Blue crystal
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The blue crystal was a Kryptonian crystal given to Kara by her father Zor-El before she left Krypton.
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[edit] Powers and Abilities
The blue crystal had several capabilities, all part of a plan by Zor-El to ensure his survival in the event of Krypton's destruction. It contained the DNA patterns of both Lara-El and Zor-El, as well as their personalities and memories. Once plugged into the console at the Fortress of Solitude, the blue crystal was able to create exact replicants of both, indistinguishable from the real beings, complete with clothing and a replica of Jor-El's blue kryptonite victory ring.
The blue crystal also contained a program for creating a solar eclipse that would somehow wipe out the Earth's population. For this program to function, the crystal needed to remain plugged into the Fortress' console. Once it was removed, the eclipse ended.
Once the blue crystal was destroyed, all of these creations vanished and Zor-El's final program was activated[citation needed]: his daughter Kara's powers and memories were removed, and she was instantaneously teleported to Detroit. Why this location was chosen, or whether the teleportation was random, has not been revealed.
The crystal was incredibly durable, with Kara stating that even a force equivalent to a nuclear explosion (such as the destruction of her ship in Kara) would not have scratched it. Additionally, once inserted into the Fortress' console, only Clark was able to remove it.
[edit] Vulnerabilities
Clark Kent was able to shatter it against another crystal in the Fortress of Solitude, even without the aid of his powers.
[edit] Appearances
- Kara: Agent Carter carried the blue crystal on the way to delivering it to the U.S. Department of Domestic Security.
- Lara: The crystal is being analyzed in a lab with Agent Carter supervising. One of the lab technicians reports that seven percent of the material in the crystal in unidentifiable. The crystal is locked up in a chamber. Later, Kara gets to the room where the crystal was held, smashing open the chamber and discovering that the crystal is gone. It is revealed that Clark has the blue crystal.
- Blue: Clark places the crystal into the console of the Fortress of Solitude and creates the replicants of Lara-El and Zor-El. Later, Clark removes the crystal and destroys it.
- Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton: Zor-El has the crystal on Krypton, sending it with Kara as he was unable to make the journey to Earth.
[edit] Notes
- The Martian Manhunter possessed some knowledge of the blue crystal, enough to know that it was a creation of Zor-El's and that it was extremely dangerous. How he learned this, and whether or not he knew the crystal's true purpose, was not revealed, though his knowledge may have stemmed from Lara's discovery that Zor-El had duplicated her DNA when she visited Earth prior to Krypton's destruction.
