Jor-El (New Earth-Forty Seven)

Youth
Jor-El was born to Seyg-EL and his wife as part of the House of El, a noble family on Krypton, whose house has contributed to most of Krypton's scientific discovers and achievements. Jor-El's mother would die of the Green Plague a deadly radioactive wave that killed 5% of the Kryptonian population. After his mother death, Jor-El's father took a very active role in his son's life tutoring and mentoring him since he could walk.

Regardless of his father's lessons, Jor-El spent most of his childhood being a daredevil and slacker. This would change when he turned 15 and met Lara Lor-Van who he fell in love with, but was viewed by her as a slacker not worth her time. Jor-El upon learning of this decided to give up his dangerous and slacker life style to impress Lara.

Eight years after deciding this, Jor-El would become one of Krypton's top scientists and a the head of the House of El after his father passed away and his older brother did not wish to be the head. Lara would eventually marry Jor-El after years being asked.

Krypton's Destruction
Jor-El and Lara's marriage would result in the birth of a son a year after they married. During this time of joy however was time of great distress, when Jor-El and his older brother Zor-El discovered that Krypton's core was become unstable. The two brought their findings to the Kryptonian ruling council, but their warnings were shrugged off.

Zor-El and Jor-El would decide to create escape ships to get their family off the the planet before it was to late. The plan to save their families hit a problem however, when the planets core began to break the planet apart at an accelerated rate. The planet's core problems led to all forms of communication being disrupted and made it impossible for Jor-El to contact his brother about an escape ship. Seeing no other option, with the planet about to be destroyed, Jor-El decided to bring his wife, infant son, and his pet kryptonian wolf dog, Krypto into the Phantom Zone, where Krypton's worst criminals were imprisoned. Jor-El reasoned that if he could reach a certain point in the Zone he and his family could open a portal to a secret research complex created by the House of El during Jor-El's great-grandfather's time. The family would enter the portal after Jor-El would grab multiple weapons and tools to help them make it to the point.