If I go crazy will you still call me Superman?
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skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Etterra@discuss.online 1 day ago
Everybody’s weakness is a rock if you hit them with it hard enough.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
In Superman The Animated Series Batman (and the Joker) discover that a jade dragon is actually made out of kryptonite because the owners die after a few months.
And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.
So at least in those universes it’s also harmful for humans.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.
In Smallville, the spacecraft carrying Superman brings a kryptonite meteor swarm with it. Lex’s exposure to the meteors is the cause of his premature baldness and a partial reason for his resentment of The Alien.
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.
In the mainline comics of the ‘80s and ‘90s, wearing a kryptonite ring day after day gave him incurable cancer.
fartographer@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Lex and Superboy are friends until Lex starts and gets caught in a chemical smoke party, which Superboy blows out with his super breath. In the process, he blows smoke into Lex Luthor’s hair, which falls out. Then Lex swears to, “use all of my scientific genius to one day destroy you.”
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rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Kryptonite lays him out right away even from a reasonable distance.
Even the plutonium demon core won’t kill us right away.
A little touch of hydrogen cyanide and we’re gone though. We’re fragile AF
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ah man I’ve not heard Kryptonite in years
thenextguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have a short playlist of Superman songs.
Kryptonite - 3 doors down Jimmy Olsen’s Blues - Spin Doctors Superman (Its not easy) - Five for Fighting Superman’s Dead - Our Lady Peace (Wish i could fly like) Superman - The Kinks Superman - REM
Always looking for more.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What about “(I’m No) Superman” by Lazlo Bane, aka the Scrubs theme song?
Zagam@piefed.social 1 day ago
You Don’t Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce isn’t directly about him but does give good advice on treating this wardrobe with respect.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
How could you miss Superman by Goldfinger
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Silvergun Superman - stone Temple pilots
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
sundray@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Superman - Love Spit Love
TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Superman’s Song - Crash Test Dummies
I sing it to my son at bedtime.
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Hero 77 - Bombay Street
Mentions batman, superman, spiderman, Mr incredible, but it’s not a song about them.
bstix@feddit.dk 1 day ago
You forgot the best one: Kashmir - Bring back Superman
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No One Likes Superman Anymore - I Fight Dragons
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Scrubs theme song
Superman - Lazlo Bane
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
It’s so strange that nobody did a good music video for that song with scenes from Man of Steel. I always thought that one would fit great. There’s a Smallville one but I don’t like it very much.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
If we’re talking pure elements at room temperature, people can die from extended contact/eating/breathing beryllium, fluorine, phosphorous, hlorine, chromium, cobalt, arsenic, cadmium, antimony, cesium, mercury, thallium, lead, bismuth, polonium, radium, thorium, uranium, plutonium, and americium. That doesn’t even count all of the heavier than air gases that will kill you in a couple of deep breaths. People are very squishy and prone to getting injured by things.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Also, if you throw them hard enough, all the other elements will kill you too.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Depleted Uranium APFSDS Round says Hello!
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
Eating a “normal” rock might kill you too depending on the size/shape/sharpness and how quickly you can get medical attention.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Good point!
ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Would have been a more useful list if OP had excluded eating, since humans can be killed by eating almost everything not intended as food.
sparkles@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I forget the exact number but a surprising amount of fellas are also confident about winning a fist fight with a bear, so, yeah. This makes sense.
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I means it’s simple really. As the bear charges, I dodge to the side, aim for the eye and with a quick jab…get mauled and die painfully
frog@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Bro, I will use my 3 months of bbj to slip behind the bear and put him in a rear naked choke. That’s right, I am going bear back.
This is the moment I wake up from a mix of blood loss and concussion from one swipe of his paw.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Bears can’t make a fist, so they’re at a disadvantage. Now if it were a claw fight, we might be in trouble.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’m sure I could outrun a koala bear. Which isn’t fighting, and koala’s aren’t bears, but I totally could!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
… Koala bear wins in the long run via giving you chlamydia.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Anything solid of decent mass can basically do us in. A glass bottle with an I love Kitty logo on it at 70mph right to the skull for example. So yeah, a rock, so long as it is large enough, could do it.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
It’s all about the joules imparted.
A small enough rock going fast enough is just as deadly as a large one traveling slower.
altphoto@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
Below the mm size it does get harder to make something deadly.
pipe01@programming.dev 13 hours ago
Hmm what if it didn’t have the hello kitty logo?
TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
- get near the white house
- stop time
- summon a 1lb rock of pure polonium 212
- resume time
- profit
leftascenter@jlai.lu 17 hours ago
- get near the white house
- stop time
- summon a 1lb rock of pure polonium 212
- resume time
profitdie. You summoned 1lb rock of pure polonium 212 and stayed.
TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Damn it, i knew i forgot something🤦♂️
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
“What if I pretend like people are saying something stupid and then cleverly refute it? Yes, that will make an excellent meme.”
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 day ago
slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I don’t understand. The point isn’t that we are not vulnerable to something similar, it’s that Superman is nearly invulnerable. So, my brother in Christ, this is not a retort.
Johanno@feddit.org 1 day ago
What I wonder: according to lore the conditions where supermans people life on krypton are so harsh that they are a strong race that is like humans under those conditions.
Now sth. With the sun is there too, but lets put that aside for a moment.
So Supermans weakness is a rock of krypton. Because the rock itself must be super radioactive or sth like that.
Anything that harms superman should kill every human in the area instantly.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Must be super radioactive…
Should kill every human in the area instantly
Counterpoint: What if Superman has an element in his body that is crucial to his makeup that is specifically destroyed/harmed by the radioactivity, while that radioactivity passes harmlessly through any other element?An anti-krypton element of sorts, if you will.
Krypton, for example, could be emitting a wave with incredibly low amplitude, but incredibly high frequency. This combination would struggle to make contact with the atoms in normally-dense objects here on Earth, but would strike an ultra-dense object like anti-krypton like a truck.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 day ago
Dude it’s comic book magic and bullshit, don’t overthink it.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Exactly. I don’t claim to be some sort of super man
Obnomus@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Nice try but I eat Uranium for breakfast.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 day ago
That’s just so many calories.
Cliff@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think we all eat Uranium for breakfast.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Speak for yourself, I eat cyanide and hydrogen
subterfuge@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So is kidney stone
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Been through two medical fears already, catheter up my dick (3 times) and a broken femur. Kidney stones are still on my bucket list!
Boss brought his to work one day for show and tell.
“That came out your urethra?!”
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As someone who has passed about a dozen over my lifetime… I wish you may never have to go through it. I’d rather have the catheters.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah but uranium kills you after a bit, kryptonite takes him out instantly.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
If that was the case, Superman would have died more than once.
essell@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve not read the comics but I imagine hr has, a few times?
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Arsenic and mercury, both commonly occurring metals present in rocks, can kill humans immediately. Especially if vaporized. Uranium can kill and disable quickly in high enough concentrations.
Also, keep in mind it’s a plot device about a fictional flying space alien with laser eyes. It doesn’t need to follow the laws of physics.
himitsu@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
But then they’re not rocks. It’s a vapor or a metal. That also actually disqualifies uranium as well since the rock isn’t what’s dangerous, it’s the radiation that destroys your cells. With Superman it’s literally just a rock.
OneStepAhead@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
What if the uranium (depleted)is traveling over 1000fps from a GAU88? Checkmate atheist!
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I believe the gau-8 muzzle velocity is around 1000 meters per second
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Doesn’t kryptonite just rob him of his power and severely weaken him? It’s like uranium both the time accelerated.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
it only weakens him, longer exposure can kill him. blue can negate his powers, red makes his inhibitions less. theres also gold and black(synthetic)
Oppopity@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Yeah but I’m not super. How’s he supposed to call himself super if he’s weak to the same shit I am.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Most rocks are my weakness, if thrown hard enough
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Rock + Isaac Newton = death
watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s my kind of rock right there!
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
One big rock from space can wipe out the entire planet.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I defy OP to link me to a source of someone both:
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unironically making fun of Superman for having a rock as his weakness, and
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not already being challenged immediately on their statement within that same source
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DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not only a single type. There is a lot of toxic or radioactive elements in nature
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
plutonium is also poisonous beyond the radiation it emits.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
Doesn’t even need to be a magic rock. A regular one thrown at your head also does wonders.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Shit, even a crack rock can do it.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In fairness, Doomsday beat Superman in a straight knuckle dust up, no kryptonite required. So that’s also a Superman weakness.