Talk:Krypton (comics)

Cause of Destruction
I keep reading that the cause of the planet's destruction was an unstable core but none explaining how it got like that. Last night I watched something called "Superman/Batman: Apocalypse" in which batman noticed Darkseid had countless hell spores each of which were capable of destroying a planet's core. Could this be what happened to Krypton? Pyrolord777 (talk) 14:18, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Shortly before the 10,000th anniversary of Krypton’s civilization, Jor-El discovers evidence that Krypton’s uranium core may cause the planet to explode (ACTION #216, pg. 11, panel 6)

The Guardians of the Universe assign Tomar-Re, Green Lantern of Krypton’s space-sector, to gather enough stellarium to neutralize Krypton’s uranium core in order to delay Krypton’s explosion. (This apparently takes several years, but does succeed, though Black Zero's efforts later causes the reaction to resume.) (SUPERMAN #257 (2), pg. 2, panels 1-3, 5-pg. 3, panel 7)

Shortly after witnessing this speech, Black Zero notes that Krypton’s internal stresses are weakening, but starts them up again with a missile device (SUPERMAN #205, pg. 9, panels 1-6)

[Jor-El uses a mechanical mole to penetrate into Krypton’s interior, is irradiated by deadly radiation, and passes this on to Lara, but not Kal-El (SUPERBOY #158, pg. 23, panels 3-5) NOTE: This may not be canonical.]

Tomar-Re strives to reach Krypton (SUPERMAN #257 (2), pg. 7, panels 2-5)

BOOM

Krypton's Moons
In the book The Last Days of Krypton by Kevin Anderson, Jax Ur was portrayed as a dictatorial warlord who reigned over Krypton with an iron fist and purposefully used his "nova javelins" (nuclear warheads) to destroy the moon Koron (NOT Wegthorn), a moon that is not mentioned in this article.

Other sources I have seen list these moons as moons of Kyrpton: Wegthorn, Koron, Mithen, and Xenon. Xenon fell out of orbit and away from Krypton. With Xenon lost from orbit and Wegthorn destroyed by Jax Ur, this leaves Koron and Mithen as the last two moons of Krypton. Should this be mentioned in any of the sections of this article?

rlee1185 (talk) 23:56, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

True but not true because multiple sources prove that krypton only had one moon Caitlynediter for real1877 (talk) 22:09, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Krypton and other worlds
So, did Krypton used to have contact with many other worlds? I recall something in superman 1 or 2 with Christopher Reeve, where he is in his crystal chamber watching the hologram of his mother saying that they have an archive of X number of galaxies. Either Krytonians had been there or had the ability to spy on them without them discovering who was. The snare (talk) 21:57, 23 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, Krypton did have contact with other worlds. In a story called "Birth of a name" it was revealed that Krypton's first inhabitants were themselves space travelers with the man's name Kryp and the woman's name Ton.  In Action #574 in was revealed that Krypton had an Olympic like event with Ostok a planet within Krypton's own solar system (Ostok's people were all but wiped out by the solar radiation triggered by Krypton's explosion).
 * However by that time Krypton's history was a total mess with contradictions (like there being a fully established space program when Jor-El was a young man.) that trying to pull anything out of it just give you a headache.--BruceGrubb (talk) 02:07, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

The whole banning space travel thing doesn't seem to make much sense to me at all. Not for a civ that advanced. They probably would just fix whatever made it dangerous. But there are a lot of contradictions aren't there. How could civ with no space travel experience/knowledge of space-ships have then made the FTL rocket that took Superman away from Krypton then? The snare (talk) 04:57, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Locations

 * Andromeda near the Pisces constellation


 * Some modern writers have stated Krypton to be from this galaxy. This could be true.


 * Within the Pleiadian chain under the Aquarius constellation.


 * Writers in the silver and bronze age tend to lean towards the planet being under this constellation within our milky way galaxy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.30.97 (talk) 17:45, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Naming of the planet?
I have one question. If the planet Krypton is named after the chemical element, why? 75.15.241.70 17:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * All I can tell you is that it seemed really, really obvious to me the minute I saw the periodic chart of the elements in science class when I was a kid – indeed, Jerry Siegel or whoever came up with the idea would be hard-pressed to come up with some other source IMHO. My own guess is that it just sounded like a cool name, but surely, there is a source about this somewhere. The article on the element Krypton doesn't say where that name came from either; maybe it was kind of mysterious, "cryptic", who knows. Knowing how something got its name has always been a real interest of mine, and something that looms as large as Krypton even in the larger society deserves a clarification of where the name came from IMHO. Shocking Blue (talk) 10:24, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I really don't think this is a stub, so I'm removing the stub tag. As far as I know, this has never been officially explained (in the stories) the assumption is that it is merely a linguistic coincidence. Note: One pre-Crisis story (in SUPERMAN #238) hinted that Kryptonians are descended from two seemingly human space travelers who found themselves stuck on the planet. Their names: Kryp and Tonn. -Wilfredo Martinez 16:09, 22 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Wow, I think that is the very first time I've ever heard that particular theory. But then again, if it was pre-Crisis, it's likley no longer canon.
 * Kryp and Tonn...lol...Arcayne 22:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, it's part of the Elliot S! Maggin Superman mythos, too, being mentioned in the Last Son of Krypton novel. Another pre-(or barely post-)Crisis Maggin explanation says the name comes from the Kryptonian word for ice or glacier, hence the white dog named Krypto. But as they're both retcons, it doesn't have any relation to the original naming by Seigel & Shuster. Noclevername (talk) 02:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Krypton was named back in the day when Kryp and Tonn, both space explorers, landed on ancient, unpopulated Krypton and become the progenitors (Adam and Eve) for the Kryptonian people taken from the second story in SUPERMAN #238 JUN71. I think her name was Tonn and his was Kryp. First marriage for both.

Krypton's sun "discovered"
" Well, that’s about to change. DC comics is releasing a new book this week – Action Comics Superman #14 – that finally reveals the answer to this stellar question. And they picked a special guest to reveal it: my old friend Neil Tyson.

Actually, Neil did more than just appear in the comic: he was approached by DC to find a good star to fit the story. Red supergiants don’t work; they explode as supernovae when they are too young to have an advanced civilization rise on any orbiting planets. Red giants aren’t a great fit either; they can be old, but none is at the right distance to match the storyline. It would have to be a red dwarf: there are lots of them, they can be very old, and some are close enough to fit the plot.

I won’t keep you in suspense: the star is LHS 2520, a red dwarf in the southern constellation of Corvus (at the center of the picture here). It’s an M3.5 dwarf, meaning it has about a quarter of the Sun’s mass, a third its diameter, roughly half the Sun’s temperature, and a luminosity of a mere 1% of our Sun’s. It’s only 27 light years away – very close on the scale of the galaxy – but such a dim bulb you need a telescope to see it at all (for any astronomers out there, the coordinates are RA: 12h 10m 5.77s, Dec: -15° 4m 17.9 s)."

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/11/05/dc-comics-pins-krypton-to-the-star-map/

so I think we should add the name of krypton's sun - LHS 2520 - to the article

Vmaldia (talk) 05:46, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

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Krypton
What do kryptonians speak? Bryce643 (talk) 02:14, 6 January 2019 (UTC)