General Zod: The Especiesist Mentality of the Last Pure Kryptonian 🫡🫡, Character Review

I’d like to share an interview from that now-distant era with actor Michael Shannon. I firmly believe that the actor managed to take this character further by giving him a speciesist mindset; he developed a narrative ambition that made the character ideologically human 🤔🤔

You have to step into the Kryptonian’s shoes—metaphorically speaking—to understand his motivations based on his dialogue. This is the part that clashes most with most people, since villains are usually seen as simply “bad people” who act that way for no reason 😐😐.... Zod doesn’t invite you to see him that way; he speaks forcefully to make you understand his life’s purpose, which is the survival of his species at all costs 🧬 🧬

Zod was created solely to protect Krypton 🫡🫡

We’re spoiled by wanting to have the freedom to choose, and we apply this idea—as if it were the right thing—to everything we know. We call that freedom and mistakenly think it must be that way in everything, forgetting that culture also plays a role.... Zod comes from a Kryptonian culture, which is the exact opposite of freedom, since he was designed for one thing only: to defend Krypton

To understand this, you have to imagine that Krypton is to him what your home is to you—along with everything that term represents: family, a place to belong, and your fellow humans 🥲🥲

When I look at it this way, the character rises to the intellectual level he’s meant to convey, because he’s a metaphorical representation of the consequences of any war.

We, as an audience and as humans, would see Zod as an alien who wants to destroy us without valuing our opinions… but how many other animal species has our human species driven to extinction without valuing their opinions, simply because we considered them inferior? 🤔🤔

It’s precisely this last point that makes many people detest Zod’s personality—not because he does bad things, but because, by nature, we hate that he sees us as inferior, and that’s an insult to our great human pride 😤😤

Les comparto una entrevista de aquella ya lejana epoca al actor Michael Shannon, pienso solidamente que el actor logro llevar este personaje a mas al otorgarle una mentalidad especista, desarrollo una ambicion narrativa que hizo al personaje ideologicamente humano 🤔🤔

Hay que ponerse en el traje del Kryptoniano metaforicamente hablando para entender sus motivaciones basado en su discurso, esta es la parte que mas choca con la mayoria ya que a los villanos se les ve como personas malas y ya, que actuan así a porque sí 😐😐.... Zod no te invita a verlo asi, el te habla con fuerza para que conozcas su proposito de vida que es la supervivencia a toda costa de su especie 🧬 🧬

Zod fue concebido unicamente para proteger Krypton 🫡🫡

Nosotros estamos mal acostumbrados a querer tener el pensamiento de la eleccion y llevamos esta idea como lo correcto a todo lo que conocemos, a eso le llamamos libertad y pensamos erroneamente que debe ser asi en todo olvidando que la cultura tambien influye.... Zod tiene una cultura Kryptoniana, es todo lo contrario a la libertad ya que a él se le diseño para una sola cosa, defender Krypton

Para poder entenderlo tienes que imaginar que Krypton es para él lo que para ti es tu casa junto a todo lo que representa ese termino lo cual es familia, hogar, tus semejantes 🥲🥲

Cuando lo veo así, el personaje escala en el nivel intelectual que quiere transmitir porque es la representacion metaforica en las consecuencias que trae cualquier Guerra

Nosotros como audiencia y como humanos veriamos a Zod como un extraterrestre que nos quiere destruir sin valorar nuestras opiniones.... pero nuestra especie humana a cuantas otras especies animales a extinto sin valorar sus opiniones al considerarlas inferiores 🤔🤔

Justo esto ultimo es lo que hace muchos detesten la personalidad de Zod, no es porque haga cosas malas, pienso es porque por naturaleza detestamos que él nos vea a nosotros como inferiores y eso es un insulto a nuestro gran orgullo humano 😤😤