COME TO ME, SON OF OUR JAILER!!!!

General Zod- Loki

According to his entry on Wikipedia, there have been several versions of General Zod since the Superman mythos were pruned of other survivors of Krypton in 1986: Kal-El would now truly be the “last son of Krypton.” But as other Kryptonians have seeped back into the DCU, I’m delighted to learn that the contemporary iteration of Zod is based on Terence Stamp’s performance as Zod in 1981’s Superman II.

So! All together now!

COME TO ME, SUPERMAN, SON OF JOR-EL, IF YOU DARE!! I DEFY YOU!! COME AND KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!!

It’s tough for me to see how anyone would not consider Stamp’s ripe carrying on in the film as the single best quality of any of the Superman movies.

As for Loki: Stan and Jack or perhaps Stan’s brother Larry Leiber introduced Loki into the Thor books in 1962, they characterized him as the bad seed adopted brother to the titular thunder god. But in Norse mythology, he was most often described as Odin’s contemporary and as his “blood brother.” Does this count as discounting creator intent?

Commonalities:
They are both the chief antagonists originating from their opponent’s place of origin. And both are assholes.

Differences:
The recent Iteration of Zod resembles that of the second Superman film, so he’s apparently just as formidable as Superman. Whereas Loki is Asgard’s premiere necromancer.

Alternate histories:

GZ: A orphaned child of Kryptonian terrorists is adopted by Jor-El, the leader of Krypton’s dominant society. Zod grows up beside —and comes to resent— his adopted brother Kal-El, who was favored by Jor-El: as he reaches maturity, his abilities rival Kal-El’s and he becomes a persistent thorn in the side of Jor-El, who imprisons him in the Phantom Zone for consistent wrongdoing. When Kal-El is sent to Earth to learn from humanity, General Zod escapes the Phantom Zone and antagonizes his adoptive brother, now known as Superman. For years afterward, Zod attempts to conquer Krypton and vanquish Kal-El. Eventually, Zod leads an assortment of antagonists and succeeds in destroying Krypton. But while Krypton civilization is revived in the American West by Superman, Zod has reemerged in the form of a woman.

LO: Loki is an Asgardian “god” with unparalleled mystical abilities and is a rival of Odin, the leader of Asgard’s ruling council. While Odin warns that Asgardians are facing Ragnarok, Loki takes advantage of the chaos and tries to take over Asgard; he is defeated by Odin and imprisoned alongside his accomplices Amora the Enchantress and Skurge the Executioner in an extra-dimensional prison. When Ragnarok destroys Asgard, the three survive and have recently come to Earth to oppose Thor, the son of their jailer.