Krypton (TV Series)

The Phantom Zone (2018)

Colin Salmon: General Zod

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Quotes 

• General Zod : We will seek out civilizations beyond our system, and we will conquer them! If they submit peacefully, they will fall under my protection, and shall never know fear again. But if they do not, then like the recalcitrant leaders of Krypton's other city-states we see before us, eventually they will all KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!

• General Zod : [to Brainiac]  You can have the universe, as long as I have Krypton.

• Seg-El : Look, if you're here to try and force me to tell you where Doomsday is, then you're wasting your time. The Cynthonnites double-crossed me; they hid it somewhere.

  General Zod : That's not why we're here. We need you to get us to the Fortress. We're gonna bring back your grandfather.

• General Zod : We will need your grandfather's unsurpassed intellect. I believe Val-El is our last, best hope.

  Seg-El : You left my grandfather stranded in that place with no way out, but now that we need him, you suddenly have a way to free him.

  General Zod : If you hadn't kept this place a secret from me, I couldn't have done it anytime, if there had been a need.

  [to Val] 

  General Zod : I assume you can activate it.

  Lyta-Zod : So what's the catch?

  General Zod : Someone has to go in and get him.

  Seg-El : I'll go.

  General Zod : You would get lost in there forever. I know my way around and I'll find him.

  Nyssa-Vex : Or now that you've failed to stop Brainiac, this is your means of escape.

  General Zod : No one's ever been in there would consider going back an escape.

• General Zod : For all the futures you witnessed, did you ever see one in which you would escape the Phantom Zone?

  Val-El : No.

  General Zod : So we can change things.

  Val-El : No, you can't. From inside the Phantom Zone, I have seen a multitude of possible futures. And they all end the same way: with Brainiac's victory. I assure you, Kandor will be taken. And anyone still there...

  Seg-El : ...will be trapped in there with Doomsday.

• General Zod : We find the Cynthonnites who took him, and we force them to tell us where they hid it.

  Val-El : Of the many futures I have seen, the one in which Doomsday is used against Brainiac is, by far, the worst.

  Seg-El : Then you lied to me. You promised me there would always be a better tomorrow. And as hard as it was, I believed you. Mom and Dad, they believed you. They gave their lives for your better tomorrow.

  Val-El : Those were the empty words of an naive old man. The only tomorrow I have seen are unimaginably worse, as your friends will soon discover.

• General Zod : [to Seg-El]  You're not willing to sacrifice the life of one man to save millions? What if one of those millions of lives was your own, hmm? The reason is took so long for me to figure out that you were my father, was that my mother never told me very much of you. She was too grief-stricken. All she ever said that you were lost in the bottling of Kandor.

• Seg-El : Where are you going?

  General Zod : I'm going to save Krypton!

  Seg-El : I will not let you trade Val to Brainiac.

  General Zod : I don't think you can stop me.

  Seg-El : Val is your flesh and blood too. You would sacrifice him to that thing?

  General Zod : And you would sacrifice everyone else?

  Seg-El : You don't even know if he'd take the deal! He might just kill you.

  General Zod : Is that what you're really afraid of, father? I didn't think so.

  [pushes Seg aside] 

  Seg-El : If Brainiac gets a hold of Val, imagine what he could do with that information. Imagine how many more worlds he can conquer! The entire universe will pay the price for this.

  General Zod : If he spares Krypton, then so be it.

• Seg-El : Where did he go?

  General Zod : Into the Phantom Zone, a dimension that exists outside the normal space-time continuum.

  Lyta-Zod : How do you know that?

  General Zod : Because I was trapped in there with him.

  Seg-El : You mean you were sentenced, for leading a coup.

  General Zod : Yes. Because the Council that convicted me was as corrupt as the one that condemned Val-El.

  Seg-El : That doesn't make sense. If Val went into the Phantom Zone 14 cycles ago, and you were thrown in there some point in the future, how did you two even meet?

  General Zod : Once inside the Phantom Zone, time and space have no meaning.

  [Indicates Nyssa] 

  General Zod : Val told me that with her father and the Voice of Rao believing that he was dead, it gave him opportunity to seek out Brainiac, observe the way the creature operated in order to help Krypton prepare its defenses.

  Seg-El : Then why didn't he come back?

  General Zod : Because he didn't have this. It was his only way out.

  Nyssa-Vex : So you stole it? You betrayed him.

  General Zod : Only one of us could get out with this. So, yes, I betrayed him, but not his mission. Who better to stop Brainiac, hmm? A frail old man or a general? Such a mission required a Zod, not an El. Turned out I was both.