#zor-el

i'll bet almost anything that as zor-el was loading his daughter into the rocket he said, just as an aside, "hey just a heads up your weird uncle is also sending his son to this planet and you'll need to make sure he hasn't been told to overthrow the native civilizations or amass some kind of freaky harem. okay ilu sweetie good luck out there!" and when kara actually made it to earth she learned that her weird uncle's message didn't make it and her cousin is just a normal well adjusted dorky boy scout, breathed a single sigh of relief, and promptly set about self-medicating.

I just finished reading the trade for Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton. Between that story (which is excellent), Superman Smashes the Klan, and the Superman: Red and Blue anthology, I've only become more convinced that any modern creator portraying Krypton-raised Kryptonians as (almost) uniformly villainous or "morally ambiguous" has latent xenophobic beliefs.

I like that the Supergirl movie more or less confirms that literally not another soul on Krypton saw that their planet was dying and thought 'let's send our kid into deep space to go rule another planet as a god'. Like, Zor-El just sorta let his weird brother do all of that while he went and invented a force field to preserve as much of Krypton as possible. Jor-El and Lara were literally just hardcore doomsday truthers who went too far.

I do love how in Supergirl movie, Zor-el and Alura roasted the fuck out of Jor-el and his wife being the crazy fascist doomsday preppers. Like the whole Superman's harem thing is not the Kryptonian thing. It's just a Jor-el thing.