Lara Lor-Van

Lara Lor-Van was a Kryptonian female and the wife of Jor-El. Sharing the ideals of her husband, the two secretly gave birth to a son they name Kal-El, the first naturally born child of Krypton in centuries. Recognizing that Krypton's implosion was imminent, Lara and Jor-El agreed to send Kal to Earth so that he might be free to forge his own destiny, though she was still hesitant to do so out of fear for his safety. Nevertheless, the two parents painstakingly bade farewell to their child, moments before Jor-El's death at the hands of General Zod.
Grieving over the death of her husband and departure of her son, Lara grimly attended Zod's trial, after which he and his forces were sentenced to three hundred years in the Phantom Zone. Enraged, Zod bellowed out a warning to Lara that he would find her son, no matter what, while she stared back at him with a resolute gaze. Not long after Zod's sentencing, Lara looked on at the exploding Kryptonian landscape, resigned to her fate as Krypton's core erupted, ending the life of the planet.
==Personality and traits==
Genetically engineered to be born into the Kryptonian Thinker Guild, Lara was a highly intelligent individual. Unlike most of her fellow Kryptonians, Lara's highly innovative nature made her capable of breaking the thinking boundaries programmed into her engineered DNA, similarly to Jor-El. As a result, she could see that Krypton's society was stale, flawed, and outdated, and so she and her husband subsequently chose the illegal step of having a natural-born child, strongly believing in their cause. Knowing that her planet was to be imminently destroyed, Lara took the strong and incredibly hard step of sending her son to Earth so that he could survive and be free of Kryptonian society's chains and be truly free, while choosing to stay behind herself so that any flaws would not travel with him.
In addition to her intelligence and resolute behavior, Lara was an exceptionally kind and loving mother, tearful and devastated at the prospect of forever sending away her infant son Kal-El, and fearing that the people of Earth would view him as a freak and outcast. She would, however, ultimately have in her the strength to send him away, out of General Zod's reach, giving a final hopeful plea for Kal to make a better world than hers.
==Appearances==
*The House of El 
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