Man of Steel: Message From Zod Incoming?

The static that took over the front page of the official website for the forthcoming Zack Snyder Superman film Man of Steel yesterday seems to be resolving itself slowly into an image–and we’re starting to wonder whether sometime soon we might be getting our first glimpse of Michael Shannon’s General Zod actually speaking.Of course, given the massive success of Heath Ledger’s Joker, Tom Hiddleston’s Loki and Tom Hardy’s Bane, a strong villain in Man of Steel will go a long way toward giving the movie some great word-of-mouth.If you look at the image at right, you can see that the image has darkened considerably since yesterday, and that there’s what appears to be the familiar pentagon of a Kryptonian coat of arms in the center. Which one? Well, some minor indicators tell us it’s Zod’s, rather than Superman’s.What gives us that impression? Well, take a look at the picture directly below (you can click on it to enlarge to a higher resolution), taking the same screen grab as above and then tracing some of the characteristics in Microsoft Paint.

As you can see, the “swoop” that would be the fat part of the Superman S, if that’s what it were, is near the top right of the crest, rather than the bottom. The sideways horseshoe of Zod’s omega-like emblem can be seen at the image’s center (even more definitively, now that I look closely, than we traced). There’s also what looks to be a corner near the top left, probably the outer “corner” of the serif on the edge of the omega (see left for a fan-made mock-up of Zod’s crest based on trailer footage and action figures).The logos, as you can see, don’t sync up exactly but other interpretations of the Zod crest you can find with a Google search match the image above better, and the same logic by which you could say that it’s probably a Superman logo–that part of the static disruption would probably include displacement of key features until the image fully resolves itself–can be used to explain the (in my opinion, much smaller) discrepancies in the Zod crests.In any event, that’s our opinion: Take this as a warning that Zod is coming.