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Zod refers to multiple subjects in popular culture and software. In comics and related media, General Zod is a Kryptonian military general and a recurring antagonist in DC Comics stories featuring Superman. A militant leader from Krypton, Zod seeks to impose Kryptonian rule and frequently clashes with Superman on Earth. In Krypton’s history he and his followers are banished to the Phantom Zone, from which he later returns to threaten Earth. Zod’s powers reflect Kryptonian physiology under a yellow sun, granting him superhuman strength, invulnerability, flight, and other abilities, often employed in combination with military strategy and advanced technology.

In film and television, General Zod has been portrayed by Terence Stamp in the 1978 film Superman and by Michael Shannon in the 2013 film Man of Steel, with subsequent appearances and references in related media and adaptations. The character has been used across various continuities, retaining the core themes of Kryptonian heritage, tyranny, and a challenge to Superman’s ethics and leadership.

Zod also refers to Zod, a TypeScript-first schema declaration and validation library for JavaScript. The library provides a fluent API for declaring data schemas and validating runtime data against them, while preserving strong TypeScript typing. It is widely used for input validation and data parsing in Node.js and browser-based applications, offering features such as combinators, refinements, and safe parsing.

Zod as a proper noun thus denotes both a DC Comics character and a modern data-validation tool, representing distinct domains of popular culture and software development.