The Planetary Kryptonquake/The Planetary Destruction/The Planetary Explosion of The Planet Krypton (Donnerverse)

**The Planetary Kryptonquake of The Planet Krypton (Donnerverse)** is .File:Profile - The Planetary Doomed on The Planet Krypton in The Distant Galaxy.pngFile:Profile - The Red-Planet Krypton before It's Permanently Explode.pngFile:Profile - The Planetary Explosion on The Planet Krypton.pngFile:Profile - Chunk Of Kryptonite at Donnerverse.png

## Info

* 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).
* 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: The question of whether it's showing off doing what you're capable of doing. ***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 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).*** An planet explodes, killing everyone living on it (we don't see the actual deaths, just the explosion from outer space).

* ***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.
* ***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.
* ***And I Must Scream*:** Zod and company did, in the Phantom Zone, described in-universe as "an eternal living death".
* ***Apocalyptic Gag Order*:** The Council orders Jor-El to keep quiet on Krypton’s destruction in the wake of Zod’s imprisonment. Obviously, he decides to send his son to Earth. 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.
* **Crystal Prison:** The Phantom Zone.
* **Crystal Spires and Togas:** Planet Krypton is portrayed this way, as a homage to pulp science fiction.
* **Dark Mistress:** Miss Teschmacher.
* **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.
* **Death by Origin Story:** Jor-El and all of Krypton. ***However, it's Jor-El, not himself, who turns him into "Superman."***
* 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.
* **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.
* 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.
* 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 someone therein is needed by the plot, in which case, the Phantom Zone is a horrible vacation spot.
* Eye Take: In the Extended Cut, the Executioner (tasked with arresting Jor-El for misuse of energy in order to build Kal-El's rocketship) reacts to Krypton's imminent destruction this way before a crystal formation (shard?) crushed him to death. It's the only time his Human Alien features can be seen.
* Fanfare: John Williams lived up to his usual epic standards when composing the score.
	+ The title theme, like past Superman scores, does a three note motif that says "Superman", only this theme has two different motifs.
	+ The 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.
* 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. Played with in Superman's case with the lead box in Luthor's lair.
* Huge Holographic Head: Jor-El speaks to and finishes training Kal-El in the Fortress of Solitude using this trope.
* 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: 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.
* Laser-Guided Karma: As a result for not taking Jor-El’s warnings seriously, the Council goes down with him when Krypton blows up.
* 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, 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.
* 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.
* Mouthscreen: When Zod says "your heirs".
* 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.
* 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,
	+ A scene of baby 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:** 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.
* 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. note Remember, both films were produced concurrently with each other.
* 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.
	+ The explosion of planet Krypton looks like the original shot (minus the shockwaves) of the Death Star blowing up.
* Suddenly Shouting: "YOU *WILL* BOW DOWN BEFORE ME! BOTH YOU [Jor-El] AND THEN ONE DAY, YOUR *HEIRS!!*"
* 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.*
* Thousand-Yard Stare: Jor-El has one of these after his warning about Krypton's life expectancy and how they should evacuate immediately are forcefully shut down by the council.
* 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.
* Two of Your Earth Minutes: The Kryptonian Jor-El mentions Earth years multiple times during the reading of his Video Will to Clark Kent (Kal-El) (due to Kal-El 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. By the time we return to the confines of your galaxy, twelve of your years will have passed.
* 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.
* 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!"

The camera sped through space, coming upon another galaxy and solar system, with the reddish dot of a blazing hot sun, and then beyond it the planet Krypton, and the white crystalline mountains of the futuristic city of Kryptonopolis. Inside a domed structure, the voice of white-haired scientist Jor-El (Marlon Brando) dressed in white boomed out from the trial chamber of the Ruling Council. On the chest of his costume was an "S" enclosed by a pentagram. Specific charges of treason and sedition were brought against three accused insurrectionists: General Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa and Non, trapped within two circular, moving rings of light. Giant projections of the faces of the Council of Elders surrounded the room. The three revolutionaries, led by rebellious traitor Zod who wished to establish a new ruling order with himself as the Supreme Ruler, were found guilty (with Jor-El's vote of guilty the one to make it unanimous), as evil Zod vengefully vowed that Jor-El and his heirs would supplicate to him: "You will bow down before me, Jor-El." As the domed structure swiveled open and the three criminals were held within a column of light, a revolving, two-dimensional, rectangular "eternal void" named the Phantom Zone passed by, enveloped and imprisoned them, and took them out toward space, where they would be isolated and suffer "an eternal living death" in its mirror-like prism.
The respected Jor-El then warned the elders, including First Elder (Trevor Howard), of their own suicidal (or genocidal) fate as a planet - but his cautionary fears were discredited as an "outlandish theory." He stressed: "We must evacuate this planet immediately." His theoretical belief was that their planet, with seismic disturbances and shifting in orbit dangerously close to the Kryptonian sun, would explode in 30 days or maybe even sooner. Jor-El was warned to not spread fear and panic among the people, otherwise he would be accused of insurrection and join the others in the Phantom Zone. He vowed to remain silent (and that neither he nor his wife would leave the planet), but prepared a space-craft in his lab, with the knowledge of his wife Lara (Susannah York), to launch their infant son Kal-El (wrapped in a red, blue, and yellow blanket) toward distant Earth where there was primitive life. Earth's atmosphere would sustain him, and Earth's lifeforms (humans) were identical to Kryptonians - in addition, he would be super-human: "his dense molecular structure will make him strong...fast, virtually invulnerable." The baby was placed in a module, powered and surrounded by crystals (including one green crystal containing the amassed knowledge of Krypton), inserted and sealed into a larger, star-shaped spaceship, and launched. Jor-El's collapsing laboratory, with crystals crashing down and cataclysmic convulsions, shook violently from the approaching sun and Krypton disintegrated, exploded and imploded, as predicted.
During the spaceship's flight to Earth, the baby was wired to support survival, and a computer (with Jor-El's voice) taught the baby, as it grew, about literature, mathematics, history and science from many worlds and galaxies. After entering Earth's atmosphere (later revealed to be the year 1951, three years later), the spaceship crash-landed in a rural farming wheat-field near the US town of .

The camera pans up to the moon, then into space, passing a giant red sun and the planet Krypton. Krypton is crystalline, prismatic, appearing brilliant white. The camera now focuses on the planet. We see the alien architecture, composed of crystalline shapes, and then a dome, which opens to show a white haired man, dressed all in white, wearing an "S" enclosed by a pentagram on his chest.
[Filming these early sequences were slowed somewhat by Marlon Brando's acting method. He claimed that he was "less encumbered" when he could read the lines, rather than memorizing them. He insisted that all of his lines be written on cue cards. These card were then taped to the frame of the camera or a wheeled dolly and rolled just far enough in front of him to permit free movement.]
"This is no fantasy. No careless product of wild imagination.... These are matters of undeniable fact."
With those words, Jor-El asks the viewer to suspend disbelief, to accept Mario Puzo's version of the Superman story. This is a somewhat familiar story, yet somehow different from the classic "Superman", containing many parallels of the Judeo-Christian story of the Messiah.
As the first scene unfolds, Jor-El reads the charges of the insidious plot of General Zod, his companion Ursa and their evil associate Non, to orchestrate a military coup placing Zod as the absolute ruler of Krypton. Krypton had evolved to a near utopian society, and the thought of a "Supreme Ruler" was considered an act of insurrection. One by one, the council declares the trio guilty. Left as the only remaining council member to vote, Zod implores Jor-El to reconsider.
"The vote must be unanimous, Jor-El. You are a voice of reason in the council, as you would be in my regime, second only to me."
Turning his back on Zod, Jor-El illuminates a crystal, signifying his guilty vote, and walks away. Enraged, Zod curses Jor-El.
"You will bow down before me, Jor-El. Both you, and then one day, your heirs!"
In a flash of light, Zod, Ursa and Non are projected into the Phantom Zone, here a mirror-like prism that holds their bodily essences, which slowly heads out into cold, dark space. Only their screams of sorrow can be heard as the crystal disappears into the distance.
Still, the council has other business to deal with. Jor-El not only prosecuted of Zod, but also delivers a stern warning to the council that seismic disturbances within the planet are harbingers of the ultimate destruction of Krypton and tells them that the planet needs to prepare for worldwide evacuation. Fearing the unknown, the council warns Jor-El that his theories are unproven, and that, should he spread these rumors, he, too, will be held for insurrection. Jor-El swears that he will not say a word, and that neither he, nor his wife, Lara, will attempt to leave the planet. However, Jor-El did not make that same promise for his small son, Kal-El, and the scoffed prophet of Krypton decides to send his only son to earth.
Lara carries the infant to Jor-El's laboratory. In the civilized way of Krypton, she asks why Jor-El would send their child to such a backward planet as earth. They are a thousand years behind us, implores Lara. He will need that advantage to survive counters Jor-El. His denser Molecular structure will make him stronger than they are, he will have abilities far beyond theirs, and he will look like one of them. But, he will never be like one of them, replies Lara, sadly.
However, the decision is made. Jor-El places the infant in the star-shaped capsule, as well as a green crystal containing all of the amassed knowledge of Krypton. Jor-El tells his son:
"You will travel far, my little, Kal-El, but we will never leave you, even in the face of our deaths. The richness of out love will be yours. All that I have, all that I have learned, all that I feel, these and more I bequeath you. You will carry me inside you all the days of your life. You will make my strength your own. I will see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father and the father the son. This is all I can send you, Kal-El."
Jor-El and Lara launch the ship and watch as it lifts off high above the surface of Krypton just as a new set of tremors hit the planet. The quakes crumble the buildings, eventually fracturing the planet itself into bits.
Safe inside the capsule, the young Kal-El is taught, through Jor-El's voice, about Krypton (which Kal-El seemingly forgets once he reaches Earth). It takes over two years to complete that journey which ends, almost by luck, in .

## Background

### Early-Life

On of The Distant Planet of The Planet Krypton, the home world of The Highly-Evolved Race which Also Resembling-Regular Humans and Somehow Entirely Bearing via Unique Molecular Density and Unique Molecular Structure, a result of the planet's gravitational strength and the radiation of its crimson central star. The planet is ruled by a Council of Elders, each representing a particular "tribe" and bearing a crest of that particular House. The planet's greatest scientist bears an S-shaped crest, the House of El. Jor-El is supervising the conviction of three criminals caught attempting to overthrow the planet's government - General Zod, the planet's former defense chief; his henchman Non, a hulking killer unable to speak; and Ursa, a woman determined to exterminate men other than the man she loves, Zod. The vast dome of the planet's capital city, Kryptonopolis, opens to the night, and an extra-dimensional pyramid - the Phantom Zone - tumbles out of the sky and absorbs the three criminals into an eternity in dimensional limbo through space.

The Camera-Pans Up into Entire Regular HyperSpace, Somehow Fully Passing via Giant Red-Krypton Sunlight and The Planet Krypton. Krypton Is Crystalline, prismatic, appearing brilliant white. The camera now focuses on The Kryptonian Planet. We Currently See of The Regular-Alien Architecture, Also Entirely Composed of Known Crystalline Shapes, and then a dome, which opens to show a white haired man, dressed all in white, wearing an "S" enclosed by a pentagram on his chest. **[Filming these early sequences were slowed somewhat by Marlon Brando's acting method. He claimed that he was "less encumbered" when he could read the lines, rather than memorizing them. He insisted that all of his lines be written on cue cards. These card were then taped to the frame of the camera or a wheeled dolly and rolled just far enough in front of him to permit free movement.]** "This is no fantasy. No careless product of wild imagination.... These are matters of undeniable fact." **With those words, Jor-El asks the viewer to suspend disbelief, to accept Mario Puzo's version of the Superman story. This is a somewhat familiar story, yet somehow different from the classic "Superman", containing many parallels of the Judeo-Christian story of the Messiah.** As the first scene unfolds, Jor-El reads the charges of the insidious plot of General Zod, his companion Ursa and their evil associate Non, to orchestrate a military coup placing Zod as the absolute ruler of Krypton. Krypton had evolved to a near utopian society, and the thought of a "Supreme Ruler" was considered an act of insurrection. One by one, the council declares the trio guilty. Left as the only remaining council member to vote, Zod implores Jor-El to reconsider. **"The vote must be unanimous, Jor-El. You are a voice of reason in the council, as you would be in my regime, second only to me."** Turning his back on Zod, Jor-El illuminates a crystal, signifying his guilty vote, and walks away. Enraged, Zod curses Jor-El. **"You will bow down before me, Jor-El. Both you, and then one day, your heirs!"** In a flash of light, Zod, Ursa and Non are projected into the Phantom Zone, here a mirror-like prism that holds their bodily essences, which slowly heads out into cold, dark space. Only their screams of sorrow can be heard as the crystal disappears into the distance.

On Krypton, using evidence provided by scientist Jor-El, the Ruling Council sentences three attempted insurrectionists, General Zod, Non and Ursa, to "eternal living death" in the Phantom Zone.

#### Info

**Still, The Kryptonian Council that Has Other Business to deal with. Jor-El not only prosecuted of Zod, but also delivers a stern warning to the council that seismic disturbances within the planet are harbingers of the ultimate destruction of Krypton and tells them that the planet needs to prepare for worldwide evacuation. Fearing the unknown, the council warns Jor-El that his theories are unproven, and that, should he spread these rumors, he, too, will be held for insurrection. Jor-El swears that he will not say a word, and that neither he, nor his wife, Lara, will attempt to leave the planet.**

On the planet Krypton, Jor-El of the Kryptonian high council discovers that the planet will be destroyed when it drifts out of its orbit towards its red supergiant sun. The other council members dismiss his claims.

Despite His Eminence, Jor-El is unable to convince the Council of his belief that Krypton will soon explode.

### The Planetary Explosion

However, Jor-El's more pressing concern lies in the orbital shift of Krypton; this shift is putting the planet into the fatal gravitational pull of its central star, a fact blithely ignored by the Council of Elders. The leader of the Council forbids Jor-El from warning the larger populace or he will be imprisoned in the Phantom Zone himself. Jor-El promises to be silent and that he and his wife will not attempt to leave the planet. Jor-El chooses instead to construct a crystalline starship for his infant son Kal-El. Jor-El's wife Lara, however, is concerned, for the starship is programmed to take the child through a trans-galactic warp to a planet populated by primitive humans whose technological development is millennia behind Krypton, a planet that orbits a yellow sun, a planet called Earth. Jor-El, however, understands that the planet's yellow sun will give Kal-El superhuman powers that will give him the advantage he needs to survive. Jor-El and Lara bid their child goodbye before Joe-El installs a Green Crystal into the ship, a crystal containing the very essence of himself and Lara as well as the knowledge of the entire universe. He then completes the assembly of the starship - just as the planet is pulled into a fatal plunge toward its red sun. The starship is launched and escapes the system scant minutes before the planet is torn open, collides with its star, and both bodies are obliterated in a holocaust of fire and debris.

However, Jor-El did not make that same promise for his small son, Kal-El, and the scoffed prophet of Krypton decides to send his only son to earth. **Lara carries the infant to Jor-El's laboratory. In the civilized way of Krypton, she asks why Jor-El would send their child to such a backward planet as earth. They are a thousand years behind us, implores Lara. He will need that advantage to survive counters Jor-El. His denser Molecular structure will make him stronger than they are, he will have abilities far beyond theirs, and he will look like one of them. But, he will never be like one of them, replies Lara, sadly.** However, the decision is made. Jor-El places the infant in the star-shaped capsule, as well as a green crystal containing all of the amassed knowledge of Krypton. Jor-El tells his son: **"You will travel far, my little, Kal-El, but we will never leave you, even in the face of our deaths. The richness of out love will be yours. All that I have, all that I have learned, all that I feel, these and more I bequeath you. You will carry me inside you all the days of your life. You will make my strength your own. I will see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father and the father the son. This is all I can send you, Kal-El."** Jor-El and Lara launch the ship and watch as it lifts off high above the surface of Krypton just as a new set of tremors hit the planet. The quakes crumble the buildings, eventually fracturing the planet itself into bits.

To save Kal-El, his infant son, Jor-El sends him in a spaceship to Earth, where his dense molecular structure will give him superhuman strength and other powers. Krypton, thereafter, is destroyed.

To save his infant son Kal-El, Jor-El launches a spacecraft containing the child towards Earth, a distant planet with a suitable atmosphere, and where Kal-El's dense molecular structure will give him superhuman powers. Shortly after the launch, Krypton is destroyed.

## Details By Gallery

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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-Wife Lara 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 - 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 KryptonSuperman (1978 Movie) - The Entire Life on The Planet KryptonSuperman (1978 Movie) via Its' Special Edition - The Entire Life on The Planet KryptonSuperman (1978 Movie) via Its' Extended Cut - The Entire Life on The Planet KryptonSuperman (1978 Movie) - An General Zod is Now Permanently DefeatedSuperman (1978 Movie) via Its' Special Edition - An General Zod is Now Permanently DefeatedSuperman (1978 Movie) via Its' Extended Cut - An General Zod is Now Permanently DefeatedSuperman (1978 Movie) - "Neither I-Nor•My-Romance Wife will Leave From Krypton"Superman (1978 Movie) via Its' Special Edition - "Neither I-Nor•My-Wife Lara will Leave From Krypton"Superman (1978 Movie) via Its' Extended Cut - "Neither I-Nor•My-Romance Wife will Leave Planet Krypton"Superman (1978 Movie) - Jor-El Never Keep of His Same PromiseSuperman (1978 Movie) via Its' Special Edition - Jor-El Never Keep of His Same PromiseSuperman (1978 Movie) via Its' Extended Cut - Jor-El Never Keep of His Same PromiseSuperman (1978 Movie) - Rarely Known Decided to Send Kal-El AwaySuperman (1978 Movie) via Its' Special Edition - Rarely Known Decided to Send Kal-El AwaySuperman (1978 Movie) via Its' Extended Cut - Rarely Known Decided to Send Kal-El AwaySuperman (1978 Movie) - The Planetary Destruction of The Planet KryptonSuperman (1978 Movie) via Its' Special Edition - The Planetary Destruction of The Planet KryptonSuperman (1978 Movie) via Its' Extended Cut - The Planetary Destruction of The Planet Krypton
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