General Zod's History
General Dru-Zod is a former Kryptonian military general and an enemy to Superman. Exiled to the Phantom Zone by his people for treason, he survived the destruction of Krypton and swore revenge against the son of Jor-El.
Origin
Dru-Zod was the son of Kyptonian scientists. One day, his family took on a scientific expedition to Krypton's wilderness where they were attacked by dangerous animals. After his mother was killed, Zod's father urged his son to escape. He does so, killing his father in the process to distract the creatures and give himself time to flee. For over a year, Zod managed to survive on his own until being found and rescued by Jor-El and Zor-El.
By adulthood, Zod became a distinguished soldier in the Kryptonian military and became concerned with Krypton's violent neighboring alien species, the Char. Although the Char had remained pacified for the last twenty-seven years, Zod was frustrated by his fellow Kryptonians' lax attitude towards them. In response, he forged a group of like-minded followers, such as his lieutenants Faora and Non, and engineered a false flag operation, creating and unleashing a Char-like creature on Krypton's populace to justify a war against the Char. However, Jor-El discovered Zod's deception and turned him over to the authorities. The Kryptonian Science Council found Zod guilty of treason and sentenced him and his followers to be exiled to the Phantom Zone.
But being thrown in the Phantom Zone would not mean the end of Zod's villainy. During their time within the Zone, Zod and Faora became acquainted with the Warworld, a humongous alien war machine and planned to use its endless armies to conquer the outside worlds. Their plan also involved the Kryptonian monster known as Doomsday, also a prisoner within the Zone. Zod and Faora released the beast from his captivity and threw him across the boundaries of the Phantom Zone, weakening them and allowing for their eventual escape.
Arrival on Earth
Zod's plan worked, and Doomsday's actions allowed Zod's escape from the Phantom Zone. Zod traveled to Earth, landing in the Sahara Desert. There, Zod's Kryptonian powers began to manifest for the first time, brutally slaughtering a group of travelers. Zod was soon attacked by the Justice League of America until Superman and Wonder Woman arrived, the latter restraining him with her magic lasso. Zod recognized Superman as Kal-El, the son of Jor-El. Superman decided to keep Zod in the Fortress of Solitude's menagerie. While there, he reveals to Superman that another Kryptonian, Faora, also traveled to Earth with him, who vows to track her down.[4] But Zod had lied; much like himself, Faora was also trapped within the Phantom Zone. Zod tricks Superman into giving him access to his Phantom Zone Projector and frees himself from the shipping container Superman had placed him in, alongside all the other creatures in the Fortress' menagerie. With Superman busy fighting the alien animals, Zod uses the projector to release Faora from the zone.
Grabbing her ally, Zod leaves the fortress and flies to a forest. Initially, exposure to Earth's atmosphere had caused Faora to become aggressive and incoherent, but as soon as her obtained her powers, her sanity returned. Suddenly, Superman catches up to the two criminals and engages in combat. Knowing their opponent cares for the humans, Zod and Faora initiate a forest fire that puts a nearby town in danger. Superman saves the village but leaves himself defenseless, until Wonder Woman arrives, evening the odds. Seeing Wonder Woman is willing to kill Faora to protect Superman, the General threatens Superman's life unless Wonder Woman lets him and Faora leave. Wonder Woman is forced to comply.
With Superman and Wonder Woman in retreat, Zod and Faora construct a Phantom Zone portal in the South Pacific, using stolen human technology. In all of a sudden, Superman and Woman return, wearing magic armor and seeking a rematch. Zod reveals his plan was that Doomsday would break the barrier between normal space and the Phantom Zone, facilitating an invasion from the Warworld. Although the heroes initially defeat Zod and Faora by detonating their armors at point-blank range, Zod and Faora are empowered a direct beam of sunlight, sent by the Greek god Apollo, who sought revenge from an earlier defeat by Superman, even if it was by proxy. Zod and Faora brutally defeat their opponents and throw them into a nuclear reactor, believing they would no longer be a threat. But while Zod and Faora enter the Phantom Zone in order to liberate the Warworld, Superman and Wonder Woman manage to set off a large nuclear explosion that destroyed the portal, trapping Zod and Faora in the Zone once again.
Much later, Batman and Wonder Woman travel to the Phantom Zone, hoping to a find a cure for Superman, who had become a new iteration of Doomsday. They stumble upon Non, who revealed Zod and Faora had mysteriously vanished after Doomsday was released from the Phantom Zone.
Time on the Squad
Sometime after his capture by the Suicide Squad, Amanda Waller had a brain bomb made out of Kryptonite implanted into Zod's head. When Zod returned to consciousness, he was inducted into the Suicide Squad by Waller.
Zod and the Squad were given the mission of heading to the secret hideout of the Annihilation Brigade, a group of terrorist Russian superhumans. Breaking into the fortress, Zod attacked Tunguska, one of the Brigade's members who could control the power of the sun. However before he could execute the warrior, his ally Cosmonut bashed into Zod, temporarily disorientating him. Eventually Zod got back up and crushed the head of Tunguska. This action caused Tunguska to become unstable, as he began to leak out energy. Recognizing that an explosion was imminent, the Enchantress used her arcane abilities to teleport the entire team out of the base as it exploded.
After escaping the base, Zod and the team returned home from his fist successful mission on the Squad. Zod was given free reign of the penitentiary, so he headed to the Black Vault. Zod began communicating with his family on the other side of the veil, feeling their pain and anguish at being trapped in the cruelty of the Phantom Zone. Knowing he must free himself of his restraints, Zod found his way to a mirror. Using the mirror Zod fired his heat vision at his own head, cutting a hole in his skull to get to the bomb.
The Green Lantern Corps
After freeing his family from the Phantom Zone, Zod headed to the far reaches of space. Eventually he came across a primitive world named Jekuul. This world sported two yellow suns, and so Zod made it his family's new home.
Zod planned to make Jekuul into the new Krypton, where his people could flourish as Gods. He quickly enlisted the help of the indigenousness species to start building Kryptonian architecture for the new civilization, as the people of Jekuul believed the House of Zod were gods and so worshipped them.
Eventually Zod's activities on Jekuul caught the attention of the Green Lantern Corps, who sent two Green Lanterns, the humans Kyle Rayner and Hal Jordan, to survey the reasoning behind missing resources. When the Green Lanterns made touchdown on the planet surface, Zod went to greet them with open arms, as he wasn't ready for an open conflict with a force such as the Green Lantern Corps. However, recognizing him from Earth, Kyle and Hal immediately attacked Zod.
Zod tasked the Eradicator with the goal of analyzing a Lantern ring enough to understand its power, keeping Hal Jordan as a prisoner while he did it. A rescue attempt was made for Jordan by the rest of the Green Lantern Corps.
