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Warning ! Spoilers onward forKneel Before Zod # 1!It ’s not justSupermanthat has a sorry opposite , but his total family as well . The Man of Steel ’s infamous Kryptonian enemy General Zod is enter on a new foreign mission to resurrect Krypton by any way necessary . But his attack at keeping thing a family matter reveal just how twisted a reflexion the Zod clan is .
InKneel Before Zod # 1by Joe Casey and Dan McDaid , General Zod is deepinto his mission to make New Kandor boom . Unfortunately , he does not have the corporate trust of his son , Lor - Zod who defy his beginner ’s wish and investigateswhat General Zod is buildingin secret .
General Zod confront his boy , who expresses wrath at his founder for not trusting him . Zod , however , realizes that his noncompliant son has come of age and that their only track forward now is for Lor - Zod to make his own way in the macrocosm . General Zod exile his sonand Lor - Zod is left with nothing , relieve for the words of his female parent that one 24-hour interval he ’ll interpret .
General Zod’s Family is a Toxic Opposite of Superman’s Family
Zod may have drop most of his days outside the Phantom Zone attempt to defeat his most bitter nemesis , Superman . But as of previous , the villain has been preoccupied with restoring the bottle city of Kandor . Zod curb a young planet to serve as the footing for a Modern Kryptonian home world while his wife Ursa began a curriculum to genetically enhance the local population to wait on as New Kandor ’s regular army . However , Zod is act under the sleepless eye of the United Planets and they ’re alreadysuspicious that Zod has subterraneous motivesfor his charge .
Zod ’s always been the opposite of Superman , but this extended look at the baddie ’s house dynamic shows that it ’s not just Zod ’s outlook that ’s the inverse of the Man of Steel . Zod and Lor - Zod are constantly at each other ’s throats due to Zod expecting unsighted obedience and Lor - Zod feel a deficiency of regard from his father . It ’s a much more bare relationship than Clark and Jon , who get along famously . certainly , the Super - Family has had their disagreements , like when Jon left to journey the stars with his granddad . But the Kent family is built on love , something that Zod ’s family crucially lacks .
Zod’s Family Doesn’t Have the Thing That Makes Superman’s Family Work
Zod ’s decisiveness to banish Lor - Zod seems to muse Clark ’s decision to let Jon get out Earth . But Clark regretted his decision almost outright while Zod feel nothing over his choice . What bring Jon back to Earth is the love he shares with his family . Lor - Zod has almost sure enough never feel that with his family and now that he ’s left home , there ’s no guarantee he ’ll ever come back to Zod ’s side . Unfortunately , Zod would sooner just have another child and start again than ever intromit to any wrongdoing on his part . It ’s distressing because an actual kinship with his family could give Zod the same peace it ’s given Clark . ButSuperman’senemy is just too stuck in his ways to ever alter for the better .
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