History Series / Krypton

* ArrangedMarriage: Standard for at least the Kryptonian Houses. Seg is matched up with Nyssa-Vex (despite being Rankless) because of their [[{{Eugenics}} superior projected genetic combination]]. Her father Daron-Vex even offers to adopt Seg into the family, making him Seg-Vex. Lyta-Zod is promised to Dev-Em.

*** When The Voice of Rao is facing down an assassination attempt he removes his helmet, requesting that, if this his last moment, he be allowed to [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi "look upon it with his own eyes"]].

** Reminiscent of the film ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'', Seg and Nyssa's child has its sex, lifespan, career and likely cause of death computed and announced to them, all from a single fertilized egg. It's a boy, he's already named Cor-Vex, and he'll be a famed lawmaker before dying of old age.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Dru-Zod is the son of Seg and Lyta, meaning like in ''ComicBook/SupermanEarthOne'', he's Superman's uncle.]]

A SpinOff centering around SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}, who debuted in Season 2, was said to be planned. In August 2019, Syfy announced that ''Krypton'' was cancelled and (seemingly) the Lobo spinoff with it, leaving the last plot threads of Season 2 [[CutShort unresolved]].

** For Season 2, [[spoiler:on the planet where she's looking for Sardath, Nyssa finds an Omega Symbol painted on a tree and sees dozens of {{winged humanoid}}s flying above her. Meanwhile, Brainiac is headed to Earth with Baby Jor-El.]]

** Elliot Cowan (Daron-Vex) voiced several characters in ''[[Videogame/StarWarstheOldRepublic The Old Republic]]''.

Decades later, as a young man, Seg meets a stranger who claims to be from the planet Earth in the future, and that Seg's grandson will become "the greatest hero in the universe". However, this means an enemy, ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} -- who Val-El had discovered, to no avail -- is coming to destroy Krypton to prevent that hero from ever existing. Now Seg must take up his grandfather's work and fight to redeem his family's honor, save his homeworld, and ensure the existence of Superman.

A SpinOff centering around SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}, who debuted in Season 2, was said to be planned. In August 2019, Syfy announced that ''Krypton'' was cancelled, and (seemingly) the Lobo spinoff with it.

A spinoff centering around SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}, who debuted in Season 2, was said to be planned. In August 2019, Syfy announced that ''Krypton'' was cancelled, and (seemingly) the Lobo spinoff with it.

* DistressedDude: Seg seems to require a lot of rescuing. In season one alone Lyta gets him out of being arrest, teams up with Adam to save him from Black Zero and punches out someone holding him at gunpoint, his mother rescues him from the Sagitari and is arrested in his place, Nyssa saves him from the [[spoiler:Braniac-controlled]] voice of Rao... frankly the guy just can’t seem to stay out of trouble.

** A couple to Franchise/{{StarWars}}:

** Daron-Vex's excuse for his absence during the failed coup is that he was [[Film/ANewHope "on a diplomatic mission"]]. (And then Vex also gets subjected to a one-handed NeckLift from TheDragon.)
** When The Voice of Rao is facing down an assassination attempt he removes his helmet, requesting that, if this his last moment, he be allowed to [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi "look upon it with his own eyes"]].

A spinoff centering around SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}, who debuted in Season 2, was said to be planned. In August 2019, Syfy announced that ''Krypton'' was cancelled, and (seemingly) the Lobo spinoff with it, though a ChannelHop [[https://deadline.com/2019/08/krypton-canceled-after-two-seasons-spinoff-lobo-not-moving-forward-on-syfy-1202669840/ might be on the table]].

* EvilVsEvil: [[spoiler: General Zod knows Krypton doesn't possess the technology to repel Brainiac, but he thinks ''Doomsday'' might have the strength to defeat him.]]

* EasilyForgiven: In season 2, Seg is happy to see Adam again, despite the last time they saw each other Seg was angry at Adam for keeping Krypton's destruction from him.
* EnemyMine: In "Hope", Seg tries to get the Sagitari and Black Zero to work together to stop Brainiac. It's TeethClenchedTeamwork to the core, but the reluctantly go along with it. [[spoiler:Sadly, Brainiac telekinetically forces one of Black Zero's mooks to shoot a Sagitari, causing a firefight that quickly ends with all but Seg dead.]]

* MythologyGag: Enough of these to have [[MythologyGag/Krypton its own page]].

* MythologyGag: Enough of these to have its own page.
* NewEraSpeech: In the Season 1 finale, [[spoiler: General Dru-Zod]] gives one about the glory of having united Krypton's city-states under a single regime, and how they'll now make Krypton the seat of an interstellar empire.

* MythologyGag: Enough of these to have [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MythologyGag/Krypton its own page]].

* MythologyGag: Enough of these to have its own page.

* MythologyGag:
** Superman's iconic cape has the classic yellow symbol, while Val-El's cape has a black symbol like Superman's cape in the ComicBook/{{New 52}} continuity.
** Seg-El's narration that opens the pilot closely matches at first the intonation Creator/MarlonBrando used as Jor-El, then switches to young Seg's voice.
** The sunstone first appeared in the comics following ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', which was used to create a new Fortress of Solitude resembling the one in the Christopher Reeve movies.
** The Music/JohnWilliams theme, also from the Reeve movies.
** The House of Vex is a prominent family here. One of General Zod's followers in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' was named Car-Vex.
** Three Black Zero criminals are sentenced in the pilot, framed similarly to Zod, Ursa and Non in the Creator/RichardDonner movies.
** Though not mentioned onscreen, Black Zero was the name of Zod's ship in ''Man of Steel''. This in turn was a reference to a terrorist group on post-Crisis Krypton, which itself was a reference to a pre-Crisis villain who claimed to be responsible for Krypton's destruction.
** Val-El's "Fortress of Solitude" includes an atrium with an enormous statue of a man and a woman holding up a globe, essentially identical to the portrayal of Superman's Fortress (seen in comics and animation) where the statue shows his parents holding up a globe of Krypton.
** Seg calls Earth "Planet Detroit" after Adam mentions being from there, similar to the "Planet Houston" joke from ''Film/SupermanII''.
** A Zod (Lyta) kills her opponent with a NeckSnap. [[Film/ManOfSteel Ironic]].
** The Black Zero commander also kills an underling with a neck snap. [[spoiler:Which in hindsight is foreshadowing that he's also a Zod.]]
** Cythonna from ''The Last God of Krypton'' is mentioned by Daron-Vex as one of the old gods of Krypton.
** Val-El shares a name, and the House of Zod members have the ethnicity, of Kryptonian Val-Zod from ''ComicBook/Earth2'' and ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}''.
** The hologram of Val-El mentioned to Seg how one of their ancestors saved Krypton from a "Green Death", which is what slowly destroyed Krypton post-''ComicBook/TheManOfSteel''.
** Lyta is held prisoner in [[Series/Supergirl2015 Fort Rozz]].
** Jayna's father tells her that Zods [[KneelBeforeZod do not kneel]]. [[spoiler: General Dru-Zod]] later comments that he's not used to kneeling.
** [[spoiler: General Dru-Zod]] and the Cythonnite priestess imply that [[spoiler: Doomsday]] was [[ComicBook/SupermanDoomsdayHunterPrey created on Krypton]] by [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice the Kryptonians themselves]].
** Seg's friend Kem shares the same name as Superman's ancestor Kem-L in the comics.
** There have been several Jax-Ur's throughout the Superman franchise.
** "Flamebird" is one of the code words used to open the Genesis Chamber's secret facility.
** A Sagitari unit uses the callsign "Faora".
** Seg has a one-sided gun battle against Zod's troops with a "ghost" helping guide his fire [[Film/ManOfSteel just like Lois Lane]], and also has a trace of Brainiac in his head talking to him [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague just like Lex Luthor]].
** The Rankless child Ona's name is similar to Orna, Superman's daughter in the Black Mercy-induced dream from ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything''.
** The Genesis Chamber's a.i. is called [[Franchise/{{Batman}} "Oracle"]].

** Lyta is held prisoner in [[Series/{{Supergirl}} Fort Rozz]].

A spinoff centering around SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}, who debuted in Season 2, was said to be planned. In August 2019, Syfy announced that ''Krypton'' was cancelled, and (seemingly) the Lobo spinoff with it, though a ChannelHop might be on the table.

''Krypton'' is a Creator/DCComics-inspired ScienceFiction / SpaceOpera television series initially developed by David S. Goyer and Damian Kindler for Creator/{{Syfy}}, with writing additions by Creator/GeoffJohns. The first 10 episodes-long season premiered on March 21, 2018.