Along with Doomsday, Zod is one of only two characters to ever break Superman's bones.This can somewhat confuse the player due to the fighting style being very different. His melee attacks are cross between Martial Arts and Brawling and his range attack (Block Breaker Attack) is laser vision. In Legends, Zod uses a unique fighting style.The first letter of his name is embroidered on his chest in Kryptonian script. Zod's grey suit is actually a Kryptonian prison uniform.Zod's Phantom Zone Goggles protect him from being driven mad by the unreality of the Phantom Zone.Zod first appeared in Adventure Comics #283 (April 1961).Zod is the first boss in the Kandor Central Tower raid.He is the first boss in the Brainiac's Bottle Ship operation.
When the Kryptonian Science Council discovered that two of their most revered scientists, Jor-El and Non, had determined that in a short matter of time, Krypton would suffer geothermic upheaval that would destroy the entire planet, they branded the two as heretics and sent General Zod and his militants to Jor-El's laboratory to arrest them.
Dru-Zod was the descendant of legendary Kryptonian conqueror Admiral Dru-Zod, and ruled over Krypton's security forces, gaining prominence for his heroic, though futile, efforts to protect the city of Kandor from being appropriated by the alien conqueror, Brainiac.