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High Council of Kandor
The Voice of Rao
The Voice of Rao
Played By: Blake Ritson
- "May Rao's light forever guide your way."
The deified supreme authority and central religious figure presiding over the High Council of Kandor.
- Biblical Motifs: The gold writing on his robe is Malachi 3 from the Geneva Bible, with slight modifications ("Krypton" instead of "Judah" and "Jerusalem") written in Kryptonian script.
- Corrupt Church: He's the central religious figure in Kandor, and its de facto ruler who maintains a class inequality on purpose. He has no trouble asking for a scapegoat for his PR campaign to keep the Rankless quiet as he knows their discontent could turn into outright revolt against his rule.
- Creepy Monotone: He always speaks in the same tone, which makes him kind of creepy. He screams in agony as Brainiac's sentry infects him however.
- The Dreaded: Even Daron is wary of displeasing him.
- The Faceless: He never takes off his mask, at least when anyone is around. He finally does after being infected by Brainiac.
- God Guise:
- Seemingly a part of his power rests in that he controls the polarization of Kandor's dome.
- A far more direct and impressive one happens after being infected by Brainiac and seemingly turning into the avatar of the Sun in front of a crowd.
- Gold and White Are Divine: He wears a white robe with sacred Kryptonian writings, has a quasi-divine status (Rao is the red sun and Top God for Kryptonians) and his mask representing the faces of Krypton's gods is gilded.
- Gold Makes Everything Shiny: His gilded mask surely shines.
- High Priest: He presides over public ceremonies to Rao.
- Hidden Depths: Before being assimilated by Brainiac, he’s seen holding and staring at the offering Ona gave him, implying that he was genuinely touched by it.
- Malevolent Masked Man: He wears an elaborate golden mask depicting the faces of Krypton's gods and maintains a form of scientific Medieval Stasis by forbidding Kryptonians to research about other worlds and other forms of intelligent life in the universe. It's safe to say Krypton's society, and particularly the Rankless, is far from being enlightened and happy under his "guidance". Then he is turned into a Brainiac sentry...
- Mouth of Sauron: After he is made one of Brainiac's Sentries. Compared to Rhom, who was taken over to gather information, it's his job to subdue the populace for Brainiac's eventual collection.
- Mythology Gag: When possessed by Brainiac, he begins to resemble the likewise possessed Milton Fine Brainiac from the comic, as a goateed, mutating man turning green with a growing cranium.
- No Body Left Behind: After being stabbed in the neck with the sunstone key by Nyssa-Vex, his body disintegrates.
- Obstructive Zealot: He's a religious authority figure who holds dominant sway over Krypton's society, religion and government.
- Pet the Dog: He seems genuinely impressed with Ona's faith, and is interested in the Rao statuette she gives him. Unfortunately, this leads to his downfall, as the statuette had been infected by Brainiac, and it jumps to him.
- Photo Op with the Dog: His on-the-spot invitation and then presentation of Ona, a Rankless child, as a new acolyte before an awestruck crowd of Rankless. The acolytes accompanying him don't appear to be very happy about it.
- Puppeteer Parasite: He's infected by Brainiac's Sentry at the end of "Word of Rao".
- Voice of the Legion: After he is transformed into a Sentry.
- Would Hurt a Child: As Brainiac's sentry, he turns Ona into a living bomb so she'll kill Seg and his friends.
Daron-Vex
Sagitari
In General
The Sagitari
The military guild and army/law enforcement force maintaining order in the city of Kandor.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Kandorian Duel allows a Sagitari to contest his/her squad leader's command and earn it if he/she wins said duel.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: During the failed coup attempt, the Brainiac-possessed Voice of Rao uses his tentacles to corrupt a small group of them, giving them super-human abilities as part of his "Red Shard" personal guard.
- Cool Helmet: They wear face-covering helmets with two red lights.
- Lowered Recruiting Standards: They greatly increase their numbers under the dictatorship of General Dru-Zod in Season 2. They do so by recruiting former Rankless like Kem.
- Police Brutality: Not quite to Judge Dredd-esque levels, but they're still seen as brutal oppressors by many Rankless Kryptonians, particularly under the command of individuals like Quex-Ul. Lyta-Zod intends to change things in that department.
- Red Shirt Army: At least one of them dies in almost every episode of Season 1. By Season 2, Dru-Zod's dictatorship turns them into mooks.
Jayna-Zod
Lyta-Zod
Dev-Em
Dev-Em
Played By: Aaron Pierre
A Sagitari who has always relished his role as a protector of Kandor.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the comics Dev-Em is a dangerous criminal, although the pre-Crisis version was just a troublemaker who later had a Heel–Face Turn.
- An Arm and a Leg: He's taken over by Brainiac and Lyta is forced to shoot his arm off to protect her mother.
- Arranged Marriage: He is bound to Lyta-Zod. He's loved her since childhood, but she still loves Seg.
- Artificial Limbs: He gets a cybernetic limb after losing the flesh and blood one.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Seems to be the case... until Lyta kisses Seg again.
- Childhood Friends: He was Lyta's friend when they were children.
- Dented Iron: His back is covered with scars.
- Freudian Excuse: His parents were killed by Black Zero, who left him with a back full of scars.
- It's All My Fault: After seeing Clone Lyta killed, Dev confessed that he should have tried to save her when he noticed something different about her. But Seg tells him to stop blaming himself, as they all "lost her before she was even killed".
- Not Quite Dead: He's shot by Lyta and assumed dead, but manages to survive in the cold until Lyta comes looking for his body as a way to get to Brainiac.
- Pornstache: He has grown one such by Season 2.
- Race Lift: Like the Zods, the normally white Dev-Em is black.
- Undying Loyalty: To Jayna-Zod, even when she's no longer head of the Sagitari.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: To Lyta, who is in love with Seg.
Quex-Ul
Commander Quex-Ul
Played By: Gordon Alexander
The commander of the 4th Sagitari Squad in which Lyta-Zod and Dev-Em serve.
- Adaptational Villainy: He is an ally of Superman in the comics but is a Black Shirt who dies long before Superman is born in this continuity.
- Neck Snap: How he meets his demise, courtesy of Lyta-Zod.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He pulls absolutely no punch in the Kandorian duel against Lyta-Zod.
- Police Brutality: He embodies this in his squad, having no problem brutalizing or killing Rankless people. Which is why Lyta challenges his authority.
- Would Hit a Girl: Justified whe he fights Lyta, as she's a Sagitari like him (there's no gender discrimination in their ranks) and asked for a duel to the death against him.
Kol-Da
Kol-Da
Played By: Andrea Vasiliou
A Sagitari who has troubles abiding by the new rules Lyta-Zod enforced regarding violence against the Rankless.
- Cowboy Cop: She flatly ignores Lyta's orders not to indiscriminatingly use violence against the Rankless.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She has few if any qualms about brutally oppressing the Rankless but seems to have real feelings for Daron-Vex.
- Rabid Cop: She has troubles adjusting to Lyta's orders to treat the Rankless with minimal brutality. During the Rankless Initiative, she goes as far as killing an unarmed and shackled prisoner out of fear of being attacked in addition to considering him as a Black Zero sympathizer without any solid proof, which puts her under arrest by Lyta.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She's killed in her cell shortly after retracting her fake testimony against Lyta-Zod.
Tai-In
Tai-Un
Played By: Jennifer Lee-Moon
A Sagitari soldier loyal to Lyta.
- Braids of Action: She has a braid on either side of her head, is experienced in search and rescue operations in the outlands, and backs Lyta up during her shootout with Zod's Black Zero splinter cell.
- Locked Out of the Loop: She helps search the outlander for Seg, capture Zod and hold Adam prisoner after his lies are revealed, but is made to wait outside of the room while the time travel reveals are discussed.
- Remember the New Guy?: She first appears in episode 5, but Lyta knows and trusts her well enough to take her as backup on a vital mission.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: Tai finds tracks from Zod's skimmer in a snowstorm (albeit partially with assistive technology) when Lyta and Adam are unable to do the same.
- Token Good Teammate: She is the first Military Guild member besides Lyta shown doing anything useful and beneficial with her authority.
Taz-Ran
Taz-Ran
Played By: Desmond Eastwood
A young officer who becomes suspicious about the preparations for the Vex coup.
- Bald Head of Toughness: His head is shaved (although he has a couple weeks growth of hair) and he puts up a decent fight against Jayne when she decides to silence him.
- Properly Paranoid: He is suspicious about the release of a terrorist bomber and pretends to drop the matter when Dev-Em talks to him about it. However, he is secretly suspicious of Dev-Em and goes to their commander while also preparing a report about the possible threat to the Voice of Rao. Unfortunately for him, Jayna is in on the plot.
- Punch-Clock Villain: He serves a sinister theocracy and is alert to threats against it but seems genuinely concerned with protecting people rather than enforcing tyranny.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies in his first episode.
Dar-On
Dar-On
Played By: Patrick Buchanan
A Military Guild officer who ends up obliviously following orders from Brainiac later in season 1.
- Enemy Mine: He joins forces with the rebel army he has been enforcing curfews against after being convinced of the truth about Brainiac but vows to place them under arrest once the threat is over. Brainiac exploits this for a Divided We Fall ploy.
- One-Steve Limit: If you eliminate the hyphen in his name, it is the same as main character Daron.
- Tap on the Head; He is knocked out with a blow to the head during a fight with Seg and Nyssa, but is walking around fine a few hours or days later.
Yim-Gar
Yim-Gar
Played By: David Crowley
An Air Force commander seen in the season 1 finale.- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He is introduced packing up to try to flee the city as Brainiac prepares to collect it. It takes a punch and Rousing Speech from Lyta to change his mind.
- Uncertain Doom: He presumably dies when Brainiac destroys the waves of attacking airships.
Lis-Ser
Lis-Ser
Played By: Aoibhinn McGinnty
A weapons engineer in Zod's regime in season 2.- Punch-Clock Villain: She never betrays Zod, but is horrified by some of his more deplorable actions, shows concern when he takes big risks to get big weapons, and shows no vitriol toward the heroes.
- The Smart Girl: She is responsible for most of Zod's technological breakthroughs and when it comes to using the Codex for a weapon and deploying Doomsday, warns him whenever he is doing something risky to satisfy his short-term needs.
- The Watson: She is the one who Zod tells about what he did to Lyta with Black Mercy.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: She disappears after the first scene of the finale, when she briefs Zod on bad news shortly before his downfall.
Thur and Pline
Thur and Pline
Played By: Saif Al-Warith and Amy De Bhrun
Two Sagitari troops working security in Kandor who appear near the end of season 2.- Defiant Captive: They show no fear and plenty of anger after being overpowered and taken prisoner.
- Disconnected by Death: Pline is shot during a video call to Lyta while engaging in a fight with Zod's loyalists.
- Mook–Face Turn: They initially seem like generic Sagitari villains before it turns out that they are loyal to Lyta and join the rebellion after they learn that Zod cloned her to manipulate her troops.
- Slashed Throat: Zod cuts Thur's throat after torturing the location of the Resistance out of him.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Each dies in their second scene after their spying on Zod is exposed.
Black Zero / The Resistance
Black Zero in General
Black Zero
"Death to the Voice of Rao!"
Black Zero is a clandestine organization that seeks to overthrow the Voice of Rao in Season 1.
- The Scapegoat: They do exist as a serious threat to Krypton's rulers, but fingers are conveniently pointed at them to throw people off-trail, such as Charys-El and Ter-El declaring themselves Black Zero members to protect Seg while they're on trial or Daron-Vex poorly justifying his intent to search for Val-El's Fortress of Solitude to Jayna-Zod by saying it contains weapons Black Zero could use. Sentry!Rhom's rampage is also blamed on them (due to a lack of information), although Seg informs Lyta-Zod soon enough about it. Then Daron-Vex plans to frame them for an attack he prepares on the Voice of Rao.
- Suicide Attack: A Black Zero member infiltrated the High Council's room with a bomb hidden in his arm. He tried to detonate it on the Voice of Rao, but Seg prevented him from doing so, since his father was in the room and would have been killed as well.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: To the reigning order in Kandor in Season 1, they are clearly terrorists. Meanwhile, they consider themselves as La Résistance against said oppressive order.
The Resistance in General
The Resistance
Remnants of Black Zero and other freedom fighters who oppose General Dru-Zod's dictatorship over Kandor. They set up their base on Wegthor, one of Krypton's moons.
- Lured into a Trap: A pretty big number of them are utterly decimated when trying to assault the Wegthor end of the Hypersonic Orbital Tether, due to using purposely sabotaged oxygen respirators they captured on a Sagitari convoy.
- Redshirt Army: Many of them are just there to die in battle. Each battle claims more and more of them, the worst being the battle against Doomsday on Wegthor.
- The Remnant: Jax-Ur and some others are remnants of Black Zero.
- La Résistance: A clandestine army that fights against the dictatorial rule of General Dru-Zod.
- Space Base: They set up their Home Base on Wegthor, a moon of Krypton.
Jax-Ur
Jax-Ur
Played By: Hannah Waddingham
The leader of Black Zero and, later, of the Resistance.
- Adaptational Heroism: This version of Jax-Ur is a former healer who fights for equality on Krypton (even though she seems to have no problem with using terrorism as a means to get it) and she aids Seg-El in trying to stop Brainiac. She also appears to want to help Val-El get Seg back from the Phantom Zone. The comic book version of Jax-Ur is a Mad Scientist and the worst mass murderer in the Phantom Zone.
- Anti-Villain
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Lampshaded. She calls Val-El out in Season 2 for getting on a high horse about her more ruthless actions after the fact, despite how they've made things easier for him in the fight against Dru-Zod.
- Defector from Decadence: She used to be a member of the council alongside Daron-Vex, but fled when he had Val-El killed, fearing she would be next.
- Eye Scream: In Season Two, Jax-Ur's right eye has been replaced with a robotic one that shoots lasers.
- Gender Flip: The normally male Jax-Ur is played by the very much female Hannah Waddingham here.
- Properly Paranoid: Her work on the Genesis Chamber made it sustainable for the foreseeable future, but she also knew that in the wrong hands her methods could be used to further the divide between the Rankless and the Guilded by separating the bloodlines. Sure enough, Daron-Vex did exactly that as soon as he got his hands on her work.
- Rebel Leader: First she led Black Zero against the theocratic authoritarian rule of the Voice of Rao, then she led the Resistance against Dru-Zod's tyranny.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Her stance in Season 2, where she goes as far as slitting Clone Lyta's throat and broadcasting it to all of Kandor to make a point. That action gets her leadership of the Resistance challenged by Val-El as a result.
- That Man Is Dead: When Daron calls her "Sela-Sonn" she tells him "My name is Jax-Ur now."
- Torture Technician: She implants Daron-Vex with a device that causes intense pain at the push of a button, even over vast distances.
- Uncertain Doom: After being expelled from the Resistance by Val-El, she's last seen wandering alone in Wegthor's tunnels. It's unknown if she perished with the moon's destruction, or escaped with the others or escaped another way.
- We Used to Be Friends: She considered Daron-Vex to be one of her closest friends. However, considering that he tried and executed her mentor Val-El and corrupted her work on the Genesis Chamber to achieve a form of immortality for the Ranked, one might assume that friendship is pretty much dead by now.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Black Zero has resorted to terrorist acts—such as an attempted suicide bombing that would kill innocents just to assassinate the Voice of Rao—but their end goal is to establish true equality on Krypton, free of the caste-based society currently in place.
Val-El
Following the disappearance of Seg-El into the Phantom Zone, Val-El joined the leadership of the Resistance against General Dru-Zod's dictatorship.
Nyssa-Vex
Adam Strange
Following the disappearance of Seg-El into the Phantom Zone, Adam Strange followed Val-El in the Resistance.
- See Non-Kryptonians.
Kem
Kem
Played By: Rasmus Hardiker
An engineer and bartender, and Seg's best friend. He gets conscripted into the Sagitari in Season 2, gets captured by the Resistance and joins them.
- Best Friend: The most trustworthy person Seg has had in his life.
- Brutal Honesty: He isn't afraid to tell Seg how he [Seg] is the strongest of the two and thus the most able to "provoke very large and very corrupt government officials".
- *Click* Hello: Does this with a blaster to one of the bar customers Seg owed money to as soon as said customer draws a gun on Seg.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Raises his middle finger to Doomsday as he's being killed by the invincible monster and activates the detonator, which blows up not only the mine but the whole of Wegthor.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He gives his life to seal Doomsday inside the tunnels on Krypton's moon.
- Honorary Uncle: "Uncle Kem" to Rhom's daughter Ona.
- Nice Guy: Judging by the way he big-heartedly helps Rhom and Ona, offering them food as long as they are in difficult times.
- Off with His Head!: On Wegthor, Doomsday rips his head off just after he activated the detonator to blow up the moon's Stellarium supply.
- Only Sane Man: Unlike Seg, he's quite no-nonsense and never asks for trouble.
- Parental Substitute: Becomes this for Ona after Rhom's death.
- Secret-Keeper: He is one of the few people who is told about the threat of Brainiac and Adam being a time traveler.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Tells Seg he has a "punchable face".
Araame
Araame
Played By: Kae Alexander
A Sagittarius-turned Rebel. She has a history with Nyssa and answers directly to Jax-Ur throughout season 2.- Badass Bookworm: She is a former unarmed combat instructor who now finds happiness working as a scientist for the rebellion.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She gets an offhand mention in season 1 as a teacher and lover of Nyssa but appears in person during season 2 as a major character.
- Due to the Dead: She places a sheet over the body of cloned Lyta.
- Mysterious Veil: She sometimes wears a see-through veil over the lower half of her face and trades mysterious glances with Nyssa in her first scene before their shared past is revealed.
- Nice Girl: She is very polite and compassionate and even when she betrays Val-El to help Jax-Ur, she is portrayed as a conflicted woman only doing what she thinks is right.
- Undying Loyalty: She looks up to and trusts Jax-Ur and is more hostile to Val-El than Jax herself is after the schism between the two.
Mal
Mal
Played By: Nicholas Prasad
A Black Zero soldier who serves Jax as her lieutenant.- Bodyguarding a Badass: He acts as a guard for Jax-Ur and is no wimp, but lacks her lethality.
- Religious Bruiser: Mal is a tough rebel soldier who seems to believe in at least one of the Kryptonian deities, as shown when he asks if Brainiac's arrival is "the end of days."
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: He rejects a huge bribe to help Daron escape and affirms his intent to help punish the man whose government (among other things) hoarded medicine for the elites while Mal watched his family get infected and die a slow death.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He has prominent roles in the last two episodes of season 1 (and survives the final battle) but never appears or is mentioned in season 2.
Kiyo
Kiyo
- Portrayed by: Sarah Armstrong
- Impersonating an Officer: She poses as a Sagitari to operate in the city without being questioned.
- Made of Iron: After being zapped with a cattle-prod like devidce and sent flying against a cavern wall (hitting her head in the process), she is back on her feet within seconds and beats up Seg with some martial arts moves. Then, after being made to swallow a parasitic bug which painfully pokes people's insides and getting knocked unconscious, she still recovers enough to join a manhunt for Seg within a few hours.
- Secret-Keeper: Dialogue indicates that she knows about Brainiac's approach and Zod being a time traveler who is no longer taking orders from Jax-Ur.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: Despite helping Zod with some important errands across multiple episodes and seeming to know a lot about important events in the show, she is unceremoniously shot down when Lyta comes to rescue Seg from Zod.
- Torture Technician: She painfully implants a bug in Seg's body and make him surrender information, although it has a less sadistic purpose than merely extracting pain: namely testing him for possession by Brainiac's sentry).
- Uncertain Doom: While Kiyo is shot twice during a fight with the Sagitari and then never seen again (with there being no indication that they have a living prisoner when they stay nearby), both wounds seem closer to her shoulders than any vital organs.
Mama Zed
Mama Zed
- Portrayed by: Shobu Kapoor
- Back for the Dead: Her first appearance is about halfway through season one, and she only returns, as a Resistance leader, in the season 2 premiere.
- Parental Substitute: She raised Kem, but is not his mother.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Portrayed sadly, when she leads the Sagitari to the other Resistance leaders (apparently just to save her life) after being captured, despite clearly being upset about it, but they shoot her In the Back anyway.
Rune-Lux
Rune-Lux
Played By: Luke Neal
A Resistance commander on Wegthor- Frontline General: He is a rebel commander who mans a turret gun on the front lines of the resistance bunker's defense. He also leads a charge against Doomsday to engage him at close range.
- Head Crushing: Doomsday knocks him down and stomps on his head, crushing it into bloody gore.
- Remember the New Guy?: He acts like an established commander in the show's penultimate episode, "Blood Moon", but never appeared before then.
- Senseless Sacrifice: He disobeys an order to have his unit retreat from Doomsday and tries to attack him up close so he won't breach the base. Doomsday wipes out the unit in about a minute and then charges into the base anyway.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He is really unhappy about working with Nyssa after she was previously tricked into setting a trap for the resistance.
Bouncer
Bouncer
Played By: Antony Somers
A scraggly bar worker in the Outlands community of New Lurvan.- Draft Dodging: It is implied that he and the other able-bodied adults in his colony are lying low, trying to avoid being drafted for Zod's wars.
- Neutral No Longer: He sells out Jayna to Sagitari troops in his first episode for money and to make them leave, and later he is unimpressed when Jayna tries to recruit him and his neighbors for the Resistance, but in the finale, he is impressed enough by the Resistance and disgusted enough by Zod to join the Resistance and fight fiercely in the final battle.
- No Name Given: He appears across several episodes from early in season 2 to the series finale but is never named.
Rankless
Rhom
Rhom
Played By: Alexis Raben
A Rankless single mother whose poverty often finds her needing the help of others, such as Kem. She gets infected by one of Brainiac's Sentries she found while salvaging in the Outlands.
- Black Eyes of Evil: When she is possessed, her eyes turn dark red.
- Body Horror: Brainiac's Sentry jams cables in her back, darkens her skin and taints her veins. The Sentry's green energy is visible through her skin.
- Character Death: She eventually dies when Brainiac deactivates the Sentry in her, with Val-El unable to save her.
- Fighting from the Inside: Seg pushes her to regain her will against the Sentry when she's about to strangle him with cables-turned-tentacles, and this is enough to release Seg from the cable and allow him to activate the EMP grenade.
- Not Herself: When she's possessed by Brainiac's Sentry.
- Puppeteer Parasite: The Sentry takes over her mind and turns her into a scout for Brainiac.
- Super-Strength: The Sentry makes her strong enough to neck lift and kill Sagitari soldiers effortlessly, and send Seg flying with a mere punch.
- Tainted Veins: Brainiac's Sentry taints her veins and makes them protrude.
- That Woman Is Dead: When Seg confronts her at the communications hub.Rhom: There is no Rhom. [sends Seg flying with a punch] Rhom has been collected. Krypton is worthy of collection.
- Voice of the Legion: The corruption by Brainiac's Sentry makes her voice reverberate.
Ona
Ona
Played By: Tipper Seifert-Cleveland
- "Oh mighty Rao, before your grace, we wandered lost in the darkness. Until you appeared and led us into the light."
Rhom's daughter.
- Cheerful Child: She's pretty sweet and adorable.
- Death of a Child: Brainiac turns her into a living bomb and sets her upon Seg and his friends to kill them. Adam uses his zeta beam to block the explosion, but she still dies.
- From the Mouths of Babes: She's a true believer in the good aspects of the Kryptonian religion.
- Prayer Pose: She has a statuette of Rao (Krypton's Top God) and prays him. Now that she's a novice priestess, she adopts the same one the Voice's attendants use.
- Unwitting Pawn: Approached the Voice of Rao and presented the Rao statuette to him, unaware that Brainiac's Sentry was inside and looking for a more powerful host.
Religious Guild
Sevi and Anda
Sevi and Anda
Played By: India Mullen and Kim Adis
The Voice of Rao's two main acolytes.
- Ms. Exposition: Sevi is the one who reveals that the Brainiac-possessed Voice of Rao is draining the lifeforms of embryos from the genetic plant, as she spied on him doing it before fleeing.
- Never Bareheaded: They are only ever seen wearing Acolyte robes that cover their heads.
- Punch-Clock Villain: They serve a sinister theocrat, but are fairly nice women who come to oppose Rao as they grow more alarmed by the signs of Brainiac controlling him.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Neither is seen (aside from in a Black Mercy hallucination scene) after they fully turn against the Voice of Rao.
The Cythonnites
Cythonnites in General
Cythonnites
A group of worshippers of the ice goddess Cythonna, whose followers were declared heretical by the Voice of Rao. They also act as the guardians of the imprisoned Doomsday and will do anything to keep him locked away.- Bus Crash: They have a big presence in season 1 but are absent from the finale and are all killed by Doomsday or captured and brainwashed by Zod during the Time Skip between seasons.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: They have fairly heroic goals but sometimes ruthless methods and go back and forth from helping Seg and his allies to threatening or double crossing them multiple times, depending on whether they share a common goal at the time.
- Pragmatic Hero: They have spent generations guarding the indestructible and now-insane Doomsday to keep him from going on a rampage, but this duty has made their lives miserable and their outlook on things cynical. By the end of season 1, they are unwilling to oppose Brainiac shrinking and stealing Kandor because if he succeeds, it will give them a chance to send Doomsday away with Kandor. When they are told that Kandor's theft will destabilize and doom their planet, they still go through with their plan. They reason that Doomsday is about to get free of his chamber and will put the whole planet at risk anyway, and at least this way they will have a generation free of their burden before Krypton's doom.
- Tunnel King: They live in a series of tunnels in the wilderness and know about tunnels that go all the way to Kandor.
Anireh
Anireh
Played By: Beatrice Comins
The leader of the Cythonnites.- Minor Major Character: She is an important faction leader with very few scenes, while her subordinates Raika and Junra appear more often.
- Signature Headgear: She is always shown wearing a horn-shaped hat bigger than her head.
- Wasteland Elder: She leads a tribe that has spent generations subsisting in the icy, barren Outlands to fulfill their sacred duties.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: She is never seen after season 1, after Zod scatters her group during the Time Skip.
Raika
Raika
Played By: Sonita Henry
The first Cythonnite Seg encounters, who maintains a complicated relationship with him.- Boyish Short Hair: Her hair is cut very short, almost shorter than Seg’s.
- Death of Personality: She is captured, brainwashed, and loses most of her old memories and personality in season 2.
- Hero of Another Story: Seg finds her having been captured and tortured by Zod as part of his failed efforts to find Doomsday, and she does a lot of work on behalf of her group offscreen throughout the show.
- I Owe You My Life: She repeatedly helps or spares Seg because he saved her from Zod.
Junra
Junra
Played By: Lukas Loughran
The main enforcer of the group.- Manly Facial Hair: He is a bearded Blade Enthusiast who is quick to get into fights and tough situations.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He is never seen after season 1, after Zod scatters his group during the Time Skip.
Miscellaneous
Doomsday
Doomsday (formerly Dax-Baron)
Played By: Staz Nair (original form)
Doomsday is a monster (or rather, a living weapon of mass destruction) that was created a thousands cycles before the series' present-day as a result of deeply unethical and painful experiments performed by scientists from both the House of El and the House of Zod on a male Kryptonian, Dax-Baron. They initially did so in order to protect Krypton, but then the need faded away and the monster was put into cryostasis due to how extremely dangerous and invulnerable he was. Dru-Zod was convinced Doomsday was the only thing that could stop Brainiac and sought to release him from his prison. Damage sustained by his cryogenic containment eventually set him free.
- Adaptational Species Change: In the comics, Doomsday was a genetic creation of an alien living on Krypton. Here, he’s the result of Kryptonians experimenting on one of their own kind.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Dru-Zod uses a combination of Black Mercy toxin and somatic reconditioning to make him into a loyal tool.
- The Brute: Dru-Zod only sends one single ship on Wegthor to destroy the resistance. That ship contains Doomsday, of course, whose mind Zod managed to control. Doomsday alone is enough to smash the resistance's forces to pieces in horrifying fashion.
- Human Popsicle: Was kept frozen for hundred of years.
- Living Weapon: Created by the Houses of El and Zod for the purpose of protecting Krypton. Suffice it to say it didn't quite work out that way.
- Omnicidal Maniac: It is stated that, if released from stasis, he would kill every living thing on Krypton. After all, he is Doomsday.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: His skin soaks up blaster fire with barely a reaction. Even the explosion of Wegthor, Krypton's moon, is not enough to destroy him.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Let's just say there was a reason Houses El and Zod sealed up their creation instead of using him. He eventually escapes from his containment in the Season 1 finale.
- Was Once a Man: He was once a Kryptonian soldier named Dax-Baron. He had a unique genetic trait that the Houses of El and Zod exploited to turn him into a living weapon.
