Dru-Zod (Prime Earth)

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 * Image                  = Action Comics Vol 2 23.2 Zod Textless.jpg
 * RealName               = Dru-Zod
 * CurrentAlias           = General Zod
 * Aliases                = Colonel Zod
 * Identity               = Public
 * Alignment              = Bad
 * Affiliation            =
 * Relatives              = Unnamed mother (deceased), Unnamed father (deceased)
 * Universe               = Prime Earth
 * BaseOfOperations       = Phantom Zone; Krypton


 * Gender                 = Male
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 * Eyes                   = Blue
 * Hair                   = Black
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 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = Soldier
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 * PlaceOfBirth           = Krypton
 * Creators               = Robert Bernstein; George Papp
 * First                  = Action Comics Vol 2 23.2: Zod


 * Quotation              = I promise you this: I... will always... be your monster.
 * Speaker                = General Zod
 * QuoteSource            = Action Comics Vol 2 23.2: Zod


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Origin
Dru-Zod was the son of Kyptonian scientists. One day, his family took on a scientific expedition to Krypton's wilderness where they were attacked by dangerous animals. After his mother was killed, Zod's father urged his son to escape. He does so, killing his father in the process to distract the creatures and give himself time to flee. For over a year, Zod managed to survive on his own until being found and rescued by Jor-El and Zor-El.

By adulthood, Zod became a distinguished soldier in the Kryptonian military and became concerned with Krypton's violent neighboring alien species, the Char. Although the Char had remained pacified for the last twenty-seven years, Zod was frustrated by his fellow Kryptonians' lax attitude towards them. In response, he forged a group of like-minded followers, such as his lieutenants Faora and Non, and engineered a false flag operation, creating and unleashing a Char-like creature on Krypton's populace to justify a war against the Char. However, Jor-El discovered Zod's deception and turned him over to the authorities. The Kryptonian Science Council found Zod guilty of treason and sentenced him and his followers to be exiled to the Phantom Zone.

But being thrown in the Phantom Zone would not mean the end of Zod's villainy. During their time within the Zone, Zod and Faora became acquainted with the Warworld, a humongous alien war machine and planned to use its endless armies to conquer the outside worlds. Their plan also involved the Kryptonian monster known as Doomsday, also a prisoner within the Zone. Zod and Faora released the beast from his captivity and threw him across the boundaries of the Phantom Zone, weakening them and allowing for their eventual escape.

Arrival at Earth
Many years later, a mysterious event caused the Phantom Zone to weaken, allowing some of its prisoners to escape into normal space. Zod traveled to Earth, landing in the Sahara Desert. There, Zod's Kryptonian powers began to manifest for the first time, brutally slaughtering a group of travelers. Zod was soon attacked by the Justice League of America until Superman and Wonder Woman arrived, the latter restraining him with her magic lasso. Zod recognized Superman as Kal-El, the son of Jor-El. Superman decided to keep Zod in the Fortress of Solitude's menagerie. While there, he reveals to Superman that another Kryptonian, Faora, also traveled to Earth with him, who vows to track her down. But Zod had lied; much like himself, Faora was also trapped within the Phantom Zone. Zod tricks Superman into giving him access to his Phantom Zone Projector and frees himself from the shipping container Superman had placed him in, alongside all the other creatures in the Fortress' menagerie. With Superman busy fighting the alien animals, Zod uses the projector to release Faora from the zone.

Grabbing her ally, Zod leaves the forest and flies to a forest. Initially, exposure to Earth's atmosphere had caused Faora to become aggressive and incoherent, but as soon as her obtained her powers, her sanity returned. Suddenly, Superman catches up to the two criminals and engages in combat. Knowing their opponent cares for the humans, Zod and Faora initiate a forest fire that puts a nearby town in danger. Superman saves the village but leaves himself defenseless, until Wonder Woman arrives, evening the odds. Seeing Wonder Woman is willing to kill Faora to protect Superman, the General threatens Superman's life unless Wonder Woman lets him and Faora leave. Wonder Woman is forced to comply.

With Superman and Wonder Woman in retreat, Zod and Faora construct a Phantom Zone portal in the South Pacific, using stolen human technology. In all of a sudden, Superman and Woman return, wearing magic armor and seeking a rematch. Zod reveals his plan was that Doomsday would break the barrier between normal space and the Phantom Zone, facilitating an invasion from the WarAlthough the heroes initially defeat Zod and Faora by detonating their armors at point-blank range, Zod and Faora are empowered a direct beam of sunlight, sent by the Greek god Apollo, who sought revenge from an earlier defeat by Superman, even if it was by proxy. Zod and Faora brutally defeat their opponents and throw them into a nuclear reactor, believing they would no longer be a threat. But while Zod and Faora enter the Phantom Zone in order to liberate the Warworld, Superman and Wonder Woman manage to set off a large nuclear explosion that destroyed the portal, trapping Zod and Faora in the Zone once again.


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 * : General Zod has trained in the ways of combat for many years. He has fought creatures twice his size and armored men with only his hands. He is a trained soldier and is not above killing.
 * : Ever since Zod was a child he was trained to have an analytic mind, growing and raising small genetic animals. He used this knowledge to fool Krypton into a war.
 * : When Zod was a child, his parents were killed on a scientific expedition into Krypton's wilderness. He was forced to survive on his own for a year before being rescued.
 * : Zod is as trained with his fists as he is with weapons. He used primitive bows and arrows as a child, small arms as a soldier and various other Kryptonian weapons throughout his military career.
 * : Zod can speak fluent Kryptonian and English.


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