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Topic	What bothers me most about Superman
Shadowplay 04/02/21 10:49:47 PM #11:	YourLovelyTina posted... Is that pretty much any idiot can fight crime and be a hero if they know they can fly and have super-strength and are 99.999% invincible. Superman's intelligence is one of his most underrated assets though. He's not as smart as Lex Luthor or Batman, but he's still the son of one of Krypton's most brilliant scientists. True, taking out street thugs isn't that much of an effort, but if he didn't meet some baseline level of intelligence, he would not be anywhere near as effective as he is when it comes to strategizing against cosmic threats or using his powers most efficiently in desperate situations. Independent of his powers, he can do something that the vast majority of Americans cannot do: read and write at a college level. YourLovelyTina posted... And isn't Kryptonite supposed to be like insanely rare? Kryptonite IS rare. The reason that it seems to show up so often is that you've seen many different continuities involving the character, each of which features Kryptonite in some form, and have built up some familiarity with the idea of him coming into contact with it. YourLovelyTina posted... And yet any given Superman villain has tons of the stuff just lying around. The above applies here. Every now and then a villain gets ahold of some, but typically it's just Lex Luthor and Metallo that have Kryptonite at their disposal, the former because he has the resources to locate and acquire it, the latter because he's literally powered by a chunk of it. And that leads us to... YourLovelyTina posted... Because it's pretty much Supes only weakness and you gotta have something to create tension... Most of his comics don't feature Kryptonite at all. His villains typically are so powerful that they can actually hurt him (Luther with his suit, Darkseid, Doomsday, Bizarro) or they have some sort of power that he's vulnerable to (Parasite, Livewire, Mr. Mxyzptlk). Luther, along with Toyman and the Trickster among others, often comes up with inventions of some sort that can hurt him or disable his powers, effectively putting them into the latter category. And let's not even forget that he's just as vulnerable to magic as a human. Hell, he nearly died in one issue when an ultra fast vampire with claws slashed him across the chest, but was saved by Batman at the last minute. --- I make a topic in Final Fantasy 12 to ask if Tifa! They said no Tifa. Hardness gone!-gandob <cite>Shadowplay posted [p:952408227] in What bothe... [t:79384424]...</cite> <quote>YourLovelyTina posted... </cite> <quote>Is that pretty much any idiot can fight crime and be a hero if they know they can fly and have super-strength and are 99.999% invincible.</quote>Superman's intelligence is one of his most underrated assets though. He's not as smart as Lex Luthor or Batman, but he's still the son of one of Krypton's most brilliant scientists. True, taking out street thugs isn't that much of an effort, but if he didn't meet some baseline level of intelligence, he would not be anywhere near as effective as he is when it comes to strategizing against cosmic threats or using his powers most efficiently in desperate situations. Independent of his powers, he can do something that the vast majority of Americans cannot do: read and write at a college level. YourLovelyTina posted... </cite> <quote>And isn't Kryptonite supposed to be like insanely rare?</quote>Kryptonite IS rare. The reason that it seems to show up so often is that you've seen many different continuities involving the character, each of which features Kryptonite in some form, and have built up some familiarity with the idea of him coming into contact with it. YourLovelyTina posted... </cite> <quote>And yet any given Superman villain has tons of the stuff just lying around.</quote>The above applies here. Every now and then a villain gets ahold of some, but typically it's just Lex Luthor and Metallo that have Kryptonite at their disposal, the former because he has the resources to locate and acquire it, the latter because he's literally powered by a chunk of it. And that leads us to... YourLovelyTina posted... </cite> <quote>Because it's pretty much Supes only weakness and you gotta have something to create tension...</quote>Most of his comics don't feature Kryptonite at all. His villains typically are so powerful that they can actually hurt him (Luther with his suit, Darkseid, Doomsday, Bizarro) or they have some sort of power that he's vulnerable to (Parasite, Livewire, Mr. Mxyzptlk). Luther, along with Toyman and the Trickster among others, often comes up with inventions of some sort that can hurt him or disable his powers, effectively putting them into the latter category. And let's not even forget that he's just as vulnerable to magic as a human. Hell, he nearly died in one issue when an ultra fast vampire with claws slashed him across the chest, but was saved by Batman at the last minute. --- I make a topic in Final Fantasy 12 to ask if Tifa! They said no Tifa. Hardness gone!-gandob</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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