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* EpicHail: During the countdown to doomsday, Jor-El contemplates rigging some satellite dishes to appeal for help from neighboring star systems, [[RealityEnsues before realizing that "[e]ven with a transmission spreading out at the speed of light, no rescuers could possibly hear him and respond soon enough. In the time remaining, Jor-El's call for help would barely reach the boundary of Rao's solar system."]]
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* EpicHail: During the countdown to doomsday, Jor-El contemplates rigging some satellite dishes to appeal for help from neighboring star systems, [[RealityEnsues before realizing that "[e]ven with a transmission spreading out at the speed of light, no rescuers could possibly hear him and respond soon enough. In the time remaining, Jor-El's call for help would barely reach the boundary of Rao's solar system."]]"
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* HufflepuffHouse: The only Kryptonian cities to actually appear in the novel are Argo City, Borga City, Kandor, and Kryptonopolis (which is uninhabited until halfway through the novel). Important characters from the lakeside district of Orvai and the mining city Corril appear, but the cities themselves don't. A city named Ilonia is briefly mentioned three times but receives no description.The rest of the planet's cities (of which there are at least seventeen), towns and villages are named and only mentioned in passing to describe how the main characters; efforts are influencing people elsewhere.
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* HufflepuffHouse: The only Kryptonian cities to actually appear in the novel are Argo City, Borga City, Kandor, and Kryptonopolis (which is uninhabited until halfway through the novel). Important characters from the lakeside district of Orvai and the mining city Corril appear, but the cities themselves don't. A city named Ilonia is briefly mentioned three times times, but receives no description.The rest of the planet's cities (of which there are at least seventeen), towns and villages are named and only mentioned in passing to describe how the main characters; efforts are influencing people elsewhere.
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* LifeSavingMisfortune: When Krypton's core first begins to destabilize, this causes a series of massive tidal waves which strike Argo City, killing or injuring scores of people and causing a great deal of damage. This disaster motivates Mayor Zor-El to reinforce the seawall with a powerful force field to protect the city from future waves. Instead, that force field saves Argo City and everyone inside its boundaries [[spoiler:from General Zod's army (which unsuccessfully attempts to invade and then bombard the city) ''and the destruction of their entire planet.'']]
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* HufflepuffHouse: The only Kryptonian cities to actually appear in the novel are Argo City, Borga City, Kandor, and Kryptonopolis (which is uninhabited until halfway through the novel). Important characters from the lakeside district of Orai and the mining city Corril appear, but the cities themselves don't. A city named Ilonia is briefly mentioned three times but receives no description.The rest of the planet's cities (of which there are at least seventeen), towns and villages are named and only mentioned in passing to describe how the main characters; efforts are influencing people elsewhere.
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* HufflepuffHouse: The only Kryptonian cities to actually appear in the novel are Argo City, Borga City, Kandor, and Kryptonopolis (which is uninhabited until halfway through the novel). Important characters from the lakeside district of Orai Orvai and the mining city Corril appear, but the cities themselves don't. A city named Ilonia is briefly mentioned three times but receives no description.The rest of the planet's cities (of which there are at least seventeen), towns and villages are named and only mentioned in passing to describe how the main characters; efforts are influencing people elsewhere.
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* HufflepuffHouse: The only Kryptonian cities to actually appear in the novel are Argo City, Borga City, Kandor, and Kryptonopolis (which is uninhabited until halfway through the novel). Important characters from the lakeside district of Orai and the mining city Corril appear, but the cities themselves don't. A city named Ilonia is briefly mentioned three times but receives no description.The rest of the planet's cities (of which there are at least seventeen), towns and villages are named and only mentioned in passing to describe how the main characters; efforts are influencing people elsewhere.
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* AwakenTheSleepingGiant: Zor-El spends a long time as a neutral figure who tries to dwell on the positive aspects of Zod's rule. Then Zod kidnaps Tyr-Us, a dissident whom Zor-El granted SacredHospitality. The rebellion against Zod promptly gains a charismatic and dedicated leader, game-changing force field technology, scores of loyal recruits (the citizens of Zor-El's city), and [[TheMole an eventual source of information in Zod's inner circle]].
--> '''Zor-El:''' Today, you have made a very serious enemy, Commissioner Zod.
--> '''Zor-El:''' Today, you have made a very serious enemy, Commissioner Zod.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Tyr-Us tells Zor-El that Shor-Em, the foppish mayor of Borga City, has twice managed to drive away men trying to kidnap or assassinate him.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Tyr-Us tells Zor-El that Shor-Em, the foppish mayor of Borga City, has twice managed to drive away Shor-Em is a foolish, overly ambitious stuffed shirt, but he fights off men trying Zod sends to kill or kidnap or assassinate him.him. Twice!
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* ReleasedToElsewhere: When Gil-Ex is at the crater where Kandor once stood to denounce Zod declaring himself the ruler of Krypton, Zod has a private meeting with him. The next morning he announces that Gil-Ex has come around to his line of thinking and decided to retire from public life as penance for disrupting Zod's wise and noble efforts. In reality, Zod [[FateWorseThanDeath banished Gil-Ex to the Phantom Zone]]. Zod goes on to repeat this process with several other opponents to his rule.
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* ImportantHaircut: Or-Om isn't a major character, but he's repeatedly described as shaggy-haired while he's a mining industrialist and dissident against Zod. After he becomes a member of the Kryptonian Council, it's briefly mentioned that he's cut his long hair.
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** ''Tyr''-Us ''tires'' just about anyone who has to deal with him and launches into lots of ''tir''ades. It's even lampshaded InUniverse by Zod. Tyr-Us also becomes a ''tyr''ant of sorts by abusing Krypton's democratic process when he doesn't even bother with the formality of formal council votes due to feeling confident about his majority bloc.
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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Tyr-Us refers to his fellow dissident Gil-Ez as "vain and self-righteous" after he disappears and is presumed dead (although it turns out Gil-Ex is only being held prisoner in the Phantom Zone).
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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Tyr-Us refers to his fellow dissident Gil-Ez Gil-Ex as "vain and self-righteous" after he disappears and is presumed dead (although it turns out Gil-Ex is only being held prisoner in the Phantom Zone).
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* PleaseIWillDoAnything: [[spoiler:Gil-Ex freaks out during the destruction of Krypton and is ready to do whatever Jor-El wants if the scientist who he's spent several chapters antagonizing can pull off an eleventh-hour miracle. Unfortunately for everyone involved, it's too late for that.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:Gil-Ex]]:''' Contact Jor-El again! Give him anything he wants. [[spoiler:The Council]] will support him now, so long as he tells us how to save ourselves.
--> '''[[spoiler:Gil-Ex]]:''' Contact Jor-El again! Give him anything he wants. [[spoiler:The Council]] will support him now, so long as he tells us how to save ourselves.
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--> '''Lara:''' Was my grammar incorrect? The spelling? Maybe you didn't like my descriptions. Too many adverbs? Or perhaps I should have taken more creative license in describing Zod. But you did want this to be a ''history'' instead of a fantasy, right? Or did I misunderstand you? I particularly like my account of the annihilation of Borga City. Quite vivid prose. I wanted to add interviews with all those dissidents who cheerfully changed their minds and conveniently retired, but I couldn't find any of them. Not a one! [[SarcasmMode Do you suppose something terrible happened to them?' Maybe we should tell the General. He'll get to the bottom of it.]]
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--> '''Lara:''' Was my grammar incorrect? The spelling? Maybe you didn't like my descriptions. Too many adverbs? Or perhaps I should have taken more creative license in describing Zod. But you did want this to be a ''history'' instead of a fantasy, right? Or did I misunderstand you? I particularly like my account of the annihilation of Borga City.[[spoiler:Borga City]]. Quite vivid prose. I wanted to add interviews with all those dissidents who cheerfully changed their minds and conveniently retired, but I couldn't find any of them. Not a one! [[SarcasmMode Do you suppose something terrible happened to them?' Maybe we should tell the General. He'll get to the bottom of it.]]
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* VillainHasAPoint: He may have been an opportunistic tyrant, but Zod's critique of Krypton's Ruling Council, and their successors, wasn't unjustified.
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* VillainHasAPoint: He may have been an opportunistic tyrant, but Zod's critique of Krypton's Ruling Council, and their successors, wasn't unjustified.unjustified.
* WhoWatchesTheWatchmen: Zod is in charge of confiscating and destroying potentially dangerous inventions, but keeps them for his own ends. Zod himself discusses this trope when he confiscates the Phantom Zone projector. Jor-El says that it could be kept under guard to prevent misuse, but Zod replies that the guards could succumb to temptation as easily as anyone else.
* WhoWatchesTheWatchmen: Zod is in charge of confiscating and destroying potentially dangerous inventions, but keeps them for his own ends. Zod himself discusses this trope when he confiscates the Phantom Zone projector. Jor-El says that it could be kept under guard to prevent misuse, but Zod replies that the guards could succumb to temptation as easily as anyone else.
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* ReluctantMadScientist: Jor-El is an interesting variant of the trope. He's a genuine ScienceHero whose inventions ''are'' being used to save Krypton from various cataclysmic disasters. It's just that Zod, the man granting him the resources to carry out those projects, also finds ways to use those same inventions for tyranny and destruction once they've served their original purpose (to Jor-El's distress).
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Tyr-Us tells Zor-El that Shor-Em, the foppish mayor of Borga City, has twice managed to drive away men trying to kidnap or assassinate him.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Zod, of course. As Jor-El realizes, everything Zod does, first and foremost, is to benefit him.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Zod, of course. As Jor-El realizes, everything Zod does, first and foremost, is to benefit him.himself.
* ItsProbablyNothing: Downplayed when Jor-El first tells the Kryptonian Council of his concerns that their sun may go supernova. Most of the Councilors doubt that the sun is in danger of exploding in their lifetimes. Still, several of them acknowledge it's a problem future generations should have a leg up in studying.
--> '''Mauro-Ji:''' I say he should draw up his plans, document his ideas. Centuries from now, when and if the sun does become slightly more unstable, our descendants might be glad we had such foresight.
--> '''Pol-Ev:''' That does seem prudent. Let the historical record show that we did indeed plan ahead.
* ItsProbablyNothing: Downplayed when Jor-El first tells the Kryptonian Council of his concerns that their sun may go supernova. Most of the Councilors doubt that the sun is in danger of exploding in their lifetimes. Still, several of them acknowledge it's a problem future generations should have a leg up in studying.
--> '''Mauro-Ji:''' I say he should draw up his plans, document his ideas. Centuries from now, when and if the sun does become slightly more unstable, our descendants might be glad we had such foresight.
--> '''Pol-Ev:''' That does seem prudent. Let the historical record show that we did indeed plan ahead.
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--> ''Lara:''' Was my grammar incorrect? The spelling? Maybe you didn't like my descriptions. Too many adverbs? Or perhaps I should have taken more creative license in describing Zod. But you did want this to be a ''history'' instead of a fantasy, right? Or did I misunderstand you? I particularly like my account of the annihilation of Borga City. Quite vivid prose. I wanted to add interviews with all those dissidents who cheerfully changed their minds and conveniently retired, but I couldn't find any of them. Not a one! [[SarcasmMode Do you suppose something terrible happened to them?' Maybe we should tell the General. He'll get to the bottom of it.]]
--> ''Aethyr:''' Silence! I won't hear you speak of him that way.
--> ''Aethyr:''' Silence! I won't hear you speak of him that way.
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--> ''Lara:''' '''Lara:''' Was my grammar incorrect? The spelling? Maybe you didn't like my descriptions. Too many adverbs? Or perhaps I should have taken more creative license in describing Zod. But you did want this to be a ''history'' instead of a fantasy, right? Or did I misunderstand you? I particularly like my account of the annihilation of Borga City. Quite vivid prose. I wanted to add interviews with all those dissidents who cheerfully changed their minds and conveniently retired, but I couldn't find any of them. Not a one! [[SarcasmMode Do you suppose something terrible happened to them?' Maybe we should tell the General. He'll get to the bottom of it.]]
-->''Aethyr:''' '''Aethyr:''' Silence! I won't hear you speak of him that way.
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* AdultFear:
** One resident of Kandor [[LateToTheTragedy returns from a business trip to find that all four of his daughters were inside the city when Brainiac abducted it.]]
** Jor-El and Lara delay shooting their son's rocket into space until the last minute due to dreading the idea of their baby being trapped alone in space, with no way for them to find him, on the off chance Jor-El is wrong about the impending cataclysm.
* AllergicToRoutine: Councilor Cera-Si frequently requests breaks during ponderous Council meetings and has declined multiple offers to join the priesthood because he dislikes the idea of standing around for hours and staring at the sun (with protective eyewear).
** One resident of Kandor [[LateToTheTragedy returns from a business trip to find that all four of his daughters were inside the city when Brainiac abducted it.]]
** Jor-El and Lara delay shooting their son's rocket into space until the last minute due to dreading the idea of their baby being trapped alone in space, with no way for them to find him, on the off chance Jor-El is wrong about the impending cataclysm.
* AllergicToRoutine: Councilor Cera-Si frequently requests breaks during ponderous Council meetings and has declined multiple offers to join the priesthood because he dislikes the idea of standing around for hours and staring at the sun (with protective eyewear).
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: In the past, Mauro-Ji's family invested heavily in a vineyard that was wiped out by a blight, and an earthquake destroyed one of their mansions. He's still prominent enough to have a spot on the Kryptonian Council, but his family isn't very rich anymore.
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* ModestRoyalty: Council Head Jul-Us is an ObstructiveBureaucrat (and possibly a CorruptBureaucrat if Zod is to be believed), but he makes short, succinct speeches at formal affairs and wears a simple white robe.
--> ''To his credit, the Council Head was not a man who demanded attention and praise from the people of Kandor.''
--> ''To his credit, the Council Head was not a man who demanded attention and praise from the people of Kandor.''
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* SocialClimber:
** Vor-On, a younger noble son with no prospects, goes out of his way to strike up a conversation with Zod at the racetrack. Zod considers him an annoying sycophant, although [[EvilCannotComprehendGood considering Zod's worldview,]] he may be misjudging the young man.
** Councilor Mauro-Ji, an ImpoverishedPatrician, often invites Jor-El to parties (and unsuccessfully tried to set Jor-El up with one of his daughters at various points) "as if proximity to the esteemed scientist might increase his own standing."
** Vor-On, a younger noble son with no prospects, goes out of his way to strike up a conversation with Zod at the racetrack. Zod considers him an annoying sycophant, although [[EvilCannotComprehendGood considering Zod's worldview,]] he may be misjudging the young man.
** Councilor Mauro-Ji, an ImpoverishedPatrician, often invites Jor-El to parties (and unsuccessfully tried to set Jor-El up with one of his daughters at various points) "as if proximity to the esteemed scientist might increase his own standing."
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Tyr-Us and Gil-Ex's four allies on the reformed Kryptonian Council have no names, little BackStory, and only two three lines of dialogue between them, but their existence gives the troublemakers on the Council a majority vote, [[spoiler:directly leading to Krypton's destruction.]]
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* EpicHail: During the countdown to doomsday, Jor-El contemplates rigging some satellite dishes to appeal for help from neighboring star systems, [[RealityEnsues before realizing that "[e]ven with a transmission spreading out at the speed of light, no rescuers could possibly hear him and respond soon enough. In the time remaining, Jor-El's call for help would barely reach the boundary of Rao's solar system."]]
* TheExile: Tyr-Us and Gal-Eth are both shown in malnourished, disheveled states after being forced out of their homes by Zod's loyalists.
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** ''Tyr''-Us ''tires'' just about anyone who has to deal with him and launches into lots of ''tir''ades. It's even lampshaded InUniverse by Zod.
** ''Or''-Om owns a mining company that extracts ''ore.''
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* PetTheDog: As ambitious and obstinate as Tyr-Us is, he thanks Alura for her hospitality and refreshments while on the run from Zod and sincerely apologizes for briefly feeling paranoid that she was drugging him. He also declines to stay in Argo City out of fear that he'll endanger Zor-El and Alura by doing so.
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* TheDandy: Councilor Pol-Ev is outright called a dandy, dresses opulently and wears cologne.
--> ''[I]t was hard to tell whether he followed fashion or set it.''
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* UncertainDoom: The surviving {{Mook}}s and aristocratic younger sons from Zod's army are last mentioned as being kept under guard after his defeat. Whether any of them are confined to the Phantom Zone between Zod's trial and Krypton's destruction is unknown.
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** The surviving {{Mook}}s and aristocratic younger sons from Zod's army are last mentioned as being kept under guard after his defeat. Whether any of them are confined to the Phantom Zone between Zod's trial and Krypton's destruction is unknown.
** Gal-Eth and Or-Om are last mentioned as [[spoiler:having joined No-Ton's failed HomeworldEvacuation efforts.]] However, they aren't mentioned in No-Ton's last scene, [[spoiler:leaving a slight possibility that they may have gone to Argo City to seek the protection of its forcefield.]]
** The surviving {{Mook}}s and aristocratic younger sons from Zod's army are last mentioned as being kept under guard after his defeat. Whether any of them are confined to the Phantom Zone between Zod's trial and Krypton's destruction is unknown.
** Gal-Eth and Or-Om are last mentioned as [[spoiler:having joined No-Ton's failed HomeworldEvacuation efforts.]] However, they aren't mentioned in No-Ton's last scene, [[spoiler:leaving a slight possibility that they may have gone to Argo City to seek the protection of its forcefield.]]
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* AdaptedOut: In the comics, the Phantom Zone hosts scores of colorful prisoners convicted of crimes of varying severity. Here, Zod and his followers are the only inmates at the time of Krypton's destruction.
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* DespairEventHorizon: No-Ton slumps to the ground, crying, after [[spoiler:the arks he's trying to build for a HomeworldEvacuation collapse due to the effects of an earthquake.]]
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Tyr-Us and Gil-Ex are overly entitled and somewhat stiff in their first scenes, but they don't come across as completely nasty and irrational until after spending the better part of a year imprisoned in the Phantom Zone.
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* AltarTheSpeed: After he's framed for causing an accident that killed an alien envoy, Lara moves up her and Jor-El's wedding date. She does this out of a determination to stand by Jor-El through the worst. Zod volunteers to be the presiding official for the wedding (in a self-serving ploy to earn Jor-El's loyalty), speeding up the ceremony even further to accommodate his schedule.
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* CainAndAbel: Shor-Em, the ruler of Borga Ciy, is an unusually selfish and grasping "Abel," but his brother Koll-Em is a perfect "Cain." Koll-Em was exiled for a greedy coup attempt in the past and has no qualms whatsoever with Zod killing his brother (and half the population of Borga City) after Koll-Em becomes one of the dictator's lieutenants.
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* NotSoDifferent: When recruiting No-Ton, Zod thinks that he is nothing like Jor-El aside from their shared scientific aptitude, believing No-Ton will be a more loyal and unscrupulous accomplice to his plans. He's proven wrong when some CharacterDevelopment leaves No-Ton disillusioned with Zod. No-Ton also agrees with Jor-El's concerns about various environmental factors threatening Krypton, and the two scientists even become good friends by the end of the book.
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* CallForward: Zor-El and Alura talk about how they'd like to have [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} a daughter]] if they survive the impending destruction of Krypton.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: InUniverse, Jor-El recognizes that Gur-Va must be on trial for something particularly awful when Councilor Kor-Te requests that the Council not keep a record of the trial "so that future generations need not be sickened by it."
--> ''Kor-Te read and quoted from the Council annals and documents as if they were holy scripture ... It was inconceivable that such a man would propose striking an event from the historical record.''
--> ''Kor-Te read and quoted from the Council annals and documents as if they were holy scripture ... It was inconceivable that such a man would propose striking an event from the historical record.''
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The eleven-member Kryptonian Council only has one female member.
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* UncertainDoom: The surviving {{Mook}}s and aristocratic younger sons from Zod's army are last mentioned as being kept under guard after his defeat. Whether any of them are confined to the Phantom Zone between Zod's trial and Krypton's destruction is unknown.
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* AntiVillain: Brainiac is fairly eloquent and introspective while arguing that abducting whole cities is necessary to make sure that civilizations will survive in the event of ApocalypseHow events like the one on ''his'' home planet.
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* AntiVillain: Brainiac is fairly eloquent and introspective while arguing that abducting whole cities is necessary to make sure that civilizations will survive in the event of ApocalypseHow events like the one on ''his'' home planet. Brainiac also offers to shrink Zod to reunite him with any loved ones he may have in Kandor and doesn't mind when Zod declines.
* ChekhovsSkill: Zor-El's wife Allura runs a massive greenhouse. In the final chapters, she mentions that she can use it to feed the people of Argo City if her husband's energy field saves them from the planet's explosion.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Even the most selfish and abrasive members of the original council are disgusted when they watch the video of Gur-Va gleefully butchering endangered animals alive.
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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Tyr-Us refers to his fellow dissident Gil-Ez as "vain and self-righteous" after he disappears and is presumed dead (although it turns out Gil-Ex is only being held prisoner in the Phantom Zone).
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** Councilors Gal-Eth and Or-Orm help lead the resistance against Zod, show concern about the path Tyr-Us and his allies are taking, and [[spoiler:join No-Ton's HomeworldEvacuation attempts.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tyr-Us spends his last few moments numbly taking responsibility for his role in [[spoiler:Krypton's destruction.]]
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* AntiVillain: Brainiac is fairly eloquent and introspective while arguing that abducting whole cities is necessary to make sure that civilizations will survive in the event of ApocalypseHow events like the one on ''his'' home planet.
* BadBoss: Zod randomly selects a completely innocent servant to send to the Phantom Zone as a test.
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* FreudianExcuse: Nam-Ek's father went crazy and killed the rest of his family when he was a child. Afterward Nam-Ek was raised by Zod, who cares cared for him, him but implicitly exposed the traumatized boy to a lot of scheming and violence during those impressionable years, causing Nam-Ek to see nothing wrong with being Zod's hatchet man.
* HomeworldEvacuation: Jor-El gives No-Ton and the other councilors who believe his warnings about a cataclysm plans for a space ark. Despite their best efforts, [[RealityEnsues building a fleet of evacuation ships from scratch in just three days is impossible,]] so they focus all of their efforts on finishing just one ship in the last seven hours. [[spoiler:They don't finish it in time.]]
* LoopholeAbuse: Jor-El tries to get around a ban on space travel by building a device to explore worlds in other dimensions, accidentally discovering the Phantom Zone.
* ManOfTheCity: Zor-El is the mayor of Argo City and is devoted to bettering it with his inventions and civic plans. After standing against Zod, he works on protecting his city from retaliation with an energy field and is saddened about having to destroy a historic piece of infrastructure in the process. After the war, he declines a seat on Krypton's council (endorsing Jor-El in his place) to focus on repairing Argo City. When Zor-El speaks, all of Argo City listens to him and trusts him. When the destruction of Krypton is imminent, Zor-El spends the last few hours taking in Argo City's beauty while wondering if his energy shield will save them or not.
* ManOfTheCity: Zor-El is the mayor of Argo City and is devoted to bettering it with his inventions and civic plans. After standing against Zod, he works on protecting his city from retaliation with an energy field and is saddened about having to destroy a historic piece of infrastructure in the process. After the war, he declines a seat on Krypton's council (endorsing Jor-El in his place) to focus on repairing Argo City. When Zor-El speaks, all of Argo City listens to him and trusts him. When the destruction of Krypton is imminent, Zor-El spends the last few hours taking in Argo City's beauty while wondering if his energy shield will save them or not.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Zor-El proposes that the new Kryptoniain Council make its decisions by a majority vote rather than requiring a unanimous consensus. This progressive and democratic idea lets the six selfish, boneheaded reactionaries on the council completely ignore their five more reasonable colleagues (including Jor-El) due to having a majority vote, [[spoiler:leading to Krypton's destruction.]]
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* OhCrap: Zod has two notable examples. First, when Brainaic's ship arrives, Zod thinks it is Donodon's people come for revenge. [[spoiler: Since Nam-Ek killed Donodon on Zod's orders, he was right to be concerned.]] Later, this is his initial reaction when Jor-El reports to Zod that his space-monitoring system has found something (a comet). Zod had honestly not expected any further legitimate threats from space.
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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
** Zod has two notable examples. First, when Brainaic's ship arrives, Zod thinks it is Donodon's people come for revenge. [[spoiler: Since Nam-Ek killed Donodon on Zod's orders, he was right to be concerned.]] Later, this is his initial reaction when Jor-El reports to Zod that his space-monitoring system has found something (a comet). Zod had honestly not expected any further legitimate threats fromspace.space.
** Lara is hesitant to let Zod see a painting she made of him, feeling that it reflects a sense of troubling inner darkness. Her concern increases when Zod happily declares that the painting captures him perfectly.
** Zod has two notable examples. First, when Brainaic's ship arrives, Zod thinks it is Donodon's people come for revenge. [[spoiler: Since Nam-Ek killed Donodon on Zod's orders, he was right to be concerned.]] Later, this is his initial reaction when Jor-El reports to Zod that his space-monitoring system has found something (a comet). Zod had honestly not expected any further legitimate threats from
** Lara is hesitant to let Zod see a painting she made of him, feeling that it reflects a sense of troubling inner darkness. Her concern increases when Zod happily declares that the painting captures him perfectly.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Zod's late father and former Council Head Cor-Zod was this. Even after his quick power grab, silencing of dissidents, senseless destruction of a rival city and pompous warmongering, General Zod sees himself as this.
** Zor-El is definitely this. Besides being a decent scientist himself, he's also the ruler of his own city.
** Zor-El is definitely this. Besides being a decent scientist himself, he's also the ruler of his own city.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: PregnantBadass: A pregnant Lara doesn't flinch when confronted about her unflattering writings about Zod.
--> ''Lara:''' Was my grammar incorrect? The spelling? Maybe you didn't like my descriptions. Too many adverbs? Or perhaps I should have taken more creative license in describing Zod. But you did want this to be a ''history'' instead of a fantasy, right? Or did I misunderstand you? I particularly like my account of the annihilation of Borga City. Quite vivid prose. I wanted to add interviews with all those dissidents who cheerfully changed their minds and conveniently retired, but I couldn't find any of them. Not a one! [[SarcasmMode Do you suppose something terrible happened to them?' Maybe we should tell the General. He'll get to the bottom of it.]]
--> ''Aethyr:''' Silence! I won't hear you speak of him that way.
--> '''Lara:''' Oh, his actions speak well enough for themselves.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Zod's late father and former Council Head Cor-Zod was this. Even after his quick power grab, silencing of dissidents, senseless destruction of a rival city and pompous warmongering, General Zod sees himself as this.
** Zor-El isdefinitely this. Besides being a decent scientist himself, he's selfless and innovative mayor, resists Zod's tyranny, and pays attention to his brother's concerns about the safety of Krypton.
** Councilors Cera-Si and Mauro-Ji can be a ''little'' reactionary but generally hear Jor-El out and consider his claims whenever he has the data to back them up. Cera is also theruler only councilor who actually wants at least ''some'' change in their stagnant society.
--> '''Cera-Si:''' We cannot ignore a problem simply because there's no immediately obvious solution.
** No-Ton is the only member of Zod's inner circle besides Jor-El to realize how unstable he is and defect. His efforts lead to him becoming part of the new council after Zod is defeated. No-Ton objects to efforts to phase out Jor-El, warns Jor-El about [[spoiler: Tyr-Us and hisown city.cronies trying to destroy the Phantom Zone and endanger Krypton]], and then spends the last few chapters of the book [[spoiler:desperately working on a HomeworldEvacuation.]]
** Councilors Gal-Eth and Or-Orm help lead the resistance against Zod, show concern about the path Tyr-Us and his allies are taking, and [[spoiler:join No-Ton's HomeworldEvacuation attempts.]]
** Korth-Or initially doesn't believe Jor-El's warnings that [[spoiler: trying to destroy the Phantom Zone will doom Krypton]], but opposes doing so until they understand the science more. He is also concerned when Tyr-Us and his majority bloc confirm votes without even asking the other five council members.
* RescueRomance: Lara meets Jor-El while rescuing him from the Phantom Zone projector he accidentally sealed himself in. A loving relationship quickly develops.
* RevengeBeforeReason: The members of the new Krytonian Council who were previously imprisoned in the Phantom Zone by Zod [[spoiler: trigger Krypton's destruction by trying to lash out and destroy the Phantom Zone by dropping the projector into Krypton's core.]]
--> ''Lara:''' Was my grammar incorrect? The spelling? Maybe you didn't like my descriptions. Too many adverbs? Or perhaps I should have taken more creative license in describing Zod. But you did want this to be a ''history'' instead of a fantasy, right? Or did I misunderstand you? I particularly like my account of the annihilation of Borga City. Quite vivid prose. I wanted to add interviews with all those dissidents who cheerfully changed their minds and conveniently retired, but I couldn't find any of them. Not a one! [[SarcasmMode Do you suppose something terrible happened to them?' Maybe we should tell the General. He'll get to the bottom of it.]]
--> ''Aethyr:''' Silence! I won't hear you speak of him that way.
--> '''Lara:''' Oh, his actions speak well enough for themselves.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Zod's late father and former Council Head Cor-Zod was this. Even after his quick power grab, silencing of dissidents, senseless destruction of a rival city and pompous warmongering, General Zod sees himself as this.
** Zor-El is
** Councilors Cera-Si and Mauro-Ji can be a ''little'' reactionary but generally hear Jor-El out and consider his claims whenever he has the data to back them up. Cera is also the
--> '''Cera-Si:''' We cannot ignore a problem simply because there's no immediately obvious solution.
** No-Ton is the only member of Zod's inner circle besides Jor-El to realize how unstable he is and defect. His efforts lead to him becoming part of the new council after Zod is defeated. No-Ton objects to efforts to phase out Jor-El, warns Jor-El about [[spoiler: Tyr-Us and his
** Councilors Gal-Eth and Or-Orm help lead the resistance against Zod, show concern about the path Tyr-Us and his allies are taking, and [[spoiler:join No-Ton's HomeworldEvacuation attempts.]]
** Korth-Or initially doesn't believe Jor-El's warnings that [[spoiler: trying to destroy the Phantom Zone will doom Krypton]], but opposes doing so until they understand the science more. He is also concerned when Tyr-Us and his majority bloc confirm votes without even asking the other five council members.
* RescueRomance: Lara meets Jor-El while rescuing him from the Phantom Zone projector he accidentally sealed himself in. A loving relationship quickly develops.
* RevengeBeforeReason: The members of the new Krytonian Council who were previously imprisoned in the Phantom Zone by Zod [[spoiler: trigger Krypton's destruction by trying to lash out and destroy the Phantom Zone by dropping the projector into Krypton's core.]]
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* ThrownFromTheZeppelin: Zod gathers several disgruntled younger sons of Kryptonian noble families to build his dictatorship. Only one protests.
--> '''[[spoiler:Vor-On]]:''' Commissioner, you're talking about overthrowing the established noble families. I wanted to ''be'' one of them, not ''destroy'' them. You can't expect us to take part in this .. this mutiny.
--> '''Zod:''' Very well, [[spoiler:Vor-On]]. I thought I could count on your support, but do what you think is best for Krypton. And I'll do what ''I'' think is best.
--> ''Zod throws [[spoiler:Vor-On]] off a cliff.''
--> '''[[spoiler:Vor-On]]:''' Commissioner, you're talking about overthrowing the established noble families. I wanted to ''be'' one of them, not ''destroy'' them. You can't expect us to take part in this .. this mutiny.
--> '''Zod:''' Very well, [[spoiler:Vor-On]]. I thought I could count on your support, but do what you think is best for Krypton. And I'll do what ''I'' think is best.
--> ''Zod throws [[spoiler:Vor-On]] off a cliff.''
