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- "The people of Earth are different from us, it's true, but ultimately I believe that is a good thing. They won't necessarily make the same mistakes we did, but if you guide them, Kal, if you give them hope. That's what this symbol means. The symbol of the House of El means "Hope". Embodied within that hope is the fundamental belief in the potential of every person to be a force for good. That's what you can bring them."
- ―Jor-El[src]
Jor-El was a respected scientist from Krypton, the foremost member of the Kryptonian Thinker Guild and husband of Lara-Lor Van. He is father of Kal-El, who he sent to Earth so he could save him from the destruction of Krypton. Kal grew into the superhero Superman. Following his demise, an artificial hologram of Jor-El appeared to Kal-El in a Kryptonian scout ship that had landed on Earth.
Biography
Jor-El was born on the planet and as an infant was genetically engineered into the Kryptonian Thinker Guild to harness his intelligence and innovation. In time he grew to become the planet's foremost scientist and married Lara Lor-Van. He shared mutual respect with General Zod, a friend of his youth.[1] Both agreeing that Krypton was a dying planet and action needed to be taken.
He and his wife Lara had a son that they named Kal.
Jor-El holding Kal-El as a baby.
Once it was discovered that Krypton would be destroyed, Jor-El and Lara planned to send him to Earth so that he wouldn't die as well. He reasoned with Krypton's leaders to give him the growth codex, to which they refused. At that moment, General Zod entered and disbanded the council and arrested Jor-El.
Zod standing over Jor-El's body.
Jor-El escaped and flew on a creature to the codex's location, and took it back with him to his homestead. There, he combined it with his son's DNA. Zod entered and demanded the codex back. Upon the revelation that Jor-El and Lara had a naturally-born child and that the codex was with him, Zod killed Jor-El in rage. Distracted by this, Lara launched the boy's ship to save him and he was sent to Earth. Lara later died when Krypton was destroyed. Kal-El was found by Jonathan and Martha Kent, in rural Kansas, who raised the boy and gave him the name Clark.
Artificial consciousness
Clark meets the consciousness.
After Kal-El boarded an ancient Kryptonian scout ship that had landed on Earth, he unknowingly inserted the AI in to the ship's mainframe system. The hologram, which took the form of Jor-El, told Clark of Krypton's history, General Zod's coup, and the reason Clark was sent to Earth. He then gave Clark a suit instructed him to set great examples for Humans to follow. He guided Clark to test his limits, and to truly master his powers.
Later, while being held hostage on board General Zod's flagship, Lois Lane spoke with Jor-El's consciousness using the command key that Superman had given her. He helped her to escape and taught her how to stop Zod's plan. He was then approached by Superman, freeing him by altering the ship's internal atmosphere to match that of Earth's.
Jor-El's consciousness is destroyed by Zod.
Jor-El sent Kal to Lois' life and to stop Zod from obtaining the codex on Earth.
Afterwards, General Zod took control of the Kryptonian scout ship and met Jor-El's hologram, referring to him as a "ghost". Jor-El yet again urged Zod to stop his attempt at recreating Krypton on Earth, but Zod was intent on carrying out his plans. He overrided the program containing Jor-El's consciousness once and for all.
Personality
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Abilities
- Scientific Expertise: as an illustrious member of the Kryptonian Thinker Guild, Jor-El was extremely intelligent, one of Krypton's foremost scientists and top minds. He notably designed the huge Black Zero starship. Jor-El was able to accurately predict that mining Krypton's core would result in its imminent collapse and, by extension, the destruction of the entire planet. In addition, despite most of Krypton being barren (due to thousands of years of strip mining), Jor-El was able to create artificial grass that he bedded onto a mountain peak near the House of El Citadel, where he kept a variety of wildlife such as avian like animals, Rondor beasts and his mount H'Raka. Finally, it was also Jor-El's brilliant plan that helped Superman and Lois return Black Zero and most of the Sword of Rao back to the Phantom Zone through a Phantom energy singularity (a plan that even Jax-Ur could not help but be impressed by, despite himself). Jor-El was a highly innovative character, who was breaking the thinking boundaries programmed into his engineered DNA.
- Master Marksman: Jor-El also possessed amazing marksmanship with weapons, such as the Kryptonian Rifle, as seen when Zod's men arrested Jor-El, and Kelex intervened.
- Master Combatant: Jor-El was also extremely skilled in hand-to-hand combat, even going toe-to-toe with someone as formidably skilled and dangerous as General Zod, ultimately subduing him. This impressive ability to fight and subdue an elite member of the Warrior Guild showed just how potent and skilled of a combatant Jor was.
- Master Flyer: Jor-El was a highly skilled flyer, having no problems staying on H'Raka's back while she maneuvered around Zod's Attacks ships, even with her diving over a hundred feet through the air at very high speeds in the process.
Relationships
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Behind the Scenes
- ↑ Cox, Greg (2013). Man of Steel. Titan Books. ISBN 978-1781165997.
External Links
- Jor-El at the Superman Wiki.
- Jor-El at the Superman Anthology Wiki.