History Characters / Krypton

* MadScientist: She doesn't look mad on the outside, but creating a monster by gassing a fellow Kryptonian ''over 450 times'' surely qualifies.

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

!!! '''Species:''' Genetically engineered Kryptonian deformity

* HumanPopsicle: Or rather, monstrosity popsicle.

* SealedEvilInACan: Let's just say there was a reason Houses El and Zod sealed up their creation instead of using him. [[spoiler:He eventually escapes from his can in the Season One finale.]]
* WasOnceAMan: He was once a Kryptonian soldier named [[spoiler:Dax Baran]] with a unique genetic trait that the Houses of El and Zod exploited to turn him into a living weapon.

* LackOfEmpathy: What she does to Dax-Baron is essentially ''torture'', by repeatedly bringing him back to life to inflict him more pain and make him more monstrous. She ignores his suffering throughout, something [[Van-Zod has trouble]] with very early on.

!! House of Vex

[[folder: Daron-Vex]]
!!''Daron-Vex''
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!!! '''Played By:''' Elliot Cowan

The chief magistrate of Kandor, charged with defending Krypton's oligarchy.

* TomatoInTheMirror: Jax-Ur reveals that [[spoiler:she's not the original Nyssa-Vex. The original was mortally wounded in a skimmer crash, and her mind was uploaded into a clone body. This destroys whatever lingering loyalty she had to her father]].

* UnrequitedLove: Similar to Dev's relationship with Lyta, she is very in love with Seg, who has been in love with Lyta since childhood.

* NotWearingTights: He dresses in plain streetwear from Earth at first, then starts wearing a Rankless Kryptonian garb to blend in. He wears ''much'' more [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/a/ad/Adam_Strange_05.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100206014933 garish outfits]] in the comics.

* AmbiguouslyBi: When he's not threatening Seg and Adam, he is commenting on their general attractiveness. He seems to like Adam in particular, referring to him as "a cutie" and "the hot blonde". Adam seems genuinely flattered.

* BigBadEnsemble: He forms this in Season Two with [[spoiler: Brainiac, whom he wants to defeat out of a personal grudge, and General Zod, whom he doesn't care about]].

* 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.]]

* StatusQuoIsGod: He travelled back in time to preserve history and Superman's existence. [[spoiler: However, this means that Krypton will die anyway for Superman to come to Earth as the infant Kal-El. He doesn't tell Seg about this, which causes a rift between the two.]]

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: [[spoiler: In the Season Two premiere, he's been reduced to scraping out a living, far from the powerful position he once held.]]

** [[spoiler: Lyta shot him under the belief that he would say anything to let Nyssa's guard down.]]

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen

* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: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.]]

* SmugSnake: A self-admitted “selfish bastard” with numerous schemes and plots, but one who clearly lacks the patience and the discipline to adapt to your everyday SpannerInTheWorks and suffering from some EvilCannotComprehendGood. It especially contrasts with his more skilled daughter.

* 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 Two, scraping by in his old hometown, [[BackForTheDead until Lyta shoots his head off]].]]

Seg and [[spoiler:Nyssa]]'s future grandson, the greatest hero in the universe, the (future) "Last Son of Krypton".

* MythologyGag: His cape is exactly the same as the one worn by Creator/ChristopherReeve's Superman.

* HericSacrifice: [[spoiler:He gives his life to seal Doomsday inside the tunnels on Krypton's moon.]]

!!''Cor-Vex''

* UterineReplicator: Created from genetic samples of his parents by Kandor's Genesis Chamber, which then names him, forecasts his lifespan and career, and projects an image of him as an adult. He's bound to be a renowned lawmaker.

* ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:She's killed by Jax-Ur, only for Dru-Zod to reveal a few episodes later that the real Lyta is being kept in a coma by the Black Mercy. The one Jax-Ur killed was a clone he made that would not object to his plans.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: It's revealed in "Danger Close" that she's been reconditioned by her own son, though Zod asserts in the following episode that he only put her through it to alleviate her guilt over shooting her mother.]]
* CanonForeigner: She's a new character that didn't appear in the comics.

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

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

Seg's future grandson, the greatest hero in the universe, the (future) "Last Son of Krypton".

The daughter of Daron-Vex.

* TomatoInTheMirror: Jax-Ur reveals that [[spoiler:she's not the original Nyssa-Vex. The original was mortally wounded in a skimmer crash, and her mind was uploaded into a clone body.]]

* ClearMyName: He fights to redeem the honor of House of El after Val-El's action caused the family to be ostracized and shamed.

* TheSmartGuy: Being a VirtualGhost doesn't prevent him from being helpful to Seg and Adam Strange at all through his immense technological knowledge and knowledge of Brainiac. It also doesn't prevent him from using the technology inside the Fortress of Solitude, thanks to its interface being virtual as well -- Seg and Adam Strange would be pretty clueless with it otherwise.
* VirtualGhost: He survives in the Fortress of Solitude as an AI hologram patterned after himself in a manner that's very similar to Jor-El in ''Film/ManOfSteel''.
* WalkThePlank: He's been condemned to the Kryptonian equivalent, that is walking on a bridge which ends at a chasm outside the energy shield of Kandor (which protects the city from the cold environment of that part of the planet), then being dropped in said chasm through the [[TrapDoor retractable end]] of said bridge.

* DisneyDeath: He didn't actually die, he managed to hide in the PhantomZone after jumping.
* GenerationXerox: Prefigures his great-grandson Jor-El, another (and the last) scientist the Kryptonian High Council will ignore, in addition to leaving a VirtualGhost behind before dying. Also, he's the creator of the original Fortress of Solitude.

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

* UterineReplicator: Created from genetic samples of his parents by Kandor's Genesis Chamber, which then names him, forecasts his lifespan and career and projects an image of him as an adult. He's bound to be a renowned lawmaker.

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

* SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler: Growing up without a father, Zod always wanted his approval from Seg. But seeing what Seg is like (more like Jor-El and Kal-El), he no longer needs ''anything'' from him anymore.]]