History Characters / Krypton

!!''Doomsday / [[spoiler:Dax Baron]]''

* WasOnceAMan: He was once a normal Kryptonian named [[spoiler:Dax Baron]] with a unique genetic trait that the Houses of El and Zod exploited to turn him into a living weapon.

!!''Doomsday''

* EvilVersusEvil: General Dru-Zod wants to use Doomsday to defeat Brainiac and save the planet, but when Adam Strange reveals that it would kill everyone it finds, Seg convinces Dru-Zod not to use it.

* OmnicidalManiac: It is stated that, if released from stasis, it would kill every living thing on Krypton. After all, it's ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Doomsday]]''.
* SealedEvilInACan: Let's just say there was a reason Houses El and Zod sealed up their creation instead of using it. [[spoiler: It eventually escapes from its can in the Season One finale.]]
* WasOnceAMan: He was once a normal Kryptonian with a unique genetic trait that the Houses of El and Zod exploited to turn him into a living weapon.

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:He ends up being renamed 'Jor-El' at his mother's request.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledMidSentence: He gets shot in the head by Lyta before he can reveal the truth to Nyssa. Lyta believes he was going to lie to her again.]]

* [[spoiler: CanonCharacterAllAlong: He ends up being renamed 'Jor-El']]

* GenreRefugee: ''Krypton'' is a pretty serious sci-fi show overall, or at least was in Season One. Enters Lobo, ''THE'' BloodyHilarious AmusingAlien, in Season Two.

* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: He has a skull ornament on his pant's crotch section.

* [[spoiler: DefiantToTheEnd]]: [[spoiler: Before she was killed by Jax-Ur, she told Zod not to give him to Jax-Ur's demands to save her.]]

* AdultFear: She's devastated when her daughter Lyta is framed for the killing of a Rankless.

* DisappearedDad: He doesn't know who his father is, only that he died fighting Brainiac in the Battle of Kandor. [[spoiler: Then he deduces this was a lie -- his father is none other than Seg-El.]]

* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy: It's revealed in "Danger Close" that she's been reconditioned by her own son. Though in the next episode Zod claimed it was MoreThanMindControl.]]

* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy: It's revealed in "Danger Close" that she's been reconditioned by her own son.]]

* HealingFactor: Getting a basketball-sized hole blown through his torso is a mere inconvenience, as it takes him only a few minutes to regenerate.

* [[spoiler: KilledMidSentence: He gets shot in the head by Lyta before he can reveal the truth to Nyssa. Lyta believes he was gonna lie to her again.]]

* HasAType: He explicitly announces that [[ActionGirl Lyta]] will never be more attractive than when she’s punched someone out, right after showing more attraction to Nysa when he sees that she’s also an ActionGirl.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Dru-Zod is his son, meaning that similar to the AlternateContinuity series ''ComicBook/SupermanEarthOne'', Zod's Jor-El's half-brother--and Superman's uncle (though there he was Zod-El)]].

!!! '''Species:''' Coluan Cyborg

* HeelRealization: Near the end of Season One and going into Season Two, she comes to realize her obsession with honor isn't worth losing her daughter or brother for.
* HonorBeforeReason: Honor is SeriousBusiness for the House of Zod. She's devastated when Lyta is framed for the killing of a Rankless during the Rankless initiative instead of Kol-Da.

* [[spoiler: KilledMidSentence: He gets shot in the head by Lyta before he can reveal the truth to Nyssa.]]

** [[spoiler: Lyta shot him under the belief that he was gonna lie to Nyssa to let her guard down.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledMidSentence: He gets shot in the head before he can reveal the truth to Nyssa. Lyta believes he would lie to her to let her guard down.]]

* HeelRealization: Near the end of Season One and going into Season Two, she comes to realize her obsession with honor isn't worth losing her daughter.

* LaResistance: In season 2

* RetGone: His cape is slowly vanishing from existence, which means it's also happening to him. [[spoiler:In the season finale, the defeat of Brainiac by way of PhantomZone projector, and Seg-El getting sucked in with him, causes Superman's symbol to be replaced by Zod's on the cape.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledMidSentence: He was shot in the head before he can reveal the truth to Nyssa. Lyta believed he would lie to her to let her guard down.]]

* UncertainDoom: He tries to flee Kandor in a skimmer after losing everything, but Jax-Ur triggers a torture device in his neck which causes him to crash. It's not clear if he survived the crash or found shelter if he did. [[spoiler:He is shown to have survived in season 2, scraping by in his old hometown, until Lyta shoots his head off.]]

[[folder:In General]]

[[folder:Jax-Ur]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: To save Superman, [[spoiler: Adam will have to do whatever it takes to ensure his existence. Even if it means allowing Brainiac to steal Kandor, which would eventually lead to Krypton's destruction.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi: Episode 5 has him checking out a male Sagitari guard's ass.
** He also says Seg has “dreamy eyes" and "legs for days".

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Just when Ona, having recently been turned into a living bomb, is about to kill Seg and his friends, Adam jumps in at the last second and blocks the explosion with his zeta beam, all while vanishing at the same time. Subverted in that he survives.]]

* BigBad: Of Season One. He was indicated to be this in early [[https://screenrant.com/krypton-tv-show-brainiac-actor/ promotional]] material.

* EnemyMine: In the season 2 premiere, he tries to team up with Seg, reasoning that they're both injured and need the help of the other. Seg points out that Brainiac would try to kill him as soon as it became convenient, a fact Brainiac doesn't deny, and so decides to just skip the pretense and beats Brainac's body into pulp using a stick. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Seg, Brainiac survives by putting his mind into Seg's body.]]

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: He's come back in time to destroy Krypton and avert Superman's birth. [[spoiler:In fact, Adam Strange is wrong about this. Brainiac was always meant to steal Kandor, which in turn caused the destabilization of Krypton which would eventually lead to Kal-El being sent to Earth.]]

* SuperIntelligence: Standard for Brainiac.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:As he's sucked into the PhantomZone, Brainiac uses his tendrils to drag Seg along.]]

[[folder:Lobo]]

* DreadlockWarrior: He sports dreads.
* GenreRefugee: ''Krypton'' is a pretty serious sci-fi show overall, or at least was in season 1. Enters Lobo, ''THE'' BloodyHilarious AmusingAlien, in season 2.
* HandCannon: His blaster handgun is ''huge'', and yet he's human-sized and uses it with one hand.
* HealingFactor: Getting a basketball-sized hole blown through his torso takes him only a few minutes to regenerate.

[[folder:Doomsday]]

* EvilVersusEvil: General Dru-Zod wanted to use Doomsday to defeat Brainiac and save the planet, but when Adam Strange revealed that it would kill everyone it finds, Seg convinces Dru-Zod not to use it.

* LivingWeapon: Created by the Houses of El and Zod for the purpose of protecting Krypton. Suffice to say, it didn't quite work out that way.
* OmnicidalManiac: It is stated that if released from stasis it would kill every living thing on Krypton. Also, it's ''Doomsday''.
* SealedEvilInACan: Let's just say there was a reason Houses El and Zod sealed up their creation instead of using it. [[spoiler:He eventually escapes from its can in the season 1 finale.]]

* HeelRealization: Near the end of season one, she's starting to realize honor isn't worth losing her daughter.

* FreudianExcuse: Her...issues with expressing her love for her daughter and her general HonorBeforeReason obsession come from her father not just making her and her brother fight each other ruthlessly to be worthy of the name Zod, he also deliberately arranged their final trial so that one of them would be required to abandon the other to a cruel, cold death.

* MyGreatestFailure: A flashback reveals that years ago she left her brother to certain death in the Outlands for her own survival, which gained her their father's praise as being worthy of a Zod, but has haunted her ever since. Later subverted when she's found by her still-alive brother, who bears her no ill feeling and helps get her get safely away from Lyta and Dru, after Lyta shoots her. [[spoiler:Subverted again as it's later suggested that she was imagining her brother still alive, rescuing and forgiving her.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While Daron-Vex and the Council come off as (somewhat fearful) stooges to the Voice of Rao and she can come off as a hard-ass, she's also the most relatively sympathetic of Krypton's leaders so far.

* TheBadGuyWins: By the end of the season finale, [[spoiler:Krypton is successfully saved from Brainiac, but Seg ends up trapped in the PhantomZone and Dru-Zod takes over the planet as a dictator.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: In the team that forms in the struggle against Brainiac. Even with none of their hands being clean as Seg put it, compared to Seg, Lyta, Jayna, Nyssa and Kem, General Zod is definitely this.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: In the season finale, [[spoiler:with Brainiac gone and Kandor's leadership splintered, he takes control as Kandor's dictator, conscripting the Rankless into his army]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He would happily work with (or perhaps more accurately he is using) a terrorist organisation, torture Seg with parasites and unleash ''Doomsday'' if it meant he could stop Brainiac's conquest of Krypton.

The unborn son of Seg and Nyssa-Vex, artificially conceived as is traditional for the Houses.

* MyGreatestFailure: A flashback reveals that years ago she left her brother to certain death in the Outlands for her own survival, which gained her their father's praise as being worthy of a Zod, but has haunted her ever since. [[spoiler:Later subverted when she's found by her still-alive brother, who bears her no ill feeling and helps get her get safely away from Lyta and Dru, after Lyta shoots her.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After getting shot by her own daughter during her duel with Dru and limping around in the catacombs, she's rescued by her brother just before Brainiac's arrival. She disappears after this, leaving her fate unknown.]]

* CanonForeigner: Original to the show. In the comics, Jor-El and Zor-El (Supergirl's father) didn't have any half-siblings.

* MyGreatestFailure: A flashback reveals that years ago she left her brother to certain death in the Outlands for her own survival, which gained her their father's praise as being worthy of a Zod, but has haunted her ever since. [[spoiler:Later averted when she's found by her still-alive brother, bearing her no ill feeling and helps get her safely away from Lyta and Dru, after Lyta had shot her.]]

* FreudianExcuse: Along with his (assumed) RagsToRiches background, according to his own telling, he came from a family of Cythonnites (worshippers of Cythonna, instead of Rao) and were victims in the religious purges decades past. Hence, supposedly why he's an ambitious, scheming (and secretly atheistic) social and political climber one moment, and a simpering sycophant the next.

* BadLiar: Claims he wants to find Val-El's Fortress of Solitude so the terrorists of Black Zero won't find potential weapons to Jayna-Zod. She doesn't buy it.

* UncertainDoom: He tries to flee Kandor in a skimmer after losing everything, but Jax-Ur triggers a torture device in his neck which causes him to crash. It's not clear if he survived the crash or found shelter if he did.

!!! '''Species:''' Android (possibly a Coluan cyborg)

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Becomes a willing supporter of her future sons regime, going as far as shooting her mother and brutally torturing dissidents.]]