The Planet Krypton (Donnerverse)

**The Planet Krypton** is The Planet-Orbiting Rao that It's Permanently Destroyed when An Red Giant that Currently Went Supernova.

## Biological Known Information

### Status

**BECOME PERMANENTLY DESTROYED:** The Planet Krypton has Now Becoming Redder as Their Red Sunlight that Currently Approached Supernova.

## Physical Appearance Characteristics

### Status

**BECOME PERMANENTLY DESTROYED:** The Planet Krypton has Now Becoming Redder as Their Red Sunlight that Currently Approached Supernova.

## Review

### DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE

* We hear that Gen. Zod and his cohorts are on trial for treason and sedition.

### FRIGHTENING SCENES

* Some convicted prisoners are in some sort of tumbling, diagonal prison that appears flat but contains them as they spin off into outer space, screaming for help (that may be unsettling for very young viewers).
* There are sounds of explosions and the sight of massive vibrations and pieces of building structures collapsing as the end of Krypton draws near. We then see various people falling, being knocked around or sliding out of control on what is now diagonally aligned flooring, etc. We also see huge pieces of material falling on people, but don't see the actual impact, which also holds true for shots of people falling long distances (which might be troubling for those remembering the sights and stories of people jumping from the World Trade Center buildings during 911).
* Some kids might be worried when the space pod containing young Superman starts to burn and curl up in entry into the Earth's atmosphere (but the boy is fine).
* Teenage Clark is awakened by an odd humming coming from the barn. He then slowly approaches it at night and then finds a glowing crystal (leftover from his childhood space pod).

### JUMP SCENES

* We suddenly hear a loud piercing sound.

### MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE)

* A heavy amount of suspenseful and some dramatic music plays in the film.

### TENSE FAMILY SCENES

* Jor-El and his wife say goodbye to their infant son, sending him off in a space pod of sorts to survive the cataclysmic events they know are coming for them and their planet.

### TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT

* A sentient representation of Jor-El tells teenage Clark that he's been dead for thousands of Clark's Earth years.

### VIOLENCE

* There Are Sounds of The Planetary Explosions and the sight of massive vibrations and pieces of building structures collapsing as the end of Krypton draws near. We then see various people falling, being knocked around or sliding out of control on what is now diagonally aligned flooring, etc. We also see huge pieces of material falling on people, but don't see the actual impact, which also holds true for shots of people falling long distances (which might be troubling for those remembering the sights and stories of people jumping from the World Trade Center buildings during 911).
* The Planet Explodes, killing everyone living on it (we don't see the actual deaths, just the explosion from outer space).

## TV-Tropes

 **Nightmare-Fuel:** | When of The Planet Krypton is coming to an end.
 **Awesome:** | As Krypton is ripping itself apart, Jor-El and Lara calmly watch as their son's ship safely soars away.
Krypton's destruction itself counts, if only for its Visual Effects of Awesome. Prior to this, we've only seen it in comics, heard about it on the radio, and have seen less than stellar special effects on the movie serials and TV shows. Here, however, the apocalypse is shown in all its world-shattering glory.
Moments before that, after the Council declares Zod and his cohorts guilty, Zod tells Jor-El he must vote as well since it "must be unanimous", and that he will hold Jor-El solely responsible for the verdict. Jor-El's crystal glows in response, indicating that he also declares them guilty, not at all intimidated by his threat.
Zod's Establishing Character Moment.
Ignore the symbolism and just focus on the text:

Jor-El says he will have been dead for thousands of years when Kal-El grows up.
Krypton blew the heck up. Therefore, the destruction of Krypton was bright enough to be visible on Earth as the Star of Bethlehem, which signified the coming of the savior. Thus, Kal-El is either a second coming of Jesus, or else the first one was just a coincidence.
In the comics, though, he's Moses. Had Jewish creators, was found in the reeds as a baby, empowered by his heritage, etc...
"Kal-El" is Hebrew for "All That Is God".
Try Maggin's novel *Last Son of Krypton*. Superman has a near-death experience where he sees the face of God, who looks exactly like Jor-El.
 **Heartwarmings:** | The scene where Jor-El and Lara prepare to send their oldest infant son off to Earth. The music, the dialogue, even the costumes and sets. I mean... damn. But even before that...
Lara: He'll be isolated. Different... *Alone*.
Jor-El: (*takes a deep breath, and holds up a single green crystal*) He will *not* be alone. He will *never* be alone.

## Glossary

The following is a glossary of terms related to The Planet Krypton, the birthplace of Superman:

* **Birthing matrix** — A technology developed by Kryptonians that allowed gestation of a fetus outside of the womb. Highly resilient and radiation-proof, the matrix is capable of surviving a journey through hyperspace. The matrix sent by Jor-El to Earth contained his son, Kal-El. It crash-landed on the Kent farm and opened, revealing the infant inside. Kal-El's matrix contained a holographic memory bank which contained all of Jor-El's teachings on his planet's culture and history which played itself back into Kal-El's mind, teaching him instantly about Krypton. That matrix is currently stored in the Fortress of Solitude.
* **The Green Deceased** — The name given to the characteristic radiation poisoning caused by Kryptonium to inhabitants of the planet Krypton. The fusion of the native elements of Krypton into Kryptonium had begun long before its eventual explosion, causing many people to die from radiation. The full extent was not publicly known; it was only the independent research of Jor-El that alerted him to the cause.
* **Jor-El** — Father of Kal-El and An scientist.
* **Kryptonite** - the deadly radioactive remains of the shattered planet
* **Lara Lor-Van** — Mother of Kal-El.
* **Phantom Zone**

## Biography

### Early-Details

The Planet Krypton was Born in Six Billion-Years Ago .

## Information

Krypton has stark white terrain of jagged frozen plateaus, stretching broadly under heavy, dark skies, becoming redder as their sun approached supernova; this prompted Jor-El to attempt to persuade the immediate evacuation of the entire planet to the council of elders, to avoid perishing in the cataclysm, to no avail. **Kryptonians themselves were portrayed as being a coolly cerebral society, clad in stark white body-suits emblazoned with the standard of each family's house symbol, and treading through halls of antiseptic, white crystal under crystalline arches. The crystalline motif was employed not only in the architecture but in the landscape and technology as well, suggesting that the entire planet had been adapted and altered by Kryptonian influence. In 1948, Krypton was ultimately destroyed when its red sun began to collapse; the planet was pulled into the sun and steadily crushed, then exploded in the ensuing supernova.** Jor-El's recordings say that Kal-El will pass through six galaxies during his three-year voyage to Earth. This could either mean Krypton is millions of light-years away, well past the Andromeda Galaxy (making it the most remote of its various locations in any Superman story to date), or located in one of the dwarf galaxies closer to the Milky Way in the Local Group. Also, when Krypton was destroyed, fragments from the planet went into Entire Outer Space, resulting in The Known Creation of The Harmful-Radioactive Substance known as kryptonite.

The Krypton of Richard Donner’s Superman feels like a place of detachment. That comes through in the palate Donner uses, made up of overwhelming whites, various darker accents, and other grayscale elements that make the entire planet seem serene and even sterile. **The Kryptonians are likewise demure and reserved, wearing big, white smocks to match the terrain, with various family logos on them, all speaking in the measured tones of enlightened beings that were common for 1970s cinema. The setting has plenty of the trappings of that era’s take on the futuristic “other,” with grand councils composed of giant faces, force fields in the form of undulating hoola hoops, and baddies dressed in baked potato wrappers.** But that just emphasizes the warmth of Jor-El’s quarters and his farewell to his only son. The home of Superman’s parents has a particular glow in the 1978 original, with the towering turbines that shine intermittently and the crystalline apparatus into which Jor-El and Lara place their only child. These individuals are the last gasps of color in an otherwise barren world, before it’s engulfed in red flame and crumbles into nothing, as the rust-colored hues overwhelm the craggy porcelain canvas. **Donner’s Krypton is a repressed, alien place, but one that hides a light soon to be gifted to another world.**

An Vastly-Less-Idyllic Image of The Planet Krypton, compared to the previous comics' versions, was presented. Whereas in the comics, Krypton was colorful and bright, in *Superman: The Movie*, the planet was envisioned as having stark white terrain of jagged frozen plateaus, stretching broadly under heavy, dark skies. **Kryptonians themselves were portrayed as being a coolly cerebral society, clad in stark white, and treading halls of jet black under crystalline arches. The crystalline motif was employed not only in the architecture, but in the landscape and technology as well, suggesting that the entire planet had been adapted and altered by Kryptonian influence. Krypton was ultimately destroyed when its star began to collapse; the planet was pulled into the sun and ripped apart, then incinerated when the star went supernova.** This version of Krypton was to have a strong influence on John Byrne's 1986 re-imagining of the world. However, the film's Krypton was still presented as having a society "better" than Earth's, unlike the Krypton that Byrne envisioned. For instance, there was no death penalty on Krypton because almost all criminals were rehabilitated (the ones that were not or were beyond rehabilitation such as General Zod were banished to the Phantom Zone). Superman himself thought very highly of the planet and was proud to have come from there. Also, in this version of the story, both Jor-El and Lara preserve some part of their essence in the starship that brings their child to Earth, so that on Clark Kent's eighteenth birthday, Jor-El appears to him within the Fortress of Solitude and initiates twelve years of Kryptonian education for the youth, and both remain as constructs within the Fortress until it is ransacked by Lex Luthor (see below). **The origin of Superman's symbol is given a Kryptonian origin in the film (as Mark Waid's *Superman: Birthright* would years later). Male Kryptonians are shown wearing unique symbols on the chests of their robes, similar to a family crest; Jor-El and Kal-El after him wear the familiar S-shield, which Lois Lane later assumes to be the letter 'S' from the familiar Latin alphabet, and thus dubs him 'Superman'.** The idea for Jor-El to have the symbol was suggested by actor Marlon Brando, who portrayed Jor-El in the movie, and eventually was retconned into the comics continuity as being the crest of the House of El, which only Superman is part of. In more recent years it has been adapted by comics writers to be an actual letter/glyph in the Kryptonian alphabet, with the standard version of the shield meaning 'hope', and the inverted (upside-down) version meaning 'resurrection'.

**The vastly less idyllic image of Krypton was presented. Whereas in the comics Krypton was colorful and bright, the film depicted the planet with stark bluish-white terrain of jagged frozen plateaus under heavy, dark skies. The planet was threatened by their sun turning into a supernova. Jor-El unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the council of elders to immediately evacuate the planet.** Kryptonians themselves were portrayed as coolly cerebral and morally enlightened, clad in stark white bodysuits emblazoned with each family's house symbol. The architecture featured halls of white crystal under crystalline arches. The crystalline motif was employed not only in the architecture, but in the landscape and technology as well, suggesting that the entire planet had been adapted and altered by Kryptonian influence. In 1948, Krypton was ultimately destroyed when its red sun began to collapse; the planet was pulled into the sun and steadily crushed, then exploded in the ensuing supernova. When Krypton was destroyed, fragments from the planet were launched into space, resulting in the creation of a harmful radioactive substance known as kryptonite. **Both Jor-El and Lara preserved some part of their "essence" (in the form of virtual copies of themselves) in the starship that took three years to bring their child to Earth. On Clark Kent's eighteenth birthday, a glowing crystal revealed itself in the ship and compelled Clark to take it north. He eventually reached the Arctic, where the crystal constructed the massive crystalline Fortress of Solitude. Inside, an artificially intelligent hologram of Jor-El appeared to him and initiated twelve years of Kryptonian education. These virtual versions of Jor-El and Lara remained as constructs within the Fortress throughout the series.** Superman's symbol was given a Kryptonian origin in the film. Male Kryptonians were shown wearing unique symbols on the chests of their robes, similar to a family crest; Jor-El and Kal-El wore the familiar S-shield, which Lois Lane later assumed to be the letter *S* from the familiar Latin alphabet, and thus dubs him "Superman".

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The 1978 novel *Last Son of Krypton* by Elliot S! Maggin that Somehow Contains Descriptions of The Planet Krypton, mainly referencing the Silver Age version; it describes the planet as a "failed star" with massive surface gravity and extremely hostile, glaciated conditions, which forced extreme adaptation and rapid evolution in the descendants of humanoid space travelers (and their dogs) who became stranded on its surface in prehistory. This led to an extremely strong, dense, and durable Kryptonian species with unusual physical properties. Maggin describes the rise of a civilization which uses geothermal heat as its primary power source, developing science and technology, but finding it difficult to escape the massive world's gravity. Eventually its internal nuclear reactions led to Krypton's explosion.

## Inhabitants By Photos

### From/On of The Planet Krypton

Jor-El: Superman's biological father on Krypton. He has a theory about the planet exploding, yet the Council refuses to listen. He dies as the planet explodes but successfully sends his infant son to Earth as a means to help the child. Brando sued the Salkinds and Warner Bros. for $50 million because he felt cheated out of his share of the box office profits. This stopped Brando's footage from being used in Richard Lester's version of *Superman II*.Lara-El: Superman's Biological Mother on Krypton. She, after learning of Krypton's fate, has apprehensions about sending her infant son to a strange planet alone.Kal-El: Born on Krypton as Kal-El and raised on Earth, he is a being of immense power, strength and invulnerability who, after realizing his destiny to serve mankind, uses his powers to protect and save others. As a means to protect his identity, he works in Metropolis at the *Daily Planet* as mild-mannered newspaper reporter Clark Kent and changes his clothes into a red-blue red caped suit with an S shield on its chest and is dubbed "Superman" by Lois. Reeve was picked from over 200 actors who auditioned for the role.Profile - The-Regular Kryptonian-Infant Kal-El.pngInfant!Kal-El as The Regular-Kryptonian InfantProfile - An-Known-The Regular-Kryptonian-Infant Clark-Joseph-Kent.pngAaron-Smolinski as Clark Joseph Kent as The Regular-Kryptonian InfantProfile - Young Teenage Version of Clark Joseph Kent.pngAn Teenage Version of Clark Joseph Kent: As a teenager, he is forced to hide his superhuman abilities, making him unpopular among his classmates and frustrating his efforts to gain the attention of classmate Lana Lang (Diane Sherry). Following the death of his adoptive father, he travels to the Arctic to discover his Kryptonian heritage. East's dialogue in the film is redubbed by Christopher Reeve for the final cut.Ursa: General Zod's second in command and consort, sentenced to the Phantom Zone for her unethical scientific experiments. Caroline Munro turned down the opportunity to play Ursa.An General Zod: The Evil Leader of The Number-Three-Kryptonian Criminals who swears vengeance against Jor-El when he is sentenced to The Phantom Zone. His appearance was to set him and his accomplices as the main antagonists of *Superman II*.Non: Large and mute, the third of the Kryptonian villains who are sentenced to be isolated in the Phantom Zone.Vond-Ah: Like Jor-El, via Top Kryptonian Scientist; but she too is not swayed by Jor-El's theories.The Regular-Kryptonian-First Elder: Head of the Kryptonian Council, who does not believe Jor-El's claim that Krypton is doomed. He warns Jor-El: "Any attempt by you to create a climate of fear and panic amongst the populace must be deemed by us an act of insurrection."The Regular-Kryptonian-Second Elder: Council member, who urges Jor-El to be reasonable about plans to save Krypton.The Regular-Kryptonian-Third Elder: Kryptonian Council Member,004th Kryptonian Elder: Member of The Kryptonian Council, who Does Not Believe for Jor-El's Entire Claim that Krypton's About-To ExplodeThe Regular-Kryptonian-Fifth Elder: .The Regular-Kryptonian-Sixth Elder: .The Regular-Kryptonian-Seventh Elder: .The Regular-Kryptonian-Eigth Elder: .The Regular-Kryptonian-Ninth Elder: .The Regular-Kryptonian-Tenth Elder: .The Regular-Kryptonian-Tenth Elder: .
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