History Series / Krypton

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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine Bad day to be a hero.]]'']]

* {{Token Good Cop}}s: Many of the Sagitari who enforce the laws of Kandor City are well-versed in PoliceBrutality against the lower classes (whom they show constant disdain for), but Lyta tries to be an InternalReformist, her mother and Quex-Ul improve their behavior after {{Heel Realization}}s, and a handful of minor Sagitari troopers (like Tai-Un, Thur, and Pline) seem like decent people who do their jobs well and without malice.

* AlternateContinuity: While early in development, WordOfGod from Creator/DavidSGoyer vaguely indicated the show was set in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse ("200 years before ''Film/ManOfSteel''"), Creator/GeoffJohns later clarified this is its own thing. It's also one to the Series/{{Arrowverse}} version of Krypton as seen in ''Series/Supergirl2015''.[[invoked]]

* BigBad: Though Krypton has an mysterious masked overlord called "The Voice of Rao" who holds sway over the Kryptonian High Council, the main villain of the story is ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, who has traveled back into time to destroy Krypton in the past and thus avert Superman's birth, which would allow him free reign over a universe no longer protected by the greatest hero it has ever known. [[WordOfGod Geoff Johns]] literally [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WxikiYSnc0 calls him]] the Big Bad of the show. [[spoiler: And then there's the matter of General Dru-Zod -- whereas it turns out that Brainiac isn't a time traveler (his attack on Krypton was always part of the timeline), Zod is, having come back to save and take over Krypton, as a side effect erasing Superman from existence.]]

* AlternateContinuity: While early in development, WordOfGod from Creator/DavidSGoyer vaguely indicated the show was set in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse ("200 years before ''Film/ManOfSteel''"), Creator/Geoff Johns later clarified this is its own thing. It's also one to the Series/{{Arrowverse}} version of Krypton as seen in ''Series/Supergirl2015''.[[invoked]]

** The show also changes the classic Kryptonian naming conventions. In the comics, females take their father's full name (ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is Kara Zor-El, for instance). The show just has the females use the family name like the males. WordOfGod says this was to make it less patriarchal.

* AlternateContinuity: While early in development, [[WordOfGod David Goyer]] vaguely indicated the show was set in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse ("200 years before ''Film/ManOfSteel''"), [[WordOfGod Geoff Johns]] later clarified this is its own thing. It's also one to the Series/{{Arrowverse}} version of Krypton as seen in ''Series/Supergirl2015''.

Decades later, as a young man, Seg meets a stranger who claims to be from the planet Earth in the future, and that Seg's grandson will become "the greatest hero in the universe". However, this means an enemy, ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} (Creator/BlakeRitson) -- who Val-El had discovered, to no avail -- is coming to destroy Krypton to prevent that hero from ever existing. Now Seg must take up his grandfather's work and fight to redeem his family's honor, save his homeworld, and ensure the existence of Superman.

** Adam and Zod never say anything to indicate that Supergirl or her father exist, as Adam doesn’t list Supergirl as another reason the timeline must be stabilized and Zod tells Seg that he knew his son (singular). However, [[spoiler:since Zod is unaware that Cor-Vex is Jor-El, his knowledge of the family may be incomplete]].
** In the Silver Age continuity, Jor-El has a twin, Nim-El, who goes on to have a son, Don-El, before both are abducted when Brainianac shrinks Kandor. Here, [[spoiler:Jor-El has no twin and if not for the altered timeline, Kandor would have been shrunken before any additional children Seg-El may have were born]].

''Krypton'' is a Creator/DCComics-inspired ScienceFiction / SpaceOpera television series initially developed by David S. Goyer and Damian Kindler for Creator/{{Syfy}}, with writing additions by Creator/GeoffJohns. The first season premiered on March 21, 2018.

* CityInABottle: The first live-action appearance of Brainiac's collection of shrunken bottled cities. One is visible in the first trailer. After he collects cities this way, he destroys the rest of their planets. In the season 1 finale, Brainiac tries to collect the city state of Kandor, shrink it, and put the residents in suspended animation, and lots of people try to get out before he can finish the process. Many citizens and soldiers flee in skimmers offscreen (although some are shot down), Seg tries to get people out through tunnels and calling transports from other cities, and Jax-Ur and her Black Zero troops pack up to flee across the Outlands on foot.

* CityInABottle: The first live-action appearance of Brainiac's collection of shrunken bottled cities. One is visible in the first trailer. After he collects cities this way, he destroys the rest of their planets.
* ''Series/{{Krypton}}'': In the season 1 finale, Brainiac tries to collect the city state of Kandor, shrink it, and put the residents in suspended animation, and lots of people try to get out before he can finish the process. Many citizens and soldiers flee in skimmers offscreen (although some are shot down), Seg tries to get people out through tunnels and calling transports from other cities, and Jax-Ur and her Black Zero troops pack up to flee across the Outlands on foot.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The leaders of the Sagitari also tend to be the best fighters. In the entire series the only character who even comes close to being able to match General Dru-Zod one-on-one is his Grandmother Primus Jayna-Zod, [[spoiler:even in the final showdown it takes both Seg and Lyta to take him down.]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The leaders of Sagitari units can be challenged to single combat for command.