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== The House of El and associates ==

 

See [[Smallville/Characters/Kents|The Kents]].

 

[[File:smallvillejor-el 9176.jpg|frame|Jor-El in his pre-Fortress days.]]

 

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==== Tropes that pertain to the Kryptonian Jor-El ====

* [[British Accents]]

* [[Cain and Abel]]: With Zor-El and {{spoiler|Zod}}.

* [[Posthumous Character]]

* [[Science Hero]]: Heavily implied.

 

==== Tropes that pertain to the A.I. Jor-El ====

* [[All Powerful Bystander]]

* [[Asshole Victim]]: The Fortress AI has this happen to it a lot, courtesy of [[Robotic Psychopath|Brainiac]], [[Manipulative Bastard|Lex]], [[Diabolical Mastermind|Earth-2 Lionel]] and various others.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

 

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Clark's Kryptonian biological mother.

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* [[Cloning Blues]]

* [[Flying Brick]]: Although she only really gets to demonstrate her [[Nigh Invulnerability]].

* [[Woman in White]]

 

Jor-El's lab assistant, Raya helped construct the spaceship that infant Kal-El escaped Krypton in, and was later put into the [[Phantom Zone]] so she could survive Krypton's destruction. Years later, she meets Clark after he's sent to the Phantom Zone by General Zod and helps him escape, but is believed to have been killed by two of Zod's henchmen. Later on, Raya shows up in Smallville, having been freed from the Phantom Zone herself along with some others, and helps Clark battle [[Nuclear Nasty|Baern]], one of the Phantom Zone escapees. She is killed by Baern in the Fortress of Solitude.

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* [[You Look Familiar]]: Pascale Hutton previously played a minor character in Season 4's "Ageless".

 

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Clark's Kryptonian cousin, the daughter of Jor-El's brother Zor-El. Kara was sent to Earth by her father, ostensibly to find and look after her cousin Kal-El, only to be trapped in suspended animation shortly after her arrival. Eighteen years later (in Season 7), Kara is awakened following a battle between Clark and Bizarro.

 

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* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Woman in White]]: In the Season 7 opener.

 

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Clark's Kryptonian uncle, Jor-El's younger brother and Kara's father. A scientist like his brother, Zor-El and Jor-El [[Cain and Abel|did not get along very well]], probably since Zor-El was in love with Jor-El's wife Lara and [[Murder the Hypotenuse|tried to kill Jor-El so he could have Lara all to himself]]. He later became an ally to General Zod, but only so he could fulfill an ancient Kryptonian prophecy by destroying the planet.

Years later, Zor-El and Lara are resurrected by a [[Power Crystal]] he sent with Kara to Earth. He tries to take over Earth, only to be stopped when Clark destroys the crystal that brought him and Lara back to life.

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* [[Badass]]

** [[Badass Bookworm]]

* [[Yandere]]

 

* [[Cloning Blues]]

* [[Killed Off for Real]]

== The House of Zod and associates ==

 

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A Kryptonian military general and war criminal, Zod's body was destroyed and his soul thrown into the [[Phantom Zone]] following an attempted coup against the Ruling Council. Freed in the Season 5 finale by {{spoiler|Brainiac (who pulls a [[Thanatos Gambit]] on Clark)}}, Zod body-jacks [[Lex Luthor]], using the billionaire's newly-gained superpowers in an attempt to bring the world to its knees. He is defeated by Clark in the Season 6 opening and imprisoned by the Crystal of El.

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: He and Jor-El.

 

Zod's second wife, Faora escapes the Phantom Zone in Season 8, possesses {{spoiler|Lois Lane}} and goes hunting for her son Doomsday, whom she and Zod genetically engineered due to her own inability to bear children. Finding him in his human form as {{spoiler|Davis Bloome}}, Faora murders him in order to kick-start his mutant genetics and transform him into the killing machine she and Zod intended him to be. She is sent to the Phantom Zone once again by Kara, through the use of the Martian Manhunter's crystal.

 

* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: Played straight with her and Zod. To hear her tell it, they're quite [[Happily Married]].

 

Two of Zod's henchmen (or "disciples"), Nam-Ek and Aethyr come to Earth during the second meteor shower that strikes Smallville at the end of Season 4, having escaped Krypton before its destruction inside of a black spaceship (which also contained Brainiac). After they raise some hell in Smallville searching for Clark, Clark finds them and manages to send them to the Phantom Zone. They return in the Season 6 premiere. Nam-Ek is killed by Raya; Aethyr's fate remains unknown.

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* [[We Can Rule Together]]

 

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A paramedic who befriends Chloe in Season 8, Davis suffers from constant blackouts and memory lapses, and has his own connections to Krypton and Zod. {{spoiler|Faora eventually reveals that he is Doomsday, the genetically-engineered son of herself and Zod}}—news Davis does not take well.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: {{spoiler|Davis only meets Faora for a single episode, but in that time, she lectures him on not having killed enough people before running him through with a pole to activate his [[Healing Factor]]. She definitely counts, and given that it's Zod's plan, he does as well}}.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: He begins as a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV]], murdering criminals in order to save others and {{spoiler|supress [[The Killer in Me|Doomsday]]}}. He later slides towards a Type V (though never quite reaching it), as his condition worsens and he struggles to keep people like Jimmy from uncovering his secret, losing some audience sympathy in the process. Finally he {{spoiler|dives off the deep end into villainy}}, cementing his role as [[Superman]]'s enemy.

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}: For Season 8. [[Big Bad Ensemble|Sort of]].

* {{spoiler|[[Biological Mashup]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Crush]]: On Chloe.}}

 

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{{quote|''"You choose to fight me! You forced me to unleash my power! We could have made this planet a paradise!"''}}

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: "Krypton will rise again...and all humankind will [[Catch Phrase|kneel before Zod]]."

 

A clone of Faora ([[Captain Obvious|duh]]) from before she and Zod were in a serious relationship. At first loyal to Zod, Faora eventually begins to gravitate towards Kal-El (Clark) as she attempts to create a new life for herself on Earth. {{spoiler|She is slain by the Major in cold-blood when he discovers she no longer wants a part in his [[World Domination]] scheme; he then discovers she is carrying his child after the one night they spent together}}.

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* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: Subverted. The original Faora and General Zod were [[Happily Married]]. Things between her clone and Major Zod {{spoiler|don't go as well}}.

 

One of Zod's cloned soldiers. Clark faces an alternate timeline version of her who kills herself by accident. {{spoiler|The real Alia is revealed to have killed the clone Jor-El; Zod shoots her in retribution.}}

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* [[Hot Chick with a Sword]]

 

A captain in Major Zod's Kandorian army, Basqat led the mutiny against the Major in the Season 9 premiere alongside Faora. He later becomes Zod's [[Number Two]], a position he faithfully holds {{spoiler|until the season finale}}.

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* [[You Look Familiar]]: His actor portrayed Lex's PI, Griff, in Season 5.

 

Faora's sister.

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== Other Kryptonians ==

 

A Kryptonian scientist who invented Brainiac, Dax-Ur fled to Earth a couple of centuries ago after finding out that Brainiac had the potential to destroy planets. Using [[Power Nullifier|Blue Kryptonite]] to [[De-Power|depower]] himself, he lived as a normal human, even settling down with a wife and son and working as a mechanic. {{spoiler|In Season 7's "Persona," he helps Clark defeat Bizarro, only to later be killed by Brainiac.}}

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* [[Mythology Gag]]: He shares the same name as a Kryptonian in ''[[For the Man Who Has Everything]]''. It's unclear if he's in anyway related to Jax-Ur.