In this new timeline, Action Comics #14 identifies Rao as being LHS 2520, a real-life red dwarf star 27.1 light years away from Earth, located at right ascension 12 hours, 10 minutes, 5.6 seconds, and declination -15 degrees, 4 minutes, 15.66 seconds. In the 1978 Superman: The Movie, Rao appears as an old red dwarf star. It is revealed in the DC comics event New Krypton that, according to the Kryptonian mythology, Rao is the first being to be born out of the void before the universe. In the end, Nightwing opens a portal to the Phantom Zone, sending Jax-Ur and his fake Rao in to the Phantom Zone. Having already studied the effects of red sun radiation on Kryptonian cells, Brainiac wishes to study the effects of yellow sun radiation on Kryptonian cells by dissecting Supergirl, though he is defeated just as one of his Betas is about to start the procedure. He started gathering followers at a Community Center in National City to spread the word of Rao on Earth. Rao works through avatars. Superman and Cythonna held a final battle in the sun, resulting in Superman's victory due to the power boost he received from fighting so close to his own power source, imprisoning Cythonna in the sun's core, due to its gravity. [3], In the new multiverse, Chester P. Runk thanks Rao when he learns that Barry Allen is safe. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. After Mon-El's sacrifice, Kara Zor-El devoted her life to her heroics as Supergirl, reconnecting with her Kryptonian heritage, as she started to meditate and pray according to the tenets of the faith of Rao. The BetaHedron also contained Kryptonite, which weakened Kara as soon as she arrived, allowing her to show that even Kryptonians are mortal as she bled. We're never lost, never afraid, for we shrink not under the sun of righteousness. In Superman: The Last God of Krypton, a trade paperback by Walter Simonson, Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt, when Krypton was a primitive planet, Rao held a war against Cythonna, Goddess Of Ice. At the end of the story, the alternate Superman is placed in a chamber that radiates red sun illumination, nullifying his powers. https://arrow.fandom.com/wiki/Rao?oldid=719612. The "Book of Rao" is first mentioned in the next episode "Kandor". According to Coville's preaching, one's faith in Supergirl was a guarantee in them being saved from danger, physical or spiritual. Thomas then surrendered to the police and was incarcerated, but he took it in stride as his penance for mistakes and salvation for him and Supergirl. He is also the ancestor of Superman in all continuities. Along with traditional Kryptonian worship, he also included the worship of superheroes in his religion, particularly Supergirl, gathering all the people that she saved. In the 2006 film Superman Returns, Rao, a red supergiant star instead of a red giant becomes a type II supernova, destroying Krypton completely. The Fortress of Sanctuary hologram presented him before Reign as an ally. Rao then created all the other Kryptonian gods from his own essence, and these "godlings" called him "Father Rao". He was revealed in this series to be a parasitic false god who sustained his immortality through absorbing parts of the lifespans of his followers, and in this series attempted to use Superman's cells to transform the physiology of humans on Earth so that they would become pure-blooded Kryptonians, in so doing giving Rao even more godlike power in addition to his immortality. During the main story the red sun prison is attacked by Supergirl and the Regime. Rao binds us to those we love. In Injustice 2, Supergirl occasionally mentions the Kryptonian deity when facing certain characters such as Darkseid or Enchantress by saying "My God Rao will protect me" with Darkseid responding "There is no Rao. "Rao" is also later written into the Superman mythology as the name of a Kryptonian deity, the personification of their sun, worshipped as a god of light and life. For instance, 'By Rao, that curry is hot' or 'Thank Rao you're ok'. 2) #14 (November 2012), List of areas, landmarks, institutions and businesses of Metropolis, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rao_(comics)&oldid=979324241, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2008, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2013, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 September 2020, at 03:33. The final destruction, however, is ultimately caused by the explosion of Rao, which in turn completely obliterates Krypton. In that story, Despair of the Endless speaks with Rao some billion years ago: Think about it, Rao. Rao, in the time just before and after the destruction of Krypton, is thought of by the people of Krypton like the God in Abrahamic Religions is on Earth.

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