Zod

A DC villain with staying power, Zod made their comics debut in 1989 courtesy of Roger Stern and Kerry Gammill, arriving at the dawn of the Copper Age and proving durable enough to still be turning up in 2025. With a catalog presence spanning everything from the pages of Batman and Detective Comics to the delightfully unexpected Tiny Titans, this is a character who clearly gets around the DC Universe. Sharing pages with heavyweights like Superman, Batman, Bruce Wayne, Robin, and Superboy, Zod consistently keeps the most iconic company the Distinguished Competition has to offer — a reliable sign that wherever trouble finds DC's finest, Zod isn't far behind.