So weird that despite being one of Superman’s most well known villains, DC Animation has never really done anything with Zod beyond him being in JL Action.
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I think it was because of the “no other Kryptonians besides Kal” rule that DC enforced at the time? The DCAU had to walk the line between what the Post Crisis DCU enforced and what the creators wanted to do. Like Gaius said the others were “Argonauts/Argonians” to get around that rule. I’d love to see a new animated Superman series without that dumb rule to restrict what they could use.
But even then it’s odd he’s never been in an animated movie. I saw some speculation that he might be in YJ S4 based on the “Phantoms” title being related to the Phantom Zone. Zod and his Kryptonians would make for a hell of a threat, and I’d like to see Kon and the Superfamily get focused on after S3 was heavily Batfamily focused.
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Hmm, less Bat-stuff might actually get me to watch YJ season 4. Though they'd probably add another 20 cast members by that point.
I assume for the animated movies, it's because the early ones at least were adaptations of existing stories that came out during the "no other Krpytonians" policy.
Though since Unbound was an adaptation of Johns' Brainiac story, kind of surprised they never tried to adapt Last Son of Krypton.
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Why didn't DC use the Bizarro World more often?
The last mention of Bizarro World was during Tomasi's Superman run as far as I can remember.
Remember being introduced to Bizzaro as a kid not through cartoons or comics but an episode of Seinfeld.
Always liked Bizzarom even though I've never really had preferred take on him.
In the cartoon or the comics? DCAU Bizarro was based on the Byrne take where Bizarro was just a malformed clone (and they did a good job with that). In the comics it’s similar, comics Bizarro is just a clone but there’s another Bizarro out there in the Multiverse who is Superman’s backwards duplicate. Multiversity took a long time to get made, and since it was supposed to be the book that’s still up the post-Flashpoint Multiverse, most writers restricted themselves to E0. It’s only now that writers are really digging into what the Multiverse set up is supposed to be.
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The funny thing is that if you take the Argoan angle far enough you realize Argoans are actually just Kryptonians with a different name... from an IN-universe PoV. Heck... I don't think they ever do ANYTHING to distinguish Argoans from Kryptonians other than being born on Argo.... which also orbits Rao.... just a bit further way. Oh and I'm pretty sure Argo was a colony world and not the homeworld of any race. So yes, you can say that Kara In-ze is NOT from Krypton and thus not a Kryptonian. But that's based on nationality/citizenship, more than genetic origin.... also in the comics In-Ze was the maiden name of Kara's mother. So even that is less of a change than you'd think at first.
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I'm thinking about the Bizarro World in general,
Bizarro was one of the main characters in Redhood and Outlaw,
he defeated Trigon and became king of hell or something,
but my point is, maybe DC think Bizarro World as a concept is too silver age-ish for DC,
in that case they should update it to be more like the version in All Star Superman or something else,
I just thought that concept should be used more.
Also Doomsday seems to appear a lot more than Bizarro now in the Superman comics for some reason.