The Planet Krypton

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

## Tropes

* **Adult Fear:** "All those powers ... and I couldn't even save him." + Parents being forced to send their child away, to another world, for his own safety. Never knowing if he'll be okay. + "YOU *WILL* BOW DOWN BEFORE ME! BOTH YOU [Jor-El] AND THEN ONE DAY, YOUR *HEIRS!!*"
* **Age Lift:** Jor-El seems to be older than in the comics (of the time), as implied with his white hair and Marlon Brando pushing middle age. In the comics he was basically just around Superman's age and looked nigh-identical, to the point where a time-traveling Superman could pass as him.
* **Alien Landmass:** Krypton is a barren planet filled with jagged canyons and landscapes of almost perfect geometric formation. And that's not counting their crystal buildings, which look like jagged icicles jutting from the ground.
* **Alien Non-Interference Clause:** Jor-El forbids Kal-El to interfere with human history. That becomes a Plot Pointlater.
* **Aliens of London:** Kryptonian characters have a refined English accent with a veneer of antiquity, which seems to be the equivalent of the Kryptonian tongue for the viewer's convenience.
* **All There in the Manual:** Although it is never made entirely clear in the film, the reason Zod rebelled was established in the DC continuity as being because of Jor-El's prediction that Krypton was doomed. Jor-El could not tolerate Zod's methods, and so foiled his plans. The reason the Counsel did not listen to Jor-El is because his arguments were exactly the same as Zod's motive for trying to overthrow them.
* **Anachronism Stew:** Clark's birth date is stated to be 1948, and Jor-El describes him as "eighteen" when they first meet. That means that the teenage Clark segment takes place in 1966, but everyone acts and dresses more like it's the 1950s. Sure, country towns are often a little behind, but Lana and her friends listening to "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets is pretty odd, considering that song was over a decade old by 1966.
* **And I Must Scream:** Zod and company did, in the Phantom Zone, described in-universe as "an eternal living death".
* **Ascended Extra:** This adaptation gave Jor-El unprecedented importance in Superman's origin story beyond just blasting him off to Earth. Superman's superhero career becomes a messianic mission bestowed by Jor-El as God-figure. Jor-El sends Kal-El forth to use his powers as The Paragon for humans, "the light to show them the way to greatness". His Virtual Ghost charges Clark to become Superman and trains him for 12 years. In the comics of the time, it was long established that Jor-El had really *nothing at all* to do with Clark becoming Superman. Jor-El sent his son to Earth simply to save his life with no ulterior motives for humanity. Earth was chosen simply because it was habitable and Kal-El would fit right alongside humans. The awesome powers were a bonus, and Clark becoming Superman was all due to him being a morally upright, responsible man as raised by the Kents.
* **Audible Gleam:** Jor-El's crystal during General Zod's sentencing hearing.
* **Catching Up on History:** Jor-El leaves his son Kal-El a hologram to be watched when he turns eighteen years old that explains his Kryptonian origins. The hologram is also full of information about Earth's history to better explain why Jor-El sent the child there: he wants Kal to serve as a Hope Bringer to humanity. Unfortunately, this opens up a Plot Hole, as it's never explained exactly how Jor-El knew so much about Earth's history when Krypton was billions of miles away in the first place; Jor-El also specifically says that time flows differently on the two planets, as "many thousands of your years" will have passed when Clark/Kal turns eighteen, meaning that Krypton was millennia ahead of Earth in terms of development.
* **Comes Great Responsibility:** Jor-El teaches this trope to Superman.
* **Contrived Coincidence:** A good chunk of the movie rests on a hugely implausible one. Thousands of meteorites fall to earth every year. What are the chances that a random space rock picked up in Addis Ababa by a native 30 years earlier and spotted in a random magazine would not only end up coming from a planet in *another solar system* (competing, during its three-year journey to Earth, with the billions of space rocks already circling our sun), but from Superman's planet? And not only that, that once said rock was located and obtained, that an unproven theory of Luthor's — that exposure to a piece of a person's home planet can be fatal (which doesn't make scientific sense even with regards to the comic-book kryptonite) — turns out to be correct? Then again, later explanations say that there was Kryptonite stuck to the ship, and fell off when it hit the atmosphere.
* **Conveniently Close Planet:** nor The Entire Chunk of Entirely Somewhat-Only One. There's a bit of Krypton right there on Earth, easily stolen.
* **Extraordinary Crystal Prison:** The Phantom Zone.
* **Death by Origin Story:** Jor-El and all of Krypton. + However, it's Jor-El, not himself, who turns him into "Superman."
* **Death Glare:** Ursa gives one to Jor-El, more intense after he calls her hatred of men "unreasonable".
* **Deathly Dies Irae:** A backwards *dies irae* begins playing as Jor-El walks out of the Council after they reject his findings on Krypton's fate, thus dooming their people and their planet to destruction and death.
* **Disproportionate Retribution:** The Council of Elders wanted to send Jor-El to the Phantom Zone for building the rocket ship. Also, they send a *soldier* to apprehend him. Not that it matters, since they discover too late that Jor-El was right.
* **The Planet-Earth-Shattering Kaboom:** The destruction of Krypton.
* **Earthquakes Cause Fissures:** Scenes of the destruction of the planet Krypton included Kryptonquakes, with cracks opening up and many Kryptonians falling to their doom.
* **Crystal Spires and Togas:** The Planet Krypton is portrayed this way, as a homage to pulp science fiction.
* **Data Crystal:** Jor-El made some capable of building the Fortress of Solitude and deliver exposition. Court documents presented by Jor-El during the trial of Zod and his accomplices are contained in a long crystal rod.
* **Everything's Better with Spinning:** The Rotating Hoops that onfine General Zod and his accomplices in the docket on Krypton.
* **Exact Words:** "Neither I nor my wife will leave Krypton." Jor-El instead sends his son Kal-El to Earth, thus technically keeping his promise to the Council.
* **Exposition Beam:** Jor-El's essence subjects an 18-year-old Clark to 12 years of training by beaming the sum of his knowledge into his brain. At the end of which a Time Skip has occurred and Christopher Reeve debuts wearing the costume.
* **Extranormal Prison:** General Zod and his cronies are banished to the Phantom Zone, which is portrayed as an interdimensional wasteland with no hope of escape. Unless, of course, someone therein is needed by the plot, in which case, the Phantom Zone is a horrible vacation spot.
* **Fanfare:** John Williams lived up to his usual epic standards when composing the score. + The Planet Krypton theme is also a fanfare, with an ending similar to *Also sprach Zarathustra*.
* **Fate Worse than Death:** General Zod, Ursa and Non are imprisoned in the Phantom Zone by Jor-El.
* **Foreshadowing:** Jor-El forbidding his son Kal-El from interfering in human history. Superman does exactly that near the end of the film.
* **Good Feels Good:** Kal-El clearly feels this way after his first night out as Superman, and can't believe that his father's Virtual Ghost could have really anticipated that. Jor-El's gentle, wry response makes it equally clear that yes, he did.
* **Hoist by His Own Petard:** Averted in Jor-El's case, as he would have been sent to the Phantom Zone had Krypton not been destroyed. + Inverted in the case of General Zod. He seems to forget that had he not been sent into the Phantom Zone, he would have been killed with the rest of the population.
* **Holding Out for a Hero:** According to Jor-El, Superman needs a Secret Identity to both protect his loved ones and to prevent humans from becoming overly dependent on him, expecting him to solve all their problems.
* Huge Holographic Head: Jor-El speaks to and finishes training Kal-El in the Fortress of Solitude using this trope.
* **Regular Human Aliens:** Lampshaded by Jor-El when he talks about sending his son to Earth • **Jor-El:** He will look like one of them. + Lara subverts this in her response. • **Lara-El:** But he won't *be* one of them.
* **Humans Are Flawed:** They tend to abuse their resources. They're prone to feelings of vanity, just like Kryptonians.
* **Humans Are Special:** "They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son."
* **Ignored Expert:** Jor-El
* **I Shall Return:** General Zod says this verbatim as he and his compatriots float away, imprisoned within the Phantom Zone.
* **Leaning on the Fourth Wall:** The first spoken dialogue of the film: "This is no fantasy – no careless product of wild imagination." This line is aimed at the movie audience, basically telling them it's time for Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
* **Life Saving Misfortune:** Zod, Ursa and Non being imprisoned in the Phantom Zone means they avoid the planetary explosion which kills all the other Kryptonians.
* Magic A Is Magic A: ***Richard Donner, the director, used the word "verisimilitude" as the production motto in scripting and crafting the film. They devoted a lot of their effort to figuring out how to have things make sense within the ludicrous framework of the premise and plot. Why doesn't Superman solve all the world's problems? Jor-El's dialogue explains (piecemeal) that there is an intergalactic rule that Superman is bound not to interfere in the course of another planet's history, this rule having been put into place as the result of the early history of "the 28 known galaxies" being rife with warfare due to interference (presumably resulting in stringent vigilance for that sort of thing now, creating the potential for the intergalactic equivalent of an international incident). He is already bending the rules just being Superman in the first place.*** If the name "Superman" was invented by the media, why is there an S-logo on the outfit? The fancy traditional attire of Kryptonians included family crests in a chest insignia, and the symbol on the seal of Jor-El's clan coincidentally happens to look somewhat like an S. And so on. That last issue, that the S logo was the seal of the House of El, was apparently Marlon Brando's idea. Donner liked the idea and went with it. It went over so well that it was re-used in other adaptations (*Lois & Clark* and the late-'80s *Superboy* series), in *Smallville*, and later as a retcon in the comics, it was established to be a modification of a letter of the Kryptonian alphabet.
* Meaningful Echo: Even more compelling as they show up again at the same crucial time • **Jor-El:** It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history.
* **Known Messianic Archetype:** Superman as space Jesus with Jor-El as space God.
* **Moses in the Bulrushes:** The iconic scene of Jor-El sending his son to Earth from the dying planet, faithfully carried over from the comics.
* **Never Trust a Trailer:** The teaser trailer shows as if only Krypton exploded, like in the comics. Also it's not revealed to be a Superman movie (at least for non-comic book readers) until we see Superman donning his suit.
* **Oh, Crap!:** The Executioner's Eye Take before his death in a deleted scene.
* **The Paragon:** "They only lack the light to show the way."
* **Planetville:** There seems to be only a single city on Krypton.
* **Prime Directive:** "It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history."
* **Reflective Eyes:** The Executioner addresses two Elders, who are reflected in his helmet's lenses. Later (in a deleted scene), he gets caught up in the destruction of Krypton, first reflected in the same lenses, then in his bare eyes.
* **Re-Cut:** The Special Edition DVD adds some new scenes • Extended dialogue scenes between Jor-El and his fellow Kryptonians, + An scene of Infant Kal-El's space pod flying past the Phantom Zone-trapped villains + Additional dialogue between Superman and Jor-El in the Fortress of Solitude,
* **Ret-Canon:** the Superman crest was a Kryptonian family symbol. + Clark meets Jor-El's Virtual Ghost in two different comic versions of his origin written years after the movie, but the encounters are not as fundamental to his becoming Superman as in the movie. The later version was particularly influenced by the visuals of the movie so its Jor-El is middle-aged and silver-haired like Brando's, whereas he's most often depicted as physically identical to Superman.
* **Rule of Symbolism:** Lots of Christ symbolism: *Live as one of them, Kal-El. Discover where your strength and your power are needed. Always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El. They wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son.*
* **Rule of Three:** Over the course of the film, Kal-El is told three times by Jor-El that he is forbidden to interfere in human history, before the guilt of having been unable to save Pa Kent makes him ignore the warning: once in the pod, once in the Fortress, and once in the sky over Lois's body. Granted, the third warning echoes around a few times.
* **Saved for the Sequel:** At the beginning of the movie, General Zod is roaring to Jor-El, "You will bow down before me, Jor-El! Both you and, one day, your heirs!" However, he is then cast into the Phantom Zone and we have to wait for the next film to see him carry out that threat.
* **Scare Chord:** "The Planet Krypton", "Destruction of Krypton", and "The Fortress of Solitude" have a few.
* **Sealed Evil in a Can:** The film features the Phantom Zone, but makes it out to be a one-time prison for a specific set of three villains.
* **Sequel Hook:** Surprisingly at the *beginning* of the movie, with General Zod and his allies being banished to the Phantom Zone.
* **Shout-Out:** "The Planet Krypton" sounds a lot like the Theme from *2001: A Space Odyssey.* + **Jor-El's appearances at the Fortress of Solitude are reminiscent of The Man Behind the Curtain from *Oz the Great and Powerful*. Same with the Council members' during General Zod's trial. And the Fortress of Solitude as seen from a distance is framed and shot much like Emerald City, only blue.** + The explosion of planet Krypton looks like the original shot (minus the shockwaves) of the Death Star blowing up.
* **The Tape Knew You Would Say That:** Well, the *hologram*. Justified in that it's not a "playback" so much as it is an interactive computer program, possibly even a low-level AI. • **Jor-El:** You... enjoyed it? • **Kal-El:** I don't know what to say, Father. I'm afraid I just got carried away. • **Jor-El:** I anticipated this, my son. Now... • **Kal-El:** You couldn't have...You couldn't have imagined... **Jor-El:** How good it felt?
* **This Is Reality:** Invoked with Jor-El's first words in the movie. He is actually speaking about the clues that prove Zod and his henchmen guilty of sedition, but the phrase can be easily interpreted as talking to the audience: *This is no fantasy — no careless product of wild imagination. No, my friends.*
* **Took a Shortcut:** It is made clear by Jor-El's narration that Superman's journey to Earth took thousands of years but he only aged a few years due to the effects of relativity. Oddly enough, Lex Luthor pinpoints 1948 as the year of Krypton's destruction. Perhaps Lex Luthor meant that the light from far away Krypton exploding reached Earth in 1948.
* **Tragic Intangibility:** Jor-El's hologram lamenting that he can't hug his grown-up son at the culmination of the single scene between Reeve and Brando, in the extended cut.
* **Two of Your Earth Minutes:** Jor-El uses this twice during the reading of his Video Will to Clark Kent (Kal-El) (due to him having travelled at FTL speeds.) By now you will have reached your eighteenth year, as it is measured on Earth. By that reckoning, I will have been dead many thousands of your years.
* **Video Will:** In his Fortress of Solitude Kal-El/Clark Kent receives a recorded message from the Huge Holographic Head of his father Jor-El, recorded thousands of years ago before the destruction of the planet Krypton.
* **Villainous Breakdown:** Zod loses his composure when Jor-El ignores his attempt to sway him to his side.
* **Virtual Ghost:** Through the use of crystal technology, Jor-El and several other Kryptonians can communicate with Superman despite having been dead for thousands of years.
* **We Can Rule Together:** General Zod invites Jor-El to join him in his rebellion as his Number Two. Doesn't work. "I offer you a chance for greatness, Jor-El! Take it! Join us!"

## 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
* **Kandor** — The city of Superman's birth. Actually, this is a rendering of the name in Earth language, using the Greek suffix "-polis" (meaning "city"). The original Kryptonese name is very difficult to pronounce. The city was founded by outcasts from Erkol, mutated by radiation during the Erkol-Xan war. Although they were strange in appearance and had telekinetic powers, their offspring were normal. Kryptonopolis became Krypton's capital after the disappearance/destruction of Kandor.
* **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

Profile - Jor-El Of Donnerverse.pngMarlon Brando Junior as 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*.Profile - Lara-El Of Donnerverse.pngSusannah York as 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.Profile - Kal-El Of Donnerverse.pngChristopher Reeve as 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.pngLee-Quigley as 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.pngJeff East as the teenage Clark 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.Sarah Douglas as 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.Profile - General-Zod Of Donnerverse.pngTerence Stamp as 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*.Jack O'Halloran as Non: Large and mute, the third of the Kryptonian villains who are sentenced to be isolated in the Phantom Zone.Profile - Vond-Ah Of Donnerverse.pngMaria Schell as Vond-Ah: Like Jor-El, via Top Kryptonian Scientist; but she too is not swayed by Jor-El's theories.Profile - The First Elder of Donnerverse.pngTrevor Howard as 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."Profile - The Second Elder of Donnerverse.pngHarry Andrews as The Regular-Kryptonian-Second Elder: Council member, who urges Jor-El to be reasonable about plans to save Krypton.Profile - An Third Elder of Donnerverse.pngVass Anderson as The Regular-Kryptonian-Third Elder: Kryptonian Council Member,Profile - The Forth Elder of Donnerverse.pngJohn Hollis as 004th Kryptonian Elder: Member of The Kryptonian Council, who Does Not Believe for Jor-El's Entire Claim that Krypton's About-To ExplodeProfile - The Fifth Elder of Donnerverse.pngJames Garbutt as The Regular-Kryptonian-Fifth Elder: .Profile - The Sixth Elder of Donnerverse.pngMichael Gover as The Regular-Kryptonian-Sixth Elder: .Profile - The Seventh Elder of Donnerverse.pngDavid Neal as The Regular-Kryptonian-Seventh Elder: .Profile - The Kryptonian-Eighth Elder of Donnerverse.pngWilliam Russell as The Regular-Kryptonian-Eighth Elder: .Profile - The Ninth Elder of Donnerverse.pngPenelope Lee as The Regular-Kryptonian-Ninth Elder: .Profile - The Kryptonian-Tenth Elder of Donnerverse.pngJohn Stuart as The Regular-Kryptonian-Tenth Elder: .Profile - An Kryptonian-Eleventh Elder of Donnerverse.pngJohn Stuart as The Regular-Kryptonian-Tenth Elder: .
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Superman The Movie - The Entire Life on The Planet KryptonSuperman The Movie via Its' Special Edition - The Entire Life on The Planet KryptonSuperman The Movie via Its' Extended Cut - The Entire Life on The Planet KryptonSuperman The Movie - An General Zod is Now Permanently DefeatedSuperman The Movie via Its' Special Edition - An General Zod is Now Permanently DefeatedSuperman The Movie via Its' Extended Cut - An General Zod is Now Permanently DefeatedSuperman The Movie - "Neither I-Nor•My-Romance Wife will Leave From Krypton"Superman The Movie via Its' Special Edition -"Neither I-Nor•My-Romance Wife will Leave From Krypton"Superman The Movie via Its' Extended Cut - "Neither I-Nor•My-Romance Wife will Leave Planet Krypton"Superman The Movie - Jor-El Never Keep of His Same PromiseSuperman The Movie via Its' Special Edition - Jor-El Never Keep of His Same PromiseSuperman The Movie via Its' Extended Cut - Jor-El Never Keep of His Same PromiseSuperman The Movie - FIRST-ELDER • The Law-'ll Be-UpheldSuperman The Movie - SECOND-ELDER • If The Investigation that Proves Entirely CorrectSuperman The Movie - MILITARY-OFFICER • The Kryptonian Energy that Input Jor-El's Quarters in Now In ExcessSuperman The Movie - Rarely Known Decided to Send Kal-El AwaySuperman The Movie via Its' Special Edition - Rarely Known Decided to Send Kal-El AwaySuperman The Movie via Its' Extended Cut - Rarely Known Decided to Send Kal-El AwaySuperman The Movie - The Planetary Destruction of The Planet KryptonSuperman The Movie via Its' Special Edition - The Planetary Destruction of The Planet KryptonSuperman The Movie via Its' Extended Cut - The Planetary Destruction of The Planet Krypton