Submitted 19 hours ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
In literature, mythology, and comic books, heroes often have a “kryptonite” or “Achilles’s heel”, basically a weakness that makes them vulnerable. I’m curious, what would be considered Superman’s “kryptonite”?
Obviously loss of glasses, making him recognizable in civilian life.
Superman doesn’t wear glasses tho
Yeah, what a dumb thing to say. He’s super, he’d never wear glasses.
Running out of hair gel is a big weakness though
Contacts. Super contacts.
Dats a shitpost alright
Superman’s kryptonite is the fact that he is popular and everyone thinks the character would make great media, but the character is way too overpowered to write good plots for.
Oh, that and actual Kyrptonite.
Childhood trauma
Same
Zack Snyder.
Superman’s kryptonite is interesting writing
As a life long Superman fan with like 4 notably good Superman stories in his 87 year history. Fuck you… but yes.
I wouldn’t know, I haven’t seen smallville
Per Glen Weldon in his book Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, kryptonite representing the destructive force of nostalgia and survivor’s guilt, reminding us that clinging to the past can undermine the present.
Siegel and Shuster had created the Man of Steel as the ultimate immigrant, the personification of the promise America represented to them. His abilities are metaphors for limitless potential and opportunity, for new horizons stretching out before us: the American Way.
It seems fitting, then, that the only thing capable of harming him would be a reminder of the Old World he left behind, a past that is irrevocably gone. Only the past—our past—can hurt us.
To this day, kryptonite functions in the Superman mythos as the physical manifestation of both survivor’s guilt and a particularly toxic kind of nostalgia, a reminder that when we dwell on what we’ve lost, we can kill what we have.
he needs a telephone booth to change?
Change?
pretty much take off his glasses and spin, looks like.
Superman’s Kryptonite is that he can never, ever be fed after midnight!
I’m pretty sure it’s magic.
yep, which is why a lot of the magic team ups in DC start with superman getting owned.
Psychic abilities too.
🤨
Literally kryptonite.
I think you mean “figuratively”
I’m like 99% sure that he is afraid of bald people. Whenever the reoccurring token bald guy shows up he gets really scared. He could just be afraid of robots, I remember he was afraid of batman’s robots too, I don’t believe batman is bald, but I’ve never seen batman without his suit. Superman has X-ray vision though, and I’m not sure he can turn that off so maybe he is afraid of batman because he is bald and not because he is afraid of robots.
Robots and bald people, final answer.
His ultimate weakness: bald robots
Superman’s kryptonite is still unkown, unfortunately.
Scientists have speculated that understanding the physiology of Subman (Superman’s greatest threat) may help us find it, but so far polite requests for non-invasive experiments have been declined and we cannot, in good conscience, forcefully subject him to them.
They got the wrong guy, subman is a breeze in the wind compared to subparman.
True heterosexual love between a biological man and a biological woman. It’s why he never hooks up with Lois Lane and keeps sneaking peeks at Jimmy’s junk at the gym.
He’s super pee-shy, can we use that against him?
Superpeeshyman
Solid JJ
Trying to recreate that reddit post, huh?
What is Reddit idk
Horses.
Mice
Preparation time?
The color yellow
Seems likely
Little blind girls.
Herbertwestium, specifically the crystallised form.
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Reminds of when Barney on How I Met Your Mother was trying to remember the holy grail of cups