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Nam-Ek
& Aethyr: The Comics Connection
As soon as the new spoilers
for the Season 5 premiere surfaced (and you've read them,
right?), people started wondering who the heck "Nam-Ek"
and "Aethyr" were in the Superman comics legend.
When
seeing the name "Nam-Ek" many made a connection to
a character from Dragonball Z, and that name similarity
popped up many times in the KryptonSite Forum.
Believe
it or not... both characters did exist in the pre-Crisis Superman
continuity, in the Phantom Zone.
Let's
start with Nam-Ek. Steelcaves.com
describes Nam-Ek as "a Kryptonian scientist and healer
who made an illegal 'Healing Ray' from the horn of the Rondor,
an endangered animal of pre-cataclysmic Krypton. Overexposure
to the explosive radiation of that ray transformed him into
a Rondor-Kryptonian hybrid beast."
"Hyde" found this link and posted it on the K-Site
Forum. It's a comic book page featuring the character:
Nam-Ek
eventually made his way into the Phantom Zone, shortly before
the Crisis on Infinite Earths that changed DC Comics
continuity forever.
"Babaojay"
has done some research of her own. Here's what she can tell
us about Aethyr: "I just did some research into Aethyr..basically,
Aeythr isn't a character, per se...it's the embodiment of the
Phantom Zone. The best I can glean is that it is the result
of two galaxies that collided and were destroyed, and Aethyr
is the collective melding of all the souls that were lost. It
basically consists of a multi-dimensional universe that will
beharnessed by Kryptonians (and Jor-El) to form the Phantom
Zone.
"It
sounds like Smallville's Aethyr is in control of The
Projector...the thing that allowed them to send prisoners to
the Phantom Zone. A twist on the comics, but still basically
the "gateway" to the Phantom Zone."
Aethyr
was also referred to as "The Oversoul."
It
sounds like these two Kryptonians mostly just share the names
but obviously not the characteristics (i.e. no horns or magical
beings here). It will be interesting to see how this pans out....
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