What is Superman's "kryptonite"?

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In popular culture "kryptonite" is considered a characters fatal weakness. It is also sometimes referred to as "achilles heel"

Superman is the strongest character in fiction, so what would be his "kryptonite"?
 
Yoboman said:
In popular culture "kryptonite" is considered a characters fatal weakness. It is also sometimes referred to as "achilles heel"

Superman is the strongest character in fiction, so what would be his "kryptonite"?
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Well, kryptonite

You forgot to add in your first sentence "based on the Superman comic book where Superman's weakeness"
 
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Yoboman said:
In popular culture "kryptonite" is considered a characters fatal weakness. It is also sometimes referred to as "achilles heel"

Superman is the strongest character in fiction, so what would be his "kryptonite"?
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Empathy. That's what Elon would say. You know, the drugged up automaton.
 
The real question is WHY does kryptonite affect superman like it does. How much of Krypton is made up of this stuff? If kryptonians can relocate to a yellow sun system and be LITERAL gods (or just install yellow sun lamps at home?) then why do they hang out on a planet loaded with radioactive(?) stuff that kills them? And it seems like EVERY chunk of krypton has this property (or an additional effect depending on the color). No one ever finds a 'normal' hunk of krypton :P
 
jason10mm said:
The real question is WHY does kryptonite affect superman like it does. How much of Krypton is made up of this stuff? If kryptonians can relocate to a yellow sun system and be LITERAL gods (or just install yellow sun lamps at home?) then why do they hang out on a planet loaded with radioactive(?) stuff that kills them? And it seems like EVERY chunk of krypton has this property (or an additional effect depending on the color). No one ever finds a 'normal' hunk of krypton :P
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0% of krypton was made out of kryptonite, krypton only became kryptonite because of the destruction of krypton making some of its elements radioactive. This radiation harms them because they absorb it as strongly as solar radiation and it disrupts them from absorbing said solar radiation.

Kryptonians did venture out into space and had massive wars as well (which they lost somehow), but at a certain point the religious cult that worshipped their red sun (rao) as a god became the ruling power (probably because of all the failed space expansion), and they felt it was pretty much blasphemous to leave krypton because of its connection to rao, so it became illegal to leave the planet.
So in the end they were very isolationist, xenophobic, dogmatic, hubristic etc. which killed them all because they wound up not believing jor-el's warnings until it was too late.
 
1 in ever 2.000.000.000 people are born with a special mutation in their brain that allows them to recognize famous people even when they are wearing glasses and have a slightly different hair style.

This is considered Superman's Kryptonite because it could potentially allow evil individuals to find out his identity as Clark Kent. While he himself is hard to hurt, they could go after his loved ones.
 
Ikutachi said:
Batman.
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Actually, in Batman: Hush, Batman is fighting a Poison Ivy-controlled Superman, and Batman admits to himself that he could make all the preparations he wanted, but if someone truly, fully took away Superman's refusal to take a life (and Poison Ivy couldn't mind control Superman to that extent, enough to do her bidding mostly but not enough to actually force him to attack Batman with an intent to kill), NOTHING could protect Batman from Superman.

And then Infinite Crisis arrived and Maxwell Lord did manage to fully mind control Superman, and, well…..


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The only reason Bruce didn't die horribly was because the rest of the League showed up quickly to intervene.
 
Doom85 said:
Actually, in Batman: Hush, Batman is fighting a Poison Ivy-controlled Superman, and Batman admits to himself that he could make all the preparations he wanted, but if someone truly, fully took away Superman's refusal to take a life (and Poison Ivy couldn't mind control Superman to that extent, enough to do her bidding mostly but not enough to actually force him to attack Batman with an intent to kill), NOTHING could protect Batman from Superman.

And then Infinite Crisis arrived and Maxwell Lord did manage to fully mind control Superman, and, well…..


comic-excerpt-superman-almost-brutally-killed-batman-while-v0-g1oxnjczlhda1.jpg



The only reason Bruce didn't die horribly was because the rest of the League showed up quickly to intervene.
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You could give batman all the prep time he wants, nothing is going to stop an FTL superman from just flying through his face or using his laser eyes from orbit to melt him, or from just throwing a stone at him.
 
Reizo Ryuu said:
0% of krypton was made out of kryptonite, krypton only became kryptonite because of the destruction of krypton making some of its elements radioactive. This radiation harms them because they absorb it as strongly as solar radiation and it disrupts them from absorbing said solar radiation.

Kryptonians did venture out into space and had massive wars as well (which they lost somehow), but at a certain point the religious cult that worshipped their red sun (rao) as a god became the ruling power (probably because of all the failed space expansion), and they felt it was pretty much blasphemous to leave krypton because of its connection to rao, so it became illegal to leave the planet.
So in the end they were very isolationist, xenophobic, dogmatic, hubristic etc. which killed them all because they wound up not believing jor-el's warnings until it was too late.
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Now explain how/why so many fragments of Krypton that were explosively ejected during the explosion somehow crossed LIGHT YEARS of space to land on earth all within a few years of Superman getting here. Were they accelerated to relativistic speeds or was superbaby on ice for hundreds of thousands of years while getting to earth?
 
jason10mm said:
Now explain how/why so many fragments of Krypton that were explosively ejected during the explosion somehow crossed LIGHT YEARS of space to land on earth all within a few years of Superman getting here. Were they accelerated to relativistic speeds or was superbaby on ice for hundreds of thousands of years while getting to earth?
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No, there's basically two theories depending on which ship is used.
1. the FTL drive of the ship carries pieces with it through its wake, like a slipstream effect
2. the wormhole the ship creates to teleport across space sucks in a bunch of krypton meteoroids like a vacuum and ejects them where the ship exits

In both cases the arrival is delayed because the ship has its own propulsion.
 
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