Lara-El (1942 - 1986) was the Kryptonian biological mother of Kal-El (as both Clark Kent and Clark Luthor) and the wife of Jor-El. She perished along with her husband when her home planet Krypton exploded due to the fanatical actions of her brother-in-law Zor-El who used Brainiac to ignite the planet's core.