History YMMV / NewKrypton

* OlderThanTheyThink: In ''Superman (Vol. 1) 338: ComicBook/LetMyPeopleGrow!'' Superman and Supergirl find a way to restore Kandor to its normal size, and the whole Kandorian populace settles on Rokyn, a remote planet revolving around a red sun.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse, Superman considers two different explanations for Alura's increasingly hostile actions against humanity: either Alura is motivated by the grief of losing Zor-El, or she has always been cold and distant, and Zor-El was her MoralityChain. Since Superman never had any emotional connection to Alura before the events of ''New Krypton'', he reasons any interpretation is equally valid. It should be noted that before her husband's death, Alura was shown to be coldhearted and ruthless. Behind Zor-El's back, Alura instructed Commander Gor and the Kandorian military to abduct several known felons from Stryker's Island Penitentiary and relocate them to the Phantom Zone. Unfortunately, during the breakout, several Science Police guards at Stryker's were killed. When Superman comes and asks Zor-El and Alura for help bring renegade Kryptonians to justice. Alura reveals not only that she ordered the Kryptonians to abduct the prisoners, but she also gave the order to kill the Science Police guards, to the shock and horror of Superman, Supergirl, and Zor-El. Alura was remorseless about the science guard's death and accused Superman of caring more about humanity than his race. This shows that Alura was a coldhearted and ruthless person who cared only about her race, even when her husband was alive. Kara actually brings this up in her last confrontation with her mother; Kara initially thought a few of her Zor-El last words, watch out for your mother meant to make sure that Alura didn’t get hurt when he was gone, but seeing Alura torture Reactron, made Kara believe that he was warning her to watch out for her mother because he knew how ruthless she is, it’s possible that Zor-El meant that because before he died, he was shocked that Alura ordered the death of human guards and was remorseless of doing that.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse, Superman considers two different explanations for Alura's increasingly hostile actions against humanity: either Alura is motivated by the grief of losing Zor-El, or she has always been cold and distant, and Zor-El was her MoralityChain. Since Superman never had any emotional connection to Alura before the events of ''New Krypton'', he reasons any interpretation is equally valid. It should be noted that before her husband's death, Alura was shown to be coldhearted and ruthless. Behind Zor-El's back, Alura instructed Commander Gor and the Kandorian military to abduct several known felons from Stryker's Island Penitentiary and relocate them to the Phantom Zone. Unfortunately, during the breakout, several Science Police guards at Stryker's were killed. When Superman comes and asks Zor-El and Alura for help bring renegade Kryptonians to justice. Alura reveals not only that she ordered the Kryptonians to abduct the prisoners, but she also gave the order to kill the Science Police guards, to the shock and horror of Superman, Supergirl, and Zor-El. Alura was remorseless about the science guard's death and accused Superman of caring more about humanity than his race. This shows that Alura was a coldhearted and ruthless person who cared only about her race, even when her husband was alive.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse, Superman considers two different explanations for Alura's increasingly hostile actions against humanity: either Alura is motivated by the grief of losing Zor-El, or she has always been cold and distant, and Zor-El was her MoralityChain. Since Superman never had any emotional connection to Alura before the events of ''New Krypton'', he reasons any interpretation is equally valid. It should be noted that before her husband's death, Alura was shown to be coldhearted and ruthless. Behind Zor-El's back, Alura instructed Commander Gor and the Kandorian military to abduct several known felons from Stryker's Island Penitentiary and relocate them to the Phantom Zone. Unfortunately, during the breakout, several Science Police guards at Stryker's were killed. When Superman comes and asks Zor-El and Alura for help bring renegade Kryptonians to justice. Alura reveals not only that she ordered the Kryptonians to abduct the prisoners, but she also gave the order to kill the Science Police guards, to the shock and horror of Superman, Supergirl, and Zor-El. Alura Was remorseless about the science guard's death and accused Superman of caring more about humanity than his race. This shows that Alura was a coldhearted and ruthless person who cared only about her race, even when her husband was alive.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse, Superman considers two different explanations for Alura's increasingly hostile actions against humanity: either Alura is motivated by grief of losing Zor-El or she has always been cold and distant and Zor-El was her MoralityChain. Since Superman never had any emotional connection to Alura before the events of ''New Krypton'', he reasons any interpretation is equally valid.

* ArcFatigue: Unfortunately went down this route after sometime, since the arc later separated into several mini-arcs for a while until ending in ''War of the Supermen''. The introduction of a wholly new population of Kryptonians was a strong and daring idea. The entire status quo of the Superman family was reworked and people were pleasantly surprised that writers had actually done something with the eternal MacGuffin that was the Bottle City of Kandor. But at some point along the way, it became apparent that the story was not going anywhere, that the entire World of New Krypton title was in a holding pattern while the associated titles (Superman, ComicBook/ActionComics, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, later Adventure Comics) were engaged in crossover storylines. In the end, most of the arc served as setup for successive event stories.

* OlderThanTheyThink: In ''Superman (Vol. 1) 338: Let My People Grow!'' Superman and Supergirl find a way to restore Kandor to its normal size, and the whole Kandorian populace settles on Rokyn, a remote planet revolving around a red sun.

* MagnificentBastard: Luthor is at his best here, cooperating with Lane to achieve a goal he would have worked towards anyway, playing Brainiac and Superman alike to his own ends, and ultimately being rewarded for his role in [[spoiler:destroying New Krypton]].

* ArcFatigue: Unfortunately went down this route after sometime, since the arc later separated into several mini-arcs for a while until ending in ''War of the Supermen''.

* AngstWhatAngst: By the end of the storyline, the "Hundred Minute War" caused untold destruction to cities around the world, the personal deaths of many world leaders, and all sorts of collateral mass death, but by the end no one remotely dwells on it and any hate and fear towards Kryptonians like Superman is not seen. This behavior carries over into ''ComicBook/SupermanGrounded'' as well.

* MoralEventHorizon: Reactron crosses it in his first appearance, when he kills Supergirl's father while threatening to sexually assault her. General Lane does it when he transforms his daughter Lucy into a superweapon, while Lucy herself does when she murders a scientist for the crime of reporting her unstable condition to her father.

* MoralEventHorizon: Reactron crosses it in his first appearance, when he kills Supergirl's father while threatening to sexually assault her. General Lane does it when he transforms his daughter Lucy into a superweapon, while Lucy herself does when she murders a scientist for the crime of reporting her unstable condition to her father.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Superman having a living Krypton nearby the Earth certainly poses certain storytelling difficulties but given they were an isolationist Utopian people, there was nothing preventing them from just being left alone unless authors had a plot for them. In short, an interesting element of the Superman mythos which could bring something NEW to the setting was destroyed because, "Why not?"

* MoralEventHorizon: Reactron crosses it in his first appearance, when he kills Supergirl's father while threatening to sexually assault her. General Lane does it when he transforms his daughter Lucy into a superweapon.

* CompleteMonster: [[SociopathicSoldier Reactron]] is at his worst, while ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} is as bad as ever.

* CompleteMonster: Reactron, a SociopathicSoldier who threatens to rape Supergirl, kills a number of Kryptonians, including her father, tries to murder Mon-El in order to frame Krypton, depowers Supergirl and Flamebird and tries to sexually assault them, and finally blows himself up in the heart of Kandor, killing Supergirl's mother and ninety thousand+ other Kryptonians, gloating the whole time.
** Brainiac, who destroys one planet, tries to destroy Earth, kills several thousand Kryptonians, kills Jonathan Kent, and attempts to melt Superman's brain by feeding several world's worth of information into it.

* CharacterDerailment: General Lane and [[spoiler: Lucy Lane]] being suspicious of Kryptonians? Fine. Both wanting to commit ''genocide'' against them for no crime greater than existence? Fans were not amused.

* MoralEventHorizon: Reactron crosses it in his first appearance, when he kills Supergirl's father while threatening to sexually assault her. General Lane does it when he transforms his daughter Lucy into a superweapon.

* ArcFatigue: Unfortunately went down this route after sometime, since the arc later separated into several mini-arcs for a while until ending in ''War of the Supermen''.