Fine, replace Zod with whatever other criminal they previously condemned to the Phantom Zone that he did know about. It didn't have to be the dude that staged a coup right before the planet exploded. It could be a psychopath from any previous time they chucked someone in there. Either way, when the jail breaks (which they have to have known it would), a lot of malcontents get set loose on the galaxy with just enough gear and knowledge to be bitches to whomever they want.
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superman '13 *SPOILER THREAD*
Welp. I guess Jor-El did not gain any wisdom from the last time his planet exploded, and he should have known that it would release someone from whatever the Phantom Zone is.
Also....
Zod didn't even give his I WILL FIND YOUR SON NO MATTER WHAT rant until after Jor-El was dead. He said it to Lara, after Jor-El was dead, and the baby was already launched, and he had already been sentenced to 300 cycles, whatever that means.
But Jor-El should have planned for Zod to stage a coup and go on a bloody rampage for vengeance, right before he launched his baby. He should have planned accordingly for his baby to be hunted by militaristic Kryptonians right after they were all killed when the planet exploded. What a dumbass.
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Also....
Zod didn't even give his I WILL FIND YOUR SON NO MATTER WHAT rant until after Jor-El was dead. He said it to Lara, after Jor-El was dead, and the baby was already launched, and he had already been sentenced to 300 cycles, whatever that means.
But Jor-El should have planned for Zod to stage a coup and go on a bloody rampage for vengeance, right before he launched his baby. He should have planned accordingly for his baby to be hunted by militaristic Kryptonians right after they were all killed when the planet exploded. What a dumbass.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I guess Jor-El did not gain any wisdom from the last time his planet exploded, and he should have known that it would release someone from whatever the Phantom Zone is.
Why wouldn't they just stay where the fuck they are when the door gets destroyed? If they keep their resident loonies locked up with some kind of constant energy sealing the gateway, then yeah, maybe they should have just executed all those fuckers before things went kaboom. Or let them out right as the shockwave shows up to obliterate them. They pretty much knew they were fucked, why not clean up after themselves? When said loonies get released, you think they're going to be more or less deranged than when they were put in?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Yeah, I didn't get why the PZ peeps would be released, the way they showed it. Looked like they went interdimensional, not just a 2D prison that could be destroyed by a nuke explosion in space.
Also, the Krypton council denied there were any planetary problems in the first place, so why worry about PZ peeps? Refer back to my "society in decline" comment early in the last page. Buncha damned idiots.
Also, the Krypton council denied there were any planetary problems in the first place, so why worry about PZ peeps? Refer back to my "society in decline" comment early in the last page. Buncha damned idiots.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I'm still trying to figure out what makes interstellar travel and colonization an easier problem to solve than generating enough energy for an entire planet. You can make a ship go faster than light, but the absolute best idea you've got to get more juice is "drill deeper into our own planet's core?" Attach all your ships' hyperdrives to some turbines. Crisis solved. Our do they run on some fuel that can only be derived from elements found under the crust and mantle of their homeworld? Better yet, turn those terraforming machines to "Earth atmosphere," let them loose on Krypton, and you can create your own power using giant hamster wheels kept spinning in place by superhumans.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
For that matter, why would they base their home planet around a star that gives them a fraction of their potential strength, speed, etc.?
"Alright, we can set up shop around a run or yellow sun. Now we all know the yellow sun turns us into god-like beings capable of surviving various extremes, eliminates the need to develop mechanical travel or combustion, and all of this without consuming the billions of excess calories that would normally be required to sustain that level of energy output. And if you can keep your panties from getting into a twist for five minutes, you'll adapt just fine. But the yellow sun would make us look like fucking bumblebees because of all the black we wear, so we're going with red."
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"Alright, we can set up shop around a run or yellow sun. Now we all know the yellow sun turns us into god-like beings capable of surviving various extremes, eliminates the need to develop mechanical travel or combustion, and all of this without consuming the billions of excess calories that would normally be required to sustain that level of energy output. And if you can keep your panties from getting into a twist for five minutes, you'll adapt just fine. But the yellow sun would make us look like fucking bumblebees because of all the black we wear, so we're going with red."
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."