Divergent Character Evolution / Western Animation

Divergent Character Evolution in Western Animation.

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• Adventure Time:
  • Lemongrab and his clone were both originally equally bizarre and angry. After he tried to eat his clone, the original Lemongrab became incredibly, insanely evil and much fatter, while the other became nicer and skinnier. Then they were caught in an explosion and were reformed back into one person, with the resulting Lemongrab tempered by his components' experiences.
  • While there were a few minor differences, Fionna and Cake's universe started out as primarily a Gender-Bent Alternate Universe to Ooo in Ice King's fanfictions and Prismo's concepts. By the time of the Fionna and Cake miniseries, everyone got majorly different histories when the world turned mundane following Simon losing his magic, and by its end they resolve to stick by the changes even after The Magic Comes Back.
• In early artwork the titular brothers of Alvin and the Chipmunks were a trio of identical, realistic looking chipmunks. The Alvin Show made them into the vaguely chipmunk looking Big, Thin, Short Trio they're best known as. Adding further onto this, while Simon and Theodore were for the most part more sensible counterparts to Alvin initially, the 80s series gave them more spotlight and quirks; Simon became The Smart Guy and the Only Sane Man, while Theodore became the dorky Big Eater.
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • In Season 1, Gumball and Darwin were sometimes The Dividual, both perpetually enthusiastic and naive, often acting in unison. Other times, Gumball was very dumb and reckless, while Darwin was smarter and more moral, but so passive that he usually went along with whatever Gumball was doing. Which one was written first is hard to tell given the season aired extremely Out of Order, but from the second season on, they're given a milder form of the latter characterization, where Gumball is reckless but not a complete idiot (and can even be the Straight Man between the two) while Darwin is assertive enough to actually argue with Gumball and can be incredibly aggressive if provoked.
  • In Season 1, Elmore Junior High's primary faculty members were all Jerkasses, with just variations on how they were jerkasses; Principal Brown was a Dean Bitterman, Miss Simian lacked patience and seemed to take pride in belittling her students, and Mr. Small was a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing with an explosive temper. In later seasons, they each evolved and became more distinct. Principal Brown loosened up and became more helpful to the students, Miss Simian was established to have been teaching for thousands of years and was given a Hidden Heart of Gold, and Mr. Small got the mood swings under control and became the Hippie Teacher he's now infamous for being. Additionally, the literal blockhead Coach Russo and wannabe Cool Teacher Mr. Corneille were added to round out the cast.
• Ty Lee from Avatar: The Last Airbender is an in-universe example of this happening (off-screen): She claims she ran away to join the circus in order to differentiate herself from her six identical siblings.
• Grey Matter and Brainstorm in Ben 10 were both The Smart Guy in Ben's arsenal, with Brainstorm replacing Grey Matter in Ben 10: Alien Force. Once he started using them together, he applied their Super-Intelligence in different ways. Grey Matter was more of a saboteur and infiltrator whose knowledge was mostly in mechanics, while Brainstorm's intellect was mostly tactical and deductive.
• In their first few appearances, Chip 'n Dale were identical in every way. Later, Dale gained a red nose, buck teeth, and a goofier personality. Chip more or less kept his original looks, but became more of a Straight Man to Dale. This is tuned up even further in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Not only were their personalities and drive more polarized than ever, but Chip picked up a leather jacket and fedora to represent his bravery and intelligence, whereas Dale picked up a Hawaiian shirt to represent his laid back attitude and sloth.
• On Daria, Quinn's friends in the Fashion Club are a slight example—originally they were more or less interchangeable, though Sandi had a bit more personality as the leader. Characterization Marches On kicked in to make Tiffany dumber and vainer than the others, while Stacy became a sweet and shy Extreme Doormat (until Character Development in the last season gave her more of a backbone).
• Originally Donald Duck's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie were pretty much identical in both personality and design. Later they were given different colored clothes and by the 90s they had gained distinguishable personalities. Different works opt for different personalities:
  • This is made most noticeable in Quack Pack. Huey is the proactive leader, Dewey the clever thinker, and Louie the most simple minded.
  • The triplets have always been clever, adventurous, and mischievous, and while they retain these traits in DuckTales (2017), they each emphasize a different one: Huey is the brainiest, Dewey is an adventure junkie, and Louie doesn't even contest the other two labeling him the Evil Triplet. Additionally, the producers decided that since they're always listed "Huey, Dewey, Louie", in that order, that that's their birth order, and they've drawn some characterization from birth order tropes. Huey, the oldest, is more responsible; Dewey, suffering from a bad case of Middle Child Syndrome, does whatever he can to stand out; and Louie, the youngest, is content to go with the flow.
  • The 2017 reboot also gave the boys different hobbies and friends: Huey, the brainy one, is the only one that's a Junior Woodchuck and is friends with Fenton/Gizmoduck; Dewey, the showy one, has his own webseries, takes an interest in piloting, and is friends with Launchpad; and Louie, the sneaky one, is always looking for get-rich-quick schemes and briefly studies under Goldie.
• While DuckTales (1987) has the Duck triplets still be largely indistinguishable, the Beagle Boys have their own names and differ from each other in appearance and personality, unlike the comics where the most often-seen members all look and act mostly identical and are only referred to by the numbers on their shirts.
• The Dreamstone:
  • Frizz and Nug started off as two interchangable Cowardly Sidekicks for Sgt Blob. Further on in the first season, Frizz became increasingly cynical and neurotic, while Nug became more dopey and upbeat.
  • Reversed for Rufus and Amberley, who started off with rather contrasting personalities in the pilot (Cloud Cuckoo Lander Hidden Badass and Plucky Innocent Prodigy respectively) but were downplayed to almost interchangable Kid Sidekicks for the Dream Maker for the majority of the series afterwards (albeit with Amberley remaining the slightly more competent of the two).
    • Played straight for the final season, where they start to revert back to original personalities.
• The Fairly OddParents!: In a similar vein to the Simpsons example, Cosmo and Wanda began life as "two halves of a whole idiot," a pair of cheerful, wacky fairies. By the start of the second season, said traits were absorbed and amplified by Cosmo, while Wanda became more down to earth (and increasingly naggy, while Cosmo became increasingly childlike) in order to balance off the couple.
• Garfield and Friends: The U.S. Acres segments did this with Orson's brothers in addition to naming them Mort, Gort and Wart in order to make them easier to tell apart than their nearly identical counterparts in the original comic strip. Mort was the shortest and fattest of the three, Wart was made the tallest in addition to having buck teeth and Gort was given yellow eyes and rounded teeth.
• Gargoyles:
  • The Pack. Each member had a different personality, but in their debut they all shared the same motive and all were basically just assassins who wanted a good fight. As the series went on, each got Character Development, and episodes away from the others:
    • Fox was revealed to be a very adept schemer and was manipulating the pack for Xanatos, who she had fallen in love with and married.
    • Wolf, The Dragon mutated himself into a Wolfman and became The Starscream to the new leader Coyote, later he teamed up with his ancestor, the very man who killed the series gargoyle clan.
    • Jackal and Hyena were just the Ax-Crazy Brother–Sister Team Hyena developed an attraction to the robot Coyote, and Jackal gained the power over death and attempting genocide on the world.
    • Dingo, the explosives expert and the most practically minded went on to leave the pack as the others began to get lose their humanity, worked with Fox as a security guard (as their original security guard was in jail), before revealing his dream of being a hero, and teaming up with a Hive Mind robot. Dingo would later be one of the stars of a Spin-Off comic.
  • Word of God says this was the plan for two robots in the planned 2198 spin-off In-Universe. LXM-994 and LXM-1057, would have started as assembly line models, but when the Space Spawn invade and steal the Master Matrix, they would have lost their connection and started to develop unique personalities.
• On Invader Zim's first episode, the Almighty Tallests basically take turns between being The Ditz and the Straight Man for each other. By "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars" Red was established as the smarter one while Purple was more emotional and impulsive. (Though they still both spend most of their time yelling at people and stuffing their faces.)
• Jellystone!:
  • While in their original cartoon they were almost a Palette Swap from each other with a different neck accesory, Fancy-Fancy and Spook -now the female Spooky- have become very distinct from each other: Spooky is the biggest cat of the gang with a near permanent blank stare, meanwhile Fancy-Fancy is at least as short as Brain and tends to be more emotional and childish.
  • Snagglepuss and The Funky Phantom usually have very similar personalities (to the point of sharing some of their catchphrases), but Jellystone! reinterprets Mudsy as a hammy former pro-wrestler who shares very little in common with Snagglepuss (who largely retains his usual personality).
• In Looney Tunes, Bugs Bunny (especially his prototype, Happy Rabbit) and Daffy Duck were both originally screwball trickster characters (this could be partly why they never starred in the same short, until 1951). Overtime, Bugs mellowed out, though kept his trickster status, while Daffy became a selfish and greedy Butt-Monkey.
• Twilight Sparkle and Moondancer in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic were, in flashbacks, literal Palette Swaps of each other (save for Moondancer's glasses). However after blowing off Moondancer's party to go to Ponyville, Twilight learned the value of friendship and kept her original appearance, while Moondancer became embittered and reclusive, letting her eyebrows grow thick, donning whatever clothes she had laying around, and tying her hair back rather than bothering to get it cut. She gets better personality-wise, though keeps her new appearance.
• The Owl House: When Amity's parents — Alador and Odalia — make their first appearance in a brief silhouetted flashback, they're interchangeable and portrayed as a pair of elitist, emotionally-abusive snobs. When they make a proper appearance in season two, they've been heavily tweaked to differentiate them; Odalia is still a cruel and controlling Stage Mom, but Alador has been revamped into an Absent-Minded Professor who's main flaw is being too Weak-Willed and apathetic to stand up to his domineering wife. This extends to their appearances, as Alador has messier hair and less proper clothes than the rest of his family.
  • This also applies to Amity’s older siblings Edric and Emira as well. They’re Single-Minded Twins in their first appearance, but later episodes give them distinct personalities with Edric being more silly and klutzy and Emira being more grounded.
  • Boscha and Skara started pretty much as two members of Amity's Girl Posse, but after Amity's Character Development kicked in, they started diverging drastically. Boscha becomes the new Alpha Bitch, shown to be The Ace at grugby, highly competitive, sadistic and possessing a strong need of external validation, and antagonizes Luz and Willow. She gets Demoted to Extra in Season 2, while the opposite happens to Skara, who gets far more spotlight and reveals herself to be actually nice, when free from Toxic Friend Influence, quite strategic at sports, and ends naturally drifting away from Boscha towards Willow and her circle of friends. By the final season Skara is shown to have grown into a heroic person fighting on the side of resistance against Belos and then Collector, while Boscha ends deteriorating into a petty tyrant manipulated by Kikimora. Or rather, she ended up staying the same that she became too predictable. In her confrontation with Amity she actually breaks down, begging Amity to come back to the way things were originally.
• Like Pac-Man Party from which it bases its character designs on, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures gave the ghost gang distinctive designs. The Pac-Worlders other than Pac-Man and his parents also count as in most iterations, many of them simply looked like Pac-Man but with a few distinguishing physical characteristics and pieces of clothing. Here in this adaptation, not only do all of the Pac-Worlders have various different body shapes but they also vary in color.
• The Penguins of Madagascar:
  • In the transition from the Madagascar movies to the Spin-Off TV series, the chimp characters Mason and Phil have evolved into Mason being a Neat Freak and Phil being slovenly and relaxed.
  • Rico's appearance-wise evolved too; in the movie he looks like a taller and skinnier Skipper and you could barely tell him apart from him or Kowalski. But in The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper and later in the series he has a scar on his beak and three feathers sticking up like a mohawk to help him stand out.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998) has had this happen with the actual series after the original "Whoopass Stew" short and the two What A Cartoon pilots, as well as some Invoked examples within the series:
  • In "Whoopass Stew" and the What a Cartoon pilots "Crime 101" and "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins", the girls had virtually the same personality, while the actual show makes Blossom the intelligent leader, Bubbles the naive and innocent one, and Buttercup the aggressive tomboy.
  • In "Super Zeroes", each girl wanted a different gimmick: Blossom became The Cape with a Cool Car, Bubbles dressed up as a bunny and Buttercup became a supernatural antihero. They were so focused on standing out that it got in the way of their heroics. It was the Monster of the Week who told them they were better off without the gimmicks, gadgets or angst.
  • Several episodes establish that each of the girls have a power the other two don't: Blossom getting ice breath, Bubbles becoming an Omniglot and Buttercup having to come to terms with merely being a Flying Brick.
• The Pigs on The Raccoons were interchangeable earlier on, but soon had different personalities to go along with their individual voices.
• In the Rainbow Magic movie, Rachel is quieter and more serious, while Kirsty is outgoing and positive. In the books they're pretty much interchangeable.
• Rugrats originally treated the twins as one entity. As the seasons went on, Phil turned into more of a Deadpan Snarker who was a borderline Audience Surrogate. Lil meanwhile became more headstrong and emotional. By the time of All Grown Up! Phil had kept their original obsession with grossness, while Lil was desperate to fit in and prove that she was a Girly Girl.
• The Simpsons:
  • Bart and Lisa Simpson started out as a pair of interchangeable brats. Both were shameless pranksters and not too bright, their main function being to drive their parents up the wall. This worked well for the original three-minute Ullman shorts, which didn't have much time for characterization. The first few episodes of the regular series feature this portrayal as well, with Lisa causing as much trouble as Bart. The writers decided having two identical characters wasn't very interesting in a half-hour format, so the episode "Moaning Lisa" was produced, which re-creates Lisa as artistic, sensitive, and very intelligent, but insecure and obnoxiously self-righteous. Basically the total opposite of her brother. This version of the character has remained ever since. Note there were some slight differences in the original shorts, where Lisa was a delinquent, but still somewhat wilier and reserved than Bart and usually more a Greek Chorus to his antics (and eventual comeuppance).
    • Normally Lisa and Maggie have identical designs with the same starfish haircut, Lisa as a baby is indistinguishable from Maggie. Various episodes offer some distinction with Lisa's hairstyle, and in a couple Flash Forward episodes Lisa's hair is made more curly and feathered while Maggies' hair is messier.
  • Lenny and Carl are also an example, starting as two of Homer's dumb friends, now Lenny's somewhat of a Cloud Cuckoolander and Carl is now a Deadpan Snarker.
  • Patty and Selma. When they were created, there was almost no difference between them. Later it turned out that Selma is interested in marrying a man (having several failed marriages over the course of the show) and having a child; Patty initially just Does Not Like Men but later comes out as a lesbian. Also, Selma is shown to hate Homer a little less than Patty, Depending on the Writer. (Most particularly, in "I Married Marge" she helped them get back together when she saw how miserable Marge was without him.)
  • An inversion with Nelson and the trio of Dolph, Kearney, and Jimbo. Nelson's first episode establishes him as The Bully who picks on Bart, while the others were juvenile delinquents who often encouraged Bart's misbehavior. The distinction vanished pretty quickly, with Nelson joining the others to form a quartet, and all four being content as delinquents or bullies as needed. Though Nelson could still be called somewhat distinct due to his relative friendliness with Bart and Lisa's crush on him.
  • On that note, Dolph, Kearney, and Jimbo started out fairly interchangeable. Over time, Kearney has been established as having an infant son (to emphasize how many times he's been held back), while Jimbo has a softer side (along with religious and feminist tendencies) and good home life. Dolph, on the other hand, hasn't gotten much development, which has ironically made him distinct in his own right - he's the quiet follower who just goes along with his bigger, louder friends.
• Kyle and Stan from South Park used to have pretty much the same personality in earlier seasons. Now they are still very alike, but their interests and attitudes differ. Kyle is smarter (at least academically) and more reactionary, especially when Cartman is around. Stan is more down to earth, often taking the role of the Only Sane Everyman, as well as being a bit more sensitive at times. Stan is also The Leader usually.
• On Teen Titans (2003), Speedy was originally a Robin expy, playing his Foil in his first appearance. He soon became more of an egotistical "Bad Boy." It's even lampshaded in one episode after he saves a child's cat:
  Boy: Thanks, Robin! I like your other costume better though.
  Speedy: I'm not Robin!
  • Inverted in Teen Titans Go!. Speedy is more like Robin than ever before. They even have the same body shape and voice. Exploited in-universe, where they swapped clothes and hairstyles and nobody knew the difference.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The original comics had the four title characters as all being fairly homogeneous, the only difference being their weapons. While the comics continued to evolve, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) made some additional decisions that stuck with the greater franchise, streamlining their personalities and color coding their masks. The 2003 series upped it with some differences in skin tone (which began as early as the 1980s toys) and costume straps. The 2012 show took it even further by giving the turtles body-types that are plausible given their individual life-styles (Leonardo is able-bodied, Raphael more muscular than the rest and has a chip on his plastron, Michelangelo being the shortest and skinny, and Donatello tall and lanky), that makes them far more recognizable without their bandannas and weapons. Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the very next incarnation, even makes them different species of Turtles (Leonardo is a red-eared slider, Donatello a soft-shelled Turtle, Michelangelo a boxed Turtle, and Raphael a snapping Turtle) while carrying over most of their design traits from the 2012 series.
• Gordon, Henry and James of Thomas & Friends, while having many solo stories, usually acted as a near interchangeable trio of arrogant peers, bickering with other engines or making pompous remarks. As season passed the three began to appear together less and gained more individual characteristics. Henry in particular became far less egotistical, converting into a sensitive Hypochondriac and Nature Lover. James and Gordon retained their vanity as their defining quirks, however while Gordon became the main team's cynic, James became more cheerful and mischevious (and by Season Seventeen seems to have become The Prankster). This evolution occurred in The Railway Series novels as well, albeit to a lesser extent due to the show's more evident Flanderization.
• The original ThunderCats has been criticized for its bland characters, since most of the titular ThunderCats were pretty similar in personality, and all of them (with the exception of Lion-O) had exactly the same backstory: they were Thunderan nobles who previously served Lion-O's father King Claudus before his death. For the 2011 reboot, the creative team worked to correct this by giving the ThunderCats more distinct personalities and backstories: Lion-O is a brash and idealistic teenager, Tygra is Lion-O's adoptive brother who resents him for being the heir to the throne, Panthro is a gruff and intimidating soldier, Cheetara is a loving and compassionate priestess, Wilykit and Wilykat are orphaned street urchins adopted by the ThunderCats, Pumyra is a refugee from a gladiatorial arena who betrays the team... You get the idea.
• Subverted in Total Drama, Katie and Sadie originally had pretty much the exact same personality—eternally-happy, sweet, innocent girls who couldn't bear parting from each other. Then the two were placed on opposite teams in the very first episode, much to their mutual horror, only to be allowed to switch in the second. After Katie's early elimination forced the two apart, it seemed to be the start of this, with Sadie beginning to bond with Lindsay and face a fear that had nothing to do with Katie... And then, after that episode she pretty much just went near-silent, doing next to nothing of note for four straight episodes (three of which were her team's longest winning streak in the season!) before being eliminated as something of an afterthought. They've returned to being The Dividual pretty consistently ever since, and never competed again. Later characters defined heavily by their interactions with each other, like what Geoff and Bridgette as well as Lindsay and Beth would become in Action, Samey and Amy in Pahkitew Island would be better at distinguishing its halves consistently, and pretty much every duo with even a smidgen of focus on Ridonculous Race end up being quite different from each other, with the exceptions of characters already clearly distinct, some of the early cannon fodder, and the stepbrothers.
• The Transformers:
  • The toys of Prowl, Bluestreak and Smokescreen aren't quite palette swaps (the main differences are in the vehicle modes, with Prowl having a lightbar and Smokescreen having a spoiler and a larger bumper), but due to their models being designed at different phases of development, all three have very visibly different proportions and a lot of small details changed◊. In general, Prowl is the most humanoid while Smokescreen is the most like his toy, with Bluestreak somewhere in between.
  • The toys of Sideswipe and Red Alert are simple palette swaps of each other but the cartoon gives Sideswipe a leaner, more athletic build while Red Alert's character model is given stockier proportions closer to the original toy as well as a differently-shaped and colored head.
  • Thrust, Dirge and Ramjet are already quite different than the original Seeker trio of Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker as toys, due to each having uniquely modified wings in jet mode. In the cartoon, given a different designer than the first three Seekers, they're also drawn to have their vehicle mode nosecones left untransformed in robot mode, resembling conical helmets. These designs stuck and the nosecone helmets became a distinct group identity for the three to distinguish them even further from the original trio, as the "Conehead" Seekers.
• The Venture Bros.: The eponymous Venture Bros., who from conception to the pilot, and through the first season, were originally written almost exactly the same - Pollyanna Hardy Boys parodies that were forever trying to solve mysteries. By the end of Season 3, Hank has become much more brazen, excitable, and stupidly headstrong, taking largely after his Bodyguard and Hero Brock Sampson, while Dean becomes more sensitive, emotionally in check, and cynical, like his Father Rusty. Justified, as by Season 4, not only are all of the brothers' clones are killed in a large battle as a makeshift army of soft zombie-like bodies (It Makes Sense in Context), which were previously used as Reset Buttons for whenever the duo would die (and it happened a lot), but Dean also learns this firsthand, completely warping his sense of self and his belief in his family.
  • The trope was actually intentionally invoked by Creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, who pitched the Second Season to Adult Swim by outright stating that it'd focus almost exclusively on evolving the two brothers into full characters, as most of the first season was spent setting up the status quo (that would eventually be broken over and over again).
• Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse were designed as Suspiciously Similar Substitutes to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and his wife Ortensia after Walt Disney lost the rights to them. As a result, Mickey and Minnie looked near-identical to the originals except for a species change. The main clothing difference between the males is that Mickey's shorts are red while Oswald's are blue, and that Mickey wears shoes while Oswald does not. With their wives, Minnie originally wore a flower hat and skirts like Ortensia. By 1939 Minnie's flower hat was phased out for her signature bow. Minnie still wears skirts, especially in retraux designs, however she is usually completely clothed (mainly in a dress).
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: The Lions in the original series were largely identical aside from color while the ones here have their own unique designs and abilities, the red lion is a Fragile Speedster Glass Cannon and literally the Right Hand Man to the team leader, the yellow lion is a heavily armored Mighty Glacier that frequently fights by ramming opponents, the green lion is less physically impressive than the others but with a wider array of tricks and gimmicks the blue lion is a Jack of All Trades with a Freeze Ray (to enhance the Red Oni, Blue Oni pairing with the Red Lion) that gets even more powerful underwater and the black lion is significantly bigger than the other lions and is a Master of All.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars did this with Clone Troopers. In Attack of the Clones, they all looked identical and wore near-identical armor; while Revenge of the Sith had their armor evolve to become much more specialized and distinctive, The Clone Wars goes a step further by showing that clones also have distinct personalities, and it shows them adopting nicknames, hairstyles, tattoos, and helmet art to make themselves stand out. The series also featured dozens of unique clones in very distinctive character roles. By The Bad Batch this trope ends up being undone that all the clones who aren't the titular team or Rex have become mindless servants of the Empire, reverting back to wearing standardized armor and behaving like typical mooks with no personality.
• Kitty Pryde's portrayal in X-Men: Evolution is an interesting meta-example. In the X-Men comics, her defining trait was originally that she was the lone teenager in a group of adult superheroes, and effectively served as the "little sister" of the team. But in the Evolution continuity, all of the X-Men (with the exception of Wolverine, Storm, and Beast) were reimagined as ordinary high school students, so Kitty's personality had to be significantly revamped to make her stand out. As a result, she's portrayed as the carefree Plucky Comic Relief of the group, and has several noticeable Valley Girl mannerisms—contrasting the shy Rogue and the studious Jean. It worked very well.
• Young Justice (2010) would occasionally use this when a character and their Expy would coexist in the same universe.
  • In the third season, this was applied to differentiate Katar Hol / Hawkman from Hro Talak, an Expy from Justice League whose name is a Significant Anagram of Hawkman's real name. As a result, Talak went from looking a lot like Hawkman to the Thanagarian version of a Bald of Authority (plus getting a Race Lift to becoming black).
  • The fourth season would introduce the Phantom Zone Kryptonian forces lead by General Dru-Zod, and among them, Faora Hu-Ul and her expy from Superman II, Ursa, were given some different characteristics to become differentiated from each other. The former was changed to a black Kryptonian much like Zod himself, but was otherwise just one of his soldiers, while the latter remained white and was the general's wife. Ursa would also bond with the Eye of Ekron and become Legion of Super-Heroes villain Emerald Empress, allowing her to have additional powers that Faora (who simply has the usual Kryptonian superpowers) doesn't have.

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