Lar Gand was born on the planet Daxam into the royal family, eventually becoming the king of the Daxamites, at he some point he met and fell in love with a woman named Rhea, and they had a son named Mon-El. When Krypton exploded and rained debris down on the planet, Lar Gand fled with his wife Rhea in a large ship with a number of their people. He and his wife learned that their son was alive and started to search the stars in order to find him. They journeyed to the Well of Stars then to Maaldoria trying to find him. They then learned from the locals and a Dominator ambassador that Mon-El was on Earth. They eventually made it to Earth when he saw that the yellow sun was having an effect on them. They sent a message for Mon-El to be turned over to them, thinking that he might be a captive.
Publication Information
- Supergirl : Lar Gand
- Version : Supergirl Series
- Multiverse : Earth Thirty-Eight
- Known As : Daxamites
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- Affiliation : Daxam
- Gender : Male
- Origin : Daxam
- Season : Supergirl
- First Appeareance : Supergirl Season 2 Episod 8 : Medusa
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- Potrayer : Kevin Sorbo
- Main View : Full Episod
Destruction of Daxam and searching for Mon-El
When J'onn J'onzz and later Kara teleported to the ship and engaged Rhea, he moved to fight against J'onn. He angrily claimed that all they wanted was for their family to be together but J'onn claimed that was what they also wanted. Mon-El was freed from his cell by Winn and he saw that Kara was in trouble from the Kryptonite weapons Rhea was wielding and he made a hole in the window of the ship to have the vacuum suck out the Kryptonite. Lar Gand managed to seal it back up and then ordered their soldiers to stop against his wife's protests. He saw that Mon-El had a new family and decided to allow him to return back with them as he seemed to have made his choice.
Death
Lar Gand was taking a final look at Earth before they would return to Daxam as he was joined by Rhea. She asked him why he let Mon-El go and he explained that on Daxam they value happiness and he felt that Mon-El wouldn't have been happy to leave with them. Rhea then told him that they used to be completely in sync, at each other's side, but it seemed they no longer were. Lar Gand claimed that he was still at Rhea's side and they would find a way to move on but Rhea said they wouldn't before she stabbed him. Over his dead body, Rhea claimed that he betrayed her and she wasn't done with Earth yet.
Legacy
When Mon-El confronts his mother with a gun full of lead bullets, she lies and tells him that Lar Gand was so upset with Mon-El leaving them that he took his own life. The news of his father committing suicide stopped him from killing his mother. When Rhea is confronted by Kara, who tries to reason with her to surrender, she spitefully throws the fact that she personally killed Lar Gand for opposing her at Kara to make her accept that her words will not sway her. Kara later informed Mon-El that Lar Gand did not commit suicide, but was murdered by Rhea, after lead was released into Earth's atmosphere, Rhea was quickly dying and she begged Mon-El to save her. He coldly asked if he should save her the way she "saved" his father.
Abilities
Daxamite physiology : Normally, like all Daxamites, Lar Gand's capabilities were no greater than a normal human of his physical conditioning. However, once charged by the energy of a blue or yellow sun and metabolized into his body, he became able to perform various inhuman feats.
- Solar energy absorption : While Lar Gand's powers are dependent on the energy spectrum from a blue or yellow sun, his body is able to constantly and passively absorb such energy while exposed to it, essentially keeping his reserves fully charged near-constantly. Direct exposure to sunlight will also accelerate his recovery from any injuries he does manage to sustain.
- Accelerated healing factor : Lar Gand's solar charged metabolism accelerates his healing and allows him to burn calories at a fast rate, making him resilient to weight gain.
- Electrosynthesis : Lar Gand's cells harness and absorbed the electrical energy surrounding him, manipulating it to regenerate himself at a cellular level and manifest his own energy source.
- Contaminant immunity : Lar Gand had an immunity to all forms of disease and contaminants on Earth
- Kryptonite immunity : Despite having a similar physiology to Kryptonians, Lar Gand was immune to the radiation effects of Kryptonite; such as Green Kryptonite, Red Kryptonite and Silver Kryptonite.
- Super leaping : Lar Gand was able to perform incredibly high jumps in a single bound.
- Invulnerability : Lar Gand was essentially invulnerable to all Earthly weapons. He was able to take far more damage than any normal human.
- Super speed : Lar Gand possessed the ability to move at incredible speeds, far greater than that of any normal human.
- Super strength : Lar Gand's strength was enhanced under a blue or yellow sun, enough to easily kill a normal human if he were to attack them directly.
- Expert hand-to-hand combatant : As a member of the royal family of Daxam, Lar Gand was a capable unarmed fighter.
- Expert stick fighter : As a member of the royal family of Daxam, Lar Gand was a capable stick fighter; he was able to go toe-to-toe with J'onn J'onzz, a Green Martian who is 317 years old and is an expert stick fighting in his own right.
- Expert leader : As the late king of Daxam, he could command over his people and bring stability.
- Lead : Weapons made from lead will penetrate Lar Gand's skin; if lead stayed in his system for too long, he will die from the poisoning.
- Extreme energy : Extreme amounts of energy, can be enough to kill Lar Gand.
- Red Sun energy : Like Kryptonians, exposure to the Red Sun will make Lar Gand the equivalent of a human being on Earth.
- Magic : Lar Gand is not invulnerable to magic because his powers come from his natural physiology and not supernatural means.
