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General Zod

General Zod

See House of Zod

Faora

Faora

See House of Zod

Gloria

Gloria

Played by: Amber Mc Donald

• Green Thumb: Animates vines that can restrain and injure Kryptonians.
• Kill All Humans: Plans to continue reproducing until she's all that's left. Trying to do the same thing on her home planet is what got her locked up.
• Knight Templar: Her need to return her planet to nature got a lot of people killed.
• Kryptonite Factor: Electricity
• Plant Aliens: Her genetics are plant-based.
• Shout-Out: To Poison Ivy.
• The Social Darwinist: Says nature will decide who lives and dies when she unleashes her plants.
• Super-Strength: Easily knocks Clark across the room with a backhand.

Baern

Baern

Played by: Bow Wow

• Atomic Superpower: Powered by, and capable of projecting, nuclear radiation.
• Ax-Crazy: If you're near Baern, you're in danger.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His real voice.
• Grand Theft Me: Uses the body of a teen as his host.
• Hero Killer: He kills Jor-El assistant Raya in the Fortress of Solitude.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Was unaffected by Raya kicking him through a barn.
• Power Source: Has to drain nuclear power plants in order to re-charge.
• Race Lift: In-show, his alien form is white; the body he jacks is black.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Wants to kill Kal-El in revenge for Jor-El imprisoning him.
  Baern: Paying for the sins of your father can sure be a bitch, huh?
• Super-Speed: Can run at speeds similar to Kryptonians.
• Tattooed Crook: On his stolen body.
• Took a Level in Badass: After draining Brainiac's hard drive, he's able to take on Clark and Raya at once.

Aldar

Aldar

Played by: Dave Bautista

"Everyone's gotta eat!"

A hulking giant with an appetite to match, Aldar is a cannibalistic monster whose only concern is his next meal. Hiding out in the dockyards, he devours the workers and sucks the marrow from their bones in order to quash his sickening hunger. Far stronger then Clark, Aldar is one of the few characters to be a physical match for a fully-powered Kryptonian.

• The Brute: Towers over even Clark, who is far from short, and has the personality of a starving predator.
• Dumb Muscle: Aldar's an utter savage and doesn't give thinking a high priority.
• Evil Is Bigger: The biggest character to appear on the show, actually.
• Horror Hunger: Given how often he talks about how hungry he is and how much he seems to have to eat, this seems likely.
• Human Aliens: Unlike the other Zoners, he isn't possessing anybody.

  I'm no Phantom.

• I'm a Humanitarian: And he only eats the bones.
• Killed Off for Real: By the Martian Manhunter.
• Mighty Glacier: He's far from quick or agile, but he's so bloody strong, it just doesn't matter.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Implied, though not really demonstrated. His strength is what gets emphasized the most.
• Serial Killer: Hunts and devours people down by the docks.
• Super-Strength: To the point where he easily manhandles Clark both times they fight.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Or at least sickly yellow.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Then again, look at his actor.

Dr. Hudson

Dr. Hudson

Played by: Matthew Walker

"For the last five and a half years, you've been a resident of the Fairview Psychiatric Hospital. Everything else—your superpowers, your alien lineage, your secret identity—it's all a delusion."

• Beard of Evil: In the human form it takes in Clark's mind it has a long beard, although it makes him look like a kindly doctor.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In Clark's illusion, it creates a human form to pose as a kindly doctor caring for Clark's best, when in reality wants to possess Clark's body.
• Grand Theft Me: Attempts this with Clark.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: Traps Clark in a highly realistic illusion.

Titan

Titan

Played by: Glenn "Kane" Jacobs

"You're the fight I've been looking for."

An alien Super-Soldier imprisoned in the Phantom Zone, Titan is born and bred for combat, and combat only. After escaping the Zone, he works his way through biker bars and underground gladiator battles, before arriving in Metropolis' meteor freak battle circuit. Desperate for a challenge, he is all too eager to confront Clark.

• Blade Below the Shoulder: Has a nasty-looking spike that comes out of one of his wrist gauntlets.
• The Brute: Has just enough personality to escape Giant Mook status.
• Expy: To Doomsday.
• Go Out with a Smile: He dies pleased that Clark was able to give him a real fight.
• Graceful Loser: He accepts his defeat and death gracefully, since he was defeated by a strong opponent.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Is impaled on his own spike.
• Human Aliens: Like Aldar, Titan's in his own body.
• Lightning Bruiser: Can keep up with Clark in terms of speed and strength.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Clark has to actually exert himself for Titan to feel his punches.
• Super-Soldier: Said to have been enhanced for combat.
• Super-Strength: He is very strong. Only Clark could harm him.
• Worthy Opponent: Constantly seeks them out; finds one in Clark.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Which should come as no surprise given who plays him.

Bizarro

Bizarro

Played by: Tom Welling

"I'm you, only a little more bizarre."

The last and most dangerous of the Phantom Zone escapees, he uses a cloned body of Clark as his host. A serious recurring problem in Season 7.

• Achilles' Heel: Sunlight and blue kryptonite.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Bizarro is far more intelligent and articulate than his comic book counterpart.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Unlike every other incarnation of Bizarro, this one looks just like Clark 99% of the time, although sunlight does revert his skin to the rock-like material seen in the comics.
• Adaptational Badass: Unlike most comic versions, this Bizarro is far more powerful than Clark, being able to fly years before Clark was able to, not to mention since he didn't hold back his strength was far above Clark's as well.
• Adaptational Villainy: The original Bizarro was Obliviously Evil, while this Bizarro is willfully so.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-Prime, as a version of that Earth's Supergirl. Also has one on an unnamed Earth.
• Body Surf: Before cloning Clark.
• Character Development: While impersonating Clark for several weeks, he begins to develop real feelings for Lana and become increasingly Intrigued by Humanity. Even his Evil Plan eventually seems to be devolve into wanting nothing more than simply to remain as "Clark." Just before he explodes from blue kryptonite exposure, his last words to Lana are "I love you", which almost makes him sympathetic.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In his Clark's facade, he wears blue and red to distinguish him from the real Clark.
• Demonic Possession: Before creating his cloned body of Clark, he had to hop from person to person, wearing each body out as he went.
  • A priest tried to exorcise him from a girl's father, believing it was an actual demon.
• Enemy Mine: Tries to convince Brainiac to help him destroy Clark. Brainiac promptly backstabs him and subtly helped Clark destroy him.
• Energy Absorption: Absorbs green kryptonite and renders it harmless. This makes it rather difficult for him when he wants to take on Clark.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Just watch his interactions with Brainiac.
• Evil Sounds Deep: At least when compared to Clark.
• Evil Twin: To Clark.
• Freudian Excuse: Being a discarded lab experiment, Bizarro was treated with contempt by Kryptonian society and rejected at every turn, providing him with an intense hatred of most living things.
• Flying Brick: He earns Clark's abilities when he becomes his Evil Twin, including his strength. Also, he learns to fly earler than Clark.
• Glamour Failure: He looks exactly like Clark, unless he's weakened or, later, exposed to sunlight, in which case his face will briefly flicker into a broken-glass-ish looking form that calls to mind the earliest comic book versions of the character.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: He was an experiment on Krypton that went so wrong and became extremely dangerous.
• Tragic Monster: Pretty much a Kryptonian Frankenstein's Monster, created in a lab, then swiftly rejected and discarded as a "poor imitation of life".
• Kryptonite Factor: Blue kryptonite (which de-powers Kryptonians) increases his own power exponentially. Unfortunately, as Brainiac puts it, it's the equivalent of using a nuclear power plant to run a light bulb, creating a power overload he cannot survive.
  • Sunlight, as well. Mostly, it just affects his appearance, but when exposed to more direct sunlight (as seen when Clark punches him into the atmosphere), his skin begins to crack and fall off, not to mention that being put in space by John Jones, with no shielding from the sunlight rendered him completely unable to escape.
• Recurring Character: In Season 7.
• Unwitting Pawn: Of Brainiac.
• Villainous Crush: On Lana. She reciprocates. Surprisingly, it actually improves his disposition instead of making him worse.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Direct sunlight not only causes Glamour Failure, but also weakens him.

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