Phantomzone

The Phantom Zone (English phantom zone ) is a fictional dimension that occurs in the Superman comic books and in movies, books, computer games and animated series, based on these comics. The Phantom Zone is an inter-dimensional fold ( possibly a tesseract ), which in Transgressionsbereich the four-dimensional world of men is to be located on the " magical " fifth dimension, Other names for the Phantom Zone are: . Buffer zone (buffer zone), silence zone ( Still zone), Stasi zone ( stasis zone), Ghost zone ( Ghost zone) and Honeycomb ( Honeycomb).

History

Classic version

In the so-called pre -crisis comics of Superman series ( was overhauled the Superman comics from the years before 1986 when the series and restarted ) came the Phantom Zone very often used as a place of exile for the custody of those superhuman mighty Superman opponents in which was no guarantee that a prison they would be able to keep. Originally the Phantom Zone was an invention of Superman's father, the scientist Jor-El from the planet Krypton and was used as a repository for the criminals on the planet. The Phantom Zone gets its name because its occupants are put into a shapeless planimetric state of being from which they observe the processes in the real dimension, but can not act on them. The occupants of the Phantom Zone neither age, nor do they require food; Moreover, they are telepathic as well for each other insubstantial and therefore imperceptible. This " Unzuständlichkeit " owe the residents of the Phantom Zone survive when the planet Krypton is destroyed. After the loss of their home world, the Phantom Zone occupant turning their attention to the earth as the refuge of most surviving Kryptonian. A special grudge they harbor against this Superman as the Son of the Creator of their prison. The standard pattern of a "Phantom Zone story" is a classic example of a as well have come about escape of a criminal from the Phantom Zone, a non-destructive rich rampage on the ground or a direct attack against Superman, his defeat by the hero, re- arrest and repatriation in the zone.

The only case of admission of an innocent man in the Phantom Zone is the aliens Mon -El from the planet Daxam. The Daxamiter is due to its physiology extremely vulnerable to lead, to which he hyper- allergic responds, 'There is a cure but only in the 30th century be possible, Mon -El is transported by Superman in the Phantom Zone, where it is able despite the incurable nature of his suffering to survive until the 30th century. Superman is also developing a communication tool, the zone -o -phone, in order to communicate with the inhabitants of the zone can.

Modern Version

In the modern Superman series, the Phantom Zone occurs for the first time, as Superman, a Kryptonian artifact from a trip brings into space: the so-called Eradicator, a living machine that has his ancestor Kem -L developed. In one experiment, the awakened machine to turn Earth into an image of the planet Krypton, creates the Fortress of Solitude, Superman's hideaway in the Arctic. The extra-dimensional space in which the Eradicator, the materials that are required for the construction of the fortress locates, is the Phantom Zone, the so found its way into the new Superman series.

Now part of the equipment of Superman's Fortress a so-called phantom zone projector is among other things used to stabilize the inter-dimensional city of Kandor and - again - to provide a safe Verstauungsort for various villains set up such as the white Martians. Meanwhile, there is also other residents of the DC universe in which to play the Superman adventure, managed to gain access to the Phantom Zone, so the Bgzltianern, the white Martians, as well as the rogue Loophole, Prometheus and Queen Bee.

The Phantom Zone in other media

In the Superman films with Christopher Reeve, the zone is represented as a large flat crystal shard. General Zod and his co-conspirators Ursa and Non are placed in a two-dimensional space on the surface of the crystal which is whirled into space. In an interstellar explosion that shattered the crystal, they finally manage to escape. The Phantom Zone also occurs in the movie Supergirl with Helen Slater and in several episodes of the television series Smallville. In addition, the Phantom Zone in several episodes of the animated series Superman and Justice League occurs, so among other things, the monster Doomsday and a General Zod - waste be banished there.

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