Christopher Kent (Lor-Zod)

While imprisoned inside the Phantom Zone, the Kryptonian known as General Zod and his mate, Ursa, gave birth to a child named Lor-Zod.

While living inside of a transported Kryptonian prison cell known as Fort Rozz, Zod manipulated Phantom Zone technology and created a small space-worthy vessel that could maintain a substantial form and leave the Phantom Zone.

As his son was the only Phantom Zoner capable of maintaining a physical form, Zod sent the rocket ship out of the Phantom Zone carrying their young son.

The rocket entered Earth's atmosphere and would have crash-landed in the heart of downtown Metropolis, but for the timely arrival of Superman.

Recognizing that the child was of alien origin, he reluctantly left him in the care of Sarge Steel and the Department of Metahuman Affairs.

Lor-Zod stunned everyone when he lifted a three-hundred pound television cabinet above his head with no effort.

After hearing the child speak, Superman immediately recognized him as Kryptonian.

Steel insisted on keeping him overnight for observation. Scientists ran oral DNA tests to determine whether the boy truly was a Kryptonian.

Lois Lane wrote the exclusive story on the child's arrival on Earth in the Daily Planet, and the news quickly spread across the globe.

The Department of Metahuman Affairs relocated the unnamed Kryptonian to a secure location in Washington, but neglected to inform Superman of the transfer.

Enraged, Superman broke Lor-Zod out of custody and brought him to the Kent farm in Smallville.

Determined to keep him safe from the government and from scientific persecution, Clark asked Lois if she would agree to adopt the boy with him.

Lois remained uncertain of her capability regarding parenting, but quickly acquiesced, and even supplied him with an Earth name – Christopher.

The Department of Metahuman Affairs was not the only source of interest in regards to "Christopher Kent."

Lex Luthor, secretly monitoring Sarge Steel's broadcasts, learned of the child's Kryptonian origin and set about claiming the boy for himself.

Having somewhat trained the creature known as Bizarro to do his bidding, Luthor sent Bizarro into the city to capture Lor-Zod.

A fight broke out between Bizarro and Superman, and Lor-Zod demonstrated his Kryptonian invulnerability by surviving the impact of a school bus falling directly on top of him.

Shortly after the battle took place, Lor-Zod's birth parents, General Zod and Ursa, broke free of their Phantom Zone prison and arrived on Earth to find him.

Collecting Lor-Zod, the criminals freed the rest of their Kryptonian brethren from the Zone and mounted a massive invasion of Earth.

During the siege of Metropolis, Lor-Zod turned against his father, burning his hand with twin blasts of heat vision.

After the defeat of his biological parents, Lor was adopted by Kal-El and his wife, Lois, who decided to raise the boy on Earth as their foster son with the name of Christopher Kent.

Chris accepted the younger Kents as his parents, and Clark's foster parents as his own grandparents, even calling Lois "Mama Lois" as he adapted to life on Earth.

When Zod and Ursa and their associates broke free of the Phantom Zone a second time, they attacked Kal-El and his family.

Zod and Ursa recaptured Christopher as a bargaining tool to intidimate Superman into surrendering.

However, Superman was able to hold off Zod and his criminal allies until Luthor's technical assistance was able to exploit the connection that all the Kryptonians who had been in contact with the Phantom Zone possessed and forced them to be drawn back into it.

Unfortunately, this link was also inclusive of Christopher, who was born in the Zone, and even Superman, who had some interaction with the Zone.

Seeing that the Zone portal would not close after all the criminals had been sucked back in, Christopher chose to sacrifice himself to close the breach rather than let it continue, possibly causing more damage to the city and swallowing his foster father.

When Superman contacted his "cousin" Mon-El (Lar Gand), who remained in the Zone due to his own radiation poisoning to find out about Christopher's fate, Mon-El informed Kal-El that Christopher was either not in the Zone or was transferred to some very remote locale within the Zone that no one knew of.

In truth, it was the Kandorian Thara Ak-Var who had rescued Chris from the Phantom Zone shortly before the Zone began to collapse upon itself.

Although only a short time had passed, Chris' unique physiology aged him to approximately fifteen or sixteen years old.

Thara knew that the emergence of thousands of Kandorians in the physical world posed a great threat to the planet Earth, and she enlisted Chris' aid to become a costumed, Kryptonian crime-fighter on Earth.

Thara and Chris adopted the code names of two legendary Kryptonian heroes, Flamebird and Nightwing.

As Nightwing, Chris began actively patrolling several American cities.

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