A cloak to camouflage the entrance and key (which now hung on brackets on its side beside the door) and to ensure the Fortress's secrecy. The Fortress contained an alien zoo, a giant steel diary in which Superman wrote his memoirs (using either his invulnerable finger, twin hand touch pads that record thoughts instantly, or heat vision to engrave entries into its pages), a chess-playing robot, specialized exercise equipment,
1930-462: A few centuries ahead of Earth, while others, such as the Superman film series and Man of Steel , describe it as thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years more advanced. In its first appearance, Krypton was only depicted at the moment of its destruction. Beginning in the Superman comic strip , Krypton was shown to have been a planet similar to Earth, only older by eons and possessed of all
2123-556: A flashback sequence. Following Crisis on Infinite Earths , which rebooted the history of the DC Universe and retroactively eliminated the existence of the Golden and Silver Age versions of Krypton, writer/artist John Byrne was given the task of recreating the entire Superman mythos. This rewrite was started in the 1986 Man of Steel miniseries, which addressed Krypton in both its opening and closing chapters. Krypton itself
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#17327723564552316-425: A giant keyhole, which required an enormous key to open it. The arrow-shaped key was so large that only Superman (or another Kryptonian such as Supergirl ) could lift it; when not in use, the key sat on a perch outside of the Fortress, where it appeared to be an aircraft path marker. This was until a helicopter pilot followed the direction of the arrow straight to the entrance of the Fortress, forcing Superman to develop
2509-406: A group from the continent of Twenx that resemble Earth humans of North African , Middle Eastern , Asian , Micronesian , Polynesian , Native American , and Latino descent. This is all due to convergent evolution . In the first stories about Superman's origins, all Kryptonians possess on their homeworld the same powers Superman has on Earth. In later depictions, their abilities are attributed to
2702-407: A highly culturally and technologically advanced people. Self-grown crystals, both natural and synthetic, which covered the vast majority of their planet's surface gave their homeworld a bluish hue when viewed from space and underlay Kryptonian technology. Relatively small crystals can hold vast amounts of information. The Fortress of Solitude is often portrayed as a recreation of Krypton's surface and
2895-425: A human mutated in some manner and launched as part of an Earth space program - when a holographic program encoded into the craft which brought him to Earth uploaded the information into his brain (although Lex Luthor had earlier discovered his alien heritage when his attempts to create a clone of Superman were complicated by the unexpected x-factor of Superman's alien DNA). In Action Comics #600 (May 1988), Krypton
3088-552: A laboratory where Superman worked on various projects such as developing defenses to kryptonite , a room-sized computer, communications equipment, and rooms dedicated to all of his friends, including one for Clark Kent to fool visitors. As the stories continued, it was revealed that the Fortress was where Superman's robot duplicates were stored. It also contained the Phantom Zone projector, various pieces of alien technology he had acquired on visits to other worlds, and, much like
3281-709: A larger number of humanoid races—including Earth humans. No other races are yet known to exhibit the same degree of compatibility of the native Daxamites. However, in some continuations humans are not only able to reproduce with Kryptonians, but are able to create fertile offspring with them. Superpowered Kryptonians are vulnerable to kryptonite , radioactive remnants of Krypton, magic and solar radiation from red and orange suns. They are also vulnerable to physical attacks from beings native to Krypton essentially in proportion to their vulnerability in non-powered situations. In addition Kryptonian beings are vulnerable to infection from viruses or bacteria native to Krypton. Kryptonians are
3474-405: A matter of selecting compatible genetic material to be placed within an artificial womb called a "birthing matrix"; the parents almost never met in person and never touched one another. The planetary government was deeply isolationist and forbade space exploration and communication with other worlds. The young scientist Jor-El was born into this world. By his adult years, a mysterious "Green Plague"
3667-485: A newly evil Mister Mxyzptlk , who was behind the plot to destroy him. As Superman was forced to destroy Mxyzptlk, breaking his vow against killing, he exposes himself to gold kryptonite to permanently remove his powers and then appears to leave the Fortress to freeze to death in the Arctic cold. Superman is never seen again, although we find out in a "ten years later" wraparound segment set in 1997 that he survives as Jordan Elliot, husband of Lois Lane Elliot, and that they are
3860-462: A number of superhero teams as well as notable dynasties of Krypton e.g., the House of El . While many Kryptonians wear brightly colored clothes on a daily basis, formal occasions such as funerals and certain council meetings require everyone to wear white. The white formal clothes are often luminescent. It is also seen as a sad, scary, ghostly, faded colour as is depicted in many similar cultures around
4053-432: A panel drawn by artist Sal Amendola described a "Vathlo Island" in the "Old World" hemisphere of Krypton as being populated by a "highly developed black race". DC generally lagged behind its competitor Marvel Comics , and Superman comics generally more so than other DC titles, in depicting characters of color, and there were few previous appearances of black characters in the series, mostly stereotypical "natives". It
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#17327723564554246-475: A place of solace/occasional headquarters for Superman and is typically depicted as being in frozen tundra, away from civilization. Its predecessor, Superman's "Secret Citadel", first appeared in Superman #17, where it was said to be built into a mountain on the outskirts of Metropolis . By issue #58 (May–June 1949) it is referred to as the Fortress of Solitude, seems at a glance to be a freestanding castle, and
4439-546: A precursor to recreating Krypton on Earth. Superman broke the Eradicator's control, but maintained the Fortress as a useful location for emergencies. The first appearance of this new post- Crisis version of the Fortress was in The Adventures of Superman #461 (December 1989). It contained many artifacts from the post- Crisis version of Krypton, most notably a number of robot servitors (one of whom, Kelex , became
4632-436: A problem once Superman — and by extension anyone from Krypton — was portrayed as increasingly powerful, able to withstand nuclear explosions, contrasted with his original power level in which a bursting mortar shell could penetrate his skin). Thus, it was explained by the early 1950s that Kryptonians were powerless on their own planet and would gain superpowers only within a lower gravity environment. This matched
4825-490: A rumor that Kandor survived the destruction of their home planet, but it is never revealed whether this is true. In Superman: The Animated Series and later Justice League Unlimited , the only survivors of Krypton are Clark and two Phantom Zone criminals (Jax-Ur and Mala, introduced in " Blasts From the Past ", parts 1 and 2). Kara In-Zee, alias Supergirl, is the lone survivor of Argos , Krypton's sister planet knocked out by
5018-506: A shelter that survived the destruction of Krypton and was propelled through space. Eradicator, a robot built by the Kryptonian council, departed the planet with a group of colonists, survived their decimation, and would later encounter Superman. The Kryptonian city Kandor was also spared from destruction, as it was shrunken and collected by Brainiac . Kryptonian people live there in standard but microscopic, non-superpowered lives. Also,
5211-542: A somewhat darker glimpse into the world of Krypton in his story " For the Man Who Has Everything " (in Superman Annual #11), the premise being an elaborate dream of Superman's in which Krypton had not exploded and he had grown to adulthood there. Background details are culled from other Krypton stories. This same story was retold in the animated series Justice League Unlimited in an episode by
5404-401: A stand-in for different non white diaspora communities, such Hispanic and Latino Americans . In issue #234 of Superman (February 1971), the first apparently dark-skinned Kryptonian was featured, and described as being employed at "Vathlo Station", but the origin of this previously unseen Kryptonian ethnicity otherwise went uncommented on. Half a year later, in Superman #239 (June 1971),
5597-575: A storehouse for all the knowledge that the Kryptonian race had obtained. A pictographic crest or symbol represents each Kryptonian family, or House; the head of the House usually wears it. According to the Superman movie and sequels, a shape similar to the Latin letter "S" represents the House of El, for example. Superman wears this same symbol on his costume, which therefore serves a dual purpose: it displays his Kryptonian heritage, as well as functioning as
5790-524: A survivor named H'El, a Kryptonian clone who piloted a prototype of the rocket Jor-El uses to save his son and departed Krypton with the planet's historical records. In Superman , teenage Clark discovers who he is in the Fortress of Solitude , where a hologram of Jor-El tells him, "You are the only survivor of the planet Krypton". This remark appears to prove untrue in Superman II , as prisoners of
5983-478: A symbol of hope for humanity. The Jor-El A.I. was, for the most part, omniscient, with the ability to send characters through time, open portals to alternate dimensions, and remove, restore and also transfer Clark's powers to other characters, seemingly at will. In later seasons, the Fortress is exposed as being vulnerable to other Kryptonian technology – namely Brainiac, and the Orb of Kandor. Lex Luthor would later use
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6176-528: A telepath behind a door identical to that of the pre- Crisis Fortress. By that time, however, a more physical Fortress had been reintroduced. In Action Comics Annual #2 (1989), Superman, on a self-imposed exile to space, was entrusted with a Kryptonian artifact called the Eradicator , created by his ancestor Kem-El. Dedicated to preserving Krypton, this device built a new Fortress in the Antarctic as
6369-524: A time. Another Kryptonian, the scientist Dax-Ur , has been living on Earth for over a hundred years, using blue kryptonite to render himself powerless, and has even fathered a son with his human wife. Dax-Ur is killed soon after by Brainiac. In season 8 , it is revealed that Zod's wife Faora , also a disembodied wraith, was sent into the Phantom Zone with her husband, but not before they genetically engineered their son, fusing genetic material taken from
6562-462: A trusted confidant) and a battlesuit from the Third Age of Krypton. This Fortress was cast into the Phantom Zone as a result of a battle between Superman, Lex Luthor, and Dominus , a villain who played with Superman's mind and who was also trapped in the Phantom Zone. It did, however, serve as the template for the next Fortress, built by Steel , which was an extradimensional space accessed through
6755-547: A vast puzzle-globe. The now-mobile Fortress was relocated somewhere in the Andes. In the DC One Million series (1998), Superman's Fortress of Solitude in the 853rd Century resides within a tesseract located at the center of Earth's sun. By this time, Superman has lived in self-imposed exile within the Fortress for over 15,000 years. During the " For Tomorrow " story arc in 2004–05 Superman comics, Wonder Woman breached
6948-451: A way to conquer disease and aging by perfecting cloning ; vast banks of clones, kept in stasis, held multiple copies of each living Kryptonian so that replacement parts were always available in the event of injury. All Kryptonians were now effectively immortal , "with all the strength and vigor of youth maintained", and for millennia they enjoyed an idyllic, sensual existence in an Arcadian paradise. 100,000 years later Kryptonian society
7141-491: A way with unintended implications. However, other writers have pointed out that DC would go on to re-use this as a rationale to explain the non-presence of black skinned characters in other contexts, as with the Tyroc character. Vathlo was rarely if ever referenced beyond these few issues, although a black Kryptonian named "Iph-Ro of Vathlo" appeared in the more recent Superman: The Man of Steel #111. An offhand reference to
7334-468: A world where scientific inventions and research influenced much of daily life. Robots and computers were used for many tasks on Krypton, even for determining what career paths young Kryptonians would take as they grew up. Scientific and technological research were highly valued on Krypton, with the ruling body of Krypton named the "Science Council". Several stories featured characters traveling back in time to visit Krypton before its destruction; one example
7527-416: A young Kal-El and Krypto are the only survivors as they escape in an escape capsule to Earth. In Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman , it was shown that a sizable Kryptonian colony (called New Krypton) has survived the destruction of the planet. Clark had to go to the colony as its official ruler, but returned to Earth soon after. In Smallville , Clark Kent initially believes himself to be
7720-464: Is Kal-El, activated and opened up, caught Superman, restored his powers to their peak and returned his Kryptonian armor to him. After defeating Vandal Savage and his children, Superman moves the Fortress back to the arctic circle. Several days after the crisis Superman uses the Fortress's medical equipment and A.I technology to do a full physical on him and discovers that as a result of Vandal's actions using Krytonite to burn out his infected cells that he
7913-546: Is a Kryptonian colony on a moon or neighboring planet) also survive Krypton's destruction due to an energy field surrounding the city, although in most universes they either die out soon afterward or are captured and immersed into Kandor's population by Brainiac. The monster Doomsday is the last of the prehistoric Kryptonians. On Earth-Two, the Kryptonian Val-Zod (Superman) survive Krypton, along with Kara Zor-L/Karen Starr (Supergirl). The New 52 introduces
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8106-415: Is a Scientist, whereas General Zod is a Warrior. In ancient times, they were a race in the midst of an era of expansion, travelling to other worlds via scout ships in order to colonize them. Kal-El is the first (and technically, last) naturally-born Kryptonian in centuries, as Jor-El and Lara believed that Krypton had lost the freedom of choice and wanted their son to choose to become who he wanted to be. As in
8299-804: Is able to free Superman and the rest of the League from their control. The League then sends the Starro population through a boom tube back to the world where the original Starro came from. The Fortress appears in the Legion of Super Heroes episode "Message in a Bottle". In the episode, Imperiex attacks the Fortress to enter Kandor and steal its technology, specifically the Messenger, a powerful device capable of converting anything into crystal. The Legion of Super-Heroes subsequently shrink themselves down to enter Kandor themselves and stop him. The series' version of
8492-435: Is difficult because Kryptonian DNA is so complex as to be nearly incompatible with that of other species. The only notable exception is represented by the original native Daxamite population (the race that bore that name before intermingling with the Kryptonian explorers, who later adapted the name for themselves). Breeding between Kryptonian explorers and this race created a new Kryptonian hybrid race that could interbreed with
8685-525: Is dying and has mere weeks to live. Following Superman's death, the Pre-New 52 Superman was able to gain access to the Fortress as both he and the deceased Superman share identical DNA, even though they are from separate timelines. Superman takes his deceased counterpart to the Fortress hoping to use the Regeneration Matrix to revive him, as the Eradicator did to him in his native timeline. In
8878-431: Is equipped with sophisticated monitoring apparatus to enable Superman to keep abreast of events occurring throughout the seven seas. Superman later abandoned the undersea Fortress and the structure is now used by the mer-people of Atlantis as a showplace and a tourist attraction. The original version of the Fortress of Solitude made its last appearance in the 1986 non-canonical (or "imaginary") story " Whatever Happened to
9071-507: Is established that Vathlo Islanders settled in Kandor prior to the destruction of Krypton. In Final Crisis #7 a black version of Superman is shown to reside on the alternate universe of Earth-23. This Superman, whose given name is Kalel but adopts the human alias of Calvin Ellis, is shown to originate from Vathlo Island of his reality's Krypton. While the island itself did not appear and
9264-545: Is first seen floating in space. It is later revealed to be the orbiting ship of Braniac which Superman had taken over after he physically reprogrammed the Collector of Worlds. This fortress is reported destroyed in the five years between the current Action Comics arc, and the New 52 present day, with the current fortress once more in the Arctic. In the New 52, Supergirl also has her own fortress, known as Sanctuary, and located in
9457-443: Is forced to provide Zod with a sample of his blood to heal him after he is shot, Zod using this blood to empower his followers. The clones are relocated to a new world that they designate 'New Krypton' at the conclusion of season nine, with Clark Kent remaining on Earth and Zod being sent to the Phantom Zone to merge with his original self when the clones learn that Zod killed his lover Faora for objecting to his plans. Kara also mentions
9650-587: Is not mentioned. Characters in Eric Jerome Dickey 's novel The Son of Mr. Suleman discuss Vathlo Island and react with derision to the idea that there was segregation on Krypton. After the 1985 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths , the Silver Age version of Krypton was replaced by a newer version. The Silver Age Krypton made a rare Post- Crisis appearance in The Sandman #48, during
9843-595: Is revealed that Clark is father to the half-Kryptonian child Jason White. In Man of Steel , part of the DC Extended Universe , Kryptonians are depicted as a genetically engineered race of beings. They are artificially grown in "genesis chambers" using information from the Codex, a skull containing the entire genetic code of the Kryptonian race. With this method, Kryptonians are designated pre-determined roles in society at their conception – for example, Jor-El
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#173277235645510036-410: Is said to be located in a "polar waste". When the Fortress reappears in 1958 and for the first time takes center stage in a story ("The Super-Key to Fort Superman", Action Comics #241), it is again an underground complex in a mountainous cliffside. Traditionally, the Fortress of Solitude is located in the Arctic , though more recent versions have been in other locations, including the Antarctic ,
10229-492: Is shown that without some form of training, Kryptonians are left vulnerable to their own abilities, as was the case with Zod when Superman destroyed his solar-visor and caused him to develop a sensory overload. In The Flash , after Barry Allen accidentally creates an alternate timeline, he discovers the existence of Kal's cousin Kara Zor-El, while Kal-El was killed as an infant in escape pod from Krypton by General Zod. In
10422-514: Is the 1960 story "Superman's Return to Krypton", in which Superman is swept back in time to Krypton some years before its destruction. Powerless, he spends some time on the planet, where he meets his future parents-to-be and falls in love with a Kryptonian actress named Lyla Lerrol . A Superman "imaginary story" entitled "What If Krypton Had Not Exploded?" (reprinted in the trade paperback The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told ) gave more insight into Krypton's society. This era also established that
10615-562: Is unknown who exactly was responsible for introducing these first nonwhite races to Krypton's demographic makeup, but Mark Waid has speculated that it was E. Nelson Bridwell , editorial assistant on the Superman books at the time. The commentary on the Vathlorians being "highly developed" (as if it were peculiar and noteworthy that people with dark skin might be developed) is generally seen by modern commentators as being well-intended but "cringeworthy". Other commentators have noted that
10808-647: The Justice League Action episode "Field Trip", Superman gives Blue Beetle , Firestorm , and Stargirl a tour of the Fortress of Solitude. Originally, the Fortress started out as the ship that first brought Kal-El to Earth. After it was buried by his parents, it grew until the presence of Kryptonite activated its defensive measures and sent it into orbit. In the My Adventures with Superman episode "More Things in Heaven And Earth",
11001-509: The Andes , and Amazon rainforest . The general public is either unaware or at best only vaguely aware of the existence of the Fortress, and its location is kept secret from all but Superman's closest friends and allies (such as Lois Lane and Batman ). A trademark of the Fortress is that it contains a memorial statue of Jor-El and Lara , Superman's Kryptonian parents, holding a large globe of Krypton . Although Superman has living quarters at
11194-598: The Batcave , trophies of his past adventures. Indeed, the Batcave and Batman himself made an appearance in the first Fortress story. The Fortress also became the home of the bottle city of Kandor (until it was enlarged), and an apartment in the Fortress was set aside for Supergirl. A detailed depiction of the Fortress and its contents forms the background to DC Special Series #26 (1981); "Superman and his Incredible Fortress of Solitude", in which Superman minutely inspects
11387-634: The Guardians of the Universe , the administrators of the interstellar police force, the Green Lantern Corps , were themselves aware of Krypton's pending destruction and assigned Green Lantern Tomar-Re to avert it, but he was ultimately unsuccessful in his attempt. In 1980, a three-issue miniseries titled World of Krypton was published, providing a great amount of detail into Krypton's history just before its destruction, along with
11580-416: The Phantom Zone projector to board into Daxamite ship. After saving them, only Lena, her mother and Hank return to Fortress where Lilian betrayed Kara and Mon-El to leave them behind. However, Kara expected her betrayal and her friend Winn Schott Jr. put a bug device on Henshaw prior to rescue operation as a precaution. She activated the device to force him in reactivating the projector to beam Mon-El out of
11773-497: The Phantom Zone , such as General Zod , also survive the destruction of Krypton. However, Zod and his lieutenants only survived because they were at that time incarcerated within the Phantom Zone and were not in fact on Krypton at the time of its destruction. The film Supergirl shows inhabitants of Argo City who also survived by fleeing to a parallel dimension, including Superman's cousin Supergirl . In Superman Returns , it
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#173277235645511966-406: The progress that implied. It is suggested that Krypton exploded due mainly to old age and the massive use of electricity Kryptonians used for their technology. The debut of the Superman newspaper comic strip in 1939 delved into further details about Krypton, introducing the idea that all Kryptonians possessed a level of heightened physical abilities, including super-strength and super-speed. In
12159-508: The "S" for Superman. Male Kryptonians are identified by hyphenated names, which identify both them and their houses, such as "Jor-El" and "Kal-El" (of the House of El). Female Kryptonians have one given name but take their father's name as their last name. For example, Kal-El's mother is named Lara Lor-Van, taken from her father's name (Lor-Van). The different Houses were also broken up into a loosely-based caste system as well. The Religious, Artist, Military and Science castes had representation on
12352-456: The 1970s, E. Nelson Bridwell attempted to rationalize these squiggles into a 118-letter alphabet, referring to the language as "Kryptonese". This standardized alphabet was then used by DC Comics until John Byrne 's 1986 "reboot" of the Superman universe. In 2000, DC introduced a transliteration alphabet for the written language, dropping the "Kryptonese" moniker in favor of the more commonly assumed "Kryptonian". All such writing appearing in
12545-410: The 1978 film Superman , the 2006 film Superman Returns , and the 2013 film Man of Steel , set in the DC Extended Universe . Krypton is usually portrayed in comics as the home of a fantastically advanced civilization, which is destroyed when the planet explodes. As originally depicted, all the civilizations and races of Krypton perished in the explosion, with one exception: the baby Kal-El who
12738-581: The Cleric , who carried "the Eradicator". Eventually this disagreement led to open violent conflict. A woman named Nyra, seeking what she considered a suitable mate for her son, Kan-Z, had one of her younger clones removed from stasis. The clone gained full sentience and was presented to society as a normal woman. When Kan-Z discovered that his fiancée was in fact his mother's clone, he killed the clone, then publicly killed his mother and also attempted his own suicide before being stopped. Kan-Z also publicly broadcast
12931-528: The Destroyer eliminated the Post- Crisis city of Kandor in a fiery nuclear explosion, but it was believed at the time that the device had been stopped before it could achieve planetary destruction. Centuries later, Jor-El himself would discover that the reaction had only been slowed to a nearly imperceptible rate and it would eventually destroy the planet as intended. Though it survived the war, Krypton
13124-583: The Doyle version of Kryptonian in the season 1 episodes " Man of Steel ", " Loyal Subjekts ", and " O Mother, Where Art Thou? ". Doyle is credited in " Through the Valley of Death ", but no Kryptonian was used. In the 1970s and 1980s, details about the Kryptonian calendar as it existed in the Earth-One universe were revealed. The Kryptonian time units were defined as follows: Note: In the Kryptonian language,
13317-531: The Eradicator's planetary binding genes from his unborn son Kal-El's genetic pattern, took Kal-El's birthing matrix and attached a prototype interstellar propulsion system to the vessel. Just as the planet began to shake apart and massive, exploding streams of green energy erupted through the surface of Krypton, Jor-El launched the matrix towards Earth, where it would open and give birth to the infant upon landing (the Post- Crisis Superman therefore
13510-417: The Fortress after he manifested some abilities and wished to test for more information. However the A.I of Jor-El concluded that Jordan's powers were a result of brief flare ups and that his human DNA would limit him. Clark tells Lois that he is taking Jordan to the Fortress, when Jordan's powers flare uncontrollably. The A.I. tells Clark that Jordan will feel pain until he learns to control his super hearing. In
13703-573: The Fortress and uses Kara's blood which Cadmus drained from her to access the Fortress's archive for information on Project Medusa. In " Medusa ", Kara goes to Fortress to find information on Project Medusa from the hologram of her father. In "Mr. & Mrs. Mxyzptlk", Kara lures Mxyzptlk in fortress to trick him with a false self-destruct sequence and make him to type the abort code which happened to be his name backwards to force him to go back in his dimension. In "Distant Sun", Mon-El and Kara decide to talk to his mother Rhea in fortress about calling off
13896-469: The Fortress in an attempt to confront Superman, causing the Fortress to self-destruct. Superman subsequently established a new Fortress in an ancient temple on a remote village in the Cordillera del Cóndor Mountains, on the border of Ecuador and Peru . This version of the Fortress is visually similar to the earliest "Secret Citadel" from Superman #17. The final version of the post- Crisis Fortress
14089-610: The Fortress is created by a crystal that Jor-El enclosed in Kal-El's spaceship. The crystal leads teenage Clark Kent to an ice field where it is "planted" by Clark, after which it melts into the ice and grows into a huge crystalline building, similar to the crystalline architecture shown on Krypton at the beginning of the film. This fortress was also used to start Kal-El's 12-year training to become Superman. This Fortress contains numerous "memory crystals" that can be used to access Jor-El's artificial intelligence and hologram, interactive holographic recordings of Lara, and other Kryptonians, and
14282-418: The Fortress is maintained by a robotic version of Superman (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal ) who resembles Cyborg Superman . In the episode "Failsafe", the Fortress of Solitude appears on Robin 's satellite imagery as a location that was being investigated by alien invaders, although this was merely a dream-like state for a training exercise gone wrong. Eight years later, the Fortress makes the first appearance in
14475-591: The Fortress is once again located in the Arctic. Superman has replaced the giant key with a normal-sized key which is made from super-dense dwarf star material and weighs half a million tons, restricting its use to those with immense superhuman strength. It has a team of robots working on various projects. The Fortress itself contains the Titanic , the Space Shuttle Columbia , and a baby Sun-Eater, as well as larger-than-life memorabilia, similar to
14668-584: The Fortress of Solitude is said to be located "in a deserted region of the frozen Arctic". In the episode "Terror at 20,000 Fathoms", Superman gives Aquaman , the Wonder Twins and Gleek a guided tour of the Fortress showing off many structures such as the Bottle City of Kandor. In a 1980 episode titled "Journey into Blackness", which said the Fortress was located in the North Pole, Superman spots
14861-458: The Fortress of Solitude similar to his Earth-One counterpart's Fortress. In the 2006 story arc " Up, Up, and Away! ", Superman recovered a piece of Kryptonian sunstone, which Lex Luthor had used to awaken an ancient Kryptonian warship. Superman learned that the sunstone had been sent with him from Krypton, and used it to construct a new Fortress in the Arctic in exactly the same manner as in the 1978 Superman film. He nevertheless plans to restore
15054-538: The Fortress of Solitude was located at 76.2 North and 100.4 West, which happens to be Qausuittuq National Park in Canada, near the Arctic Ocean. The Fortress of Solitude is central to the storyline of Krypton . In the first season, Seg-El , Kal-El's grandfather, visits the Fortress with his mother, Charys-El, to find the lost research of Val-El, Seg-El's grandfather, after Adam Strange requests Seg-El to find
15247-474: The Fortress to find information about the magical totems from the Fifth Dimension to stop the magical imp Nyxlygsptlnz . In the Superman & Lois episode "Pilot", Clark reveals that he brought Jonathan to check if Jonathan had superhuman abilities after showing some natural talent for sports. The Fortress's tests said it was unlikely however. In the episode "Heritage", Clark had brought Jordan to
15440-440: The Fortress to stop Brainiac from destroying Krypton and altering the timeline to prevent Kal-El's birth, 200 years later. Meanwhile, Nyssa-Vex and Jayna-Zod are trying to find the Fortress to prevent information about life on other planets from getting out to the public. The holographic Val appears to Seg and other allies in helping to expose and stop Brainiac's attempt to "bottle" Kandor City. Seg and Brainiac end up being trapped in
15633-460: The Fortress via a stolen motorcycle due to burning out his powers. When trying access the Fortress, the A.I. was unable to recognize Kal-El due to his DNA changing and forcibly removed his Kryptonian armor. It was revealed months later Vandal Savage was the person responsible for altering Superman's DNA to draw Kal-El away from the Fortress. Savage later converged all of his forces on the Fortress itself and transported it to Metropolis. However, Superman
15826-551: The Fortress was also absent so the show was probably following suit. In the tradition of this approach, the Fortress of Solitude was the name of Clark Kent's childhood treehouse in the season one episode "The Foundling". In Smallville , Jonathan Kent once referred to the loft space in the Kent farm's barn as the "Fortress of Solitude" since it was the place where the teenage Clark Kent usually preferred to be alone. In season 4's finale "Commencement", after Clark had united all of
16019-571: The Fortress was named by Professor Hamilton in a sarcastically humorous remark when he visited the Fortress in one episode. The Fortress of Solitude is also a major setting for the Justice League Unlimited episode "For the Man Who Has Everything", an adaptation of the comic story of the same name, where Mongul traps Superman in a dream world with the Black Mercy plant, and Batman and Wonder Woman fight him after coming to
16212-514: The Fortress, Clark asked Lois to marry him. In present, Tal-Rho followed Clark to the fortress and put him in a trance where he kept reliving his memories. When Clark woke up, Tal destroyed Jor-El's hologram. In the episode "The Thing in the Mines", the Inverse World 's Kal-El flew to the Fortress after fighting Superman, where he took off his armor after sustaining damage during the fight. In
16405-666: The Fortress, his main residence is still Clark Kent's apartment in Metropolis. The arctic Fortress of Solitude concept was first created for pulp hero Doc Savage during the 1930s. The concept and name "Fortress of Solitude" first appeared in the Doc Savage pulps in the 1930s and 1940s. Doc Savage built his Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic and retreated to it alone to make new scientific or medical breakthroughs, and to store dangerous technology and other secrets. The Golden Age Superman did not have an arctic fortress, but instead
16598-410: The Fortress, suspecting an enemy has planted an Earth-destroying bomb within it. Another noteworthy appearance of this version of the Fortress was in 1985's Superman Annual #11, a story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons titled " For the Man Who Has Everything ", in which it served as a battleground for Superman, Batman, Robin , and Wonder Woman against the alien would-be overlord Mongul . This story
16791-472: The Fortress. This version contained an alien zoo housing alien life-forms saved from the Preserver's ship and some computer equipment, along with a Brainiac information sphere stolen from his hijacked spacecraft, which contains information about Krypton. The fortress also contains massive sculptures of Superman's biological parents, Jor-El and Lara, serving as monuments to Krypton. Additionally, this version of
16984-516: The Kents , and Superboy goes under the new name Conner Kent. Additionally, the Eradicator, a program from Superman's ship matrix who posed as Superman, was created to protect and serve as a guardian to him. In Superman: Man of Tomorrow , part of the Tomorrowverse series, the bounty hunter Lobo claims that Superman is the only survivor of Krypton's destruction, but he later admits that this
17177-504: The Kryptonian calendar include: When Krypton was destroyed, it was thought that the entire Kryptonian race was destroyed. This was untrue – the scientist Jor-El managed to send his newborn son, Kal-El, off-planet to Earth right before Krypton's demise. Kal-El grew up on Earth as Clark Kent and eventually discovered his Kryptonian origins. Superman's cousin Supergirl also survived Krypton's destruction, as did Kristin Wells , who had been on
17370-561: The Kryptonian language that it depicts (which was not spoken in the film), were created by Dr. Christine Schreyer, a linguistic anthropologist and professor of anthropology working at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. The writing can be seen in several places on Superman's suit in the subsequent films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017). On the Arrowverse television series Supergirl
17563-590: The Kryptonian technology on the black market that include but are not limited to an unidentified technology that enables Mist to turn into vapor enough to become invisible and intangible, Kryptonian gauntlets that enhance Rough House 's strength, a sound-amplifying Kryptonian helmet worn by Silver Banshee , the unspecified Kryptonian technology that was in Anthony Ivo 's possession at AmazoTech, and Kryptonian flamethrowers wielded by Heat Wave . This led to Task Force X sending their operative Slade Wilson to target
17756-465: The Man of Tomorrow? ". In this story, under constant attacks by returning foes, Superman goes to ground inside the Fortress, taking his closest friends with him for their protection. The villainous android Brainiac soon besieges the Fortress with various allies, surrounding it and the outlying territory with an impenetrable force field to keep Superman's fellow heroes from aiding him. Superman ultimately battles
17949-467: The New 52 universe of Prime Earth however, no such technology exists. After burying his counterpart in Smallville he returns to the Fortress and uses his heat vision to create a statue of Superman of Prime Earth to honor his fallen comrade. The Eradicator of Pre-New 52 eventually arrives on Prime Earth and takes up residence within the Fortress. In the out-of-continuity series All-Star Superman ,
18142-433: The Orb to revert the Fortress back into its original, handheld crystal form after becoming obsessed with Kryptonian conspiracy theories, and mistaking the structure for an alien invasion base. Lex also uses the orb to locate the fortress. The orb levitates and constructs a 3D globe of the world and isolates a circular section of Greenland. When the crystal was later recovered by Lex's sister, Tess Mercer , as she searched for
18335-477: The Peruvian Fortress, even if compromised and no longer in a secret location, and plans more Fortresses around the world. This version of the Fortress physically resembles the movie and television depictions, and Superman communicates with Jor-El via crystal constructs as in the Superman film and Smallville . In The New 52 reboot of DC's continuity (launched in 2011) the Fortress of Solitude
18528-605: The Phantom Zone projector in the Fortress, while the real Val-El is brought to Krypton by General Zod, who destroys the projector. In the second season, Seg and Nyssa come to emptied Fortress to remove Brainiac's nanites in Seg's brain stem. After removing them, Brainiac corrupts Val-El's image, brings the ship and teleports with Seg's and Nyssa's son, Jor-El, leaving from the Krypton somewhere in space. In Superman and its sequels (except for Superman III , in which it did not appear),
18721-534: The Phantom Zone through its projector. In "Welcome Back, Kara!", following the rescue mission of Kara and her father Zor-El from the Phantom Zone, Kara and her father go to the Fortress to find a data about Kryptonian's oceans from the past to solve the pollution in the Earth's oceans caused by the garbage consisting of DEO's ruins which were dumped by Lex Luthor. Their robot Kelex approaches and Zor gets idea to use him for this mission. In "The Gauntlet", Kara and Lena go to
18914-433: The Phantom Zone. In Superman Returns , the Fortress follows the same formula as the earlier movies, but goes into more detail about the crystal origins of the Fortress and Kryptonian architecture. Lex Luthor attempts to use memory crystals he stole from it to create a new land mass in place of America. An observation is made (following Superman II ) that he acts as though he has been there before. The crystals that power
19107-577: The Stones of Power (Air, Water, Fire) they created a super crystal, the "Crystal of Knowledge". Once he grabbed the crystal it transported him to an opening in the Arctic Circle where he threw the crystal into the snow thus creating the Fortress of Solitude. The fifth season premiere episode, Arrival , fully introduces a Fortress of Solitude that is almost identical, both in appearance and construction by self-replicating crystals, to that depicted in
19300-736: The animated film Superman: Unbound Brainiac abducted and shrunk the people of both Kandor and Argo City from Krypton. They are eventually rescued and restored to normal size by Superman and Supergirl, who were sent to Earth in rockets as in other versions of the story. The animated adaptation of All-Star Superman features the inhabitants of Kandor, and a pair of surviving Kryptonian astronauts named Bar-El and Lilo. The Phantom Zone also makes an appearance, implying that prisoners inside it survived Krypton's destruction like in so many other continuities. The ending reveals that Lois Lane will be artificially inseminated with Superman's child and that their descendants will remain super-power heroes centuries into
19493-402: The bounty on Supergirl's head. She refused and attacked Supergirl with kryptonite daggers, nearly killing her. Mon-El interrupted and decided to go with his mother to save Kara's life. In "Resist", during Daxamite invasion on Earth, Cadmus and DEO propose an alliance to stop invaders and save Lena Luthor and Mon-El from Rhea. Kara, Lilian Luthor and Hank Henshaw enter the Fortress to activate
19686-516: The center of the Earth before settling on an Arctic location. Additionally, Superman established an undersea Fortress of Solitude – hollowed out of the side of an undersea cliff – in September 1958. The undersea Fortress, which is reportedly located at the bottom of the Sargasso Sea at 28 degrees North latitude , 50 degrees West longitude , is stocked with numerous exotic ocean relics and
19879-586: The citizens of Kandor, Superman and his clone Superman-X, might all be considered surviving Kryptonians. The Phantom Zone also appears in one episode. While it isn't explicitly stated that its prisoners are Kryptonian by birth, one resembles General Zod , and another has powers similar to Superman. In the Super Friends , Kandor appears inside Superman's Fortress of Solitude in one episode of " The World's Greatest Super Friends " and several of its miniaturized (yet still super-powered) inhabitants provide aid to
20072-420: The city and its people, but it is unconfirmed whether they succeed. General Zod, Faora, and Quex-Ul are implied to be the only three prisoners of the Phantom Zone. Krypton has the events that trigger Krypton's destruction being stopped by a time-traveler, something which is never undone before the show's cancellation, allowing the planet's whole population to survive what would have destroyed them. Even before
20265-527: The comic books is actually just the language of publication (English in the US and UK, French in France, etc.) written using this transliteration alphabet to replace the native alphabet with a one-to-one correspondence, in a similar fashion to Interlac in Legion of Super-Heroes . On the television series Smallville , depictions of the written Kryptonian language began, primarily, with English transliterated into
20458-454: The comics, Kal-El's powers are depicted as being superior to other Kryptonians, due to his spending a far greater period of time exposed to Earth's yellow sun and atmosphere, though some have an advantage over him in terms of combat experience (e.g. Zod, Faora and Nam-Ek). While the other Kryptonians receive great strength and speed from Earth's sun, they require solar-suits to regulate the radiation and avoid being stricken by pain. In addition, it
20651-647: The concept of Krypton and its culture were introduced, many of which were stylistic. By the late 1950s, Krypton played an increasing role in various Superman stories, with greater detail provided about Krypton's makeup. Superman's Kryptonian heritage was a frequent factor in Silver Age Superman comic storylines, as he was fully aware of his origins from an early age. Superman would use this knowledge for such tasks as constructing advanced Kryptonian technology or observing some of Krypton's traditions. Kryptonians made use of their advanced science to create
20844-493: The correct theories being published that when man reaches the Moon (a lighter gravity environment) he will be able to lift great masses and leap great distances. In the early 1960s, added to this was the need to be exposed to the rays of a yellow sun (versus Krypton's red sun, Rao, which was older and cooler, or put out less energy) to gain superpowers, with the yellow sun aspect soon gaining the much greater emphasis. Other changes to
21037-531: The creation of Vathlo Island inspired a whole host of other questions, such as 'If there are black Kryptonians, why are they so seldom seen, and why do they appear to live only on one island?' Gizmodo noted that a Krypton structured this way seems "segregated as hell", while Gene Demby observed that this was an example of "segregation in everything". DC Comics writer Mark Waid called this an "error of omission" coming from DC's desire to represent people of darker skin as living on Krypton, but implementing this in
21230-462: The depths of the ocean. This fortress first appears in Supergirl (vol. 5) #12 with its purpose explained in Supergirl (vol. 5) #13. In Action Comics (vol. 2) #15, Superman is revealed to have a fortress which he refers to as his " Yucatan base", a reference to his fortress in the Amazon rain forest in previous continuity. Following the discovery of Superman's "Super Flare", Kal-El made his way to
21423-477: The differences between Earth's gravity and that of Krypton and the different radiation of the stars they orbit. Kryptonians use solar energy from yellow, blue, orange or white stars on the cellular and molecular levels to gain superhuman abilities. The light of dwarf stars, pulsars, and quasars also grants Kryptonians different abilities. Some stories also maintain that Kryptonians have bioelectric fields that surround their bodies and protect them from harm and which are
21616-443: The different buyers and reclaim the Kryptonian technology. Season Two showed some other Kryptonian technology like a special Kryptonian armor that enables Agent Ethan Avery to bulk up and get super-strength and a special Kryptonian armor that gives Agent Joseph Martin his skull-headed appearance and atomic abilities. For most of Superman 's published history, Kryptonian writing was represented by random, alien-looking squiggles. In
21809-425: The early comics' version of Krypton, Superman 's parents were named "Jor-L" and "Lora", though their names were changed to the more familiar " Jor-El " and " Lara " by the end of the 1940s. The Golden Age Krypton would be revised into another form almost as soon as it was defined, and very few stories were initially written about it. After the introduction of DC 's multiverse in the 1960s, this version of Krypton
22002-474: The entire building black and produces the symbol for "Doom" on the floor. Chloe is then brought back to the Fortress after Doomsday crashed her and Jimmy's wedding where Brainiac downloads himself into Chloe leaving the Fortress itself and began to physically download all the knowledge into himself via Chloe. Brainiac then places Davis Bloom, Doomsday's human form in a Kryptonian chamber where it will take days to permanently transform him into Doomsday. After Brainiac
22195-558: The entirety of his discovered findings as to what his mother had done across the entire planet. This key incident ignited the Clone Wars which lasted for 1,000 years, during which Kryptonian science was turned to warfare and several superweapons were developed and used. Among them was the device known as the Destroyer. Although the Eradicator's effects (altering the DNA of all Kryptonian lifeforms so that they would instantly die upon leaving
22388-419: The episode "Anti-Hero", to protect his Inverse World counterpart from being killed by Mitch Anderson , Superman gave Anderson coordinates to the Fortress instead of Tal-Rho's fortress, where he actually was. Soldiers went to the Fortress and discovered the armor of Superman's counterpart, leading Anderson to conclude that they were working together. In episode 7 of season 2, it was revealed that this version of
22581-441: The episode "Loyal Subjekts", Clark reveals, at some point, he was exposed to so much Kryptonite that he needed to go to the Fortress to be healed by having it burned from his system and since Jordan's lungs were freezing due to second-hand exposure to the synthetic kryptonite of Project 7734, Clark brought Jordan to the Fortress to be healed. There, Jor-El A.I. told Clark that it had to be burned from Jordan's system for him to heal. In
22774-498: The episode "O Mother, Where Art Thou?", Kal-El went to the Fortress to talk to the Jor-El A.I. about the revelation that Tal-Rho is his maternal half-brother. As the two talked, Jor-El revealed that reversing the Eradicator was beyond his knowledge. In the episode "A Brief Reminiscence In-Between Cataclysmic Events", flashbacks reveal that after the death of Jonathan Kent Sr., Clark came to the Fortress learn about his abilities. Later, in
22967-540: The episodes "The Stolen Costume" and "Superman in Exile". On Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman , the "Fortress" was conspicuously absent, presumably because the series' aim was to explore the idea of Clark Kent being the true identity and Superman merely being the disguise (therefore, the character would have no use for an otherworldly fortress). In the earlier issues of the John Byrne revamp of Superman,
23160-580: The fifth season episode "Tremors", Kara and Lena go to the Fortress to find one of the Luthor's confiscated weapons to deal with alien being Rama-Khan, who comes to challenge Supergirl and Lena before he is defeated and escapes. Lena takes Myriad, revealing that she used Supergirl to get it and traps her in reprogrammed protocol defense while she escapes with transmatter portal in Lex's hideout Mount Norquay. In "Deus Lex Machina", Supergirl uses Myriad in Fortress to find
23353-702: The final episode. Rather than being specifically made for the production, the costume was originally designed and created for Brandon Routh to wear in Superman Returns . The Fortress is also referred to as Jor-El's 'Fortress of Knowledge' by his assistant Raya. The Fortress appears in the Supergirl episode " Solitude ". As in the comics, it is opened with a massive dwarf star matter key (about 1 metre (3.3 ft) long and 20 centimetres (7.9 in) thick) and appears to be built from either crystal or ice. It contains Kal-El's spaceship, his parents' statue,
23546-466: The form of three criminals, U-Ban, Kizo, and Mala , who were exiled by Superman's father before Krypton's destruction. Over the course of the 1940s and 1950s, various alterations and additions to the makeup of Krypton were made in the comics. Among them was an explanation of why the natives of Krypton perished if they had possessed superpowers on their native world (as was the case in the earliest versions of Krypton outlined above, although this only became
23739-423: The fortress seeking out Kal-El's whereabouts and the purpose of program Myriad. When Kelex refuses to give information to her, the fortress triggered a hologram of her mother of which she explained to her about Myriad's programming. In "The Last Children of Krypton", Superman and J'onn J'onzz visit this place to find information about Metallo . In " The Darkest Place ", Hank Henshaw /Cyborg Superman gains access to
23932-450: The fortress to give Superman birthday gifts. In the future of Batman Beyond , a Starro from the Fortress' intergalactic zoo is revealed to have latched on to Superman years prior and subtly controlled his actions since then, including allowing an entire population of the creatures to breed in one of the aquatic chambers. The Justice League of the future travels to the Fortress where they are themselves taken over by Starros, until Batman
24125-707: The future. In the DC Animated Movie Universe , Kal-El as Superman is the only survivor of Krypton's destruction. Following the battle between Kal-El and Doomsday in The Death of Superman , in the next film Reign of the Supermen , Lex Luthor steals the corpse of Superman to create his genetic clone Superboy. After Superman's return from the "death" and the fight with Cyborg Superman , Superboy defects from Lex Luthor and Superman accepts him as part of his family. Kal takes him to his adoptive parents,
24318-405: The inhabitants of the planets Daxam and New Phaelosia are descendants of Kryptonians who long ago ventured into space and settled on another planet. As such they possess similar powers and abilities to traditional Kryptonians when exposed to a yellow sun. The people of Argo (which is often portrayed as a city on Krypton itself that is protected from destruction by a forcefield but in some continuities
24511-667: The island was made in Alan Moore 's story " For the Man Who Has Everything ", where "racial trouble with the Vathlo Island immigrants" are mentioned in a dream-world Krypton that had avoided destruction. It is believed, based on the appearances of black Kryptonians in recent Superman issues, that the Vathlonians eventually were integrated into Krypton proper, although there has been no canonical statement about this from DC Comics. In Superman: World of New Krypton #4, it
24704-590: The last survivor of Krypton. However, his father Jor-El's memories remain sentient in the mysterious Kawatche Caves and Fortress of Solitude has a disembodied AI, and the disembodied spirit of Zod is similarly sentient albeit trapped in the Phantom Zone. In season five , Clark discovers that the Disciples of Zod: Nam-Ek & Aethyr and a Kryptonian artificial intelligence: Brain-Interactive-Construct aka Brainiac arrive on Earth, serving Zod's trapped spirit. In season six , Clark discovers his father's assistant Raya
24897-488: The life story of Jor-El himself. A three-issue miniseries entitled The Krypton Chronicles , published in 1981, tells of Superman researching his roots when, as Clark Kent , he was assigned to write an article about Superman's family by an assignment editor impressed with the television miniseries Roots . To do so, he and Supergirl travel to Kandor, where they learn the history of the El family. In 1985, writer Alan Moore gave
25090-477: The means by which Kryptonians fly. Certain individuals (including Conner Kent , Chris Kent , and some Phantom Zone criminals) have sometimes been depicted with "tactile telekinesis" which allows Kryptonians to lift and manipulate large objects whose own structural strength might not otherwise survive the process. The abilities of Kryptonians evolve and grow more powerful as Kryptonians age and develop. In some continuities, mating between Kryptonians and other species
25283-463: The most dangerous organisms in the universe. It was for this reason that 250,000 years ago, Krypton was chosen as the place to create Doomsday through forced evolution. Until its destruction, many dangerous animals, including ferrophage moles, still existed on Krypton. Kryptonians had to use their advanced technology to survive. Over 200,000 years ago, Krypton had developed scientific advancements far beyond those of present-day Earth, and had discovered
25476-588: The most violent Kryptonian life-forms with their own. The child was attached to Clark's ship in the form of a cocoon; on Earth it assumed a human form and became known as Davis Bloome, but would periodically assume its true form: the monster Doomsday . In the season finale, Zod makes his first full bodied appearance on the series, along with a large number of other Kryptonians who are later revealed to be clones created as part of an old experiment. Initially powerless due to their cells having been treated with blue kryptonite radiation, these clones later gain powers when Clark
25669-478: The now deceased Lex in Northern Greenland , Clark successfully rebuilt the Fortress to resume his training with Jor-El as well as to remove Brainiac from Chloe Sullivan. After completing this Jor-El told Kal-El that he was proud of him and will help in his fight with Doomsday. After Clark leaves Brainiac who has been hiding within the crystal console in his liquid form takes over the Fortress and changes
25862-500: The number of survivors was reduced to Superman himself in the comic book stories (the Eradicator was added in 1989 as a non-sentient device, and shown to be self-aware in 1991 ), but more recent accounts have restored Supergirl, Krypto, and Kandor and introduced another newly discovered survivor, Karsta Wor-Ul . Kryptonian civilization's reported level of technological advancement has also varied. Some works, such as Kevin J. Anderson 's novel The Last Days of Krypton , describe it as
26055-465: The objects found in the Batcave . It has various scientific facilities as well, including a time telescope that can receive brief cryptic messages with reception of limited quality from the future. In Superman: Earth One graphic novel series, the Fortress of Solitude was built by Superman's Krytonian ship's AI, using the Arctic's cave system. The Fortress has several appearances in the Super Friends animated series. The Super Friends version of
26248-516: The official Kryptonian transliteration font is used for depictions of the Kryptonian language in various scenes throughout the series. In season 3, episodes 2 , 6 , 7 , 13 , 20 , and 22 and season 5 episode 10 featured a few short lines of Kryptonian dialogue using the language created by Darren Doyle, citing the first time a constructed Kryptonian language (as opposed to gibberish) has been spoken in any official media. The 2021 television series Superman & Lois featured characters speaking
26441-420: The official Kryptonian transliteration font, mirroring the practice of the comics. The style of these depictions evolved over the life of the series from decipherable transliterated writing to a more stylized (and indiscernible) form. In the process, an increasing amount of logographic components have been added with symbols that have been explained to represent words, ideas, or names. In the episode " Gemini ",
26634-486: The original Superman movies. During the episode, Clark carries an injured Chloe Sullivan from the Fortress to a hospital in the Yukon , suggesting this is one of the nearest inhabited/medically proficient locations to the structure. An artificial intelligence built into the Fortress by Clark's biological father, Jor-El, would provide Clark with various 'Trials' throughout the series to help steer him toward his destiny as
26827-529: The parents of toddler Jonathan Elliot, who has super-powers. In John Byrne 's 1986 Man of Steel miniseries, which re-wrote various aspects of the Superman mythos, the Clark Kent persona was described as a "Fortress of Solitude", in that it allowed him to live as the ordinary person he saw himself as and leave the world-famous superhero behind. This concept was often invoked in later stories, and one story featured Superman hiding his secret identity from
27020-509: The penultimate episode of its fourth season , "Over and Out", when a boom tube leads a time-traveling Kryptonian criminal and his criminal parents, Ursa and General Zod, from the Phantom Zone . The Kryptonian criminals are amazed upon seeing what the sole survivor of their home world has managed to collect over four decades on their history and culture. It is in this icy and frigid fortress that Zod and Ursa begin to gain even greater abilities from Earth's yellow sun by resting in stasis pods. In
27213-428: The people who are stuck in virtual reality, but is incapacitated by Sun-Eater, which is released by Morae, an Leviathan operative who infiltrated under the orders from Lex Luthor. Morae is later captured by Supergirl and her friends. Lex later comes into the Fortress by using transmatter portal when finding its coordinates, which is later revealed in "The Missing Link" that he stole rings for Rama Khan to kill Supergirl. In
27406-581: The planet Krypton, whose parent star has often been depicted as an ancient red supergiant with a relatively low energy output, their natural abilities were the same as humans. When exposed to a young yellow star like Earth's Sun, which is much smaller than their own sun and with a vastly higher energy output, their bodies are able to absorb and process so much energy that it manifests as vast superhuman powers (such as superhuman strength, superhuman speed, invulnerability, flight, x-ray vision, heat vision and superhuman senses). Almost all Kryptonians were killed when
27599-403: The planet exploded shortly after the infant Kal-El was sent to Earth. In some continuities, he is the planet's only survivor. In other versions of canon, there is a last daughter of Krypton Kara Zor-El , cousin of Superman and known as Supergirl. Krypto was the family dog in Jor-El's home and was used for a test flight of the rocket that ultimately brought baby Kal-El to Earth. These three were
27792-425: The planet's explosion; however, in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Fearful Symmetry", Doctor Emil Hamilton , who has examined Superman, calls her DNA "Kryptonian", indicating that Argosians are genetically related to Kryptonians. Failed clones of Superman (the mentally handicapped Bizarro and the monstrous Doomsday ) and Supergirl (the sociopathic Galatea) are later created. In Legion of Super Heroes ,
27985-564: The planet) were felt immediately, the Destroyer's effects were possibly more significant: by the time the Kryptonian government admitted defeat and abolished the clone banks, a pro-clone rights terrorist faction known as Black Zero had started the Destroyer (activated by Kan-Z himself), a device which functioned as a giant atomic energy gun, projecting massive streams of nuclear energy into the core of Krypton, intended to trigger an explosive chain reaction within Krypton's core almost immediately. The destruction (by Van-L, an ancestor of Jor-El ) of
28178-400: The planet, although the exact details of its destruction vary by time period and writers. Kryptonians were the dominant species on Krypton. Krypton also makes an appearance in several television series such as Adventures of Superman , Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman , Superman: The Animated Series , Smallville , Supergirl , and Krypton . Krypton appears in
28371-471: The planet, and came prepared to counter the kryptonite weapons with anti-kryptonite body armor. The third season reveals that Alura and the populace of Argo City survived Krypton's destruction due to Alura's husband Zor-El's energy shield. Argo City is destroyed during the " Crisis on Infinite Earths ", but is resurrected following the Anti-Monitor's defeat. The show's final season reveals that Zor-El (who
28564-736: The pre- Crisis multiverse – the Earth-Two Superman , Lois Lane of Earth-Two , the Earth-Prime Superboy , and Earth-Three 's Alexander Luthor, Jr. – set up a base in the ruins of the Antarctic Fortress following their escape from the "paradise dimension" they had been trapped in since the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths . It was then revealed from Power Girl 's repressed memories from her life on Earth-Two that her cousin Kal-L had his own version of
28757-532: The prison ship Fort Rozz. One of Astra's operatives, Vartox , was ordered to sabotage the Department of Extra-Normal Operations by causing a plane crash that was thwarted by Supergirl (when she realized her sister Alex Danvers , a DEO member, was on board), and to alert Astra that Kara survived the explosion and now has come into discovering her powers. In " Hostile Takeover " more Kryptonians, led by Astra's husband Non, surfaced on Earth preparing for take over of
28950-529: The real parents of both Superman and Supergirl, and their pets Krypto the Superdog , and Beppo the Super-Monkey . Kandor, the first capital of Krypton, is miniaturized by Brainiac , but is eventually recovered by Superman and subsequently housed in the Fortress of Solitude for safekeeping. Soon afterward, Kryptonopolis becomes the second capital of Krypton. From the late 1980s through the early 2000s,
29143-460: The ruling council, while the Worker caste did not. The different castes lived in buildings with different architectural styles that represented various styles throughout Krypton's history. The severe xenophobia of Kryptonian society conveniently explains Kal-El's being the first Kryptonian to leave the planet. Non-superpowered Kryptonians are genetically dependent to their home planet; as such, Kal-El
29336-534: The run in space at the time of the planet's destruction. Kryptonian survivors of alternate worlds, such as Power Girl (Kara Zor-L), the dog Krypto the Superdog , and the monkey Beppo the Super-Monkey , also reside on Earth. Kryptonians General Zod and Ursa are among the many criminals had been imprisoned within the Phantom Zone prior to Krypton's destruction and even went on to have a child, who would later be adopted as Christopher Kent . Jor-El's delinquent neighbor, Dev-Em believed his warnings enough to build
29529-1051: The same name and several elements were used in the Supergirl series episode " For the Girl Who Has Everything ". The story was also an inspiration for Krypton episode "Mercy". Krypton has a vast number of flora and fauna, both wild and domesticated. Some of them look very similar to Earth's animals, due to parallel evolution , e.g., birds , felids , canids , simians , etc., as seen in Krypto and Beppo ; while others look very different, due to divergent evolution , e.g., fish / snake / eel-like hybrid creatures called " fish-snakes ", goat-like creatures called " Zuurt ", bovine-like creatures called " Rondor ", rhino / ceratopsian-like hybrid creatures called " Thought-Beasts ", dragon-like creatures called " H'Raka ", gigantic, one-horned snake-like creatures called " Drang ", and jellyfish-like invertebrate creatures called " Shoggoth ". One of Krypton's moons, Wegthor,
29722-423: The season six premiere, "Rebirth", Kara uses the Fortress as a distraction for Lex Luthor, while her friends attempt to destroy his satellites with the program that enables the citizens around the world to follow and love him. After destroying the satellites by J'onzz and M'gann, they confront the super-powered Lex in the Fortress. Lex is ultimately defeated after his powers were drained, but not before sending Kara to
29915-451: The ship is revealed to have crash-landed in the Arctic Circle. Task Force X , led by Amanda Waller , scavenge the ship to collect its technology, until they are defeated by Superman, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, the events of which turn the ship into the Fortress of Solitude. The 1950s Adventures of Superman TV series never mentions the Fortress of Solitude. The closest thing to it are cabins in remote mountains which Superman utilizes in
30108-517: The spaceship, while staying behind to confront Rhea. In "Nevertheless, She Persisted" Kara and Kal-El are taken to Fortress by Alex to be healed after their fight when Superman was poisoned with silver kryptonite by Rhea, hallucinating and thinking that he was fighting against General Zod. Kal-El then enters database to find a way to stop Daxamite war and finds it in the form of fighting ritual called Dakkar-Ur. The Fortress also appears in season four episodes where Nia Mal uses this place for her training. In
30301-523: The suffix "o" indicates the plural form of a noun. According to one story, in which the Phantom Zone prisoner Quex-Ul had served his full sentence, 18 Kryptonian sun-cycles (amzeto) is about 25 Earth years. It can be demonstrated that one Kryptonian sun-cycle is approximately 1.37 Earth years, as follows: Using this ratio of 1.37 Earth years per Kryptonian year (amzet), and ignoring any potential Kryptonian leap day and any differences in time of day, one can approximate other units of time: Major events in
30494-427: The surviving Kryptonians, who became Earth's heroes. Kal-El can lead an alter ego as Clark Kent because Kryptonians appear identical to humans. Also, in both Silver Age and Modern Age continuity, Kryptonians have more than one ethnic group, such as dark-skinned Kryptonians from Krypton's Vathlo Island that resemble Earth humans of Sub-Saharan African , Negrito , Melanesian , and Indigenous Australian descent and
30687-534: The timeline changed, Brainiac would have taken Kandor and its people. In the Arrowverse TV series Supergirl , another Kryptonian House was revealed, this one led by Alura Zor-El's twin sister, General Astra. Her shield featured a "Q" on her uniform, indicating that besides her niece Kara, she and her house survived the destruction of Krypton, along with the Kryptonian prisoners sentenced by Alura (and who are working under Astra) that crash-landed on Earth via
30880-552: The titular group of heroes. Two episodes of this franchise also feature a trio of Phantom Zone prisoners. In Justice League Action , Superman, Krypto, the Phantom Zone prisoners, Supergirl (whether she came to Earth in Kandor, directly from Krypton, or from Argo City is never revealed), the people of Kandor, and Streaky the Supercat are all survivors from Krypton. After Kandor is rescued from Brainiac, attempts are made to re-enlarge
31073-471: The universe (in post- Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, the Eradicator , an artificial lifeform programmed to preserve all Kryptonian culture, altered the birthing matrices ("artificial wombs") that the explorers took with them so that all newborns would be fatally vulnerable to lead and other materials such as greenhouse gases and certain rocks). Thus, if they persisted in their anti-Kryptonian wanderlust, they would all die from it. One Daxamite, Mon-El ,
31266-463: The universe (the process is reversible, at least until a certain stage). All Kryptonians are capable of long range telepathic communication. The society is highly pragmatic and the Kryptonians were surprised and displeased with Clark's unwillingness to kill. Unlike in the comics, the main clothing color seen is black. In Supergirl , some of the elements, like their black clothing and telepathy,
31459-813: The world on Earth. Just like humans domesticating their animals on Earth, Kryptonians also domesticate their own animals as well; which some of them look very similar to Earth's animals, due to parallel evolution , e.g., birds , felids , canids , simians , etc., as seen in Krypto , and Beppo ; while others look very different, due to divergent evolution , e.g., fish / snake / eel-like hybrid creatures called " fish-snakes ", goat-like creatures called " Zuurt ", bovine-like creatures called " Rondor ", rhino / ceratopsian-like hybrid creatures called " Thought-Beasts ", and dragon-like creatures called " H'Raka ". The Kryptonian society, as described in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (at least, according to what
31652-439: The worst criminals were sent to the Phantom Zone, despite a lack of understanding of the nature of the zone, its danger to the imprisoned and the presence of exits. Krypton's red sun was named Rao. It was worshiped by the Kryptonians as a deity (albeit in a more scientific and rational way as the giver and sustainer of all life on the planet). Other deities include Nightwing and Flamebird , dragon-like deities who have inspired
31845-473: Was a ploy to negotiate a higher bounty on Superman and there are probably other surviving Kryptonians. Another film titled Legion of Super-Heroes reveals that Kal's cousin, Kara Zor-El, is another survivor from Krypton and that her mother tried to build an evacuation fleet to save everyone in Argo City but was only able finish one ship for Kara before the cataclysm occurred. In DC League of Super-Pets ,
32038-457: Was able to find a temporary 'cure' for his power loss by exposing himself to kryptonite as a form of 'chemotherapy' that burned away the radiation preventing his cells from absorbing energy. On the verge of death while trying to stop Savage, he is caught by the arm and shot in the lower abdomen. As he fell from the sky believing he was about to die, the kryptonite had finished burning away the radiation. The Fortress scanned Superman, confirmed that he
32231-481: Was accidentally destroyed by the Kryptonian scientist Jax-Ur , who was experimenting with a nuclear missile that was diverted from its intended destination. The disaster killed 500 inhabitants of the moon and Jax-Ur became the first and only criminal to be banished eternally to the Phantom Zone . This disaster also prompted the Science Council of Krypton to ban space flight completely. A Silver Age Superman
32424-476: Was adapted to animation in the 2004 TV series Justice League Unlimited . In addition to Mongul, the Fortress has been independently broken into at various times by villains Lex Luthor and Brainiac ( Action Comics #583 and Superman #423) and the Atomic Skull ( DC Comics Presents #35), among others. According to Action Comics #261, Superman first established secret Fortresses in outer space and at
32617-491: Was close enough to Earth that the radiation from its explosion (traveling only at light speed) was able to reach Earth. Fortress of Solitude The Fortress of Solitude is a fictional fortress appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics , commonly in association with Superman . It is the place where Superman first learned about his true identity, heritage, and purpose on Earth . The fortress functions as
32810-645: Was considered to be technically "born" on Earth). Jor-El was not only determined that his son would survive the death of his birthworld, but that he would grow up on a world that vibrantly embraced living, as his forebears once did. A central theme of this version of the Superman mythos was that the character was to remain the last surviving remnant of Krypton. Thus, Silver Age elements such as Supergirl , Krypto , Beppo , and Kandor had never existed in this version (though Post- Crisis versions of these elements were eventually reintroduced). The supervillain Doomsday
33003-602: Was declared to be the Krypton of the Earth-Two universe; the native dimension of DC's Golden Age characters and its Superman. After the emergence of Earth-Two as a differentiated alternate universe within the DC Multiverse, Power Girl (Kara Zor-El) was introduced as Krypton-Two's alternate Supergirl in 1976. Kal-El and Kara Zor-El were the only known survivors of Krypton-Two, unlike the Silver Age analogue. Earth-Two's universe lacked its own Brainiac , so its Kandor
33196-488: Was defeated by Clark and the Legion of Super Hero's Brainiac's connection to the Fortress was terminated and all the knowledge he stole returned as well as the Fortress turning back white. A few months after Jimmy was killed Clark was able to repair the Fortress and his connection to Jor-El to resume his Kryptonian training. Although fully repaired there were still a number crystallized pillars that were still black after Brainiac
33389-453: Was defeated. However, it was discovered that the Fortress was repairing itself and by the following year, after Clark defeated Zod, all the black crystal pillars were destroyed with Fortress of Solitude fully repaired and purged of corruption ready to serve Clark in his quest to become Superman. During the series' tenth and final season, the Fortress became home to a Martha Kent -crafted, classic Superman costume, which Clark would go on to don in
33582-406: Was discovered that they actually died from lethal radiation. When the planet exploded, one entire city of Krypton, Argo City , survived the cataclysm. Argo City drifted through space on an asteroid -sized fragment of Krypton, which had been transformed into kryptonite by the explosion. The super-advanced technology of its Kryptonian inhabitants allowed them to construct a life-sustaining dome and
33775-465: Was home to Krypto and his dog-sitter Ned (the last remaining Superman robot), and contained a version of Kandor, a portal to the Phantom Zone, Kryptonian and alien artifacts, and holographic images of Jor-El and Lara. The caretaker of the Fortress was Kelex, a Kryptonian robot that was a descendant of the Kelex robot that served Jor-El. In the 2006 limited series Infinite Crisis , several survivors of
33968-411: Was killing Kryptonians by the thousands, and upon researching the matter, Jor-El discovered that its cause was growing radiation produced by Krypton's increasingly unstable core. This process was going to cause the planet to explode. Unable to convince his associates to abandon tradition and consider escape, and reasoning that modern Kryptonian society had grown cold, unfeeling and sterile, Jor-El removed
34161-539: Was later discovered that Supergirl's parents had survived in the Survival Zone, a parallel dimension similar to the Phantom Zone, from which she released them. When the bottle city of Kandor was finally enlarged on a new planet that was similar to Krypton, Supergirl's parents joined its inhabitants to live there. The people now known as the Daxamites were originally Kryptonians who left their homeworld to explore
34354-435: Was left on Earth after a previous invasion by an as-yet-unidentified Kryptonian that was codenamed "Nemesis Omega". Having lost their fellow soldiers, Sam Lane and Amanda Waller salvaged the Kryptonian technology where they formed Task Force X under Checkmate to prepare for its return. Some of its technology was later stolen by Livewire who gained possession of a super-suit that later granted her electrokinesis. She sold
34547-609: Was named after the chemical element krypton . The planet was first mentioned in Action Comics #1 (June 1938) and made its first appearance in Superman #1 (1939). Krypton is also the native world of Supergirl , Krypto the Superdog , Beppo the Super-Monkey , Power Girl (in her case, an alternate-universe version designated "Krypton-Two"), and the supervillain General Zod . It has been consistently described as having been destroyed shortly after Superman's escape from
34740-467: Was never abducted from Krypton Two before its destruction, nor did Kal-El have his own version of Krypton as an infant and toddler on this world. In the Golden Age, Superman was initially unaware of his true origins; in Superman #61, Superman discovered the existence of Krypton for the first time and learned of his Kryptonian heritage. He later encountered other survivors prior to Kara's arrival in
34933-406: Was not alone in the survival of Krypton's destruction, being joined by his cousin Supergirl , the Phantom Zone criminals, Krypto the Superdog , Beppo the Super-Monkey , a juvenile delinquent named Dev-Em , the entire population of the city of Kandor , Supergirl's biological parents, and even Superman's biological parents (in hibernation on a space ship - Superboy #158 (July 1969)), although it
35126-517: Was not referenced in the television series Smallville , African -looking/dark-skinned Kryptonians have been featured. One was a disciple of Zod , who goes by the name Nam-Ek (portrayed by Leonard Roberts ). Another was named Basqat (played by Adrian Holmes). Dark-skinned Kryptonians have also appeared in the SyFy television series Krypton , including Lyta-Zod, one of the series' main characters, and General Zod himself. In this version, Vathlo Island
35319-428: Was placed in an escape rocket by his father, Jor-El , and sent to the planet Earth , where he grew up to become Superman. In some versions of the story, additional survivors were later discovered, such as Supergirl , her parents (kept alive in the "Survival Zone", a similar parallel "dimension" to the Phantom Zone ), the criminal inhabitants of the Phantom Zone, Dev-Em , the residents of the bottled city of Kandor ,
35512-461: Was poisoned by lead and preserved in the Phantom Zone until Brainiac 5 found a cure in the 30th century, whereafter Mon-El became a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes . Vathlo Island is a fictional location on Krypton, notable as an early attempt to explain in-universe the seeming non-presence of black people throughout the universe. Other scholars have called Vathlo Island out more broadly as
35705-469: Was retained except that the shields featured a different letter, indicating a different House other than Zor-El's. This shield is worn on the right shoulder. Like in Smallville , a number of criminals imprisoned by the Kryptonians in the Phantom Zone are from other planets and have different powers from those of either Superman or Supergirl. In My Adventures with Superman , some Kryptonian technology
35898-418: Was revealed in the 1990s as a being genetically engineered by Bertron, an alien scientist, on an ancient Krypton. Doomsday left the planet after killing Bertron and Krypton's natives found the remains of Bertron's lab, thus obtaining the knowledge of cloning. In the newer continuity, Superman also became aware of his alien heritage only sometime after his debut as a superhero - initially assuming himself to be
36091-413: Was scarred deeply by it. The formerly lush garden world was burned and blasted to a desert, and a sterile society—emotionally unlike its predecessor—emerged. The population lived isolated from one another in widely separated technological citadels, shunning all physical and personal contact, to the point that even family members would only interact with each other via communication devices. Procreation became
36284-456: Was seen of its surviving colony) is ruled by aristocracy. Arranged marriages between the members of nobility are common, sometimes as early as birth (as was revealed to be the case with Kal-El), and numerous concubines are allowed. Settling of noble disputes by private duels is fully legal (although highly uncommon) and apparently gives advantages in terms of reputation. Criminals are punished for capital crimes by having their bodies dispersed across
36477-454: Was sent to Earth as a newly conceived embryo within a birthing matrix in order to survive in Earth's atmosphere. He was also devoid of any Kryptonian minerals, because any such minerals would turn to kryptonite upon leaving Krypton's atmosphere. Kryptonians are evolutionarily related to the also-severely xenophobic Daxamites. The Daxamites remain that way up through the 31st century. Kryptonian law did not believe in capital punishment. Instead,
36670-443: Was spared by being placed in the Phantom Zone, with her body intact. She helped Clark on Earth until her death a short time after her escape from the Phantom Zone. Season seven introduces Kara Zor-El , having been sent to Earth at the same time as Clark but trapped in suspended animation since then. Later, through schemes put into practice before his death, Clark's uncle Zor-El and mother Lara are resurrected with powers intact for
36863-512: Was the main subject of the late 1980s The World of Krypton miniseries (not to be confused with the 1979 miniseries of the same name). This miniseries was written by Byrne and illustrated by Mike Mignola , and filled in much of Krypton's new history. The new Krypton was approximately one-and-a-half times larger than the Earth and orbited a red sun called Rao fifty light-years from the Solar System . Krypton's primordial era produced some of
37056-430: Was tipping toward decadence and eventually political strife resulted from the debate about the use of clones (three by each Kryptonian; one child, one teen and one adult, perfectly preserved in stasis in large clone banks) to repair any hurt and avoiding death, if they were sentient beings and should have rights to be awakened to live as any other Kryptonian, sparked in addition by the presence of an alien missionary known as
37249-444: Was unable to be at Argo City during Krypton's destruction) also survived by sending himself to the Phantom Zone as his planet was destroyed. Rao (comics) Krypton is a fictional planet appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics , most commonly appearing or mentioned in stories starring the superhero Superman as the world from whence he came. The planet was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster , and
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