Editing Krypton (comics) (section)

==In other media==
===Radio===
The first non-comics version of Krypton was presented in the debut storyline of the 1940s [[Superman (radio)|''Superman'']] [[radio]] series. In the radio show, Krypton was part of the [[Solar System]], a [[Counter-Earth]] sharing Earth's orbit but on the opposite side of the Sun, hidden from view of the Earth ("Krypton" derives from the Greek word for "hidden"). Some comics of the early 1950s suggested a similar theory, but in general the comics have depicted Krypton as being in a far-away star system.

===Television===
====Live-action====
* Krypton appears in the pilot episode of ''[[Adventures of Superman (TV series)|Adventures of Superman]]''. In this version, Jor-El proposes transporting the entire Kryptonian population to Earth via a fleet of rockets, but his proposal is rejected and the planet begins to break apart sooner than he expected anyway, leaving him only with a small test rocket, in which he and Lara use to launch Kal-El off.
* Krypton appears in ''[[Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]''. At the end of the third season, it is revealed that a sizable colony survived the planet's destruction. From what was shown of the colony (called New Krypton), the society, despite the advanced technology, had numerous archaic elements, like hereditary rule, [[arranged marriage]] for nobles, and [[trial by combat]] being legal for nobility. Unlike many incarnations, New Krypton is not isolated from other races; it has starships, including a large vessel that serves as its palace, and Nor hires an assassin from another race to kill Kal-El.
* The television series ''[[Smallville]]'' presents a version of Krypton that mirrors the ''Superman: The Movie'' aesthetic but has more ties to Earth. It was a peaceful and advanced planet until civil war broke out, leading to its destruction in 1986 by General Zod and the renegade [[Zor-El]] after they used Brainiac to ignite Krypton's unstable core. Numerous Kryptonian artifacts come into play during the show, such as the "Stones of Power" in season 4 (used to contain all information in the known 28 galaxies and become the Crystal of Knowledge to make the Fortress of Solitude), "The Orb" in season 8 (containing the DNA of fallen Kryptonian citizens/soldiers scanned and cloned by Jor-El), and its [[bible]] ''The Book of Rao'' (used to transport Kryptonians to "Heaven") during season 9. In season 2, more Kryptonian glyphs appear on Earth via the Kawatche Caves as there are prophecies discovered about a "[[Clark Kent (Smallville)|Traveler]]" planted by Jor-El visiting [[Smallville (comics)|Smallville]].
* Krypton is featured in the [[Arrowverse]] ''[[Supergirl (TV series)|Supergirl]]'' series, with its destruction depicted in the pilot. Kara was sent to Earth to protect her then-infant cousin, Kal-El. Krypton exploded just seconds after her pod took off, sending it into the Phantom Zone. The episode "[[Hostile Takeover (Supergirl)|Hostile Takeover]]" revealed that the planet was destroyed due to over-mining its core. The third-season episode "Dark Side of the Moon" revealed that Argo City was preserved along with many of the inhabitants on an asteroid formed from Kryptonian debris.
* Krypton is the main setting of the [[Krypton (TV series)|titular series of the same name]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Johnston|first1=Rich|title=Man Of Steel Writer David Goyer, Attached To New TV Show. Its Name? 'Krypton'.|url=http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/10/27/man-of-steel-writer-david-goyer-attached-to-new-tv-show-its-name-krypton/|access-date=October 27, 2014|publisher=Bleeding Cool|date=October 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/syfy-david-goyer-developing-superman-755060|title=Syfy, David Goyer Developing Superman Origin Story 'Krypton'|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|date=December 8, 2014|access-date=December 8, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://comicbook.com/2015/10/22/david-goyer-says-krypton-takes-place-200-years-before-man-of-ste/|title=David Goyer Says Krypton Takes Place 200 Years Before Man Of Steel|last=Siegel|first=Lucas|publisher=Comicbook.com|date=October 22, 2015|access-date=October 23, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://tvline.com/2016/04/21/krypton-series-prequel-syfy-superman-pilot/|title=Krypton Prequel From David S. Goyer Nears Pilot Order at Syfy|publisher=TV Line|last=Ausiello|first=Michael|date=April 21, 2016|archive-date=May 7, 2016|access-date=April 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507015931/http://tvline.com/2016/04/21/krypton-series-prequel-syfy-superman-pilot/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/superman-prequel-krypton-receives-pilot-order-at-syfy-1201769411/|title=Superman Prequel 'Krypton' Receives Pilot Order at Syfy|magazine=Variety |last=Holloway |first=Daniel|date=May 9, 2016}}</ref> The main characters are [[Seg-El]], [[Adam Strange]], Kem, Lyta-Zod, Val-El, Nyssa-Vex, Jayna-Zod and [[Dev-Em]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvline.com/2016/06/21/krypton-cast-syfy-series-seg-el-season-1/|title=Syfy's Krypton: Meet Superman's Grandpa and Other Key Characters|publisher=TV Line|author=TV Line Team|date=June 21, 2016}}</ref> This version of Krypton became unstable after Brainiac steals Kandor in the original timeline, an event that forces Seg to stop with allies like Adam Strange from the future and even the future General Dru-Zod. This version also borrows some elements from the initial post-Crisis depiction, such as the reproduction of Kryptonians through artificial means in Genesis Chamber birthing facility.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Otterson |first1=Joe |title='Krypton' Renewed for Season 2 at Syfy |url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/krypton-renewed-season-2-syfy-1202818657/ |access-date=7 October 2018 |work=Variety |date=22 May 2018}}</ref> In the first season, 200 years before the birth of Kal-El, Krypton is ruled by a powerful religious figure known as Voice of Rao and the planet is divided in several guilds. Due to its decadent lifestyle of some Kryptonians, this causes a social inequality and those who are not in the guilds become Rankless. When Seg discovers that Voice of Rao is a puppet controlled by Brainiac, he forms a resistance movement of several friends and allies, including his son from the future, General Zod. After trapping Brainiac and Seg in the Phantom Zone, Zod takes power in Krypton, forcing all Rankless to become Sagitari soldiers and cutting some guilds, such as Religious and Lawmaker. In the second season, Seg returns to Krypton and gathers some of the surviving allies in order to stop Zod's murderous conquest. Zod also sends Sagitari and Doomsday weapon on the moon Wegthor to crush the rebels. After the moon is destroyed, Seg and almost all the rebels return to Krypton. When Seg and Lyta expose Zod's treachery, Zod tries to kill them, but is defeated and Sagitari forces are defeated by the resistance, ending a civil war on Krypton.

====Animation====
* Krypton was briefly depicted in the first [[Fleischer Studios]]-produced ''Superman'' cartoon in the early 1940s as "a planet that burned like a green star in the distant heavens [and where] civilization was far advanced and it brought forth a race of Supermen whose mental and physical powers were developed to the absolute peak of human perfection", implying that all Kryptonians had Superman's abilities even on their own planet. The planet is seen only from a distance, just before its explosion.
* Depictions of Krypton appear on both [[The New Adventures of Superman (TV series)|''The New Adventures of Superman'']] and ''[[Super Friends]]''; in one of the "lost episodes" of ''Super Friends'' season of 1983–1984), "The Krypton Syndrome", Jor-El says that Krypton will be enveloped by their sun and explode a short time later.
* In the ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'' three-part premiere episode, "The Last Son of Krypton", Krypton's climate is shown to have both temperate and [[Arctic]] conditions. According to commentary on the [[DVD]] collection of the show's first season, part of Krypton's appearance was influenced by the art style of [[Jack Kirby]].
** In this version, Krypton was destroyed by its core destabilizing, with [[Brainiac (character)|Brainiac]] choosing to save himself by transferring his consciousness into a satellite rather than save Krypton's people. The rest of Kryptonian civilization (save for Jor-El and his family) remained unaware of the danger until it was too late to evacuate.
** Krypton had a "sister planet" named '''Argo''' (named after Argo City), colonized by Kryptonians many centuries before the destruction of Krypton. Krypton's destruction pushed Argo out of orbit, causing it to gradually cool. Its people went into [[Cryonics|cryostasis]] to survive, but their pods malfunctioned and shut down over time, leaving [[Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)|Supergirl]] the only survivor.
* Krypton appears in the [[Legion of Super Heroes (TV series)|''Legion of Super Heroes'']] episode "Message in a Bottle". In this version, Jor-El found a way to save the planet with his creation, the Messenger, which was kept in Kandor. Therefore, when Brainiac shrunk and stole the city, the planet's destruction was assured. At the end of the episode, the Legion use the Messenger to restore Krypton, and Kandor is restored to full size so its people can begin life anew.
* Krypton appears in the ''[[DC Super Hero Girls (TV series)|DC Super Hero Girls]]'' episode "#DCSuperHeroBoys". In a flashback, Alura Zor-El tells Zod that Krypton is collapsing on itself. She uses a device to send Zod and his minions Ursa and Non to the [[Phantom Zone]], then tells Kara that she is sending her to join her cousin Kal.
* Krypton appears in ''[[My Adventures with Superman]]''. In this version, Kryptonians lead an interstellar expansionist empire until they encountered a superior opponent, resulting in the planet's destruction and the Kryptonian race's extinction with the exception of two; the children of House El, Kal-El and Kara Zor-El, who were sent away by their respective fathers in order to escape the malevolent entity's genocide. Brainiac then used derelict Kryptonian warships and technology and manipulated it with the intention of starting a campaign of conquest and revealed that he was responsible for destroying the planet to avoid being decommissioned after Jor-El began peace talks with the unnamed enemy.

===Film===
====''Superman''====
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In the [[Superman (1978 film)|first feature-length ''Superman'' film]] in 1978, a vastly less idyllic image of Krypton was presented. Whereas in the comics Krypton was colorful and bright, the film depicted the planet with stark bluish-white terrain of jagged frozen plateaus under heavy, dark skies. The planet was threatened by their sun turning into a [[supernova]]. [[Jor-El]] unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the council of elders to immediately evacuate the planet.

Kryptonians themselves were portrayed as coolly cerebral and morally enlightened, clad in stark white bodysuits emblazoned with each family's house symbol. The architecture featured halls of white crystal under crystalline arches. The crystalline motif was employed not only in the architecture, but in the landscape and technology as well, suggesting that the entire planet had been adapted and altered by Kryptonian influence. In 1948, Krypton was ultimately destroyed when its red sun began to collapse; the planet was pulled into the sun and steadily crushed, then exploded in the ensuing supernova. When Krypton was destroyed, fragments from the planet were launched into space, resulting in the creation of a harmful radioactive substance known as kryptonite.

Both Jor-El and Lara preserved some part of their "essence" (in the form of virtual copies of themselves) in the starship that took three years to bring their child to Earth. On [[Clark Kent]]'s eighteenth birthday, a glowing crystal revealed itself in the ship and compelled Clark to take it north. He eventually reached the [[Arctic]], where the crystal constructed the massive crystalline Fortress of Solitude. Inside, an [[artificial intelligence|artificially intelligent]] hologram of Jor-El appeared to him and initiated twelve years of Kryptonian education. These virtual versions of Jor-El and Lara remained as constructs within the Fortress throughout the series.

Superman's symbol was given a Kryptonian origin in the film. Male Kryptonians were shown wearing unique symbols on the chests of their robes, similar to a [[coat of arms|family crest]]; Jor-El and Kal-El wore the familiar S-shield, which [[Lois Lane]] later assumed to be the letter ''S'' from the familiar [[Latin alphabet]], and thus dubs him "Superman".

====''Superman Returns''====
The 2006 film ''[[Superman Returns]]'' presents a version of Krypton almost identical to [[Superman (1978 film)|''Superman'']]. In the beginning of the film, scientists discover remains of Krypton, and Superman leaves Earth for five years to look for it. His ship is seen leaving the dead planet. The planet is destroyed when the [[red supergiant]] Rao becomes a [[supernova]].

''Superman Returns'' extends the [[crystalline]] Kryptonian technology from ''Superman'' which allowed young Clark Kent to "grow" the [[Fortress of Solitude]]. Kryptonian crystals are able to grow huge land masses and incorporate the properties of the surrounding environment; a sliver taken from one of the crystals used to test the theory causes Lex Luthor's basement to be filled with a huge crystal structure. Growing land in this manner causes widespread power failure. Lex Luthor later combines one of the crystals with kryptonite and shoots it into the ocean, creating a new land mass he calls "New Krypton". Superman uses his heat vision to get under the crust of the island and throws it into space, including the other crystals that Luthor wanted to use to set up a real estate scam, despite the warning that many people would die from the massive tsunamis and earthquakes that the crystals would create.

The novelization by [[Marv Wolfman]] states that one of Superman's ancestors helped civilize Krypton long ago.

====DC Extended Universe====
The ''[[DC Extended Universe]]'''s Krypton is introduced in the 2013 film ''[[Man of Steel (film)|Man of Steel]]'' and adds strong [[dystopian]] elements to Krypton and its fate. The planet is portrayed as having an Earth-like terrain composed of mountains, canyons and oceans. The planet is 8.7 billion years old and approximately 27.1 light years from Earth. Its parent star Rao is depicted as a 13 billion year old red [[Dwarf star|dwarf sun]]. Its gravity is much higher than that of Earth, and its atmospheric composition is unsuitable for humans. It is also shown to have a [[natural satellite]]. Kryptonian society is [[Oligarchy|oligarchal]] and divided into houses, such as the House of El. Citizens wear the crests of their house over their chests, which hold meanings, such as the crest of House of El meaning "hope". The planet is ruled by an [[Aristocracy|aristocratic]] "Science Council".

Kryptonian civilization is at least 100,000 years old and many millennia more advanced than human civilization on Earth, and had begun exploring the [[Milky Way]] Galaxy, with at least one ship reaching as far as Earth. After their colonies collapse, Kryptonians abandon these projects in favor of [[isolationism]] and artificial population control, engineering newborns for pre-determined roles in society. By the early 1980's, the planet's resources were strained, and the stability of the planet was threatened by careless mining of the [[Planetary core|planet's core]]. As Jor-El attempts to warn the Science Council of their folly, General Zod stages a coup, which in turn sets off a massive [[civil war]] across the planet. In hopes of preserving the Kryptonian race, Jor-El steals the genetic Codex of the planet (a list holding the DNA pattern of everyone yet to be born on Krypton) and infuses it into the cells of Kal-El, the first natural-born child on Krypton in centuries and sends his son to Earth. Zod kills Jor-El and is arrested by the authorities. He and his followers are banished to the Phantom Zone shortly before Krypton is destroyed. The planets destruction frees Zod and his men from the Phantom Zone, and after learning of Earth's existence, they vow to terraform it into a new Krypton.

In the 2016 film ''[[Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice]]'', Lex Luthor Jr. who in a deal with a Senator gained access to the crashed Scout Ship, managed to enter the ship using the fingerprints of General Zod. Using Zod's Command Key, he managed to access the Ship's mainframe. Luthor eventually overrides General Zod's authority over the ship, and learns how to use the Genesis Chamber. The Ship warned against what it would create, but Lex ordered it to proceed. Over the course of a couple of days, Zod's body began metamorphosing into a "[[Doomsday (comics)|Kryptonian Deformities]]", a crime among the Kryptonian Science Council.

====''Teen Titans Go! To the Movies''====
Krypton appears in ''[[Teen Titans Go! To the Movies]]''. In the film, the Teen Titans travel to the planet and harmonize its crystals with music, preventing its destruction and preventing Kal-El from arriving on Earth and becoming Superman, although they later undo this and allow Krypton to be destroyed to ensure Superman's existence.

====''Superman: Unbound''====
Brainiac's abduction of Kandor, despite the resistance posed by Krypton's military, is shown in ''[[Superman: Unbound]]''. Brainiac is infamous for destroying the planet's he takes cities from, but he left Krypton intact. Jor-El correctly theorized that this was because Brainiac detected that the planet would soon explode anyway and decided not to bother wasting a missile on their sun. Jor-El and his brother Zor-El then sent their children to Earth on rockets while studying how to defeat Brainiac and convince their government of the danger to Krypton. At least some of the populace of Argo City also outlive their planet, but rather than preserving their city with an energy shield, they are abducted by Brainiac before the planet's destruction in response to Zor-El studying how to defeat the villain.

====''DC League of Super-Pets''====
In ''[[DC League of Super-Pets]]'', the destruction of Krypton is depicted as the opening scene where Jor-El and Lara prepare to send Kal-El to Earth, but in this depiction, Kal-El's pet dog, Krypto, jumps into his carrier to accompany him. Jor-El reluctantly agrees to send him off in hopes that his son will have a lifelong friend to be there for him.

===Novelizations===
====''Last Son of Krypton''====
The 1978 novel ''[[Superman: Last Son of Krypton|Last Son of Krypton]]'' by [[Elliot S! Maggin]] contains descriptions of Krypton, mainly referencing the Silver Age version; it describes the planet as a "failed star" with massive surface gravity and hostile conditions, which forced extreme adaptation and rapid evolution in the descendants of humanoid space travelers. This led to an extremely strong, dense, and durable Kryptonian species with unusual physical properties. Maggin describes the rise of a civilization which uses [[geothermal heat]] as its primary power source, developing science and technology, but finding it difficult to escape the massive world's gravity. Eventually its internal nuclear reactions led to Krypton's explosion.

====''The Last Days of Krypton''====
Novelist [[Kevin J. Anderson]] presents approximately the last Earth year before Krypton's destruction in the 2007 novel ''The Last Days of Krypton''. Jor-El, Lara, Zod, and Zor-El are the primary point-of-view characters. Following Brainiac's abduction of Kandor, Zod attempts to seize power, eventually leading to a civil war. Here Jor-El manages to avert several disasters threatening Krypton before an attempt to destroy the Phantom Zone by several reactionary council members who Zod had previously imprisoned there destabilizes Krypton's core and destroys the planet. In addition to Kal-El's rocket and the forcefield surrounding Argo City, a third avenue for escaping the planet is represented by hordes of engineers who do believe Jor-El's warning and attempt to build several space arks to escape the planet. Ultimately, they are unable to complete the ships fast enough. In the novel, Kryptonopolis is built over the ruins of Xan City.