In a Young Justice episode largely dedicated to the mythology of Jack Kirby’s New Gods, it’s the introduction of two new Zods that drives the story.
Warning: The next incorporates SPOILERS for Young Justice season 4.
The Home of Zod took on a brand new prominence in Young Justice season 4, with one episode introducing each Common Dru-Zod and a person referred to as Lor-Zod into the ensemble. The Home of Zod was one of many oldest households of Krypton within the unique Superman comics, and frequent rivals to the Home of El. Young Justice appears to be persevering with that custom by revealing Lor-Zod as Superboy’s tried assassin and by introducing the notorious Common Zod as an ironic ally of circumstance.
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The motion of Young Justice season 4, episode 18, “Past The Grip of the Gods!” revealed that the White Martian terrorist and brother of Miss Martian Ma’alefa’ak was on Apokolips, persevering with to hunt the favor of the tyrant Darkseid. This led to him being ordered to accompany Mantis (the arch-enemy of the Outsiders’ Forager) and a determine who was unknown to him, however recognizable because the time-traveler who seemingly killed Superboy earlier in Young Justice season 4. When Ma’alefa’ak requested the stranger for his title, he replied “I’m Lor. Lor-Zod,” because the digital camera revealed his armor to be emblazed with a purple sigil resembling a stylized “Z.” This was a nod to the trendy Superman comics, the place the Home of Zod’s emblem was remade right into a darkish mirror of the gentler curves of the Home of El’s S-shield.
Common Zod requires no introduction to even informal superhero followers, having been the chief villain of each Superman II and Man of Metal, however the character of Lor-Zod is a more moderen creation. He first appeared in 2006’s Motion Comics #844 and is notable for having been co-created by Superman: The Film director Richard Donner and Geoff Johns with artist Adam Kubert. Lor-Zod was launched because the son of Common Zod and his right-hand, Ursa, conceived within the Phantom Zone after their imprisonment and despatched out into the bodily world utilizing an experimental ship in an ironic echo of Kal-El’s personal journey to Earth from the doomed Krypton. This model of Lor-Zod rejected his father’s teachings and was briefly adopted by Lois Lane and Clark Kent earlier than sacrificing himself to reimprison his dad and mom within the Phantom Zone. Since that point, an older model of Lor-Zod who was loyal to his father was launched into the DC Rebirth actuality in 2017. The title of Lor-Zod was additionally given to a personality within the solid of Krypton, although that Lor-Zod was an ancestor of Common Dru-Zod slightly than his son.
The character of Common Zod was launched later in the identical Young Justice episode, as Conner “Superboy” Kent continued to battle his means by means of a wierd dimension, lastly confirmed to be the Phantom Zone. There, Superboy was laid low with photographs of what his life would have been like had he grow to be the dwelling weapon Lex Luthor had meant to forge when he cloned Superman. He was then comforted by a stranger, who defined that Superboy was affected by what was referred to as “Zone-Illness” and that he might train him the right way to overcome it and survive on this harsh world. The stranger quirked an eyebrow when the amnesiac Conner launched himself as “the Superboy” however stated nothing else earlier than replying, “My title’s Dru… Dru-Zod. Common Dru-Zod.” The digital camera pulled again to disclose that his armor had the identical image as Lor-Zod’s because the episode ended.
Common Zod and the idea of the Phantom Zone had been each launched in the identical 1961 comedian ebook story, “The Phantom Superboy,” from Journey Comics #283, so it’s traditionally becoming that Young Justice ought to introduce him into the truth of Earth-16 at this level within the story. It appears doubly becoming then, on condition that the central story of the Young Justice: Phantoms season additionally facilities round a phantom Superboy.