2013 Movie News Archives

June 15, 2013: Jeffrey Taylor on "Man of Steel" and Krypton

The Superman Homepage's Jeffrey Taylor has written an article on Movies.com speaking to the nature of Superman's home planet... here's an excerpt:

    Superman's home planet Krypton is always different depending on the continuity, yet certain aspects always remain the same. For instance, Jor-El is always the "Cassandra" character who knows that the planet is going to explode while the Kryptonian Council refuses to believe his findings. Nearly everything else about it -- including the reason for its destruction -- changes constantly. There was a time when the planet was in the same orbit as Earth, but on the other side of our sun, so until we had space travel it was technically possible and we wouldn't have known any better. In some versions, the planet's star would explode, or something that happened 100,000 years earlier was finally destroying the planet. For Man of Steel, David S. Goyer came up with yet another unique reason.

    The ancient history of the planet changes just as frequently with each continuity, at least when it's mentioned at all. But usually it had a harsh terrain with big freaky looking animals. In 1994, Dan Jurgens suggested that Doomsday, the beast that actually killed Superman, was a product of a scientific experiment performed on ancient Krypton. Its creator would send it out to the planet's surface where it would be torn apart by the violent creatures that lived there, then collect the DNA to clone him over and over again until he adapted and was able to defeat them.

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